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Nick has over 23 years of continuous experience in Information Systems, with a solid understanding of the role applications play in an organization. Experience includes scale-able and complex projects, in addition to systems operations, networking, forensics/information security, and all types of software development. Nick's focus has always been to automate and document all aspects of a business.

Highlights of Experience

Projects

Employment History


QHR Technologies
Manager, Corp IT
April 2019 - Present
  • Managed 4 teams (17 Full Time people including leads) including Help Desk, Linux team, Application team and Corporate IT across 3 offices.
  • Managed and reviewed code written in various languages to support integrations and backend services.
  • Implemented checklist processes for many operations
  • Responsible for all Employee facing systems/services/software
  • Project Management
  • Managed a team and the processes to enable all 500+ employees working remotely from home to continue operations due to a pandemic
  • Plan, get corporate buy-in and promote new technologies to support both our staff and client
  • Foster communication between teams on cross team projects
  • Collecting useful metrics to share up to the directors
  • QHR Technologies Senior QA Analyst August 2018 - April 2019 - Continued some IT/Mediplan Duties - Worked through old code to determine how it works, and how to write tests for it - Wrote Liquibase changelogs for a complex structure including over 900 tables. - Wrote Service tests in JUnit for Accuro - Reviewed code for other developers writing tests - Helped the Team Lead; onboarding and training other staff - Came up with some of the infrastructure for the service tests - Test Complete testing of a GUI application - Looked after the Calgary office and organize Calgary Events QHR Technologies Dev Ops Lead July 2017 - August 2018 - Development Lead for CloudSync (internal system for transfering files and forwarding other applications in and out of the cloud) - Leading developers and Support personal - Programming Development / System Design and API documentation - Evaluating Technology Solutions / Providing recommendations - Project management - Disaster Recovery - OpenBSD and Linux administration - Managing cloud resources - Virtual Fax server API and administration Telin Systems Architecture / Product management / Managing Partner June 2001 - July 2017 Responsible for many areas of Telin including: - Management of all staff except sales - Owning the managment of our customer facing services and applications - Budgeting and human resource management - building relationships with clients - IT Services Management - Software Architecture - Application code reviews to find gaps in compliance and best practices - Manual testing of applications as well as some, but limited automated testing - Automated tested of preformance, including web services and limited desktop application - Development and Supervising other Developers, including outsourced projects - Evaluating Technology Solutions / Providing recommendations - Project management - Disaster Recovery planning - Policy / procedures management Previously: - Information security awareness training for both in house and our clients - Implementing Cloud Based Services (Migration to the cloud) - Information security reviews and risk management - 3rd tier technical support - Network, Firewall and VPN administrator (OpenBSD and Fortigate) - VOIP phone administrator Global edge and wireless 2005-2006 As the Information Security Officer i was responsible for policies, procedures, firewalls and some system administration and programming. Geoinformatics 1999-2001 At Geoinformatics i was a part time programmer and a full time sys admin Previous jobs: - Superstore stock boy in produce (2 years) started May 16, 1998 - Technical support at multiple companies

    Volunteering

    - Calgary Food Bank 
    - Iron Horse Park, previously Secretary, previously intern Treasurer, I work 
    weekly on many aspects of the park, including but not limited 
    to: Track/buildings/locomotives maintenance. http://www.ironhorsepark.net
    - High Altitude Balloon Launches with schools and individuals. 
    - Guns of the Golden West as an old western actor.
    - Emergency Radio Operator (licenced)
    - Science Alberta Foundation Calgary office, 
    ph. (403) 260-1945, helping out with office and computer duties. 
    I volunteered for the summer starting on June 30, 1998
    
    

    Education

    UBC Sauder School of Business - Executive Education
    2020-2021
    - Collaborating with remote teams
    - Managing Customer Expectations
    - Managing Virtual Meetings    
    - Agile Leadership Strategies and Techniques 
    
    Athabasca university
    Bachelor's Degree, Information Systems
    2002 - 2005
    
    I worked remotely on my degree while working full time
    I completed a project course on encryption which gave me a focus of 
    Information Security during my studies. 
    
    
    1997 - 2000 Henry Wise Wood High School
    Graduated with Honors and got a scholarship.