Professional Experience
Full Stack Developer
August 2021 – Present
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
- Helping lead the concept, design, and implementation of a complete web framework for a cross-functional team encompassing various data sources.
- Learning, using, and teaching others about leading edge technologies involved in the project including but not limited to: Django REST Framework / Django Ninja, Swagger API, GraphQL, React / React Native, Redux, PostgresQL, Docker, and Azure VMs.
- Scrum Master of team leading the Azure DevOps space and onboarding other partners/team to the platform through orientation material and pre-made templates.
- Front-end graphic and UI/UX design using Figma to demonstrate potential capabilities and receive feedback.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
April 2020 – August 2021
Micro Focus
- Quality Assurance engineer for Interset’s unsupervised AI/ML insider security threat detection.
- Utilize scripting languages (Bash / Python) to perform product installs and bug fixes on the software stack for both on-premises and on AWS cloud.
- Analyze, replicate, and fix raised defects to meet client stakeholder requirements.
- Developed automation testing tools to increase testing efficiency and performed manual testing as needed for certain edge cases.
- Creates and snapshots VMs while being mindful of resources and ongoing testing priorities.
- Work with development tools including JIRA, Jenkins, GitHub, TestRail, Slack, MS Teams.
- Use various software tools such as HDFS, Hive, Vertica, Kafka, Storm, Elasticsearch, Ambari, Cloudera, CDF, Kubernetes, HBase, Zookeeper, and YARN.
Intermediate R&D Scientist
June 2019 – April 2020
Abbott Point of Care
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- Created procedures for lab operators to conduct experiments and analyzed the results to generate reports used in FDA 510(k) submissions for in vitro medical devices.
- Wrote and validated SAS JMP scripts to automate data analysis for data analysts, scientists, and engineers.
- Analyzed Big Data, organized experiments, interpreted results, and used Data Visualization to draw conclusions using software such as SAS JMP 14, Minitab 18, R, Power BI, and Excel Analyse-It.
- Worked with Design Control elements which include: Planning, Input Requirements, Outputs, Design Reviews, Verifications, Validations, Change Control and Design History Files.
- Created and followed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Fuels Analyst Technologist / Characterization Lab Assistant
May 2015 – March 2018
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY (NRCan)
- Performed analytical tests in a lab to determine chemical composition of organic fuel analytes.
- Worked within an ISO9001 environment and followed ATSM methods.
- Used LIMS database to record results.
- Fully trained for routine work on:
- Ion Chromatography
- Chromeleon 7.2 CDS software
- AQF-100 Automated
- GA-100
- LECO CHN628 / CHN1000
- DMA80 mercury analyzer
- LECO-SC 632
- TGA 701 / 601
- Parr 6400 Calorimeter
- Created new government documents for continued use on ongoing studies.
Pharmacy Assistant
June 2016 – August 2017
Rexall Pharmacy
- Handled customers’ private information related to their healthcare.
- Updated necessary medical records and insurance.
- Prepared prescriptions for patients and disposed of expired medication.
Research Assistant, Emergency Department sector
July 2013 – Nov 2014
CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario), Research institute
- Awarded certificate from CHEO for excellent work within the Emergency Department.
- Responsible for approaching patients with specific injuries and explaining study eligibility.
- Collected and organized data on hundreds of patients daily.
- Maintained qualitative research as a priority for organized studies.
Education
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
April 2019
Bachelor of Science, Major in Biochemistry
- Courses taken from a variety of fields from biology, chemistry, biochemistry, bioinformatics, computer science, psychology, linear algebra, statistics, biotechnology, business, and pharmacology.
LinkedIn Learn
Online
- Learning Django
- Learning React.js
- Learning React Native
- Building RESTful Web APIs with Django
Udemy.com
Online
- Machine Learning A-Z (Python & R)
- Artificial Intelligence A-Z
- Deep Learning A-Z
- SQL Bootcamp
- Bioinformatics
- Windows Server 2016 Basics
Technical Skills