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Hello.

Welcome, I'm Kevin!


I'm a dancer, a musician and an engineer. I like to create and communicate.
I graduated from Queen's University as an Electrical Engineer in 2014.

Since then I've:

  • Travelled to 16 countries
  • Gone dog sledding under the northern lights
  • Danced on stage in a stadium in front of 30,000 people
  • Developed products in an R&D lab
  • Sold B2B software for a SaaS company, and
  • Driven a mobile innovation lab across ALL of Canada, engaging youth in hands-on science and tech workshops!


Work Experience

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Solutions Consultant at Galvanize

Vancouver, BC | Dec. 2018 to Jul. 2019

  • Requirements Gathering-Lead meetings with prospective clients to understand their needs, challenges, and goals for fraud detection and risk management

  • Leveraged consultative selling principles and engaging storytelling to pitch solutions with exceptional user experiences to “C-level” decision makers

  • Coordinated with client’s IT department to ensure smooth deployment of software solutions and quick time to value

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Customer Success Manager at Galvanize

Vancouver, BC | Feb. 2018 to Nov. 2018

  • Relationship Management- Engaged with 75 enterprise accounts, including government agencies and fortune 500 companies, to understand their evolving data analytics needs, create roadmaps and guide them towards their desired objectives

  • Business Strategy- Built business cases to pitch the value of using data analytics to address organizational risks, identify fraud, and reduce waste and abuse

  • Lead Generation- Orchestrated expansion opportunities in existing customers by coaching them through process and technology changes that aligned with their long term objectives

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Program Facilitator at Actua

Across Canada | 1 year, 1 month

  • Relationship building-< Engaged over 14,000 youth across Canada in workshops centred around coding, electronics, robotics and 3D printing

  • Confident Communicator-< Spent over 460 hours of face-to-face time teaching youth in more than 60 communities across 12 provinces and territories in Canada

  • Flexible-< Drove a 24 ft mobile maker space over 30,000 km as part of a Canada 150 initiative to inspire youth with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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Hardware Developer at Ericsson

Ottawa, ON | 2 years, 3 months

  • Validated 4G and 5G radio basestation prototypes before mass production by conducting functional and performance tests using Labview, signal generators, spectrum analyzers and network analyzers in a lab environment

  • Created the test plan for an entire basestation product line based on hardware design specifications, global regulations and customer requirements

  • Collaborated with internal engineering teams across timezones and external regulators, in the development of multiple radio basestation products currently deployed globally

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System Designer Co-op at Ericsson

Ottawa, ON | 1 year, 4 months

  • Performed continuous integration, functional testing and automation code optimization for embedded software

  • Implemented an algorithm in Perl that managed radio frequency measurement instrument utilization based on scheduled test case length and priority

  • Self taught Ruby-on-Rails and SQL on the job to develop a web based, log parsing, result repository. This tool tracked the effect of software deliveries on hardware metrics such as hardware restart time, CPU usage, and memory usage

Portfolio

Take a look at what I've been up to.



Music Release

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In 2019 I released my self first produced single, "Thinking of You", on Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube. Click below to listen now!





Global Game Jam 2018: One Punch Robo

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Slap, punch or clap attacking alien ships out of the air in a Virtual World under attack.

I was the lead programmer in this game developed for the HTC Vive as part of the Global Game Jam 2018.

Click here to play! (PC only)

Blasty Rocket

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In this original 2D game created using C# and Unity, the player must navigate the rocket to pop balloons.

Recreating Pong in C++

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This personal project was my first attempt at writing a game in C++.

GE Canada Podcast Interview

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Insights + Innovators Episode 3 — Hear How This Breakdancing Engineer Learned to Speak Up and Stand Out in Tech

Roll Ball

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I made this puzzle game prototype in Unity to experiment with scripting, singleton patterns and...

House of Paint Festival 2017

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House of Paint is an annual hip hop festival that takes place in Ottawa, ON

On Stage at the Qudos Bank Arena

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In the summer of 2016 I got the opportunity to dance on stage in front of a crowd of approximately 30,000 people at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia.

Online Calculator

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I used JavaScript, JQuery, HTML and CSS to build an online calculator.

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Taking the Code on the Road

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My work with Actua's Maker Mobile has been featured in newspapers, TV interviews and on the radio.

Innovation150 Public Service Announcement

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My work with Actua's Maker Mobile was featured in a nationwide Canada150 PSA on television.

Contact

Want to get in touch?

Contact me on LinkedIn!

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