Team Lead

• Jun 2020 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

• Jan 2019 - Jun 2020

Engineering Lead

• Jun 2017 - Nov 2018

I was one of the two leads on the Product Development team, participating in prioritization, management meetings, and hiring, among many other things.Laid the ground work to rebuild the front end in React, adding a GraphQL API

Software Developer

• Aug 2015 - Jun 2017

Full stack web development in Django, with a slight bias towards JavaScript/front end development.Notable accomplishments:- Led the effort to migrate from WYMEditor to a heavily customized CKEditor providing a better-than-Word editing & reading experience. We did a gradual, prioritized rollout over the course of many months. This involved a lot of help from our great customer-facing teams, who were crucial to triaging the many issues as we expose the new editor to different… Full stack web development in Django, with a slight bias towards JavaScript/front end development.Notable accomplishments:- Led the effort to migrate from WYMEditor to a heavily customized CKEditor providing a better-than-Word editing & reading experience. We did a gradual, prioritized rollout over the course of many months. This involved a lot of help from our great customer-facing teams, who were crucial to triaging the many issues as we expose the new editor to different types of documents.- We purchased a CKEditor spellcheck plugin, and over the course of many months, improved the performance to the point where it handles the majority of large/complex policies without crashing.- Worked with contractors to develop custom CKEditor plugins that encouraged users to create better-structured documents. - Created an interactive table of contents, which works similarly to the outline in Google Docs.- Member of the True North Committee, defining the company values for PolicyStat for the first time.- Mentored 1 intern, remotely, who recently returned to us as a full-time hire.- Conducted End-to-end hiring, mentoring, operational stuff for 2 co-ops from my alma mater, SFU. Show more Show less

Software Developer

• Sep 2013 - Aug 2015

Software Developer / Product Analyst

• Nov 2011 - Aug 2015

Business Solutions Specialist

• Jul 2009 - Nov 2011

BIS Project Administrator

• Jan 2008 - Dec 2008

This was one of my fondest years as a co-op. I learned a ton about project management at different levels. Thank you to the many of you that I got to know through this one year. - Assisted in project management administrative tasks to meet ISO 9000 compliance for BIS Email projects. - Tracked the burndown of our blocking issues for each major release. - Managed a number of actual projects that were released to users, including a production hotfix - my first trial by fire.

Research Assistant

• May 2006 - Aug 2006

This was the first time anyone paid me to build software. I performed UI development and maintenance/refactoring of previous co-op's code, for a bioinformatics-related program in C++ using wxWidgets. I learned a lot about debugging issues with C++ memory management, which I then never used, and forgot completely, more than ten years later.