My Career So Far…

For those that care about my technology career so far, here’s a run-down of my major accomplishments, roles and responsibilities.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

CO-FOUNDER & CTO (1999 to present)
We-Create Inc. (wecreate.com, connectorlocal.com, lozzal.com)

Experience with many senior level business objectives including patent filing, trademarking, government grants (SR&ED, OIDMTC and IRAP), investment capital, national account sales and strategic partnerships.
Leader of the software engineering and infrastructure teams for all projects and products.
Past experience with detailed project management for enterprise web-software clients in a wide range of non-web industries.
Member of the three person executive leadership team.

AUTHOR & TECHNICAL REVIEWER (2006-2007)
Apress Inc. “Books for Professionals by Professionals”

Co-author and project manager of Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and AJAX (August 2006)
Co-author for Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and AJAX (February 2007)
Technical Reviewer for AdvancED DOM Scripting by Jeffrey Sambells (July 2007)
Involved with sales, promotion and reader support of the above books as well as their non-English translations in other countries.

CLIENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (1999)
MediaLinx Interactive L.P. / Sympatico.ca

Designed and implemented sports, news, financial and lottery sections of the Sympatico Wireless service using Perl/DB, WAP and HDML.
Assisted in the initial development of the Sympatico.ca Wireless service as a whole prior to public launch on Bell Canada wireless devices in 1999.

NEW MEDIA DEVELOPER (1998-1999)
Digital Renaissance Inc. / ExtendMedia Inc. (extend.com)

As a member of the internal Digital Communications team, designed, implemented and maintained the corporate and software support web sites. Clientele included Alliance-Atlantis entertainment.

WEB DESIGNER & PUBLISHER (1997)
Town of Milton Corporate Web Site (www.town.milton.on.ca)

Established the very first corporate website for the town under the direct supervision of the Mayor’s office and the economic business development manger.

Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and AJAX
(ISBN: 1590597079, Published August 14, 2006 by Apress)
Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and AJAX
(ISBN: 1590597877, Published February 27, 2007 by Apress)
Method and System for Retrieval Time Ranking of Community Content
(Pending US Patent, Application No. 12/474,359)
Method and System for Discovery of Local Activities Based on Autonomous Suggestion
(Pending US Patent, Application No. 12/699,394)

B.Math Honours, Computer Science Co-op
University of Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics

Key courses & disciplines: Object-oriented design, distributed computing, computer networks, user interface design, relational databases, search and sort algorithms, applied cryptography, group theory, applied statistics, public speaking and fine arts.

Current Co-Champion of Communitech‘s “Professional Web Development” Peer2Peer group.
Current Member of the Board of Directors for the Kitchener Waterloo Aquarium Society.

Flexible and adaptable. Able to learn, understand and extend applications and ideas quickly and easily.
Able to transfer knowledge from existing experience to new technologies and domains.
Excellent problem-solving and creative-thinking skills.
Strong public-relations and public-speaking skills.
Natural leader with a unique, innovative style and approach to team work.

Ecological conservation and environmental stewardship initiatives in my family’s daily life.
Domestic breeding of threatened fresh-water fish to reduce the demand of the aquarium hobby on wild populations.
Artistic endeavors such as canvas painting, photography, wood working and yes even scrapbooking-by-proxy.
Science fiction in all its forms, but especially novels and short stories.
Science fact in all its forms, but especially as related to climate change, environmentalism, private space exploration and skepticism.