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The Labnet Dental Lab Systems division of Henry Schein One offers the Dental Lab industry’s most comprehensive and powerful management systems; with solutions suited for labs of all sizes and budgets.
Hired as the founding Software Engineer for the product Digital Dental Exchange (DDX)
Architected and engineered the DDX platform, which acts as a key component in clinical workflows integrating a large ecosystem of technology partners
Scaled the DDX platform to service several geographic regions and a customer base over 100K
Defined a new class of SaaS Dental Lab Management Software - Labnext
Built a diverse engineering team and our SDLC
Engineering team reported the highest job satisfaction across all of Henry Schein One (2021)
HarvestHand - Port Williams, NS, CA
HarvestHand was an Internet platform for Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) businesses to communicate with and manage their community of members.
Technology founder
Primary software engineer
Scaled business and technology platform to service regional farms
Winner of the inaugural Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award
Mom & Pop Media - Montréal and NS, CA
Working under the name Mom & Pop Media, I started my freelance web and print design and development consultancy upon return from my stay in South Africa in 2000.
Web and email hosting services
Web design and web-site maintenance
Custom web application development
Print design (newsletters, pamphlets, posters)
Server administration and maintenance
On call technical support
Apison Communications - New Glasgow, NS, CA
Apison Communications was a full-service design and development firm. Apison offered web-based content management solutions for business professionals, and the real estate industry. I was responsible for heading software development initiatives as well as filling the role of system administrator.
High-Touch Communications is a leading North American branding + web firm, offering its pièce de résistance web platform called IgnitionWeb. I was hired by HTC the summer of 2005 as Senior Programmer, where I was responsible for heading programming and the programming team.
Overseeing the development and deployment of IgnitionWeb 3.4 – a major milestone release including WYSIWYG content editing, as well as significant code and SQL performance optimisations
Auditing Unisource.ca, a multi-million dollar B2B web site, for performance bottlenecks and implementing sweeping code and database performance optimisations
Integration of IgnitionWeb for several clients including Dynaflair Corporation, Trueline Valve Corporation, JC-TL, and JC Fábrica de Válvulas
Migration of CVS + Bugzilla source control management system to Subversion + Trac
IgnitionWeb 3.x and 4.x development roadmap
Development of Quality Assurance program
Payment gateway integration for Hourglass time tracking and project management software suite
Internet Merchandising Systems
I acted as a primary developer of Internet Merchandising Systems' line of e-commerce products targeted at hotel, tour, rental, and retail sectors.
Worked on their core application called IMScart, a PHP & MySQL powered web application, which included several plugable modules for providing an array of possible product configurations
Developed a new business to business product called Hermes, an XML-RPC driven merchandising gateway connecting reseller storefronts with product suppliers. I developed the XML-RPC driven server from scratch with PHP and MySQL.
1-800-Homeopathy
I took over developing this homoeopathic e-commerce web-site back in the winter of 2003 for Profilium, a Montréal based company specialising in developing technology for the mobile market.
Developed a sophisticated discount manager for their pre-existing application
Reworked the application's architecture
Implemented a user system for maintaining order history
Implemented a "My 1-800" section for saving favourite products
Le Château Inc. was a fashion company. I worked on developing a large scale corporate Intranet which integrated legacy systems and new web application solutions for over 300 users and 150 stores across Canada and the USA.
Complete Intranet code audit and redesign of the application architecture.
Implemented globalisation features to the company Intranet allowing applications to work in multiple languages
Trained developers in the application architecture
Introduced source control management
Implemented a coding standard to enhance our team based development environment
Researched Free and Open Source Software for the web environment, making recommendations on viable solutions to the various problems we need to solve
Each year the IAS awards grants to authors promoting critical scholarship on social domination and the reconstructive vision of a free society. The IAS believes this theoretical work is of great importance to informing activist practises, just as practise informs theory. The IAS has funded over a hundred projects by authors from countries around the world, including Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Nigeria, Germany, South Africa, and the United States.
Fundraising
Book keeping
Board of Director coordination
Managing the grant program
Promotions
Newsletter produciton
Polar Plastic LTD
Polar Plastic was a disposable plastic market leader servicing the Canadian food-service industry for many decades. I was hired mid 2003 to migrate an email and web server from a liquidated American division to an independent data centre. I then took on the task of administrating this server—running Cpanel on Red Hat Linux—as well as maintaining their web-site.
Project Mole
Project Mole was both an on and off-line project that attempted to tap into an elite group of scenesters by having them do market research for corporations around the globe. In return Moles were given access to exclusive products and events. My role on this project was the development of a flexible web-based survey system that would allow both administrators to design custom surveys and Moles to upload there research findings.
Ontario Institute PMAC - Ottawa District
Ontario Institute PMAC— Ottawa District is a national association of supply management professionals. This project included a complete re-conceptualisation of the information architecture and redesign of the District's original web site. Part of the project also included the development of a newsletter web application that facilitates the construction and distribution of rich text email newsletters. I built the newsletter application in PHP, running MySQL on the backend (eventually becoming the "Carrier Pigeon" package).
The Institute for Social Ecology is an independent institution of higher education based in Vermont dedicated to the study of social ecology. The ISE offers year-round interdisciplinary programs.
Development, design, and production of all of the ISE's Internet presence, as well as much of the print media
Editing two monthly electronic newsletters.
Overseeing and implementing the ISE's "Media Strategy" in conjunction with staff and the voting membership
The Québec Public Interest Research Group at Concordia University is an umbrella organization of students, community activists, researchers and educators dedicated to research, education, and action. QPIRG's goal is to sensitize the community to social and environmental issues concerning Montréalers while promoting active citizenship.
Volunteer recruitment, training, and retention
Coordination of the resource centre
Media & P.R. (production of promotional material—print and web, maintaining public relations, and media training)
Organized an activist education series (24 events over 2 years) which sought to promote "active citizenship" by offering seasoned activists and concerned citizens skills in community organising and knowledge about current issues our community faced
Financial coordination (overseeing accountant's work, acting as the primary financial resource person for the organisation, and overseeing the collective budgeting process)
Fundraising
Overseeing the yearly strategic planning process
Providing support and training for the Board of Directors
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