About

Work Experience

• Software Development Manager, Henry Schein One

  Sep, 2006 - Present

  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)

• Co-Founder & Software Developer, HarvestHand

  Dec, 2010 - Dec, 20199 years

  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

• Founder, Mom & Pop Media

  Dec, 2000 - Dec, 20077 years

  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

• Software Development Manager, Apison Communications

  Apr, 2006 - Sep, 20065 months

  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.

• Senior Programmer, High-Touch Communications

  Dec, 2005 - Dec, 20061 year

  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

• Web Developer, Internet Merchandising Systems

  Jan, 2004 - Dec, 20041 year

  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.

• Web Developer, 1-800-Homeopathy

  Oct, 2003 - Apr, 20046 months

  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

• Lead PHP Developer, Le Château

  Jan, 2004 - Dec, 20052 years

  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

• Director, Institute for Anarchist Studies

  Jan, 2003 - Dec, 20031 year

  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

• System Administrator, Polar Plastic LTD

  Jun, 2003 - Dec, 20037 months

  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.

• Software Developer, Project Mole

  Jan, 2001 - Dec, 20011 year

  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.

• Web Developer and Designer, Ontario Institute PMAC - Ottawa District

  Oct, 1999 - Feb, 20004 months

  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).

• Media Coordinator, Institute for Social Ecology

  Jan, 2000 - Dec, 20023 years

  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

• Coordinator, Québec Public Interest Research Group at Concordia University

  Jan, 1998 - Dec, 19992 years

  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

Projects Experience

• jsonresume-gemini, Personal project

  Mar, 2022 - Mar, 20221 day

  jsonresume-gemini is a single purpose server implementation of the Gemini protocol: server up your JSON Resume over the Gemini protocol

  • Gemini protocol implementation

  • Dynamic server side generation of text/gemini

• Elev8, Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre

  Jan, 2021 - Mar, 20212 months

  Elev8 was a digital program for students in grades 6-8. I developed and delivered curriculum focused on how to build and test your own digital business ideas.

  • Wireframing

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • Javascript

  • Databases

  • Design Thinking

  • Entrepreneurship

• insta top, Personal project

  Mar, 2020 - Mar, 20201 day

  Little utility that displays an instagram profile's posts ordered by likes

• National Ladies Learning Code Day: Intro to UX Design, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Sep, 2019 - Sep, 20191 day

  Organizer and mentor for a co-sponsored event between Acadia University, Refresh Annapolis Valley, and Acadia Women in Technology Society (WITS). Worked with the WITS student group to develop their capacity to take the lead on teaching the workshop.

  • UX

  • Mentor

  • Organizer

  • Training of trainers

• Opening Doors Between Tech & Education, Digital Nova Scotia

  May, 2019 - May, 20191 day

  Opening Doors program is designed to provide resources for educators from the Tech industry. In this talk I explored the data on how we are failing girls despite curricular reforms in Computer Science education, and possible remedies.

  • Women in STEM

  • Computer Science Education

• Innovating on The Internet, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  May, 2019 - May, 20191 day

  Workshop that explored pre-product prototype design tools to express app ideas.

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Prototyping

  • Wireframes

• From Digital to Physical: 3D Design and Printing, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Dec, 2018 - Dec, 20181 day

  Introductory workshop on 3D design and printing

  • 3D printing technology

  • 3D printing and entrepreneurial innovation

  • Designing for 3D printing

  • From design to print

• National Ladies Learning Code Day: Intro to Browser Extensions with JavaScript, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Sep, 2018 - Sep, 20181 day

  Organizer and mentor for a co-sponsored event between Acadia University, Refresh Annapolis Valley, and Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) at Acadia. Worked with the then WISE student group to develop their capacity to take the lead on teaching the workshop.

  • Javascript

  • Mentor

  • Organizer

  • Training of trainers

• Intro to WebVR, Horton High School

  Dec, 2017 - Dec, 20171 day

  Three webVR workshops presented across the entire female grade 9 student body

  • A-Frame

• Event organizer, f5://imagination

  Dec, 2017 - Dec, 20171 day

  f5://imagination was a pop up exhibit focused on digital creativity. This one day temporary exhibit featured work from digital artists, makers, scratchers, computer scientists, engineers and pretendgineers, hardware hackers, lego robotics warriors, indy game developers, new media innovators, VR and AR pioneers… digital builders of all shapes, sizes, and credentials.

