
Founder and CEO
Vancouver, Canada Area

Founder and CEO
Vancouver, Canada Area
Since graduating from SFU with a Business degree in 1996, I have spent the last 10 years working in the IT field. I have gained extensive experience with Technical Services and Support, Technical Writing, QA, Release Management, Web Development, Web server management and much more. I have experience managing networks and software systems large and small: everything from a 10 PC small business networks to large Enterprise class banking servers running Microsoft Datacenter.
Most recently I used VMWare virtualization technology to manage a farm of 50+ virtual servers on a daily basis as part of my responsibility as a Release Engineer for Intrawest. I managed all builds and deployment for QA and Production and UAT environments using NANT, Visual Studio, and Installshield. I also actively played a role in on-site Production releases and ensuring availability of our Intrawest online web sites.
With Full Motion Group, we create graphic and web design providing everything from business cards, logos, to web sites for businesses. We design web sites in ASP, PHP, SQL, Joomla, Wordpress, mySQL, Photoshop, and occassionally Flash. You can visit our site at www.fullmotiongroup.com for more information about us.
VMWare virtualization technology, Complete IIS management, ASP.NET, classic ASP, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, Microsoft Datacenter, Microsoft Operations Manager, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, CGI, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, DHCP, DNS, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Router and Switch installations of every variety and size, Wise Installer, Macromedia Installshield, working knowledge of F5 BigIP firewalls, TestTrack Pro bug management software and so much more.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
Full Motion Group provides online marketing, branding and design expertise. Specializing in media-rich online development with audio and video, we also provide full-service application development and design.
(Internet industry)
January 2004 — December 2008 (5 years )
Design and launch marketing logos, brochures, websites incorporating original art and graphic layout of content, banners, logos, and client materials.
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
April 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 8 months)
- Managing the daily build requirements for software updates and releases into Staging, QA, and Production using Installshield.
- Maintaining a 50+ virtual server lab using VMWare Workstation for QA, Development, and Staging.
- Researching productivity tools like Cruise Control to improve and streamline the build process
- Involved with Production and Change control teams to implement software releases into Production servers
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)
February 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 10 months)
- Created a build script used daily to automate builds for a large web development team
- Managed systems support for the server lab and developer desktops included build installations, MSI development and MSI package creation using Wise Installer, SourceSafe management, OS installations and hardware installations.
- Researched various software in firewall and security including intrusion detection and notification, source code management, MSI installs, operations management, multi-server backups and more
- Was a key support person for the installation of a multi-million dollar project for Mexico’s largest bank. I was required to be in Mexico city for 2 weeks to install an important piece of our software.
Technical skills used: HTML, ASP, SQL, Sharepoint, Microsoft Datacenter, Microsoft Operations Manager, COM+ objects, Veritas Backup, Wise Installer, Technical writing, Hardware and Systems support.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 1999 (less than a year)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1999 — June 1999 (5 months)
- Queried all levels of the organization to gather and sort all types of internal IS related documents.
- Designed and implemented an Intranet site to handle all the documents collected (>2000).
- Wrote a detailed business case for a document management system for another department. Help desk workload was reduced by 50% as a result of this project.
Technical skills used: HTML, JavaScript, CSS.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 1998 — January 1999 (4 months)
- Lead improvements in product development, business marketing, business management, product research and more.
- Wrote several patent applications for Internet video streaming, TCP/IP stack improvements, Video and Web server technologies, Caching servers for broadband video,
- Designed and published sales materials including brochures, news releases, business cards, and more.
Technical skills used: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, TCP/IP, Videoconferencing, caching servers
BBA , Business, Computing , 1992 — 1996
BBA , Business Degree , 1992 — 1996