Professional Experience
Email Developer at Scotiabank
Nov 2022 – Present
- Working on Oracle Responsys and building email campaigns for Scotiabank
- Building email campaigns for Scotia iTRADE and Scotia Wealth Management
- Working on the Knak platform and building email campaigns for MD Financial
- Testing email clients in Litmus
Email Developer Contract at Scotiabank
Sep 2021 – Nov 2022
- Worked on Oracle Responsys and built retail email campaigns for Scotiabank
- Tested email clients in Litmus
Digital Developer Lead at Rogers
Jul 2018 – Feb 2021
- Led a 12-member team of developers working on rogers.com, fido.ca & r4b.
- Reviewed and distributed daily deliverables, campaigns, and major projects to developers
- Tech Reviewed incoming work and ensured stories were well defined & assigned in Jira.
- Facilitated daily stand-ups, resolved issues, and planned incoming work based on team capacity.
- Managed expectations and supported Product owners and ensured project timelines were met.
- Reached out to release management to secure our daily releases.
- Worked with the Optimization team on feasibility of A/B test scenarios in Adobe Target.
- Helped POs define user stories and plan for upcoming sprints based on our team capacity.
- Produced monthly and quarterly reports on team's performance and milestones.
- Worked with the devops team on a CI CD pipeline to deploy apps to Akamai Netstorage env.
- Reviewed accessibility reports and created user stories to resolve high level issues.
- Automated newly defined JIRA tickets alerts in Microsoft Teams.
- Interviewed new job applicants and trained incoming co-op students as part of New Grads program.
Web Developer at Rogers
Apr 2011 – Jul 2018
- Responsible for day-to-day web development operations on rogers.com, fido.ca, SMB & ENT sites.
- Launched high level campaigns.
- Built new and updated existing responsive pages.
- Provided ad hoc support and troubleshooting to fix production issues.
- Participated in war rooms and code deployment releases.
- Worked with Akamai on site clean-up, vanity URLs and page redirects.
- Used Git & Interwoven Teamsite/Livesite to update CMS.
- Code reviews, QA and testing in multiple browsers & devices.
- As a Scrum Master Backup, I provided Tech Review estimates in JIRA
- Worked with Planning Team on incoming requests.
Web Developer (Contract)
Infotek → Rogers
Oct 2009 – Apr 2011
- As a member of the content team my responsibility was to work on requests from multiple account managers to make content updates on the front end of rogers.com
Web Producer (Contract)
Infotek → Rogers Media
Jun - Sep 2009
- As part of an ad inventory display, this contract involved implementing a digital display ad functionality across all Rogers-owned and operated web properties.
- Implemented digital display ad functionality across all Rogers-owned and operated web properties (Radio, Broadcasting, Publishing).
- Conducted multi-browser testing and Quality Assurance for the newly replaced ad functionality.
Web Producer (Contract)
Infotek → Canadian Business
Dec 2008 - May 2009
- My contract duties as a web developer for Canadian Business, Profit & MoneySense magazine websites involved creating new components and supporting the editor staff.
- Coded the content for Canadian Business, Profit & MoneySense magazine websites.
- Created and sent out Newsletters, Designed slideshows and posted Podcasts.
- Imported excel data in MySQL Database & reflecting results on .Net based platform.
- Article import, Content updates, Banners Design, Code and Images optimization.
- QA, Testing in multiple browsers, Inventory of the site.
Front End Developer (Contract)
DTHREE → Beer.com
Jun - Sep 2008
- As a Front end developer for beer.com, my key functions were updating the content on a daily basis and improving the user interface experience.
- Implemented graphical changes, designed new UI components, interfaces, icons, and banners.
- Sliced elements in Photoshop and coding them in HTML, CSS, and PHP.
- Worked closely with the programmer on the back-end of the site.
- Tested site in multiple browsers. Quality Assurance and Proofreading.
Consultant / Coder (Contract)
Digital Embrace → Ministry of Transportation (MTO)
Feb - Apr 2008
- Convert the existing Ministry of Transportation website to the new look and feel using semantic SHTML. All the pages were validated and approved by the W3C internet standards.
- Analyzed existing site structure and provided new ideas and solutions in team discussions.
- Converted the MTO website to a new look and feel using semantic SHTML and CSS in a tabless web layout.
- Ensured all produced pages were validated and approved by W3C internet standards.
Front End Developer
Business Media
Jan 2007 - Feb 2008
- Coded over 120 approved graphic prototypes. Designed new graphical concepts. Worked closely with the outside sales team. Assisted and provided tech support to existing customers.
- Coded HTML & CSS, PHP includes and secured Forms in Dreamweaver.
- Managed domain transfers, FTP file management, MySQL database configuration, and email setup.
- Created banners, animation and web presentations using Flash.
- Provided customer support and technical consulting services to existing clients.
- Testing and Quality Assurance.
Webmaster / Coder / Support
ACD Studio
Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
- This was my first FT job in the field. I sliced and coded over 100 approved graphical concepts. Provided technical support and assisted existing customers.
- Coded HTML & CSS, PHP includes using Dreamweaver.
- Sliced custom web site graphic designs in Photoshop.
- Customer support and technical consulting services.
- Met with existing clients and worked on website updates in person.
- Transferred domains, FTP files, configured DNS and email setup.
- Worked with the Marketing team on in-house projects.
- Testing and Quality Assurance.
Freelance Projects
Freelance Professional at Timur.ca
Since Jan 2006
- Manage projects from start to finish, brand development, web design, search friedly websites.
- Services include UI & Brand Development, Marketing, Consulting and Customer Support.
- See the Projects.