Louis-Philippe MacAulay Bruneau
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Wolters Kluwer Canada
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Canada
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Information Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Associate Director, Product Software Engineering
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May 2021 - Present
Associate Director of product software engineering at Wolters Kluwer for the Canadian Tax and Accounting division. This division is one of the leading profesionnal tax software development companies in Canada. Delivering different software products for accounts such as Taxprep, iFirm Tax and Cantax. RESPONSIBILITIES- Lead multiple managers and teams including software development, devops and project management. - Ensure the on-time delivery of software products, development milestones and internal transformations- Track risks and mitigation plans across the Canadian tax division portfolio and acting accordingly to minimize the impact for the company and our customers- Assess and lead the implementation of new development processes, tools and technologies stacks- Hire, train and maintain a team of experts in multiple roles such as developers, business analysts, scrum masters, development managers, devops engineers and supervisors. ACHIEVEMENTS- Successful migration of the Taxprep software from the Delphi technology stack to C#- Team restructuring to ensure scalability and knowledge transfer.- Migration of a 32bit architecture to a 64bit architecture- Implement cross-functional teams across multiple provinces, countries and time zones.- Migration of an on premise Jenkins based CI/CD to an Azure DevOps pipeline for multiple products. Show less
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Senior Development Manager - Systems Development
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Jul 2017 - May 2021
- Functional manager for three independent development teams including software developers, integration developers, systems analysts, software architects and project coordinators. - Acting as scrum master and project manager for the development of multiple software solutions with hard dead-lines imposed by the government, clients and technical limitations. - Prioritization, approval and management of requests related to new software development including client requests, government constraints, technical enhancements, bug fixing and architecture refactoring. - Follow project activities to update road maps, reports and deadlines as well as raising risks and managing scope across multiple divisions and stakeholders. - Manage the multi-year budget for three development teams. - Lead enhancements to software development processes including build pipelines, continuous development and integration, automated processes, deployments to multiple platforms, internal tooling and source code management. - Hire and lead the development of talented technical resources - Manage cross-functional, multi-location teams including teams in Sherbrooke, Ukraine and India, with business relationships in offices around the world. Show less
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System Development Manager
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Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
System Development Manager- Functional manager of a team of system analysts and developers- Scrum master for an Agile software development team. - Architect and maintain a multi-product software development project roadmap that spans multiple years- Evaluate and manage project risks, goals and milestones- Acquire and maintain development talent- Facilitate project innovation and analysis DevOps Manager- Functional management of a DevOps team. - Prioritization, approval and management of DevOps projects- Elaborate implementation strategies of new ALM pieces, deployment strategies, architecture changes and build processes- Facilitate deployment of new projects and their changes throughout the teams and processes Show less
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Manager, Automation Projects and System Quality Control
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Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
Team management, project management, Architect for new automation solutions, strategic innovation, optimization of processes and testing methodologies, implementation of automation tools, performance reviews, team building.
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Project Manager - Automated Tests
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Jun 2013 - Sep 2014
- Analyze new project demands by other teams including but not limited to: development effort, time span, cost/benefit analysis, re-usability, business value. - Manage the automation team members, project deadlines and advancement, performance and future projects- Manage automated test infrastructure including virtural laboratory built on VMWare ESXi and ProxMox, licensing, hardware needs and growth estimatinos. - Manage team budget and future costs
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Automated/Load Test Designer
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Apr 2011 - Jun 2013
- Designing and programming automated functionnal tests- Manage a virtual lab infrastructure - Design and execute Performance, load and stress tests
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Systems Analyst
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Oct 2010 - Apr 2011
- Organize needs analysis meetings and foster brainstorming for new functionality implementations- Produce specification documents such as use cases, product requirement documents and vision documents for products and features- Act as interim product owner during development and answer development team's questions and facilitate communication
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Université de Sherbrooke
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Canada
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Lecturer, Management Information Systems - Business School
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Jan 2019 - Present
Responsibilities: - Lesson planning, preparation and research of material for a new Management Information Systems course on problem solving tools for management. - Teaching classes on the course specific theory though formal digital presentations, live demonstrations, formal instructions and applied projects in class and/or computer laboratories. - Guiding hands on work on the course mandated technologies (collaborative tools, CMS installation and configuration, database connection and data extraction). - Checking and assessing pupils work. - Preparing of assessments, exercises and lectures. Course descriptions -: GTA-211: The courses objective is to equip the professional for contemporary problem solving based on enterprise data. The approach to solving problems is taught by the use of business software common throughout the industry. Specific objectives are the following: 1- Acquire skills in collaborative technologies, including support to planning, ongoing coordination, document management and group decision making; 2- Acquire skills in data analysis technologies such as spreadsheets and information dissemination such as content manager systems (CMS); 3- Be able to plan and execute a formal resolution process of quantitative problem solving to support decision making. -: CTB-797 The course students who have finished their bachelors in accounting and are at the DESS level in order to complete their CPA exam. The goals are: 1- To widen the understanding of business technologies in order to understand the risks and benefits to organizations who exploit them. 2- To be able to accompany organization management teams on their choice of different technologies. 3- Comprehend the impact of different technologies within the scope of practical work for chartered professional accountants (CPA) -: GTA-611 - Management of Business Technlogy and Infrastructure Show less
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Manager
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Jun 2007 - Oct 2011
In charge of: - Human resources (hiring, schedules, evaluations) - Operations (On the floor real-time management, inventories, orders, taking complaints) - Managing the IT infrastructure (Maître D configuration, updates and problem solving; Azbar configuration; Fixing network and computer related issues, Backup's) - Training (Hiring new employees, training them and supervision their progression in the company, evaluations and continuous workshops) In charge of: - Human resources (hiring, schedules, evaluations) - Operations (On the floor real-time management, inventories, orders, taking complaints) - Managing the IT infrastructure (Maître D configuration, updates and problem solving; Azbar configuration; Fixing network and computer related issues, Backup's) - Training (Hiring new employees, training them and supervision their progression in the company, evaluations and continuous workshops)
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National Bank of Canada
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Canada
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Analyst
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Sep 2007 - Aug 2008
2 four month internships during my bachelor's degree in business, consisting of: - Developing and executing acceptance tests on different bank related software to find potential security risks. Targets were ATM's, inside software and the external website and transaction site. - Complete in-depth analysis of a newly developed software to find out it's usefulness for the bank, including a complete report of what it can and can't do to suite the bank's needs. 2 four month internships during my bachelor's degree in business, consisting of: - Developing and executing acceptance tests on different bank related software to find potential security risks. Targets were ATM's, inside software and the external website and transaction site. - Complete in-depth analysis of a newly developed software to find out it's usefulness for the bank, including a complete report of what it can and can't do to suite the bank's needs.
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Help desk / Supervisor
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Jun 2004 - Apr 2007
- Resolving customer service issues - Resolving Technical support Issues - Taking escalated calls unsolved by agents - Resolving 2nd level and 3rd level technical issues. - Helping out agents when they had questions - Coaching and training agents on technical aspects - Resolving customer service issues - Resolving Technical support Issues - Taking escalated calls unsolved by agents - Resolving 2nd level and 3rd level technical issues. - Helping out agents when they had questions - Coaching and training agents on technical aspects
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Education
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2006 - 2010
Université de Sherbrooke
Bachelor's, Information System's Management -
2004 - 2006
Champlain college, Lennoxville, Quebec
Computer Information Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences, General
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