SUMMARY:

• Practical experience developing in C#, Gosu, Java, C++, JavaScript, VB PHP, C, Python, SQL, Node.js, Flask, AngularJS, CSS and HTML.
• Practical experience using Microsoft Visual Studio (including Resharper), Git, IntelliJ IDEA, PowerShell, Microsoft SQL Server, Twilio, Mailgun, Team Foundation Server 2012 and 2015, Oracle SQL Developer, McAfee Network Security Manager, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, Wireshark, Trend Micro Deep Security, HP WebInspect, Confidential Security AppScan, VMware vSphere, Android Studio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and wrote tests for new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to existing features on the PolicyCenter application written in confidential(a Java derivative) and utilized by brokers across US and Canada.
• Led meetings for breaking business change documents into Jira tasks prior to each sprint, coordinated with business to prioritize, and estimated to ensure the team had adequate work allocated.
• Recognized for being the second non team lead out of nearly a hundred to finish every Guidewire module required to be completed by all developers.
• Trained several co - op students assisting with environment setup and leading on their development tasks.
• Utilized enhancement sprints to refactor code for scalability and optimize sql queries. e.g. improved performance of GL coverage generation 3X by changing query to only run once instead of per component.
• Monitored the on-call phone several times where responsibilities included investigating and resolving any outages, running all scripts or d Confidential base updates in production required by any developer on the PolicyCenter team, and monitoring the daily health checks at 6AM every morning including weekends.

C# .Net Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full-stack software development and testing on the architecture and central features of the Credit Express application utilized by the sales force of multiple automotive groups including Birchwood.
• Resolved all user tickets ranging from account and access related issues to investigating then developing, testing, and releasing fixes for all bugs identified by users of the system hastily to minimize business obstruction and system outages.
• Devised, estimated, mile stoned, and assigned user stories prior to each development iteration.
• Viewed pull requests from both peers and seniors to expand my knowledge and learn new techniques.
• Devised with General Managers which metrics within the system were of interest to them, then generated reports based on those discussions as well as the system usage, regularly refining the criteria.
• Identified and presented solutions for undetected pre-existing security flaws and sensitive information leakage throughout the application (e.g. SIN numbers, credit reports accessible via the DOM).

.NET Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Aided in the development of the mobile redesign for the public facing confidential shopping website, ensuring consistent appearance across many different browsers and devices.
• Contributed to several team projects including feature requests, tweaks, and bug fixes to the public facing Nygard.com shopping website, as well as the localization of it.
• Completed a variety of smaller individual tasks on various internal applications, allowing me to gain both front end as well as back end development experience, including integration.
• Attended project meetings to ensure that all team members were up to date on the status of the project.
• Assisted coworkers in solving specific tasks when they were required to do work outside of their area of expertise in a subject I'm knowledgeable in.
• Aided my employer (by utilizing my work experience from Confidential of Manitoba's Information Protection Centre) to research certain firewall alerts and determine whether they were authentic and posed a real threat to the company and action should be taken, or false positives that could be ignored.

Security Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitored the intrusion prevention system confidential  Network Security Manager for alerts on new attacks, malware, and botnet activity while creating filters to drop known false positives.
• Aided in conducting investigations and creating reports against suspects by analyzing highly sensitive information including communication in Microsoft Office Communicator as well as internet use patterns.
• Created a reverse shell access DLL Injector during low workloads, and achieved a scarily low detection rate of only 1/56 of the antiviruses on Total Virus detecting it as malicious. This was done by storing the reverse shell bytecode as hexadecimal values in a confidential, and then externally triggering the DLL.
• Researched various attacks detected on Confidential 's network: including setting up VMs mimicking the detected vulnerability (e.g. setting up a LAMP stack with a vulnerable outdated version of Apache, and deploying the application from the server where the attack was originally detected), and testing exploits manually when necessary to better understand the nature of the situation. The findings detailing the threat as well as any possible countermeasures were then documented and sent to employer.
• Accomplished piloting HP's web security scanner WebInspect and created a comprehensive document outlining requirements, installation steps, and features provided by the application in order to build a case to use HP WebInspect as an upgrade from the Confidential Security's AppScan software currently being used.
• Created automated weekly reports summarizing network activity containing information such as the top attack destinations, the top types of generated alerts, and the top policy violators on the network which is sent to one of my employers on a weekly basis to identify important network activity.