Experience

Maxis Studios - EA

• United States
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer I

  • Dec 2022 - Present

• Software Engineer III

  • Apr 2021 - Dec 2022

  Kitchener, Ontario, Canada



Magnet Forensics

• Canada
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - Apr 2021

  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Developing cloud services for ingesting, managing, and reviewing evidence



56 Game Studios

• Canada
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder

  • Sep 2016 - Apr 2021

  Kitchener, Canada Area Full-stack indie game development with Unity



Electronic Arts (EA)

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Game Services Developer

  • May 2013 - Sep 2016

  Kitchener, Canada Area Developing core services and client libraries for mobile (and now AAA) games at EA, with experience covering: * Authentication and authorization (OAuth) * Real-time chat * Game client configuration * Device identification and tracking * Recording microtransactions * Recording and aggregating service logs and metrics * Game server and game client architectures * Maintaining live services in private datacenters and in the cloud, with extensive Amazon Web Services… Show more Developing core services and client libraries for mobile (and now AAA) games at EA, with experience covering: * Authentication and authorization (OAuth) * Real-time chat * Game client configuration * Device identification and tracking * Recording microtransactions * Recording and aggregating service logs and metrics * Game server and game client architectures * Maintaining live services in private datacenters and in the cloud, with extensive Amazon Web Services experience * Migrating live services to from a private datacenter to the cloud Show less



Communitech

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Developer - Apps Factory (Coop x2)

  • May 2011 - Aug 2012

  Kitchener, Canada Area Developing apps for the web (Rails, Javascript) and smartphones (IOS, Android, Blackberry) Two 4 month coop terms: 1st Term: 05/01/2011 - 08/26/2011 2nd Term: 05/01/2012 - 08/24/2012



PostRank (Google)

• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Web Developer (Coop)

  • Sep 2010 - Dec 2010

  Waterloo, Ontario - Built front-end interfaces in HTML and JavaScript for the social media Analytics product. - Wrote back-end code for the main site and developed features for the PostRank core tools using Ruby and Rails.



R. F. Bearden Associates, Inc.

• IT Services and IT Consulting

• UI and Web Application Developer (Coop)

  • Jan 2010 - Apr 2010

  Waterloo, Ontario - Updated an existing Java application with new visual (Swing-based) features. - Researched suitable server-side technologies for developing a new web application interface to the core product. - Developed the web app from scratch using Python/Django.



AMD

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Competitive Analysis (Coop x2)

  • Sep 2008 - Aug 2009

  Markham, Ontario Benchmark tested various PC configurations, modelled after target markets, against various test suites and the latest in PC games. Reported on competitive advantages, contributed to packages for reviewers, and helped put together demos and presentations. Two 4 month coop terms: 1st Term: 09/01/2008 - 12/19/2008 2nd Term: 05/01/2009 - 08/28/2009



Public and Business Service Delivery | Services au public et aux entreprises

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Desktop Services Technician (Coop)

  • Jan 2008 - Apr 2008

  Toronto, Ontario Handled IT requests for a number of buildings in Queens Park and some remote sites. Completed two large hardware refresh projects.