Remote Front End Developer / Software Engineer / Programmer Analyst - Toronto, Canada

Collaborated closely with business owner to orchestrate the development of intricate, high-impact website features, increasing overall client engagement with www.mintmusic.ca and www.torontoguitarschool.com:

- Led a small team of junior developers; oversaw code reviews, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. Additionally, provided guidance and coaching in project management tools and optimization techniques.

- Championed Agile Scrum methodologies by integrating a CI/CD Azure GitHub pipeline to effectively manage project life cycles.

- Spearheaded GraphQL-Apollo integration to serve consolidated client data from separate RESTful API resources.

- Tested critical client and server functionality with Jest, including custom components, user logins, subscriptions, GraphQL queries and mutations; debugged client-side SignalR WebSocket Transport; configured Webpack and TypeScript.

Result: Improved business visibility (SEO ranking) and user experience of www.torontoguitarschool.com and www.mintmusic.ca.

Pursuant to marketing and management directives, collaborated with the software development team to conceptualize, develop, and sustain the functionalities of company’s Engage CRM website and mobile application, a lead generation and conversation management tool designed specifically for the real estate sector:

- Using React ES6+ practices, developed a suite of advanced components, including interactive data visualizations, dynamic forms with client-side validation, pagination, routing and real-time chat interfaces (chat lists and conversation timelines); additionally, developed a range of application pages, including user settings, profile, and password management pages.

- Utilized Bootstrap, Material UI, Tailwind CSS, React Native Paper and other component libraries: accordion and tabbed interfaces, modals and dialog boxes, multiselect dropdowns, among a variety of other components.

- Migrated Redux to React Query for improved data fetching efficiency, automatic caching, real-time updating, and query invalidation.

Result: Delivered prompt, high-quality pull requests within a week of integration into the development team with Mocha and Jest testing (i.e., assertions, mock dependencies, asynchronous testing, etc.).

Reporting owner on the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Refurbishment $12 Billion government program:

- Utilizing project management tools, fostered cross-department collaboration to consolidate project-wide data for timely completion of comprehensive deliverables.

- Constructed interactive dashboards (charts, tables, buttons, slicers, etc.), using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Excel Power Query, and Power BI, adding program cost transparency for informed decision-making.

- Programmed custom Excel VBA macros and subroutines to track and enforce key performance indicators (KPIs).

Result: Increased transparency of program inefficiencies, facilitating millions in savings through monthly Senior Management publication reviews.

Successfully integrated remote object detection and facial recognition algorithms into a robot assistant design for assisted living applications, in addition to gaining proficiency in Python, C++, Stack Overflow, Linux/Windows terminal socket programming:

- Cut project complexity and cost by Python programming a TCP connection to enable wireless streaming of Raspberry Pi (Unix/Linux-based operating system) video footage for Windows machine learning processing.

- Consolidated Python fetch and return algorithms into single autonomous program.

- Configured seamless tracking of detection results by Arduino robot motors in C++.

Result: Gained proficiency in Python, C++, Stack Overflow, Linux/Windows terminal socket programming.

Data support for supply chain operations in the form of Microsoft Access querying and database construction, in-depth product safety research, and ad hoc reporting to corporate stakeholders:

- Acting intermediary between end users and industrial distributors for catalogue (SAP Ariba) purchase orders.

- Developed a functional pseudo-application within an Excel workbook that enables the navigation and manipulation of inventory data, utilizing tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), bash scripting, Python, and Excel VBA.

- Streamlined daily IT tasks with custom Excel VBA macros; wrote stored procedures that encapsulated complex SQL queries to create a pseudo inventory screening tool.

Result: Increased inventory transparency by constructing MS Excel and Power BI dashboards that poll live server data (SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), bash scripting, Python, and VBA).