I'm looking for a new senior role as an Independent Contributor or Manager, in software development, operations, management, or data analysis.
My skills would fit well into a small or large company with large or small software projects, including e-commerce and security applications.
Web-based feature development and system administration. Responsible for new and enhanced features using web technologies (PHP, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Javascript, nw.js, etc) for commercial e-commerce platform for University Bookstores and other customers. Support several payment gateway integrations (Moneris, E-Xact, Bambora, Global Pay, others). Built integrations with third-party vendors.
Responsible for server configuration, including installation, configuration, email operations, and connectivity on Debian and Ubuntu Linux virtual machines using kvm/qemu and LXD-based vitual containers. Resolved issues reported by customers. Email operations included configuration of postfix service and SPF and DKIM email validation.
Proactive security planning and threat analysis. Created and enhanced numerous maintenance monitoring and fault recovery scripts (primarily PHP and Bash, some Python). Enhanced script for improved performance as systems grew in scale.
Developed a Customer Satisfaction Survey system including immediate email notifications and auto-generated weekly PDF summary reports, launched from web or QR Codes.
Produced cost-effective custom Smartphone apps, websites, and web applications for hospitality and political industry clients. Included SMS Text Message integrations.
Managed Linux, Windows, and Mac machines locally, and Linux servers in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, and in a self-managed private data center.
Created data support systems and reporting for successful mayoral campaign and successful provincial party leadership campaign.
Independent publisher of custom forms.
Designed, developed, and commercially offered specialty video recording systems and video management systems for security monitoring, video system control, and feature display.
Prepared and debriefed the Daily Operations Report from Incident Reports, in line with ITIL methodologies.
Responsible for deployment of BigFix (variously IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager, IBM BigFix) across Innovapost for managing patch and antivirus deployment.
Managed application of Windows patches and antivirus for Canada Post and Innovpost desktop systems.
Co-ordinated Business Continuity Plan for Innovapost.
Launched program for automation of report generation procedures.
Led Operations, Administration, Management and Provisioning (OAM&P) architecture for reconfigurable Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Metro Optical Networking product employing Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) and G.709 Optical Transport Network (OTN) technologies
Several patents issued related to key technology for Optical Wavelength signatures
Created tools for modeling of OTN signal add/drop, network loss and amplifier gain using Tck/Tk toolkit.
Technology has since been acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.
Developed system management architecture for Voice over IP Integrated Access Device and led teams through rapid prototype development.
Provided technical leadership for successful implementation of new data networking solutions on transport products, using Ethernet Inverse Multiplexer over Asynchronous Transport Networks over T1 on SONET transport layer.
Contributed to Resilient Packet Ring data networking technology definition and development
Technical expert (software) for development of Passive Optical Network (PON) product team on assignement in Harlow, UK.
Created tools in Protel on the Switch Operating System to monitor and report on cpu processing occupancy for each process during system start.