Technical Skills

General Skills

• Perfectionist with a keen eye for detail and high quality, user-friendly application development.
• Inherent nature to seek out innovative and efficient ways of performing tasks.
• Systematically analyzes self-contributions to a company's business model in order to be motivated and positively engaged.

Experience

• Took the initiative to reduce a third-party manual deployment GUI built on Flex into a one-click publishing scenario by spoofing all the web service calls of the steps necessary. Reduced cumulative daily deployment times from tens of minutes to seconds.
• Working as one of the lead developers in a small team, rescued 2 Sitecore projects for a client in less than a month.
• Processed large datasets using Amazon EC2 and Elastic MapReduce.
• Created a custom build activity for TFS 2013 to locally crawl and validate ASP.NET MVC/HTML5 apps using the W3C validator during continuous integration or other build types.

• Developed and documented a state-of-the-art incident reporting system named SafePoint™ in ASP.NET MVC 3 with Entity Framework, SQL Server, jQuery, Workflow Foundation, and the latest HTML5 using Google Chrome Frame.
• Deployed SafePoint™ to 3 hospital sites within the first year of it being live and the system averaged 10 incident reports per day.
• Solved the problem of aggregating staff demographics, structural building information, patient demographics, etc. for client hospitals from disparate hospital information systems by designing and implementing a unified abstraction using OData.
• Applied the concept of Binary Search Trees from university courses to create a dynamic ad-hoc report generating system for SafePoint™ that processed queries internally as BSTs and persisted them in SQL Server as such.
• Led working group meetings with stakeholders from 3 different hospitals on a recurring basis to refine SafePoint™.
• Urgently designed, developed, tested, and deployed Pandemic and Infectious Diseases (PAID™, an ASP.NET solution) across YCH within a week for the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic to use in the event that an outbreak affects a large portion of the staff.
• An abstract based on PAID™ titled "Pandemic Preparedness: Creating and Utilizing an IS Health and Human Resource Strategy" was accepted by the Nursing Leadership Network of Ontario for a Paper Presentation.

• Built a system of .NET (C# 3.5) and SQL Server enterprise applications (WinForms and WebForms) for auditing UHN physicians' chart completion after patient discharge.

• Carried out independent research and evaluated possible mobile device platforms to create an efficient way for the Public Affairs & Reimbursement division to send "Thank You" emails/letters. Developed a solution using ASP.NET C# and Oracle SQL Developer.

Education

Activities

• Blogging, tweeting, and sharing valuable content related to software with the intention of becoming a global thought leader
• Frequently producing Python scripts for varying needs: increasing productivity (through the use of algorithms); streamlining DJ-ing setup.