Experience

Lung Sask

• Canada
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Enterprise Technology

  • Jun 2012 - Present

  At the Lung Association of Saskatchewan Rod manages an Enterprise Technology department employing Microsoft and Linux environments to develop software, offer network infrastructure, and to provide business workflow solutions via computer systems. His team services the different departments and board of directors for the Lung Association of Saskatchewan (LAS) but also services the national lung association and other provincial lung associations within the federation, as well as sister organizations. Offering outside services has provided income to LAS accommodating a larger, more accomplished team.For his team members, Rod makes their career a highest priority by offering a professional environment and enjoyable opportunities working with cutting edge technologies. His team use agile methodologies (Extreme Programming), in a mentoring hierarchy, to deliver technologies that meet the business needs of the organization.For his project stakeholders, Rod continually monitors emerging technologies that may be applicable to their needs. He proposes projects that assist them in accomplishing their business goals.Rod shares software and frameworks from his private corporation and designs the software systems they implement.



FamilyMemories.me Inc.

• Dogfooder, Founder, CEO

  • Feb 2001 - Present

  FamilyMemories.me Inc. offers software development services, business technology consulting, and hardware and software products.1. MyFamilyRobot - a specific social device for extended family members to provide Home Videos • Family Trees • Scrap-booking • Music • Photos • Recipes • Timelines • Wishlists • Weekly Family News • Journals • Calendar • (since b4 Facebook and still better)2. ABS - An affordable server for businesses startups to host their own websites, have a backed up network drive, do bookkeeping, produce simple corporate tax returns, schedule employees, produce customer invoices, maintain inventory, and offer the other common technology needs of a business like domain names and a firewall.3. Adfi - remotely configurable, 10 cubic inch advertising device. It functions as a self-contained Captive Portal to serve web content when no Internet or data connection is available. 4. MPFW - white label health platform5. All4114All - equity crowdfunding portal6. cAbIn - AI for off-grid living to assist with power consumption, security, cleaning, gardening, and maintenance



TinyEYE Therapy Services

• Canada
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Application Architect

  • 2007 - Jun 2011

  Researched, designed, and developed award winning software for delivering online speech therapy.Trained and orchestrated an Agile: XP software team.Linux, PHP, Flash, Flex, AS1,AS3, SVN Researched, designed, and developed award winning software for delivering online speech therapy.Trained and orchestrated an Agile: XP software team.Linux, PHP, Flash, Flex, AS1,AS3, SVN



SED Systems, a division of Calian Ltd.

• Canada
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programmer Analyst

  • Jun 2007 - Feb 2011

  Space & Satellite systemsLinux, C++, Java, Perl, Javadoc, Tcl, HTML, Javascript, CVS Space & Satellite systemsLinux, C++, Java, Perl, Javadoc, Tcl, HTML, Javascript, CVS



Coynet International Corp.

• Programmer

  • Nov 1999 - Sep 2000

  Co-created a Linux OS to remotely administer and modify coin operated kiosks over low bandwidth networks.Linux, Perl, Javascript, Rsync Co-created a Linux OS to remotely administer and modify coin operated kiosks over low bandwidth networks.Linux, Perl, Javascript, Rsync