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Work Experience

• Technology Lead, APMC (A Parent Media Company)

  Jan, 2023 - Jan, 20263 years

  When I joined APMC, we had one product, our kid's streaming service Kidoodle.TV, and durring my time, we built Victory+ and the Dude Perfect streaming services.

  • Lead the team that build Vicotry+ - a revolution sport streaming platform that is the offical home of the Dallas Stars, Texas Rangers and Anaheim Ducks.

  • Contributed directly to the codebase while planning work with product managers and executives.

  • Interviewed and hired the entire development and QA team.

  • Conducted 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, coaching, and provided mentoring to the development team.

  • Chose technology stacks to deliver a high-quality streaming service.

  • Monitored the perfomance of our applications and provided DevOps services for the team - making our deployment process as simple as it could be.

  • Removed all legacy code that existed before in a safe and responsible way that lead to huge increases in performance and discoverability

  • Tireless worked through design interations to accomodate a very fast-paced business landscape - new leauges, new teams, new requirements with billing or regional restrictions.

  • Manageed a team of developers from across the globe (from Poland to New Brunswick to India), working across timezones, often making for early morning and late nights.

  • Ensured full test-coverage of our applications, including all front-end testing to mock real-work usage as closely as possible.

  • Rebuilt our flagship streaming service Kidoodle.TV to increase performance and enable better monitization

• Software Development Manager, Benevity

  Jan, 2019 - Jan, 20234 years

  I was one of the SDMs as part of Benevity's "Employee Engagement" team that worked on their flagship product, Spark. At Benevity, I was able to formalize many of the skills gained at FGL.

  • Lead the team that delivered the payroll reconcilliation project, allowing our clients to perform opperations to assist with processing payroll donations.

  • Lead the team that built the CIAM solution to manage users for Benevity's clients, first piloting this project such as UPS, Ericsson, and Airbus.

  • Lead the teams involved in the update of key infrastructure, including pipelines and containerization of applications.

  • Conducted 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, coaching, mentoring to developers on our teams.

  • Worked closely with product and devops to ensure roadmaps were delivered on schedule and in a safe, stable manner.

  • Coached and mentored computer science students from the U of C as part of the Capstone Project. Graduating students were using ML and AI to build a receipt categorization system.

  • Ensured the teams followed Agile best practices, especially in story writting, ensuring that tasks were broken down in a managable chunks.

  • Facilitated pair programming and mob programming sessions, as well as other brainstorming meetings.

  • Took teams through the process of team formation, establishing team culture and working agreements.

  • Worked through various issues with team memmbers, including difficult discussions about performance, creating personal improvement plans, and working wtih team members through medical leaves.

  • Lead distributed teams across very distant time-zones, as far away as India, and found creative solutions to common issues that arise.

  • Was able to increase productivity (velocity) of each team I lead.

  • Was one of the only managers across all departments at Benevity to have 100% positive feedback in Benevity's Employee Engagement Survey.

• Development Team Lead, FGL Sports Ltd.

  Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20198 years

  I was the lead of a team that delivered various applications for FGL Sports Ltd. (now Canadian Tire). I loved my time at FGL where I developed skills in leading technical projects and people.

  • Lead a team of developers and contributed heavily to the codebase for various opperational retail projects.

  • Designed and built the in-store communications and training portal that served vital daily information to 400+ store, including Sport Chek, Atmosphere, and Marks.

  • Built key applications for the management of inventory as part of the Distribuuted Order Management project (utiliziting store locations as warehouses to reducing e-commerce shipping times and costs).

  • Built applications and content management systems to integrate with hardware devices in FGL's flagship stores (video screens, "power rings", tablet displays, etc).

• Developer and Project Manager, Freelance

  Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20112 years

  • Worked as project manager, assmbling teams of designers and developers from contacts at previous jobs.

  • Delivered projects for brands such as Garmin, Best Buy, Nissan, Agri-Trend, Winalta Homes, The Calgary Zoo, and SMART Technologies.

• , Various Marketing Agencies

  Jan, 2002 - Jan, 20097 years

  • During this time, worked at marketing agencies such as Critical Mass, Rare Method, and Suitcase Interactive.

  • Completed big projects for brands such as Mercedes-Benz, The United Way, Silvertip Resort, Jugo Juice, Nissan, Garmin, Best Buy, and many others.

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