Experience

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  Lazer Technologies

  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Software Engineer & Team Leader

    • May 2021 - Present
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    I am a Software Engineer and run teams at Lazer. We are a top-class digital product studio composed of 60+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from Facebook, Apple, Coinbase, Uber, Google, and more, and have grown products from $0 to $200M+ in revenue.

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  Normative

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Senior Developer & Team Lead

    • Dec 2016 - May 2021
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Normative as a firm tends towards unusual bleeding edge, technology projects. Our approach is based on rapid prototyping with a inter-disciplinary blend of research, design and engineering. My work is mainly working with the technology teams to engineer applications but has also included in depth strategy and technical architecture planning for Normative's consulting clients.Secondarily there is a real commitment to thought leadership in the design & technology space at Normative. In connection with that I periodically lead company wide in depth learning sessions around emerging blockchain based technologies.

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  Symbility Intersect

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Software Developer

    • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    While at Symbility Intersect I worked on an application for a large U.S insurance provider that helps to simplify the complex time consuming process of making auto-insurance claims.

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  CIBC

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Developer

    • Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    As a hired gun I helped CIBC roll out consumer facing banking products on their website.

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  Critical Mass

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Developer

    • Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    I worked with Critical Mass to build out a custom responsive UI framework based on Bootstrap for use by the front end teams of an international bank. The framework will be deployed on their sites globally. We made use of an Agile methodology and: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Sass Grunt, Git.

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  Chaotic Moon Studios

  • Austin, Texas Area

  • Javascript Developer

    • May 2015 - Oct 2015
    • Austin, Texas Area

    I had the chance to work with a great team. Chaotic Moon is a big mobile interactive shop located in Texas with huge clients. The technology stack was mainly AngularJS, Gulp, Sass & jQuery coupled with Restful APIs on the backend. During my time there I worked mainly on 2 projects. I was on a team that was working on Tag Heur’s answer to the Apple watch. I also worked on a research and sales presentation tool for a company called Schlumberger (who you might have heard of if you were in the business of building oil drilling platforms). Using AngularJS as our framework we built software that allowed salesmen/consultants to drill down into Schlumberger’s expansive library of white papers and videos and then compile those assets for customized mobile presentations and sharing.

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  Telepathic.io

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Solutions Architect / Technical Lead

    • Jun 2013 - Mar 2015
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Over the course of 2 years our team designed, developed and deployed the initial public release of the cloud based Cloudspot.io application including the API, mobile responsive web galleries/print store (along with print store management UI), and the cross platform desktop application along with the backend system to manage it. This constitutes the entire infrastructure of the Cloudspot.io business from the ground up so it will be hard to properly sum it up in bullet points - but here goes:Technologies: Node.js, AngularJS, Mongo, Express, nwjs (NodeWebkit), jQuery, Underscore, Signals, Crossroads, Mustache, Grunt, Git, NPM, various AWS products (and many others)+ daily development & debugging work with the team+ responsible for guiding the initial technical architecture of the business+ identification of the correct ecosystem and combination of back and front end technologies to ensure speed, stability, scalability & maintainability+ recruiting/hiring all technical team members on an ongoing basis in step with the changing needs of the project for particular technical skills or timing+ established an informal Agile Development methodology+ ongoing management of the project budget & invoicing (outgoing and incoming)+ daily task assignments, scrums & management of competing priorities and timelines for a variable remote team of up to 10 developers+ management of the git repositories, pull requests & nightly builds+ code reviews+ managed semantic versioning of the application and releases+ sourced and integrated tasking and communication tools such as Slack & Basecamp to allow easy team based communication+ daily client management & updates meetings, working with the client to find technical solutions to evolving business requirements+ deployed Redis based single sign on system for users with SSL encryption

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  Toronto International Film Festival

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Web Developer & Usability Consultant

    • Nov 2012 - Jan 2013
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    As a Front End Developer and technical consultant I targeted and implemented site wide accessibility improvements to Tiff.net. The changes were implemented using a combination Javascript, jQuery, CSS, .Net, and HTML.

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  SapientNitro

  • Toronto

  • Interactive Developer

    • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
    • Toronto

    Front end web development for Sapient's International Brand clients, working with Javascript, CSS, XHTML, and Flash.

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  Creative D Inc.

  • 20 Maud Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

  • Game Developer

    • Nov 2011 - Apr 2012
    • 20 Maud Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

    I worked with the technical and creative teams at CreativeD in a contract capacity, on their best in class Facebook based media card trading game 'Decksi'. The work was completed with a combination of HTML, Javascript, JQuery and object oriented AS3 and was rooted in the PureMVC framework.

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  Ogilvy & Mather

  • Interactive Developer

    • 2010 - 2011

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  Capital C

  • Interactive Developer

    • 2009 - 2010

    + Flex Development+ Flash Development+ JavaScript & HTML Development

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  Disney Interactive Media Group

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Senior Interactive Developer / Game Developer

    • Jun 2009 - Oct 2009
    • Toronto, Canada Area

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  Kaboose Inc.

  • Lead Flash Game Developer

    • Jan 2009 - May 2009

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  3Genius

  • Lead Flash Game Developer / Ad Business Development

    • Dec 2005 - Sep 2008

    I was brought on to contribute AS programming expertise to a great game development team working on a series of high volume multi-player Flash games for the Moola gaming platform. My position evolved over time and I eventually became responsible for managing and growing both the display and affiliate advertising programs. My work involved day to day management & optimization, strategy, identifying opportunities in the marketplace and establishing relationships with partner companies.

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  Grey Worldwide

  • Art Director

    • May 2005 - Sep 2005

    Art Director on Contract working on Interactive Accounts.

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  N49

  • Lead Flash Developer

    • 2003 - 2004

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  MacLaren McCann

  • Lead Flash Developer/Designer

    • 2002 - 2003

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  OLGC

  • Flash Designer & Web Developer

    • 2001 - 2002