Appian Certified Lead Developer with 6+ years of hands-on Appian BPMS delivery, building workflow and integration solutions in Agile teams with a focus on maintainable design, integration resilience, and performance-aware process models.
Hands-on with SQL data design, Kubernetes-based Appian deployments, and AWS cloud fundamentals.
Strong mentor and cross-functional communicator — leads development teams and translates technical issues for both technical and business stakeholders.
Passionate learner interested in enterprise applications, mobile development, and AI.
Provides Appian production support — incident triage, root cause analysis, defect resolution, and production releases/hotfixes — backed by proactive health-check and log monitoring.
Delivered Appian solutions for insurance clients, a federal Crown corporation, and a healthcare client — comfortable operating in compliance-heavy, regulated environments.
Artificial IntelligenceBusiness Process ManagementMobile Development
Experience
Bits In Glass Inc.
Appian Lead Developer
October 2019 - Present
Leads effective and adaptable development teams to perform their best work.
Gathers project requirements from business analysts and stakeholders to plan implementation within an Agile framework.
Drives optimized process and data storage designs to improve system performance and resilience.
Delivers regular demonstrations to clients to showcase project status and align application functionality to project requirements.
Executes production releases and hotfix deployments; coordinates change windows and promotion approvals to minimize business disruption.
Performs proactive system health checks and log monitoring to catch issues early; resolves low-impact technical debt and defects independently, escalating larger findings to clients for prioritized review.
Documents technical decisions. Supports testing and peer review to reduce defects.
Westmoreland Coal Company
Senior Geologist
July 2010 - March 2019
Implemented automated auditing of geological SQL databases after identifying the root cause of several mine plan errors from faulty front-end VBA code.
Developed a process-oriented borehole logging application that tripled data processing productivity.
Developed and maintained zero-cost open-source, web-based QGIS maps that reduced mine operational risk and report-writing hours.
Heartland Transmission Project (EPCOR)
Consultation Advisor
April 2009 - June 2010
Provided technical expertise and managed a stakeholder database, including data integrity, bug identification, and coordination of new features.
Supervised team members and facilitated technical training on software tools to improve team performance.
Certifications
Appian Certified Lead Developer
Appian Academy — Valid Aug 2021 – Jun 2027
Robotic Process Automation Pro
Appian.com
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services — Valid Apr 2025 – Apr 2028
Government of Canada Security Clearance Level 2
Valid Jan 2020 – Jan 2030
Education
Athabasca University
B.Sc. in Computing and Information Systems
May 2022
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