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Brampton, Ontario, Ca

As a member of the leadership team, I manage a large engineering department by developing and maintaining a workforce with the key technical skills necessary to ensure the proper execution and delivery of the company's products and projects. I manage recruitment, development, engagement, succession planning, and retention within the department. I also support departmental activities such as technological roadmap development, continuous improvement, modernization of engineering practices, and ensuring customer satisfaction. I also oversee the adoption of next-generation engineering tools, techniques, and procedures to increase competitiveness.

Toronto, Ca

As Tech Lead I wear many hats at RBC Ventures: from application design and architecture, to planning and implementing systems, to strategic negotiation with technology vendors, and of course, writing (and rewriting) code. As Tech Lead I work with the latest tech stack and collaborate with talented team members, like Designers and Engineers to bring a vision to life.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Developing white label web app used by millions of advisors and clients from many different firms managing the wealth of their clients totalling assets in the billions.Built PDF-generating microservice, implemented house holding feature, data visualization pie chart, and stood up new tenants integrating with third party API.Manage a team of five, regularly interface with clients as well as consult on agile methodology practices and solution architecture meetings.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Scrum Master of Agile team developing web app to be used by thousands of clients to manage the property appraisal workflow while capturing all significant documents and data representing assets in the trillions of dollars. Responsible for building SSO portal, workflow engine, realtime push notifications and other solution pieces. Developed POC for new customer facing web application that brings together key platforms and processes. (TS/Javascript, HTML/CSS, Angular, C#/.NET Core, IIS, AWS, MS SQL, Wijmo+DevExpress, SignalR, Salesforce, Heroku)

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

Heading InstaEats development project from concept to launch. Conducted requirement analysis, market research and technologies comparison to design stack to be used. Conceptualized app logo and name. Built front end in its entirety including UX design, workflow, functionality, and connection to backend. Assisted in design of back end and data modelling. Accomplishments include building: on-boarding process, user sign-in/login authentication, user type specific portals, serving real-time data updates and persistent local and remote user data. (JavaScript, Typescript, HTML5, CSS, AngularJs/Angular2/Cordova, JSON, NodeJS, Ionic, Firebase)

Responsible for developing company website with custom e-commerce platform. Created relational database to represent inventory on hand, to be updated in real time to represent orders placed on e-commerce platform. Developed route optimizing platform that creates delivery routes according to orders placed, distance to customers, operating hours of customers etc.

Ca

Implemented upgrades of WET 4.0 framework to various static intranet pages. Assisted in web app transition to Postgres including testing phase. Participated in a requirement analysis for development of new analytics tool. Routinely assigned development tasks to update and upgrade front and back end such as adding autocomplete to search bars, upgrading webform to send email template.

Responsible for the production of a Stakeholders Survey requiring: preliminary research, formulating a notice letter, creating the survey form, and developing a relational response database. Developed a database with regulatory authorities information for a Regulated Parties Verification process and its associated SOP. Conducted a requirement analysis for PHAC/CFIA Common Application Portal. Assisted Permit Clerks and Technologists in assessing permit applications, updating the internal pathogen list and developing a new Internal Permit Tracking Template.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Assisting in the research project "Energy Management for Mobile Robots" both with programming and with bibliographic search. Participating in the discussions with the other members of research team. As well as helping co-ordinate presentations to faculty.

Malvern, Pa, Us

Designed client side templates and interfaces to query assembly line databases. Created automation tools to generate analytical reports. Implemented object oriented practices to standardize data input, improving data visibility and reliability. Conducted requirement analysis of possible upgrades to assembly technician reporting interface.

Responsible for reviewing drafts, preparing and checking progress documentation and generally assisting senior engineers. Communicated with client personnel and attended company-client meetings weekly for briefing. Assigned the development of the new company website working with the contracted web development company. Gained experience with GIS software.

Supervised delivery of customer orders daily. Managed customer relations working to ensure the customer’s continued satisfaction in every aspect of their experience with the company.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

Worked five seasonal posts in between this time period in three different departments. At each department I was responsible for educating customers about the products and then processing their purchases. Consistently hit sales target and developed relationships with many repeat customers.