Overview

A dedicated leader and team member focused on overcoming challenges by acquiring knowledge through observation, experimentation, testing and measurements—and continuously refining assessments by constantly looking for better approaches. As a leader, I take pride in fostering growth through constant coaching and assessments, and making myself available for subjects pertaining to work or non-work related matters.

I bring extensive experience from DevOps, SRE and software development—technically sound in multiple programming languages, platforms and tools—into my current role as SR&ED Technical Advisor at PwC Canada, where I help clients prepare and optimize their R&D tax incentive claims.

Working with development and business teams across industries, I apply my technical background to identify qualifying activities, navigate SR&ED and R&D tax credit rules, and deliver high-quality claims that maximize returns for clients.

Experience

SR&ED Technical Advisor, Manager

PwC Canada January 26, 2026 — Present

Manager in PwC's R&D tax practice, leading client engagements for SR&ED (Canada) and R&D tax credit claims (US). Leverage deep technical expertise to guide teams and advise clients on qualifying R&D activities and maximizing returns from government incentives.

  • Lead delivery of SR&ED and R&D tax credit claim engagements; ensure quality, timeliness and budget compliance across the portfolio
  • Advise clients through CRA and IRS reviews; oversee development of technically sound, defensible claim narratives
  • Manage client relationships and engagement economics; report to Senior Managers and Partners on scope, risk and financials
  • Drive business development and market expansion; mentor and develop team members to strengthen technical and advisory capability
  • Resolve complex technical and regulatory questions; provide authoritative guidance on novel or ambiguous claim scenarios

Senior Site Reliability Developer

Priceline August 2022 — October 2025

Member of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team driving mission critical projects with direct impact on the evolution of Priceline's business.

  • Work across teams to develop/design solutions, mentoring & coaching junior engineers, automating processes, or solving critical issues
  • Part of a cross-functional agile team that continuously experiments, iterates and delivers on new product objectives
  • Building low latency and high throughput transactional services
  • Develop & configure software and lead hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems
  • Implement SQL for real-time investigation and analysis; deploy and support thousands of servers and hundreds of applications across private and public cloud in multiple geo locations
  • Collaborate with development teams to support cloud architecture and provide resources “as a service”
  • Work with Serverless Edge Computing, Service Mesh and Kubernetes

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Narvar January 2022 — August 2022
  • Provide expert technical guidance and ongoing engineering design review to teams planning large migrations, architectural shifts, and capacity growth
  • Build a metrics-driven operational culture for SLO definition, logging, monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices
  • Improve blameless incident management, root cause analyses, and service recovery strategies
  • Partner with Security, Quality, and Product teams on compliance, reliability and business-continuity objectives
  • Tasked with supporting all Software Supply Chain within Narvar

Lead DevOps Engineer

Pollard Banknote Limited January 2019 — January 2022

Led development and enhancement of DevOps processes including agile systems, CI/CD on AWS, Kubernetes, and Elastic stack.

Senior Application Developer (DevOps C4E)

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company January 2017 — January 2019

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, CI/CD with Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible and Docker. Windows/Linux, NGINX. MCD - Integration and API Associate.

Senior Developer/Analyst

Avant Systems Group March 2015 — January 2017

AMS services, Government of Manitoba projects. Atlassian Expert (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, Bamboo).

Integration Services Supervisor

Postmedia Network Inc. September 2008 — March 2015

Enterprise Service Bus, Progress Sonic ESB, Java, C#/.NET, SQL Server, web services, WordPress/PHP.

Lead Programmer

Fekete Associates Inc. May 2007 — July 2008

Enterprise decline analysis solution, MFC/C++/SQL for oil and gas industry.

Senior Software Engineer

Symantec Corporation September 2006 — February 2007

C#/ASP .NET, SaaS initiative, web and Windows services.

Software Developer

Aspen Technology, Inc. April 2005 — September 2006

SLM R&D, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, C/C++/C#, ASP .NET. Lead architect for SLM Reporter, License Profiler, Configuration Wizard.

Software Developer

SUBNET Solutions Inc. September 2001 — September 2003

OPC Technology, SCADA, MFC/ATL/WTL, DNP 3.0, MODBUS, Substation Suite.

Software Developer

OMT Technologies Inc. September 1998 — September 2001

Audio engine design, broadcast software, Borland C++/Delphi, MS Visual C++.

Technical Writer

St. James School Division No. 2 July 1998 — September 1998

HR software reports, HTML form to FoxPro conversion, documentation.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

University of Manitoba September 1992 — September 1998

Skills

Languages & Tools

  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Groovy
  • Java
  • C#
  • C/C++
  • Jenkins
  • Helm
  • Nexus
  • Artifactory
  • MuleSoft
  • .NET
  • Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)
  • Nginx
  • Percona
  • Zabbix
  • Harbor
  • Anchore
  • JetBrains
  • Eclipse

Platforms

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

Cloud

  • AWS
  • GCP

Workflow

  • Agile Development
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Cross-Functional Teams

Interests

Family, Friends, Cooking, Football and Motorcycles!

Born under the Year of the Tiger and the Sign of Cancer. I love my family and friends, enjoy sporadic adventures, BBQ's, tinkering with technology and constantly learning. I'm easy going, sometimes philosophical, and always dreaming of what the next day can bring.

Awards & Certifications

  • MCD — Integration and API Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner