{"id":45,"date":"2014-06-13T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2014-07-08T23:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:43:05","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/resume\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e9sum\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/src\/css\/client-global.css\"><\/link>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/src\/js\/client-global.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"title-page-header\">\n<div id=\"title-header-text\">STEVE BUTLER<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\">www.aminutestime.com<\/a> \u2022 <script>encodedAnchor(\"znvygb:vasb@nzvahgrfgvzr.pbz\", \"pbagnpg zr\")<\/script><br \/>\n<script>encodedAnchor(\"uggc:\/\/jjj.nzvahgrfgvzr.pbz\/zrqvn\/qbp\/Fgrir_Ohgyre_erfhzr_wha162014_jro.cqs\", \"-- Qbjaybnq n cevagnoyr pbcl --\")<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"header-1\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<td>O<\/td>\n<td>B<\/td>\n<td>J<\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>C<\/td>\n<td>T<\/td>\n<td>I<\/td>\n<td>V<\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td  class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nTo contribute my technical and leadership experience as a member of a high-performing development team that will challenge and inspire me as we work together to solve real-world problems.\n<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"header-1\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<td>Q<\/td>\n<td>U<\/td>\n<td>A<\/td>\n<td>L<\/td>\n<td>I<\/td>\n<td>F<\/td>\n<td>I<\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>D<\/td>\n<td  class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring creativity and drive to everything I do.<\/li>\n<li>Passionate about creating high-quality end-user experiences.<\/li>\n<li>Broad technical experience and flexible skill set honed over years on front-lines of development.<\/li>\n<li>People-person with proven ability to get the most out of teams in challenging environments.<\/li>\n<li>Track record of delivering quality on-schedule.<\/li>\n<li>Strong communicator with a deep commitment to clarity and transparency among groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"header-1\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>X<\/td>\n<td>P<\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>R<\/td>\n<td>I<\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>N<\/td>\n<td>C<\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>D<\/td>\n<td  class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td>Leadership<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Seasoned development prime on over a dozen major projects. Deep involvement in applying Agile methodologies as well as the end-to-end traditional Software Development Life-cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Years of experience as a team leader, including two years as lead of a multi-disciplined, twelve-person development team with critical path responsibilities on over a half-dozen projects.<\/li>\n<li>Mentored senior team members to act as project heads, and coached project teams on implementing Scrum.<\/li>\n<li>People management: administration, supervision, performance evaluations, resource planning, and reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Hiring manager on several occassions, working closely with a Human Resources associate while writing job descriptions, reviewing r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, conducting interviews, and choosing the best candidate in each case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td>Development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"summary-li\">\nHistory of taking initiative to improve on existing systems for increased quality and cost-effectiveness.\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-wrote core component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) from scratch.<\/li>\n<li>Innovated data-driven system for building installers directly from requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"summary-li\">\nBroad experience creating rich User Experiences in a variety of environments.\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Led user-centred re-design of the experience for the BlackBerry Unite! flagship home-desktop application.<\/li>\n<li>Headed development effort for BlackBerry mobile application for managing pay-as-you-go mobile accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Web calendar application for volunteer-based housing association.<\/li>\n<li>Custom rich ActiveX controls for media editing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"summary-li\">\nYears spent &#8220;in the trenches&#8221; writing complex multi-user, concurrent,  distributed enterprise components.\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Core BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) features such as e-mail and calendar synchronization.<\/li>\n<li>Low-latency, high-load BES metric-tracking component (B+-tree).<\/li>\n<li>BES state-database pruning mechanism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"summary-li\">\nProven track record writing high-quality, robust and reliable clean code.\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Sole responsiblity for application layer of a first-release Television broadcast automation product.