Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

• Taking some time to focus on family, a move back to Nova Scotia, and prepare for what comes next in my career.

Aug 2014 – Jan 2026 · 11 yrs 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Front-end engineer for on the retail website. I specialize in web accessibility, writing automation to find issues with accessibility, and build features on the shopping experience to make shopping easier for folks with disabilities

Aug 2014 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

May 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

Sep 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 8 mos

• Volunteer web developer for bikebike.org. Designed and developed from the ground up in Rails. Built a localization platform to enable automated translation population and detailed context collection and to easily enable volunteer translators to edit translations in Spanish and French.

May 2012 – Mar 2013 · 10 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• Worked, and currently still help maintain this startup. Worked in a small, dispersed, team of individual stakeholders. Using Grails, we built an application which allows users to upload business documents and sell them to the public. Managed my own schedule while working full-time from home and connected with other team members routinely through the use of Skype and GoToMeeting.

Sep 2011 – Apr 2012 · 7 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• Corroborated with Dr. Vahid Garousi to research and compile lab specifications for his Software Testing undergraduate course. Included writing exercises for students to develop an under- standing of various methods of software testing from traditional to much more recent practices including mutation and GUI testing. Re-engineered an open source video playback application in C++ in order to introduce new bugs for students to discover.

Apr 2011 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs · Calgary, Canada Area

• Designed and developed a new interactive website using Drupal content management system. Delivered functionality that automatically synchronizes the site's news feed with the client's Facebook feed in order to reduce maintenance for the clients. Still regularly maintain and make routine updates to the site as required.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Calgary, Canada Area

• Employed as an intern software developer at the National Energy Board in downtown Calgary for a sixteen month period. Worked on high prole projects such as the Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel as well as large-scale commodity tracking software used by the industry. Development was mainly in the ASP.NET environment using C# and TSQL. Actively practised agile methods including scrum and thorough testing was ensured through the use of continuous integration and code coverage as well as architectural designs which aided in the testing and mocking processes.

Sep 2006 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Halifax, Canada Area

• Senior cashier at a locally owned natural food market. Generated weekly cash reports and solved problems with inconsistencies enhancing attention to detail. Operated a cash register without a scanning system, memorized regularly changing prices for a large stock of items. Became educated about customers' basic dietary issues and passed that knowledge on to find products to suit their needs.

Sep 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos · Halifax, Canada Area

• Employed as an interviewer at Statics Canada in downtown Halifax. Gained vital experience working as a team on large projects gathering data from the public to improve the lives of Canadians.