Experience

Layer2 Financial

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Cloud Architect

  • Dec 2021 - Present



Capco

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Cloud Engineering Lead, PlatformZero

  • Jun 2019 - Dec 2021

• Principal Consultant

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2021



Capital One

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Software Engineering

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2017



PointClickCare

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Build & Integration Analyst

  • Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

  * Principal architect and lead of the Chef infrastructure and all cookbooks * Implemented the enterprise Git version control system * Automated the creation and management of the Jenkins builds for the source code repositories * Developed the automated provisioning of application stacks in AWS * Developed workshops and training to mentor peers on the use of tooling and processes * Build and Release lead for the Analytics platform based on Cloudera Hadoop and associated middleware * Principal architect and lead of the Chef infrastructure and all cookbooks * Implemented the enterprise Git version control system * Automated the creation and management of the Jenkins builds for the source code repositories * Developed the automated provisioning of application stacks in AWS * Developed workshops and training to mentor peers on the use of tooling and processes * Build and Release lead for the Analytics platform based on Cloudera Hadoop and associated middleware



Quickplay

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

• Team Lead, Build & Release Engineer

  • Jul 2013 - Apr 2014

• Build & Release Engineer

  • Apr 2011 - Apr 2014

  * Developed the core Chef recipes for the configuration of common infrastructure components* Developed the application Chef cookbooks for the continuous delivery of key business application* Instrumental in the architecture and development of Chef environment management framework* Developed the Chef build, test and release process of Chef cookbooks used in Continuous Delivery* Developed a process to package applications into RPM installers for the deployment in Linux environments* Deployed a Managed an Enterprise Git Server (Atlassian Stash)* Deployed a Subversion server for as the corporate standard version control system* Migrated Subversion repositories to Git repositories* Implemented the continuous integration environment utilizing the Jenkins CI server* Developed automated management of the Jenkins build server environment * Developed and implemented a build and release process for Java, C++, and iOS projects* Implemented a Maven repository to act as a proxy of public repositories as well as hosting internal artifacts* Developed an automated process for building, releasing, packaging and deployment of a multi-node application** This process was then used in an Agile development process whereby development teams and QA teams where empowered to request an automated deployment of a development snapshot or release of code to a given environment consisting of four different parts of an application in a distributed environment.* Implemented continuous delivery by way of leveraging the Chef framework* Implemented a strategy where code was analyzed for various corporate coding standards* Was involved in a solution for database schema version control and deployment management* Implemented a repeatable build and release process for several C++ programs* Implemented a repeatable build and release process for iOS applications Show less



Symcor

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Application Developer

  • Nov 2003 - Apr 2011

  * Designed and implemented an automated build and deployment process using various build tools including: - Maven, Ant, Nant, Shell scripts - Hudson CI - Webistrano/Capistrano for automated deployments - CFEngine, Cygwin * Mentored various development teams to integrate their projects into this build and deployment framework * Responsible for the configuration, deployment, and management of various environments and software assets * Migrated a CVS repository to Subversion * Migrated existing Java projects to the Maven 2 build system * Developed the Maven 2 builds for J2EE projects to be deployed in Apache Geronimo 2 Application Servers * Developed custom Nant plug-ins in C# for use in the automated build and deployment of vendor and custom applications * Repackaged vendor client applications using MSI authoring tools to customize the configuration and deployment of desktop applications to workstations in the enterprise * Created, developed and maintained all of the build, deployment, and configuration scripts for mixed application systems consisting of vendor applications and custom applications * Configured and maintained several environments of in the development life cycle including development, QA, staging, and production * Designed and managed an automated system for the deployment of code to all of the environments in the software development life cycle * Maintained and managed various environments consisting of Windows, Linux, and Solaris servers * Managed several Linux and Solaris based implementations of Apache Geronimo 2 application server * Designed and developed a Perl based early warning detection system for an application which detected problems in the processing flow of a multi-tiered system * Implemented CFEngine across a heterogeneous network of Solaris and Windows application servers * Designed a configuration management and monitoring system built around the CFEngine framework * Authored Group Policy security templates for custom applications Show less



Grocery Gateway

• Windows Systems Administrator

  • Jan 2001 - Mar 2002