<\/li>\n<li>Trans-Atlantic flight-tracking software used by Gander International airport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"summary-li\">\nPracticed ability to assess, debug and maintain legacy code bases.\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Enterprise Customer Support front-line, solving issues from large corporate production environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td>Organizational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Designed and drove adoption of a cross-project iterative process for User Interface development by liaising with members from several key teams including Industrial Design, Usability and language specialists.<\/li>\n<li>Regular presentations with middle-to-senior levels of Product, Project, and Development management.<\/li>\n<li>Authored a coding standards document for use throughout the BlackBerry Enterprise Group.<\/li>\n<li>Several years as volunteer Board member for multi-million dollar housing corporation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"header-1\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<td>T<\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>C<\/td>\n<td>H<\/td>\n<td>N<\/td>\n<td>O<\/td>\n<td>L<\/td>\n<td>O<\/td>\n<td>G<\/td>\n<td>Y<\/td>\n<td  class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td>Languages<\/td>\n<td>Windows Technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Javascript, HTML, CSS, C#\/VB .NET, python, C++, UML, XML, shell scripting, Java, Perl<\/td>\n<td>DevStudio, WPF, ActiveX, SQL Server, Excel, Exchange, MAPI, MFC, Win32 API, Classic ASP, MSI, InstallShield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td>Platforms<\/td>\n<td>Methodologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows, Linux, UNIX (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX), GroupWise, IBM Lotus Domino, BlackBerry OS<\/td>\n<td>Clean code, User-centred Design (UCD), OOA\/D, Design Patterns, TDD, Unified Process (UP), Scrum, Lean Startup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td>Applications<\/td>\n<td>Packages and Frameworks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eclipse, MySQL, Perforce, Git\/Mercurial, VMWare, OpenOffice<\/td>\n<td>Django, MediaWiki, WordPress, Xlib\/Xt, OpenVPN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"header-1\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<td>H<\/td>\n<td>I<\/td>\n<td>S<\/td>\n<td>T<\/td>\n<td>O<\/td>\n<td>R<\/td>\n<td>Y<\/td>\n<td  class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td width=\"33%\">Research In Motion, Ltd. (BlackBerry)<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">Waterloo and Ottawa, ON<\/td>\n<td>January 2002 &#8211; December 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Team Lead, Consumer Experience Development Team (2 years)<\/li>\n<li>Windows Developer, BlackBerry Consumer Software (1 year)<\/li>\n<li>Front-line Enterprise Development support for Customer Service Organization (1 year)<\/li>\n<li>Enterprise Developer, BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise (2 years)<\/li>\n<li>Head Developer, Enterprise Installers (2 years)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr class=\"header-2\">\n<td width=\"33%\">Entrepreneur<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">London, UK and Toronto, ON<\/td>\n<td>January 2010 &#8211; present<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nIn 2010 I accompanied my fianc\u00e9e to the UK for her job with the Canadian Federal government.  During that time I pursued several projects in the spirit of Lean Startup experiments, several of which continue at present.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applied an OOD process based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) from Craig Larman&#8217;s book \u201cApplying UML and Patterns\u201d to prototyping a concept I innovated for a social networking site.<\/li>\n<li>Software suite for gathering Internet data on the London property market, and analyzing for market trends.<\/li>\n<li>As active member of the National Landlords Association, wrote a property development business plan.<\/li>\n<li>Developed a startup concept with a friend for a user-friendly home-network analytics system.<\/li>\n<li>Published a web comic and blog at www.aminutestime.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"header-1\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>D<\/td>\n<td>U<\/td>\n<td>C<\/td>\n<td>A<\/td>\n<td>T<\/td>\n<td>I<\/td>\n<td>O<\/td>\n<td>N<\/td>\n<td  class=\"grow\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science (Co-op Program)<\/td>\n<td>University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alternate-row\">\n<td>lead(on): People Leadership Development Series<\/td>\n<td>Research In Motion, Ontario, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Certified Usability AnalystTM  (CUA)<\/td>\n<td>Human Factors International (HFI), Iowa, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alternate-row\">\n<td>Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)<\/td>\n<td>Berteig Consulting, Ontario, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEVE BUTLER www.aminutestime.com \u2022 O B J E C T I V E To contribute my technical and leadership experience as a member of a high-performing development team that will challenge and inspire me as we work together to solve real-world problems. 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