Jason Anderson

Current

• President, Senior System Architect at Blaze Trail Systems Inc.

Past

• Senior Software Developer/Contractor at Neteller
• Software Developer/Sub-Contractor at CNRL
• Senior Software Developer/Sub-Contractor at Sierra Systems

• Senior Java Developer/Consultant at TransCanada
• Senior Java Developer/Consultant at AESO
• Senior Software Developer/BA/Consultant at ENMAX
• Senior Software Developer/Consultant at Dark Technologies
• Vice President/Director of IT at Leisure Recreation Group
• Software Architect at Ensemble Systems
• Principal Software Engineer at Redback Networks
• Principal Software Engineer at Abatis
• Senior System Engineer at TTC
• Senior System Engineer at Acterna
• System Architect at Applied Digital Access
• System Analyst at Glenayre
• Software Designer at MPR Teltech
• Project Manager, Software Designer at Softwords Research International
• Software Designer at Pamap Technologies Ltd
• Team Lead, Software Designer at Paquter Dev.

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Education

• Camosun College

Recommended

12 people have recommended Jason

Connections

222 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Jason Anderson’s Summary

Entrepreneur/owner of software company specializing in enterprise software solutions. J2EE and .Net. 20 years of software architect experience, >10 years of enterprise Java. >10 years of web applications (specialty). Hands-on:

Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Seam, Struts, GWT, Grails, Groovy, PHP, JSF, Facelets, JSP, Java Servlets, JSTL, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, DWR, Jasper Reports, JUnit, Selenium RC, Toplink, Tiles, TIBCO, EJB, JMS, JMX, SOAP, WSDL, REST, ,Sonic, MQSeries, JDBC, JTA, VB, .NET, C#, PL/SQL, UML, RUP, Agile, SCRUM, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, MS-SQL, MS-Access, JBoss, Tomcat, WebSphere, WebLogic, IIS, Subversion, CVS, CruiseControl, Cobertura, ANT, Maven.

Sectors/Areas: Oil & Gas/Energy, Telecom, Financial Sector, CRM, GIS, PoS/Retail, CBT, QA, Process refinement, IT infastructure, Recreation.

Jason Anderson’s Specialties:

Expert in enterprise class software systems, enterprise Java. All aspects of the software development/production cycle. Web applications. Hands-on software architecting, designing and coding. Business analysis & automation.

Jason Anderson’s Experience

• President, Senior System Architect

  Blaze Trail Systems Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1989 — Present (21 years 2 months)

  President/Owner, Senior Software developer/architect, Project Management, BA. Custom software development, analysis, consulting and application service provider/hosting services.
  
  Calgary, AB

• Senior Software Developer/Contractor

  Neteller

  (Public Company; neo; Financial Services industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Software Developer/Sub-Contractor

  CNRL

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Senior Software Developer/Sub-Contractor

  Sierra Systems

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Senior Java Developer/Consultant

  TransCanada

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRP; Oil & Energy industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Senior Java Developer/Consultant

  AESO

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Utilities industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Senior Software Developer/BA/Consultant

  ENMAX

  (Privately Held; Utilities industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Senior Software Developer/Consultant

  Dark Technologies

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Vice President/Director of IT

  Leisure Recreation Group

  (Recreational Facilities and Services industry)

  January 2003 — March 2006 (3 years 3 months)

  Member of executive team/board of directors, assisted in all aspects of operating the business in addition to overseeing the information services department, coding MIS applications and infastructure.
  
  Technologies: JSP, J2EE, .NET, MCSE, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, Cisco VPN, RedHat Linux.
  
  Surrey, BC

• Software Architect

  Ensemble Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  Extensive J2EE work architecting+developing applications, traveled to various customers in N. America for on-site architecture review and development.
  
  Wrote frameworks, IDE plugins and application server extensions for customers such as IBM, Rational, BEA, Borland. Wrote advanced custom components for JSP. Oracle, DB2, MySQL. Rational Rose, RUP.
  
  Richmond, BC

• Principal Software Engineer

  Redback Networks

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RBAK; Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Extensive J2EE (N-tier, highly multi-threaded, JMS, web applications and thick-clients in Java), Rational Rose, OOA/OOD
  
  Burnaby, BC

• Principal Software Engineer

  Abatis

  (Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Burnaby, BC

• Senior System Engineer

  TTC

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years )

  Development prime, Team Lead, Senior System Engineer.
  
  J2EE, JSP, Swing, AWT, EJB, Java Servlets, CORBA, C++, Oracle, Rational Rose, OOA/OOD, high-volume, N-tier, carrier class.
  
  Burnaby, BC

• Senior System Engineer

  Acterna

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ACTR; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years )

• System Architect

  Applied Digital Access

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years )

  Java, AWT, Swing, C++, DCE, CORBA, N-tier architectures, highly-multithreaded, VLDB, Oracle, Rational Rose, OOA/OOD, high-volume, N-tier, carrier class.
  
  Burnaby, BC

• System Analyst

  Glenayre

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

  Consulting contract. Paging Switch management systems. C, OpenLook, Sockets, PERL
  
  Burnaby, BC

• Software Designer

  MPR Teltech

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years )

  Telcom Network fault management systems, Satellite command & Control, C/C++, X/Motif, Windows SDK, Rational Rose
  
  Burnaby, BC

• Project Manager, Software Designer

  Softwords Research International

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1993 (2 years )

  Computer Based authoring software, multiuser conferencing software. C/C++, X/Motif, Windows SDK, Rational Rose, OOA/OOD
  
  Victoria, BC

• Software Designer

  Pamap Technologies Ltd

  (Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1990 (less than a year)

  Writing GIS mapping software, FORTRAN, C, Basic
  
  Victoria, BC

• Team Lead, Software Designer

  Paquter Dev.

  (Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1990 (1 year )

  Writing windowing system, plumbing/mechanical CAD system, C, on MS-DOS
  
  Victoria, BC

Jason Anderson’s Education

• Camosun College

  Computing Technology Diploma , 1988 — 1991

Additional Information

Jason Anderson’s Websites:

• My Company

Jason Anderson’s Groups:

•    Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) User Group
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    Agile Alliance
•    Grails User Group
•    Alberta Ambassador Network
•    J Architect
•    Java EE Professionals
•    Linking Calgary
•    TTC Alumni
•    Ex-Redback
•    Sierra Alumni
•    Calgary Technology Network

Jason Anderson’s Honors:

- Black Belt - Taekwondo (ITF incl. Arnis, Balintawak, Hapkido, Jujitsu, Boxing)
- Blue Sash - Yueng Chuan (Kung Fu)
- Currently training in Kyokushin Karate

Jason Anderson’s Contact Settings

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