Experience

Digitalist North America

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Technology

  • Aug 2020 - Present

• Solution Architect, Technical Lead

  • Feb 2017 - Aug 2020



OrthoTool

• Toronto, Canada Area

• Technical Advisor

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  Provide product development and digital marketing strategy, as well as technical direction and software development for custom contact lens software, converting a legacy Excel-based product into a cloud-based software as a service with a recurring revenue model. Using Lean Startup principles to iteratively learn, build, and measure while utilizing modern software technologies like React, GraphQL and NodeJS. Provide product development and digital marketing strategy, as well as technical direction and software development for custom contact lens software, converting a legacy Excel-based product into a cloud-based software as a service with a recurring revenue model. Using Lean Startup principles to iteratively learn, build, and measure while utilizing modern software technologies like React, GraphQL and NodeJS.



Reaction Commerce (acquired by Mailchimp)

• United States
• Software Development

• Solution Architect

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2019



Project Ricochet

• Senior Software Developer & MeteorJS Specialist

  • Mar 2016 - Sep 2019



TuGo

• Canada
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Business Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Feb 2016

  Responsible for overseeing and coordinating the development, design, and operational activities of the Digital Business Unit, contributing to Travel Underwriter's growth in digital revenue and sales. Staff and manage an amazing 9-person development team, overseeing career growth, mentoring, team resources and budget. In two years, with this team, successfully launched:- tugo.com: TuGo's corporate website, built on a mobile-optimized responsive design, using Metalsmith and Prismic.io, with built-in content management and split A/B testing- shop.tugo.com: TuGo's B2C travel insurance point of sale, built on Meteor.js, resulting in an immediate 30% reduction in bounce rate and 20% improvement in conversion over previous version- my.tugo.com: TuGo's customer portal, built on Grails and SAML- developer.tugo.com: TuGo's developer portal, with REST and SOAP APIs with full OAuth 2.0 support- blog.tugo.com: TuGo's traveller blog, built on WordpressTactically drive optimization for the digital properties, to meet and/or exceed revenue, traffic, conversion, and other key metric targets in coordination with several other departments. Drive the execution of the Digital Business Unit plans by focusing on business targets, technology initiatives, and operational efficiencies working closely with various other Travel Underwriter's departments and external 3rd party and consultative partners. Show less

• Technical Lead

  • Jun 2012 - Dec 2013

  Own and drive web and mobile technical projects and provide web/mobile technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment. Responsible for the overall technical planning, execution, and success of complex digital projects.Responsible for working with the Digital Services Business Unit’s leadership team to define and manage the execution and implementation of all assigned TU's front-end applications and mobile solutions for specific channels and markets. Work closely with internal product managers, design teams, QA teams, internal and external development teams, project managers. Assists in creating product roadmaps that ensures products comply with legal and regulatory changes. Monitor and analyze product and project performance measures.Established strategic direction of the company's digital distribution and mobile strategy and piloted early-adoption projects involving iOS Passbook and NFC. Show less

• Senior Developer

  • Apr 2010 - Jun 2012

  Senior developer in the design and development of an enterprise travel insurance platform. Provided leadership and direction in the design and development of a suite of applications and services. The system follows a Service Oriented Architecture using EJB3.0, Seam, JPA/Hibernate, and JSF/Richfaces. Business rules are implemented with a JBoss Drools rules engine and integration with partners is implemented with JAX-WS web services.



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advisory IT Specialist

  • Oct 2005 - Apr 2010

  Lead developer in the design and development of a web-based application to create reference project profiles used to help predict statistical defect data. Remotely led a team of 8 IBM interns based at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Projects included extending Sakai, a web-based open source learning tool, for IBM Websphere and DB2, and integrating it with IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for cloud and SaaS deployments. Designed and developed a web-based application allowing IT system administrators to perform administrative duties for the system’s users, tools, and applications. Built as a front-end to a set of Web Services, the application was implemented using Struts and Java Server Faces, running on IBM Websphere Application Server. Show less



Sierra Systems, an NTT DATA Company

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Consultant

  • Sep 2000 - Oct 2005

  Designed, developed, and integrated a suite of web based C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, and Java applications to enable the electronic filing and viewing of 8000 court documents per day for the King County District and Superior Courts. Application was a $100,000 Innovations in American Government Award winner for 2007. Key member of a team that successfully designed and developed a web-based Java application supporting the periodic review of 40000 commercial loans and properties to mitigate the risks in the bank’s commercial mortgage investments. One of two leads of an 8-person development team that successfully designed and developed a web-based Java application. Implemented with Java servlets, JSPs, and SQL/Oracle, it provided guaranteed delivery of electronic purchase orders and receipts across multiple supplier and partner supply chains via HTTP and XML/EDI. Show less