Dawson College · Permanent Full-time | Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Working as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science for Dawson College. https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/computer-science-technology

Matrox Imaging · Permanent Full-time | Dorval, Quebec, Canada

• Training teams on UI best practices and providing developers with improvements to existing functionality
• Understand requirements and constraints of the tools for which user interfaces are developed.
• Responsible for conducting user experience studies for more than 5 commercial user interfaces
• Creating a uniform look and feel for the larger product suite.
• Asses the user experience and integrate feedback in development process

Matrox Imaging · Permanent Full-time | Dorval, Quebec, Canada

-Contributed to the design and development of an interactive development environment for Machine Vision (MIL Copilot) using C# & WPF.

• Created requirements, worked with API teams to gather input for each use case, and implemented the use cases using a test driven development approach.
• Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, and supervising interns, where new interns are hired every 4 months.
• Conducted the first “User Experience” study for the UI, after researching UX methods, and presented the results to stakeholders, improving the customer experience.
• Setup and implemented an automated test system using Jenkins that reduced test time for a patch from 4 hours to 40 minutes.

McGill University | Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Helped design and teach the newly created Intro to Software Engineering course (ECSE-202).
• Reformed labs for design principles and methods course (ECSE-211) where students program robots in Java.
• Created tutorials and instructed students on programming concepts and design skills including revision control, unit testing, and OOP.

Nuance Communications | Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Developed user interface flows for voice recognition systems in automobiles.
• Interfaced with customers to determine requirements and feature implementation details.
• Participated in code reviews and impact assessments of feature changes, where feedback was provided to the customer.
• Created test cases and tools to validate functionality and ensured customer requirements are met.

Matrox Imagining | Dorval, Quebec, Canada

• Developed custom XML structure, XSLT code, JavaScript code, and CSS styles to build an HTML help file. Worked with multiple development teams who use the centralized XML content to generate interactive tools
• Created a Visual Studio extension that provided intelligent code completion and context-sensitive help as a productivity tool for customers. The tool was the first of its kind and shipped to customer with the next major release. Consulted with software developers to determine customer needs
• Developed, configured, and deployed tools for automated build process and SQA (unit testing). This included a generator developed in C# that handled the build process. QUnit a javascript unit test framework. XSpec an XSLT unit test framework. Maintained and created plugins for Oxygen XML Author for technical writers on the team
• Learned excellent computer programming principles and about how the software development process works in industry

Matrox Imagining | Dorval, Quebec, Canada

• Wrote user guides and command reference help files for the Matrox Imaging Library.
• Worked closely with technical writers, engineers, and support staff.
• Created new technical illustrations and explanations.