My current role is Sr. Manager, Engineering at Docker.
I manage a team of five engineers with whom I meet regularly to discuss career objectives, performance, engineering activities, and other personal interests.
We work together with our Product Manager, Technical Project Manager, and Product Designer to grow the billing and payments infrastructure.
Education
University of Ottawa
- B. Sc. with Honours in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude (2007)
Employment
Docker 🐳
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Sr. Manager, Engineering - Billing (Apr. 2022 - Present)
- Helped build out the Billing engineering team, established in early 2022
- Manage five intermediate through staff engineers
- Work with internal and external stakeholders and cross-functional engineering teams
- Developed and track team metrics and OKRs, using data to drive sprint-to-sprint process improvements
- Guided the team in launching four initiatives over the last year while putting in place plans for more
Connected (now Thoughtworks Canada)
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- Completed 11 projects for seven clients, delivering six complete software products: several internal tools, one mobile product launch in the U.S. on one of the world’s largest social platforms, and one web & mobile application in Toronto
Manager, Engineering (Sept. 2019 - Apr. 2022)
- Four to six reports
- Regular 1-on-1s
- Quarterly performance and objective management
- Career management (interests, skill, project allocations)
- Conducting interviews of potential Software Engineering candidates
- Training Connected Software Engineers in our pairing interview process
Senior Software Engineer (May 2018 - Present)
Project I (April 2021 - Dec. 2021)
- Launched a web and mobile application in hospitality
- Lead a team of 8 engineers building a web/mobile app
- React / Typescript (web), React Native / Javascript (iOS/Android), AWS Amplify / Javascript (backend)
- Tasks include encouraging best practices, system architecture, delegation, working directly with client on technical and project planning, working as a team with Connected project manager and engagement lead on scoping, story writing, task planning, and technical feasibility
Project H (Nov. 2020 - Feb. 2021)
- Paired on development of financial integration between Zuora RevPro and Salesforce
- Used Celigo and Google Cloud Platform to build ETL infrastructure
Project G (Jan. 2020 - Sept. 2020)
- iOS (Swift/ObjC) mobile development
- Delivering mobile iOS app features for a major Canadian financial institution
Projects E-F (Aug. - Sept. 2019)
- Two projects for different teams within the same client
- Full-stack desktop web development in React/Hack building interfaces to machine-learning data sets
Project D (Jun. 2019)
- Software Architect – front-end and back-end architecture proposal for client proof-of-concept application in retail space
Project C (Fall 2018 - Summer 2019)
- Engineering Team Lead for four engineers consulting on product development
- Coordinating with client (SF Bay Area) and third-party design team (Austin, TX)
- Full-stack web with emphasis on frontend mobile development (iOS/Android) using internal client tech and Hack language
- Development of new health-outcome focused mobile app
Projects A, B (Sprint-Fall 2018)
- Two projects for different teams within the same client and product line
- Full-stack web building a registration/administration portal for internal/external hardware device test users
- Built internal log tool for low-level Android engineers of same device
Points International
Senior Loyalty Platform and Developer Specialist (Apr. 2017 - May 2018)
- Lead a small team working directly with partners to build integrations between their SOAP and REST APIs and Points’ Loyalty Commerce Platform (LCP)
- Technical integration planning and pre-sales with partners and developers
- Gather requirements from loyalty partners and internal stakeholders
- Develop team procedures and approaches to integration with platform
Project Manager and Scrum Master (Nov. 2015 - Apr. 2017)
- Managing three scrum teams using agile methodologies and JIRA tools
- Managing scope, capacity, velocity, and project estimates
- Liaising between engineering, product, delivery, and finance
Platform Developer (Nov. 2014 - Nov. 2015)
- Built Python REST endpoints for Loyalty Commerce Platform micro-services architecture, including unit and integration tests
- Built CouchDB integrations and migrations
Lightspeed Retail
Software Developer (Mar. 2013 - Mar. 2014)
- Built REST API endpoints for the LightSpeed Pro backend using Python, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL, supporting OS X / iOS retail clients
- Built integration between LightSpeed Cloud and Quality Bicycle Products’ catalogue REST API, using PHP and MySQL, facilitating ETL from QBP - Full-stack unit tested refactoring using the Yii PHP framework and MySQL
Magor Corp.
Software Developer (Jul. 2010 - Mar. 2013)
- Developed the Skype audio / video integration with Magor’s HDWorkplace using SkypeKit C++ API to build a Freeswitch module in C
- Developed Python-based test automation software using HDWorkplace REST API, tested Skype integration using Sikuli to automate Skype GUI
- Developed a software update system for Magor’s hardware appliance
University of Ottawa
Software Developer, Student IT Services (Nov. 2009 - Jul. 2010)
- Designed, developed, deployed C# ASP.Net/MSSQL e-commerce app for Faculty of Education with course inventory, shopping cart, payment integration, and registration processing
Web Developer, uOttawa Library (Jun. 2006 - Oct. 2008)
- Redesigned core Library website and 13 branch sites with new University templates (CSS/JS/HTML), rebuilt PHP and MySQL backend on Linux servers, retrained web librarians
- Customized and deployed Java-based DSpace electronic theses repository, trained library staff
- XML and XSLT used for ETL to load DSpace with uOttawa’s entire collection of theses