• Faces, f5://imagination

  Dec, 2017 - Dec, 20171 day

  Face explored the digital eye and its ability to interact and interpret your own head. This exhibit featured an array of laptops that syndicated your head. Each head node would use various ML approaches to derive and display "meaning" from your observed face. face was presented at f5://imagination, a pop up exhibit focused on digital creativity.

  • Machine learning

  • webRTC

• National Ladies Learning Code Day: Intro to AI and Machine Learning, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Sep, 2017 - Sep, 20171 day

  Organizer and mentor for a co-sponsored event between Acadia University, Refresh Annapolis Valley, and Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) at Acadia. Worked with the then WISE student group to develop their capacity to take the lead on teaching the workshop.

  • AI

  • Machine learning

  • Mentor

  • Organizer

  • Training of trainers

• Teaching a Computer To See, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Aug, 2017 - Aug, 20171 day

  Introductory workshop for teens on AI, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision

  • Machine Learning

  • Computer Vision

  • Microsoft Azure

• Project Management Sucks, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Apr, 2017 - Apr, 20171 day

  A workshop that explored Kanban as a lightweight tool for overseeing the project processes.

  • Kanban

  • Agile

  • Project management

• Web Developer, Nathanson Seaman Watts - Law Firm

  Apr, 2014 - Jun, 20151 year 2 months

  NSW is a multi-practice law firm. I consulted with the firm on establishing their first website, coordinated content development, worked with a designer to establish a general design direction, implemented a custom WordPress theme, provided basic CMS training, and deployed.

  • WordPress

  • Theme development

  • Information Architecture

• Hax0r Pwn3d? n00b Guide to Web App Security, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Apr, 2014 - Apr, 20141 day

  In this talk I reviewed top 10 web application security risks, how they work, and how you can defend your web properties against them.

  • OWASP Top 10

  • Open Web Application Security Project

• Open Web Platform: HTML5 and Semantic Markup, Refresh Annapolis Valley

  Jan, 2013 - Jan, 20131 day

  Talk I gave about defining semantically meaningful HTML

  • HTML5

  • Semantic Web

• Stomp PHP, FuseSource

  Jan, 2008 - Jan, 20091 year

  Various contributions to this open source client which implements the STOMP protocol

• Web Designer, Azur Development

  Jan, 2005 - Mar, 20052 months

  Azur Development was a Congolease run development organisation committed to address issues of gender equality, ecology, HIV/AIDS, and information technologies. In conjunction with Block, Street & Building, I redesigned their website to better reflect the work they do.

• Web Designer, The War & Peace Foundation

  Oct, 2003 - Mar, 20045 months

  The War & Peace Foundation was an international NGO committed to political and social change. Starting with a simple re-design of a previous web-site, I implemented a customised "Geeklog" content management system for the organisation. This installation included the development of a news syndication module, as well as hacking the main code to get it to bend in ways it didn't.

• Web Designer & Developer, Institute for Anarchist Studies

  Jan, 2003 - Dec, 20042 years

  The IAS is a foundation that offers grants to authors. This web project serviced prospective applicants, grant recipients, supporters, and the Board of Directors.

  • Built a heavily modified version of the eZPublish 2.x CMS

  • Home rolled email newsletter application

  • Groupware tools such as: a calendaring system, discussion forums, articling system, a file manager, and newsletter builder

• Web Designer and System Admin, Alliance for Freedom and Direct Democracy

  Jan, 2003 - Dec, 20031 year

  A now defunct confederation of organization working towards the advancement of directly democratic political practices. I constructed a rudimentary web-site for the organisation, as well as ran several mailing lists.

