I am a seasoned Software Engineering Director with over 20 years of development and leadership experience specializing in modern web technologies like React, Node.js, edge computing, and machine learning. As a collabo!rative leader, I strongly believe team empowerment is the foundation for success, innovation and creative problem solving.

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Relevant Professional Experience

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Led a team of software engineers across Canada working with each of them closely to grow both personally and professionally
Worked with business development teams to find, scope and pitch work for the agency
Delivered aftermetoo.com, a resource for individuals experiencing workplace sexual harassment in Canada </aside>

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Lead a team of developers and QA analysts across multiple countries
Led the efforts behind the modernization of the build your own vehicle configurator for MiniUSA.com
Worked with multiple role holders and third-party teams to ensure deliverability on time and on budget of multiple high profile high stakes re-engineering of major site verticals including online inventory search of vehicles, nationwide. </aside>

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Spearheaded the transition to a new CMS instantiation of FreshBooks.com, resolving technical debt issues and enabling streamlined campaign creation.
Engineered a component-based framework using Gutenberg block system, empowering content teams to efficiently create campaigns.
Led the team in implementing a modular approach to CMS usage, resulting in increased productivity and improved marketing capabilities. </aside>

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Oversaw the transformation of Secret Location’s VUSR CMS into the platform for HTC Viveport Video store, enabling a multi-channel publishing system.
Developed a licensing agreement system, allowing content creators to publish content across different streams, driving scalability and expansion.
Collaborated on an augmented reality product study with LEGO, designing concept videos and surveys to measure marketability of AR technology. </aside>

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Pioneered a digital arm, managing initiatives to expand offerings, resulting in interactive iPad app for Le Creuset catalogue.
Developed a crowdsourced event booking platform for One Billion Rising movement, bringing together over one billion participants globally.
Streamlined digital collaboration and file management processes, optimizing efficiency and teamwork. </aside>

Technical Summary

Skillsets

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HTML Device Orientation API GeoLocation API SVG Canvas CSS JavaScript TypeScript React Vue Gatsby Redux Next.js Angular Vanilla JS GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) jQuery Timber JSX Handlebars Markdown Liquid

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Node.js Express Lambdas Edge Functions PHP Apache NGINX SQL MySQL NoSQL GraphQL Machine Learning Computer Vision REST APIs JSON XML XSLT

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Shopify StoryBlok Contentful WordPress WordPress Multilingual (WPML) Gravity Forms Gutenberg WooCommerce Yoast Sanity.io Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Jekyll

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Webpack Babel Git GitHub BitBucket Terminal SubVersion NPM Yarn composer Gulp Grunt Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop Illustrator After Effects Premiere inVision Sketch Figma

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AWS: EC2 S3 CloudFront CDN Route 53 DNS Elastic Transcoder Elasticsearch Lambda DynamoDB AWS CLI Redshift

GCP: Cloud Storage GCP CLI Cloud Firestore Cloud Functions

CI: CircleCI Vercel TravisCI Jenkins Docker Bash PowerShell AppleScript SSH

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Agile Waterfall Confluence Jira Trello Asana Notion

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