Experience

Kidoodle.TV®
• Canada
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Software Engineer - Connected TV App Developer

  • Jun 2021 - Present


GuestTek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• UI/UX developer

  • Nov 2014 - Present

  UI / UX designer / Developer.Building the clients custom vision for our in-house products.My code is LIVE in 100,000's devices world wide.Develop core JavaScript and html templates. Turn Illustrator/Photoshop files in to working apps within the product framework.Update code-base after determining feasibility of feature requests.Develop new products with bleeding edge technologies, such as custom chromecast app, reactive ecmascript web portals and embedded apps for smart TVs.Manage my own Linux based development server that mimics the hotel environment. Write and maintain various bash scripts to automate software installation and configuration.Saved the day on uncountable occasions by finding solutions and implementing them within the customers' expected timelines.Acting as knowledge-base for co-workers in all avenues. Every department has and continues to rely on me for assistance, from project managers needing help configuring complicated sites, sales people wanting to impress the client with an idea they hadn't thought possible, support getting answers to how something works and how better to help the end user, QA needing testing instructions, work arounds and just less revisions from pre-tested code, through to management requiring feedback and ideas for new features, and the expert handling of sensitive client matters.

• Quality Assurance Analyst

  • Nov 2011 - Nov 2014

  Test software, both embedded on devices and TVs, as well an in browser web apps. Test hardware for certification. Design and update test plans. Fully regressive testing, requiring complete knowledge of entire code-base and all features and product intentions.Worked closely with developers to diagnose and correct bugs.


CanadaBeerMap.com
• Founder, President

  • Jan 2020 - Present

YYCWingNight.com
• Co-Founder, CTO

  • May 2019 - Present

Calgary Caesar Fest
• Co-Founder, CTO

  • Feb 2018 - Present

YYCBeer.ca
• Founder, President

  • Jan 2018 - Present


XOptimize Web Management

• Senior Developer and Analyst

  • Jul 2005 - Nov 2012

  Figure out Google. - SEO Build custom content management systems and web applications that work, and rank. - Web Development. Figure out Google. - SEO Build custom content management systems and web applications that work, and rank. - Web Development.



TELUS Communications

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Technology Analyst

  • Jul 2003 - Jul 2005

  Call Center. Supported the BIG clients. Helped get their phones, data circuits, radio towers, co-locates, pbx's and just about everything else telephony and internet related working properly.

• Information Technology Analyst

  • Sep 2002 - Jul 2003

  Call Center. Helped get business customers' phones working again.



Beyond 20/20 Inc.

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Support Analyst

  • Nov 2000 - Nov 2001

  Support, Post production QA, Pre-sales data manipulation. Helped clients get their massive data sets (old and new) into a 3 dimensional, drill-able, statistical analysis software system. Made the sales guys look great by taking potential clients' raw (and dirty) data-sets and building sample relation tables. I had to build many many custom scripts for every possible type of dastabase. Support, Post production QA, Pre-sales data manipulation. Helped clients get their massive data sets (old and new) into a 3 dimensional, drill-able, statistical analysis software system. Made the sales guys look great by taking potential clients' raw (and dirty) data-sets and building sample relation tables. I had to build many many custom scripts for every possible type of dastabase.



Convergys Customer Management Canada Inc

• Canada
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Support Analyst

  • Nov 1998 - Sep 2000

  Call center. Internet phone support. Fixed people's internet, trended larger network problems. Worked in somewhat emerging services, hybrid fiber/co-ax (HFC), cable internet, both docsis and pre-docsis solutions. Worked on Rogers, MediaOne and TimeWarner contracts. Did A LOT more than turning people's machines on and off. Call center. Internet phone support. Fixed people's internet, trended larger network problems. Worked in somewhat emerging services, hybrid fiber/co-ax (HFC), cable internet, both docsis and pre-docsis solutions. Worked on Rogers, MediaOne and TimeWarner contracts. Did A LOT more than turning people's machines on and off.