Experience

Canada Border Services Agency | Agence des services frontaliers du Canada

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Cyber Security Advisor

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Senior Cyber Security Advisor Senior Cyber Security Advisor



Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Advisor - Enterprise Architecture

  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2019

  I worked as an Enterprise Architect with Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Information Management and Technology Bureau, Technology-Enabled Business Solutions Innovation and Integration Division, Architecture and Quality. In this role, I successfully accomplished the following: a. Key contributor towards maturing GACs Enterprise Architecture practice, defining governance, artifacts, and templates, including EA Review Board and Community of Practice Terms of References, Guiding EA Principles, Architectural Alignment Templates, Architectural Definition Templates, and the Cloud intake/on-boarding process. b. Provided architectural oversight to multiple client initiatives, identifying architecturally significant requirements and recommending reuse, buy, or build course of actions, and technical solutions leveraging agile approaches or disruptive technologies such as Cloud, to ensure those requirements were being met, Architectural Principles were being adhered to, and business outcomes were being delivered. c. Prepared and presented numerous Enterprise Architectural solutions to the Enterprise Architecture Review Board for executive endorsement.



Canada Border Services Agency | Agence des services frontaliers du Canada

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Advisor

  • Oct 2013 - Sep 2017

  I was a Technical Advisor with the Canada Border Services Agency, Information, Science, and Technology Branch, Business Applications Services Directorate, in the Travellers Systems Division. In this role, I was the lead advisor for the modernization of traveller systems, and have accomplished the following:a. Championed the adoption of an agile, iterative methodology in order to meet tight project delivery dates. Recommendations included co-locating resources to facilitate collaboration, driving requirement definition via conducting storyboarding exercises, controlling scope and expectations via prioritizing and incrementally implementing user stories, and implementing test-driven development cycles and continuous builds.b. Performed a technical options analysis and advised senior technical advisors and management to adopt a new desktop technical platform stack, in response to peripheral integration needs, and performance, security, usability, agility, portability, development productivity, deployment capacity, and solution maintenance objectives.c. Created and championed to senior management an agile, extensible, scalable solution architecture for consolidating IT assets. This architecture entailed identifying business capabilities and architectural components with single areas of responsibility to implement the capabilities in a decoupled and reusable fashion, exposing the capabilities by identifying services and publishing a service catalogue, leveraging an Enterprise Service Bus to orchestrate service calls, defining a standardized front-end based on delivery platform, consolidating/externalizing business rules via leveraging a Business Rules Management System, and employing standardized datasets and workflows leveraging Master Data Management.d. Facilitated weekly divisional technical meetings, advising technical leads from multiple project teams on technical solutions to meet various initiatives and fostering solution reuse throughout the division.

• Senior Systems Analyst

  • May 2011 - Oct 2013

  I was a Senior Systems Analyst with the Canada Border Services Agency, Information, Science, and Technology Branch, Solutions Directorate, in the Commercial Systems Development Division. In this role, I was the technical lead for the eManifest Commercial Passage Java Web application, and successfully accomplished the following:a. Equipped CBSA with the ability to meet demanding usability requirements of the eManifest initiative by leading a proof of technologies and introducing a new Graphical User Interface technological framework to CBSA. b. Managed the analysis and design phases of the eManifest Commercial Passage project, leading JAD (Joint Application Development) working sessions with multiple stakeholders, including business clients, usability experts, data modellers, and other senior analysts, to determine functional, non-functional, and usability requirements and develop solutions to meet those requirements, including System Use Cases, Graphical User Interface Designs, and technical specifications.



Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL)

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Developer

  • May 2010 - Mar 2011

  I worked as a Developer in the Information Technology Division, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and was responsible for implementing business requirements, system enhancements, and bug fixes for a multi-platform, multi-tiered JEE Web application. As a developer, Colin successfully accomplished the following: a. Utilized a test driven approach with continuous integration and continuous deployment to deliver quality software releases in support of addressing business requirements, system enhancements, and bug fixes for a multi-platform, multi-tiered JEE Web application. b. Established an organizational policy governing Open Source software selection and usage, based on industry best practices



CT IT Consulting Inc

• Ottawa, Canada

• President

  • Dec 2003 - May 2010

  From December 2003 to April 2010, I operated an IT consulting firm, CT IT Consulting Inc., in Ottawa, ON. and I provided professional services to several Government of Canada departments and agencies in various capacities, including Quality Assurance and Java Software Development. Some key accomplishments include: a. Implemented the Government of Canada Common Look and Feel 2.0 standards and W3C Accessibility Guidelines for on multiple multi-platform, multi-tiered Java (JEE) Web applications within the Informatics Services Branch of Industry Canada, employing a Restful Service Oriented Architecture, mastering a plethora of technologies to meet stringent production release dates b. Implemented and supported the persistence layer for multiple multi-tiered J2EE Web applications within the Innovation, Science and Technology Branch (ISTB), Data Management Directorate of the Canada Border Services Agency, employing a test driven approach to create optimized JDBC DB2 queries; mentored junior developers on Java, principles of Object Oriented design, and the use of the data access layer framework. c. Redesigned a procedural Web application for the Integrated Revenue Collections Division of the Canada Revenue Agency, leveraging Object Oriented Design patterns and principles to introduce cohesion, decoupling and solution scalability and to implement the Government of Canada Common Look and Feel 1.0 standards. d. Provided project management for the Innovation, Science and Technology Branch (ISTB) of the Canada Border Services Agency, identifying project deliverables, defining project plans, managing project execution, and monitoring progress by all stakeholders. e. Defined and implemented a quality assurance strategy for critical system components within the Innovation, Science and Technology Branch (ISTB) of the Canada Border Services Agency, developing and executing automated regression test plans and test cases.