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• Senior Architect in Technology Strategy, 

  May, 2022 - Mar, 202310 months

  Key Technologies: Microsoft Azure, AWS, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Shell Scripts, Redis, Confluence, Jira, Docker, PowerShell, Heroku

  • Key member of Technology Strategy team (comprised of 5 Architects) responsible for establishing and developing the long-term strategic vision for the SaaS enterprise technology and provided subsequent oversight of the strategy implementation orchestrated through ~100 Software Developers, DevOps,Testers, Security (under CISO’s leadership), and Product Managers

  • Contributions to technology selection and utilization allowed the firm to rapidly raise the maturity of the technology and proactively identify opportunities to build technology enablers resulting in accelerating the firm’s achievement of its growth targets

  • Acted as a primary point of contact coordinating and collaborating with multidisciplinary cross-functional teams specializing in the management of specific domains in the microservices architecture; effective troubleshooting, analysis, and guidance resulted in ensuring the optimization of strategy implementation in a high-growth, Agile environment

• Software Development Manager, 

  Oct, 2021 - Mar, 20225 months

  Key Technologies: AWS, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Shell Scripts, Confluence, Jira, HTML, CSS, Docker

  • Managed a team of software development specialists in producing a highly complex, cloud-based web-service that acted as a central hub for all things IoT, particularly with heavy-industries equipment (mining, forestry, etc.)

  • Introduced effective Agile methodology practices and project management tools to provide structure and order to the incumbent team of developers, testers, and product managers

  • Crafted job requirements and created a new HR pipeline for hiring software development talent to expand the team and accelerate the development of features

  • Collaborated with the designer to clarify use-case scenarios and product features to be developed, steering away from concepts that were too complex to effectively implement within the context of "fast-paced" business development

  • Guided and mentored developers regarding architecture, best practices, software design patterns, testing strategies, maintainability, scalability, etc.

• Member of Technical Staff II in Software Engineering, 

  Apr, 2018 - Aug, 20224 years 4 months

  Key Technologies & Skills: Windows System Administration, Linux System Administration, Jenkins, Git, Python, C, C++, C#, R, Real-time Operating Systems (Linux), Satellite Clocks, Keysight Instruments (Demodulators, Oscilloscope, Signal Generator), Groovy, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Docker, XTCE, XML

  • Architectured, designed, and implemented end-to-end testing, CI/CD, and DevOps of real-time space mission products and systems

  • Resolved highly challenging technical problems including diagnosing and resolving faulty PCI-E based SATA interface cards by designing a redundancy solution and identifying/ mitigating faulty critical server hardware by initiating a backup of data to corporate IT infrastructure; actions taken enabled the recovery of the project for software maintenance requests 3 years after delivery to the customer, ultimately saving millions of dollars in development costs

  • Diagnosed complex software logic faults, including race conditions, to ensure that the products worked without fault, and provided support to development teams

  • Operated and optimized the control of specialized lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, demodulators, and satellite-based clocks to verify and validate real-time signal processing systems

  • Created new interoperability tools based on the XTCE standard employed by international space agencies; developed new interoperability tools based on the XTCE standard employed by international space agencies

• Senior Web Developer, 

  May, 2017 - Feb, 20189 months

  Key Technologies + Skills: AWS, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Docker, Confluence, Jira, Stripe

  • Automated labourious data analytics processes used for accounting subsystems of ecommerce platform

  • Implemented and refined designs on various web mini games

  • Development of Star Citizen's web presence

• Web Developer, 

  Jun, 2015 - Apr, 20171 year 10 months

  Key Technologies: Azure, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Shell Scripts, Confluence, Jira, HTML, CSS, Docker

  • Overhauled the main corporate website, introducing responsive desktop/mobile design, 1000x faster search engine, 1000x faster content publishing pipeline, and a plethora of convenient hooks that the marketing team could leverage in a largely no-code fashion

  • Developed numerous responsive templates that had dynamic blocks which enabled the marketing team to create landing pages with a variety of different layouts within the Marketo (no-code) platform

• Teacher, Web Languages 01, 

  Jan, 2015 - Apr, 20153 months

  Key Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

  • Taught the fundamentals of web development to design-oriented class

• Senior Web Developer, 

  Aug, 2013 - Dec, 20141 year 4 months

  Key Technologies: AWS, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitLab, Shell Scripts, Confluence, Jira, HTML, CSS, Docker, SVN, Moneris, PayPal, Django

  • Provided fast-paced e-commerce website development, troubleshooting, and evolution; interfaced with multiple data sources including SQL servers and IBM/DB2 servers

  • Introduced a migration from SVN to Git, coupled with a CICD pipeline that significantly reduced the time and manpower taken to as little as 1-2 minutes by any developer, in contrast to 1-2 days involving the entire development team and the system administrator

  • Built deep-monitoring and analytics for key data ETL pipelines enabling rapid and focused fixes to be made; the system was inherited with a success rate of ~70% and was brought up to a stable success rate of 95% on average (achieving 100% most days)

• Senior Web Developer, 

  May, 2010 - Apr, 20121 year 11 months

  Key Technologies: Flash/ActionScript/Flex, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Proxmox, PayPal, Moneris, Typo3, WordPress

  • Supported a multitude of web-hosting clients and their websites using a wide array of tools and technologies

  • Optimized multi-million record MySQL databases and queries, 100000x fold improvement in performance

  • Designed and implemented various highly interactive, high traffic web solutions

  • Integrated credit-card payment solutions in e-commerce platforms

• Lead Flash Developer, 

  Aug, 2007 - Nov, 20092 years 3 months

  Key Technologies: Flash/ActionScript/Flex, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL

  • Designed and implemented, from scratch, an isometric game engine (quasi-3D within 2D) for the 'Spliced' online game

  • Designed and implemented backend data storage solutions

  • Development of gaming platforms for major intellectual-property publishers such as YTV, PBS, CBS, Orange, etc

• Functionality Quality-Assurance Tester, 

  Aug, 2007 - Nov, 20092 years 3 months

  Key Technologies: Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, X-BOX, PC

  • Rigorously tested a wide variety of games on modern gaming platforms

  • Entrusted with secrecy on a multiple AAA-titles

• Computer Lab Monitor & Student Support, 

  Sep, 2004 - Apr, 20061 year 7 months

  Key Technologies: macOS, Windows, Linux, C++, PHP, Flash, C#, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

  • Maintenance of Computer Labs

  • Tutorials and Mentorship for Students in Computer Science and Design Arts Topics

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