Cliff Mees

Current

Contract .NET Programmer at iNSTORE FOCUS

Past

President and Owner at Anaxatek Software Design Inc.
Contract Senior Java Developer at MTS Allstream
Contract Senior Software Developer at Deloitte

Analyst at GlaxoSmithKline
Sr. Systems Analyst at Pharmacia
Sr. Systems Analyst at SmithKline Beecham
Lotus Notes Consultant at Enterpol
Project Development Manager at IKON Technology Services
Jr. Consultant (Co-op) at Microsoft Canada
Jr. Management Consultant at Ernst & Young

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Education

Sheridan College
University of Toronto
Mayfield Secondary School

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Anaxatek Software Design Inc.

Cliff Mees’s Summary

With 15 years of software development and consulting experience, I am interested in leveraging IT in new and innovative ways in order to provide businesses with new competitive advantages.

Cliff Mees’s Specialties:

Software development in UI, data, and integration layers. I have worked in project leadership, management and execution roles.

I have significant recent experience in the following technologies: .NET, Java, JavaScript (with Ajax), Ruby, and SQL. I enjoy learning new technologies and leveraging new approaches with known ones. I am a quick study and am comfortable with engaging in projects where I have to learn as I go. Recently, I have been looking at Erlang, Clojure and Objective-C.

Cliff Mees’s Experience

Contract .NET Programmer

iNSTORE FOCUS

(Privately Held; Consumer Goods industry)

December 2009 — Present (1 month)

Working on a custom scheduling and fulfillment system.
President and Owner

Anaxatek Software Design Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

August 2009 — November 2009 (4 months)

Took the summer off and traveled with family.

Reviewed and started to work with other technologies including: Ruby 1.9, various open source .NET technologies (ASP.NET MVC, NDbUnit, NHibernate), Objective-C on the Mac and iPhone (Cocoa and Cocoa Touch), and Blackberry development.

Continued to review Agile development methodologies.
Contract Senior Java Developer

MTS Allstream

(Public Company; MBT (TSX); Telecommunications industry)

March 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Assisted in design and implementation of an automation project for MTSAllstream's order management processes. Developed an Ajax-enabled client implementation that supports sophisticated user interface capabilities in a regular web browser.

Technologies: Java, IBM WebSphere, JavaScript/Ajax
Contract Senior Software Developer

Deloitte

(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

April 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 10 months)

Architected and developed a large internal and client-facing system to support Deloitte's Canadian tax practice.

Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, JavaScript/Ajax
Analyst

GlaxoSmithKline

(Public Company; GSK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

June 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 10 months)

Contracted consultant engaged in:
- internal web portal project work including initial requirements gathering, scoping, prototyping, design, development, and vendor relationship management
- project management including ad hoc team leadership on the portal project as well as on a project to migrate in-house web hosting platform to a Windows 2003 Server web farm
- review development standards, architectures, and development tools as member of global web development workgroup

Technologies: Java, C#, ASP/ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML and XSLT, VB, ORACLE
Sr. Systems Analyst

Pharmacia

(Public Company; PHA; Pharmaceuticals industry)

July 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 11 months)

Hired at Pharmacia to focus on web-based development projects, and to build a new corporate intranet from the group up. Project work included:

- Corporate Intranet
- Compensation Review System

Technologies: C#, ASP/ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML and XSLT, VB, C++, COM+, SQL Server
Sr. Systems Analyst

SmithKline Beecham

(Public Company; GSK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

February 1998 — July 2001 (3 years 6 months)

Solution developer support for the sales and marketing group at SmithKline Beecham Canada. In addition to working on team initiatives such as the adoption of Siebel CRM, and the systems testing and documentation for Y2K, I also independently worked on:

- a corporate intranet portal
- a sales call forecasting and analysis system
- a sales forecasting and reporting

Technologies: ASP, JavaScript, MS Remote Scripting, C++, SQL Server, ORACLE, Excel(VBA), Lotus Notes
Lotus Notes Consultant

Enterpol

(Computer Software industry)

June 1997 — January 1998 (8 months)

Development consulting in Lotus Notes. Worked on contracts involving the creation and maintenance of LotusScript and Excel based applications at PMC Connaught Laboratories and Bayer.

Technologies: Lotus Notes
Project Development Manager

IKON Technology Services

(Public Company; IKN; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1995 — June 1997 (2 years 6 months)

Started in a consulting organization called "Proterm USConnect" as an Application Development Specialist, and was promoted to Project Development Manager as the organization was bought by IKON Office Solutions. My roles included pre-sales work, project definition, system analysis and development.

Technologies: VB, Attachmate, ASP, VBScript
Jr. Consultant (Co-op)

Microsoft Canada

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

May 1994 — September 1994 (5 months)

Co-op student position with Microsoft Canada's consulting group. I worked on the setup and customization of a time/billing system as well as providing pre-sales support by building prototypes to showcase Microsoft technology.
Jr. Management Consultant

Ernst & Young

(Management Consulting industry)

October 1989 — September 1992 (3 years )

Engaged in the Canada Post Service Performance Measurement project, in which major types of letter, parcel and journal mail were tracked in an ongoing audit of Canada Post operations.

Cliff Mees’s Education

Sheridan College

Co-op Diploma , Computer Science Technology , 1994

Graduated with High Honours
University of Toronto

B.A. , Philosophy , 1989

Graduated with High Distinction
Mayfield Secondary School