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WORK EXPERIENCE
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I Love Rewards Inc., Toronto, Ontario
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2008 - Present
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Director of Development & Chief Software Architect
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- Led the entire department of 14 managers, developers, system adminiatrators, quality assurance and graphic designers including career development, total compensation and performance management
- Responsible for the $1MM+ IT P&L, member of the executive team reporting directly to the CEO
- Successfully transitioned team to Agile development process using Scrum, resulting in a 25% decrease in delivery time for ~100k user member portal.
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Microsoft Canada Co., Toronto, Ontario
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2005 - 2008
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Search Lead & Program Manager for MSN
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- Decision maker for the multi-million dollar marketing and content budgets; increased traffic to Live Search by 40% year over year which generates over one billion queries a year
- Created and ran the most advanced relevance lab outside of corporate to improve Live Search in Canada
- Responsible for the various technologies and platforms underlying the Finance, Autos, Entertainment, Video, Search and Homepage channels ensuring availability, reliability and performance while supporting the rollout of new features and bug fixes for 18M Canadians
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Celestica Co., Toronto, Ontario & Singapore
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2001 - 2005
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Software Architect
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- Completed a three month assignment in Asia, hiring, training and leading a team of 11 developers to fine tune the offshore strategy
- Led a team of 10 developers using $2MM to utilize hardware load balancers, reverse proxies, and SSL technology to create a secure, load balanced and failover enabled J2EE enterprise application for access to crucial reports and applications
- Enhanced user security by helping to design and implement digital certificate technology using Tivoli Access Manager for all internal and external access. Added single-sign-on support between 150 Domino databases, including web-based email, and all internal WebSphere applications saving an estimated $12MM
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Trilogy Software, Inc., Austin, Texas
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1998 - 2001
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Technical Lead
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- Led a team of three developers to design, implement and launch a web extranet in Java using Corba/RMI/SQLServer at CarOrder.com. Reduced delivery times to customers by 50%
- Led a team of two consultants to migrate legacy data from an international ERP source into Trilogy BackBone. Designed, tested and implemented functional architecture layout and requirements in Java with NT/Oracle to match client resources
- Led a technical team of four by coding, testing and launching a major F500 E-Commerce website with backend configuration and pricing using Java servlets. Performed optimization enhancements for configuration and pricing on the web in a multi-user environment in Java with Solaris/Dynamo
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University of Waterloo Co-Op Program
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1994 - 1997
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Software Developer
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Completed three contracts, each eight months long - Sangoma Technologies Corp., Markham, ON: Contributed to Linux source code by implementing monitoring software and new protocol support for the network product line
- Newbridge Networks Corp.Kanata , ON: Participated in application programming interface design and system design verification of next generation hardware products
- Kraft Foods Inc., Toronto, ON: Owned the end to end development of the strategic front office sales reporting tool
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