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I am currently the COO of 34F Design Inc. A family owned, boutique interior design firm. I have previously been a CTO, VP Software Engineering, Software Development Team Manager/Leader and Senior Software Engineer. I offer an uncommon mix of advanced (and practical) software design and development skills as well as entrepreneurial marketing skills and experiences. I have a passion for growth-oriented software companies that value innovation, creativity, employee empowerment and deliver a solid, valuable product or service. I am well recognized for creative problem solving using best-practices software development methodologies. I provide reliable technical leadership, robust software architecture & designs, executive boardroom presentation skills, disciplined work ethic, high performance standards, detailed project management skills, communication ability and reliability. I am a certified SCRUM Master by the Agile Alliance and I am passionate about improving the quality, speed of delivery and maintainability of software systems using continuous process improvement techniques. I deliver technical software documentation of the highest quality when required.I excel at building strong relationships among team members, clients and vendors. I have a rare ability to build highly effective working relationships between business-development and software-development teams because of my diverse background - marketing management, software development/engineering and management as well as software start-up entrepreneurship (founding a number of start-ups in the last 17+ years).Specialties: Enterprise Architecture.Senior Software Engineering Ability in Multiple Domains. Team Building. Continuous Process Improvement. Development Process Optimization. Software Development Process Management. Technical Client Communications.
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Coo34F Design Inc. Jan 2011 - PresentVancouver, British Columbia, Ca -
Vp EngineeringBit Stew Systems Aug 2015 - Nov 2016San Ramon, California, UsAs the VP Engineering at Bit Stew Systems Inc. I am a member of the executive management team and am responsible for managing the engineering department. My main objective is to work with engineering teams and product management to ensure our products - and the software/product development process - meets the needs of Bit Stew Systems and our customers.I am responsible for developing strategic engineering plans, creating project schedules, scheduling the software development and delivery process and milestones, assisting the engineering team with any development issues, and ensuring on-time release schedules are met. Additionally I am responsible for the creation and development of quality control plans and I ensure engineering metrics are met. I routinely work with software engineers, data-scientists, developers and architects. I report directly to the CEO and have a approximately 70 employees who report to me directly or through middle engineering leadership.I am passionate about process, quality and automation (especially continuous integration and automated testing). I am a stickler about managing unit tests, system tests, regression tests and CI environments. I know how to get the most out of my teams and how to help them be as productive as possible. -
Senior Software ArchitectPlayerize Apr 2013 - Jun 2014Reporting to the CEO, I am responsible for all high-level design and architecture choices, setting and coaching the team on technical standards, coding standards, tools, and platforms.I am also actively engaged in several projects directly - including one which I am very passionate about: machine learning (AI) techniques applied to ad-serving technology. Specifically, stochastic modelling, unsupervised off-line learning using simulated annealing optimization of model parameters. -
Vp TechnologyPni Digital Media Ltd Jan 2012 - Sep 2012Vancouver, British Columbia, CaReporting to the CEO I am responsible for establishing and guiding the company’s technical vision which must ultimately lead to the successful execution of the Company’s business plan. I directly manage the Enterprise Architecture Team (EA Team) and in cooperation and collaboration with the EVP Development Operations, assist with numerous responsibilities. The development department (100+ employees and outsource partners) is responsible to me for all technical strategy and implementation. -
Ceo & Founder34F Technologies Inc. Jun 2008 - Dec 2011Software startup entrepreneur. Conceived, designed and built 2 complete SaaS businesses.
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Vp Software EngineeringMmx Software 2009 - Nov 2010CaAs VP Software Engineering (and Corporate Director) of MMX Software Inc., I set the technical direction and vision for the development team. I also successfully streamlined and transformed the organization into a lean, Agile development house with a spectacular people-focused culture (I am a Certified Scrum Master too). -
Chief Technical Officer (Cto)Yummy Interactive Jan 2005 - Apr 2008Vancouver, Bc, CaInnovative Game Streaming Delivery Platform for broadband service providers, consumer portals, ISP's, and softwarepublishers. · Delivered a scalable, high availability, multi-tiered, client/server system primarily as a subscription based service (SaaS). · Collaborated with multi-departmental teams to build sound processes and working-relationships. · Re-factored multiple sub-systems to enhance long-term value and create a scalable platform to move forward from. · Achieved development goals through effective planning, management and leadership. · Analyzed and solved complex software issues, both small and large scale. -
Ceo & FounderSoftwareshield Technologies Inc Jan 2002 - Mar 2006Copy-protection and license-enforcement software development kit for Windows developers. · Singlehandedly designed and developed SoftwareShield Technologies Inc into a profitable online business protecting millions of copies of software globally. · Created and implemented product, pricing, distribution and promotion strategies to boot-strap the company to profitability (and exit). · Solved extremely complex software development problems for clients and provided real value. · Successfully negotiated the sale of the company to Yummy Interactive (above) to enhance and compliment their product line. · Broadened the main product offering with a minimum of effort through smart software development build processes to offer the "GameShield SDK" - further enhancing Yummy's value proposition.
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Chief Technical Officer (Cto)Cbn Systems Inc Aug 2001 - Dec 2004Color science company delivering chemical formulation and visualization software solutions for industry. · Co-inventor (pat. pend.) of the "CBN Code", a proprietary multi-color-space encoding algorithm and descriptor. · Inventor (pat. pend.) of the "Modified Gradient Hill Descent Search Algorithm" highly-successful chemical/colorant formulation search algorithm which improved search results by 500% over previous methods. · Completely re-factored software prototype into a commercial quality, highly reliable, maintainable and merchantable system.
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British Columbia Institute Of TechnologyApplied Artificial Intelligence -
British Columbia Institute Of TechnologyAdvanced Technology Marketing
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Burnaby South
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