Experience

Event Temple

• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Jul 2022 - Present



Knit Agency

• Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Head Of Development

  • Nov 2018 - Jul 2022

  • Managed and grew a team of 15-18 software developers in a fast-paced agency environment. This includes 7 direct reports and 8-11 indirect reports. • Providing mentorship by utilizing 1:1s, annual reviews, quarterly performance reviews, and a learning and development program. • Implemented standardized development processes and practices across the organization to help reduce project costs, increase revenue by raising billable utilization, and increase developer job satisfaction. • Developed and supported a culture where it was safe to speak up to give feedback to one another, hold constructive arguments, and value sustainable work practices for employee mental health. • Provided development team members with technical validation and mentoring for architectural decisions within client solutions. • Worked closely with the CEO to ensure that client leads were viable from a technical perspective, and that both the business and technical team were clear on how business decisions would impact them in their day-to-day work.



Pixel Union

• Canada
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Jun 2018 - Nov 2018

  • Wrote software in Elixir that integrates the BC Government’s cannabis inventory, customer, and product control systems with Shopify for their online store. The launch of the BC Cannabis store was one of the most successful and stable launches across Canada. • Implemented development process, documented architecture, code reviews, pair programming, sprint planning, mentoring employees, and hiring developers. • Provided high-level architecture and technical review for new integrations with clients existing ecommerce solutions to Shopify.



InQuicker

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Integrations Team Lead

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2018

  InQuicker provides digital self-scheduling and discharge-scheduling solutions. It is used by more than 100 health systems and hospitals nationwide. It is the digital scheduling platform of choice for leading providers, including Dignity Health, Ascension, SSM and Tenet. • Developed (Elixir, Ruby, Javascript), designed, and maintained backend API services that securely interact with remote Electronic Medical Record systems all around the United States. These integration services help facilitate over a million patient visits to health systems all over the country, and helped InQuicker get acquired by Stericycle. • Sprint planning, technical documentation, code review, pair programming and interviewing potential developers to help build an amazing team.



North Island College

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Sessional Instructor

  • Jan 2018 - May 2018

  Technical instructor and curriculum developer for the “Emerging Technologies” (Ruby / Ruby on Rails) course at North Island College.

• Sessional Instructor

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

  Technical instructor and curriculum developer for the “Introduction to Programming in Swift” course at North Island College.This was the only accredited Swift course available at colleges across Canada at the time.



Viviti Technologies Inc

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Team Lead

  • Jun 2007 - Jan 2011

  Viviti (now 'Jigsy.com') is an online website builder that allows people to build a dynamic website with very little technical knowledge. The platform had over 100,000 active users in 2010, and continues to grow today. I worked my way up from a Software Engineer to the Development Manger of the product. • Architected, developed (Ruby, Rails, Javascript), and supported the product from the beginning stages and then successfully launching the product to over 100,000 happy customers. • Built and supported an RSS/Atom feed caching system that supported fetching and reading tens of thousands of different feeds across the internet. • Moved into a Development Manager role and successfully managed a team of four.



Bravenet Web Services

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2002 - Jun 2007

  Bravenet Web Services offer hosting and domain registration services to millions of users all across the world. I worked my way up as a member of the hosting support team to a software engineer during my five years at Bravenet. • Developed, maintained, and launched the new hosting provisioning API written in Ruby (Rails) and accompanying front-end that hundreds of thousands of people use to manage their hosting and domain services. • Migrated hundreds of thousands of free and paid websites to the new hosting platform successfully with limited downtime. • Developed and maintained the back-end API (written in Ruby) of domain management services so that customers could reliably register, manage and transfer domain names.