Experience

PropelHQ.com

• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Technical Founder

  • May 2015 - Present

  Vancouver, Canada Propel is an online marketplace that offers private swim lessons in under-utilized swimming pools. From hotels to backyards, these private facilities are expensively maintained yet rarely used. By opening these venues up to qualified swim instructors and automating booking, payment processing, and insurance, Propel is enabling instructors to self-employ and collectively create a whole new personal swim instruction industry. At a time when less than half of Canadians know how to swim, and the… Show more Propel is an online marketplace that offers private swim lessons in under-utilized swimming pools. From hotels to backyards, these private facilities are expensively maintained yet rarely used. By opening these venues up to qualified swim instructors and automating booking, payment processing, and insurance, Propel is enabling instructors to self-employ and collectively create a whole new personal swim instruction industry. At a time when less than half of Canadians know how to swim, and the demand for flexible and available swim lessons is higher than ever, Propel is making private swim lessons an affordable and accessible option for families and individuals everywhere. Show less



NEXT Canada

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Next36

  • Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada Canadian based founder development program focused on training entrepreneurial thinking.



PNI Digital Media Ltd

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intermediate Software Developer

  • May 2014 - Mar 2017

  Vancouver, BC Building kiosk photo-printing software on a 4-developer team for FedEx, which will be deployed to 1500 future in-store kiosks across the US. Programming in ReactJS with Redux, Typescript, Webpack, npm and C# .NET 4.5 backend. Recently finished Microsoft Office365/Staples integration project, which was showcased at Build Conference 2016. The app built upon the Office365 Javascript API and PNI's Print Platform API to allow users to print Word/PowerPoint documents to local Staples locations… Show more Building kiosk photo-printing software on a 4-developer team for FedEx, which will be deployed to 1500 future in-store kiosks across the US. Programming in ReactJS with Redux, Typescript, Webpack, npm and C# .NET 4.5 backend. Recently finished Microsoft Office365/Staples integration project, which was showcased at Build Conference 2016. The app built upon the Office365 Javascript API and PNI's Print Platform API to allow users to print Word/PowerPoint documents to local Staples locations directly from the application. Technologies used included Javascript, AngularJS, C# Show less



The University of British Columbia

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bachelor Applied Science, Integrated Engineering, Software Major

  • Sep 2011 - Apr 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area Integrated Engineering (IGEN) student and council member. I fuse practiced creativity and engineering training to develop effective solutions for team design projects and software programs. I wish to work with small agile teams to develop beautiful applications or websites in Vancouver. I am experienced and consistently seeking ways to add value to the organization.

• Junior Software Developer

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Vancouver, Canada Area Maintained and expanded codebase for local medium-sized company as a junior software developer. Learned C# ASP.NET development with Agile/Kanban methodology, working in Visual Studios 2012 environment with Team Foundation Server. Tracked bugs and case requirements with FogBugz. Managed UI improvements project for Costco PhotoCenter website, coordinating with multiple teams to deliver project on time and with a cohesive message. Along with managing the project, I updated existing… Show more Maintained and expanded codebase for local medium-sized company as a junior software developer. Learned C# ASP.NET development with Agile/Kanban methodology, working in Visual Studios 2012 environment with Team Foundation Server. Tracked bugs and case requirements with FogBugz. Managed UI improvements project for Costco PhotoCenter website, coordinating with multiple teams to deliver project on time and with a cohesive message. Along with managing the project, I updated existing HTML/CSS, AngularJS, and provided database update scripts. Implemented server side detection of square image print requests, such as those from Instagram users. Brought assets together from three company teams to cover functionality; Database Admins, Creative Team, and Enterprise Architects. Used LINQ syntax, C# ASP.NET, Javascript and SQL to complete the task. Show less



Turn Web Development

• Freelance Web Developer

  • Mar 2010 - Sep 2012

  Vancouver, Canada Area Designed, developed and maintained full service Wordpress websites, custom Google Maps applications, and Adobe Flash websites and applications. Coordinated with customers from Vancouver, Toronto, New York, and Australia to complete projects to spec, and on time. Successful bid for Tourism Vancouver official Winter Olympic 2010 venue map, received over 40,000 visitors during operation. Built back-end video creation platform for Somedia Networks' videoBuilder product allowing quick… Show more Designed, developed and maintained full service Wordpress websites, custom Google Maps applications, and Adobe Flash websites and applications. Coordinated with customers from Vancouver, Toronto, New York, and Australia to complete projects to spec, and on time. Successful bid for Tourism Vancouver official Winter Olympic 2010 venue map, received over 40,000 visitors during operation. Built back-end video creation platform for Somedia Networks' videoBuilder product allowing quick and easy video creation from XML instructions and Flash animation output. Show less



Oggle Interactive.

• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Software Developer, Co-Founder

  • Sep 2007 - Mar 2010

  Vancouver, Canada Area Duties: Product development, strategy, IT architecture Integrated services from multiple booking and browsing services: Expedia's IAN Travel Network for hotel/flight/car bookings, OpenTable for restaurant reservations, Google Maps for geographical browsing GUI, plus various smaller services for R&D purposes. Technologies used: LAMP stack hosting by Rackspace, Adobe Flash - coding done with OOP ECMA based Actionscript 3, Javascript w/ JQuery, HTML/CSS Served as co-founding… Show more Duties: Product development, strategy, IT architecture Integrated services from multiple booking and browsing services: Expedia's IAN Travel Network for hotel/flight/car bookings, OpenTable for restaurant reservations, Google Maps for geographical browsing GUI, plus various smaller services for R&D purposes. Technologies used: LAMP stack hosting by Rackspace, Adobe Flash - coding done with OOP ECMA based Actionscript 3, Javascript w/ JQuery, HTML/CSS Served as co-founding team member to discover direction and goals of the new company. Worked with investors to hone message and find applicable market. Networked with Vancouver startup businesses to find other products that could be integrated to improve core service. Show less