• Web Designer, Benny Farm Affordable Home Ownership Initiative

  Feb, 2002 - Apr, 20022 months

  Les Habitations Communautaires NDG (HCNDG) and Les Habitations Sherbrooke Forest (HSF) are two affiliated non-profit community-housing organisations who have played an important role in providing affordable housing to the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood in the west end of Montreal. I designed their website that was a crucial tool in their bid to create affordable homes at Benny Farm.

• System Administrator, flag.blackened.net

  Jan, 2000 - Dec, 20023 years

  flag.blackened.net was an all volunteer run Internet Service Provider that offered free services for non-profit organizations from around the world. My contribution to this project included a complete redesign of the project webpage, along with implementation and support of various other Internet technologies (mailing lists, content management systems, etc.) that met the needs of flag users. My responsibilities included monitoring systems status (flag ran on freeBSD), maintaining services (Apache, MySQL, and Mailman primarily), and supporting users.

• Web Designer, Developer, and System Administrator, Institute for Social Ecology

  Jan, 2000 - Dec, 20034 years

  The ISE provides college level courses in the field of Social Ecology. This project focused on public facing web and email, as well as a faculty extranet.

  • Built dynamic web components including a calendar, discussion forums, and a monthly newsletter all built by myself in PHP with MySQL.

  • Email list management with MHonArc, Mailman, mnoGoSearch, Postfix

  • freeBSD

• Framework, Mom & Pop Media

  Jan, 2000 - Jan, 20077 years

  Framework was a lightweight PHP web application development toolkit for creating large-scale PHP application. It aimed to solve common web-application development needs out of the box, while providing a 3-tiered architecture and modular environment for developing new applications.

  • database abstraction

  • presentation abstraction and templating

  • application configuration

  • user authentication

  • user permissions & preferences

  • session management

  • localisation and internationalisation

  • error handling and application debugging

  • web services

• Carrier Pigeon, Mom & Pop Media

  Jan, 2000 - Jan, 20044 years

  Carrier Pigeon was an open source email newsletter solution that integrates with any web-site. The application provided tools necessary to run an email newsletter program. It supported HTML and plain text emails, generating plain text from the HTML version on demand. In addition, it offered subscription management, an interface for building newsletters, archive of past issues, and much more. Built in PHP 4 and running MySQL for storing data, this was my first serious web program. It was used by several of my freelance clients.

• Web Developer, PHPWeblog

  Jan, 2000 - Apr, 20003 months

  PHPWeblog was a GPL licensed PHP 4/MySQL based news portal that grew to be pretty popular way back when. I deployed a version of PHPWeblog for a high traffic site called InfoShop. My customizations for this project resulted in several contributions to speed up the server side code. This included re-designing the database and implementing a file system based cache of generated content.

• Web Developer, Designer & Managing Editor, Harbinger, a Journal of Social Ecology

  Jan, 2000 - Dec, 20034 years

  An in house publication of the Institute for Social Ecology. The website target audience includes academics, community groups, faculty, alumni, and the ISE student body. The web site was composed of dynamic and static content. Dynamic components include a PHP/MySQL driven guest book. Along with filling the position of Managing Editor, I was responsible for the conceptualisation, development, and maintenance of the entire project—server to front end design.

  • Wrote a custom guest book in PHP / MySQL (remember those?)

• Website, Community Arts Project

  Jan, 2000 - May, 20005 months

  Part of a 5 month long work placement with CAP had me developing their web site. The project included collaboratively developing the web site's objectives with the organisation and implementing a design solution.

• Website, Adult Learning South Africa

  Jan, 2000 - Jul, 20007 months

  Adult Learning South Africa was an on-line resource for adult educators and learners in South Africa. I served as the Information Architect while I lived in South Africa. For many months following this, I offered technical support during the design phase.

• Website, Left Green Perspectives

  Jan, 1999 - Dec, 19991 year

  Left Green Perspectives was a sporadic publication of the Social Ecology Project spearheaded by American intellectuals Murray Bookchin and Janet Biehl. The goal of this project was to provide an on-line archive of past issues. This web site was one of my first.

• Junior System Administrator, TAO Communications

  Jan, 1997 - Dec, 19993 years

  My introduction to my first Linux shell was through a free account with TAO Communications where I eventually gained enough experience to earn root and minor system administration responsibilities.

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