Information Technology and Services industry

September 2007 – April 2008 ( 8 months)

Information Technology and Services industry

July 1996 – March 2008 (11 years 9 months)

Consulting company run in both a full and part-time capacity since its inception.

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry

February 2006 – November 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Technical Lead - Mobile Messaging and Billing Gateway:

An auditable gateway that interacts with internal applications and multiple external mobile aggregators over SMPP and Web services. Used for standard and premium mobile messaging.

Research & Development- Next-generation chat assistant

System that allows sharing of media to compliment voice-enabled applications.

Public Company; 11-50 employees; Insurance industry

December 2004 – November 2005 (1 year)

High-end insurance company back-end software

Technical lead: Visual Logic Composer
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- An application that allowed underwriters to visually build (drag and drop) insurance rules that created rates based on client history, profile and statistics
- J2EE n-tier architecture
- Rich, thin-client application

Technical lead: Job Server
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- A stand-alone, clustered environment that allowed scheduled batch processes and jobs to run independently of user-facing applications
- Asynchronous processing of requests through use of the JMS API and Message-Driven Beans
- Scheduling executed using JBoss managed beans and timer services

Extensive use of Java web technologies - Internationalized, skinnable high-performance applications

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Research industry

February 2004 – August 2004 ( 7 months)

- In-house CRM and sales-floor application development
- Drafted and implemented coding standards
- Lead architect for application development
- Conducted code review of other IT department members
- Large emphasis on good project documentation
- Requirements gathering
- UML
- Architectural documents
- eXtreme Programming experience

Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

July 2001 – August 2003 (2 years 2 months)

Technical lead for many high-profile automotive Internet applications and APIs. Legacy application integration and implementation of complex vehicle comparative and configuration functions - which experience extreme user loads.

Projects implemented for:
http://www.vw.com
http://www.ford.com
http://www.ford.ca

Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HON; Information Technology and Services industry

August 1999 – July 2001 (2 years)

Primary technical lead for integrating Honeywell's e-Ventures into the Yahoo Portal Builder framework. Extensive use of cross-platform Web Services. First public implementation of Yahoo Portal Builder in a redundant and clustered environment. Extensive use of VB, COM, VBScript, XML, XSL, SQL, Java, Yahoo Portal Builder, HTML, JavaScript, iPlanet, IIS 5 and Interwoven's Teamsite.

Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HON; Industrial Automation industry

May 1997 – August 1999 (2 years 4 months)

Responsible for creating and maintaining Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions' WorkBook software - Visual Basic, MS Access, JavaScript and HTML.

Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HON; Industrial Automation industry

January 1997 – May 1997 ( 5 months)

Responsible for rendering of introduction screens, navigational icons and structure icons for Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions' Shadowplant. Experience using Adobe Photoshop and 3DStudio MAX.