Bill Wilson

Web: mindsea.com

Bill has over 13 years experience developing and delivering enterprise software. All this gives him a broad skill set, including programming in Java, C, C++, Ruby, and Objective C. From a management perspective Bill is a certified Scrum Master and is experienced in the entire project life cycle, from business analysis, project management, to delivery. He's got a keen focus on team dynamics, iterative development, and constant improvement. Lately Bill's been working on Mac and iPhone software with a focus on community-based projects.

Iphone Hackathon for Charity: 2009 - Halifax, NS July 2009 - Present iPhone Hackathon project was designed to bring iPhone developers together to create and release applications where all the proceeds would be donated to local Halifax charities. Mindsea Development Inc. - Halifax, NS April 2009 - Present “Transit To Go”, is an iPhone application that allows public transit users to find upcoming departure times and stop location information via transit stop number, addresses or location information obtained from the built-in GPS. Transit-2-Go is implemented in Objective-C, and the iPhone 3.0 API. Sustainability: Project designed to ease the use of public transit to encourage the reduction of fuel emissions in Halifax. Waldii.com - Halifax, NS March 2009 - Present Waldii.com uses a unique map, time and tag-based interface that allows users to find events that appeal to them. Users can subscribe to their event listing results as an RSS feed to keep up to date on events that match their specific interests. Waldii.com is implemented using Ruby on Rails, Google Maps and MySql. IMP Solutions Inc. & IMP Aerospace - Halifax, NS September 2007 - September 2009 Fleet Management Analytics System (FMAS) - A complete fleet management and maintenance system for the Cormorant Search and Rescue (SAR) CH149 Helicopter In-Service Support (ISS) Program. FMAS is implemented as a rich ajax-based web application that utilizes web forms for data collection, a workflow engine to facilitate electronic sign-off/compliance, web-based reporting and Gantt chart interfaces for overall day-to-day fleet management. IMP Solutions Inc. - Halifax, NS October 2007 - February 2008 HR 360 is a 360-degree web based health care performance evaluation tool used by three health districts in Nova Scotia. Implemented as a web application based Microsoft technologies including .Net and Sql Server. Quest Software - Halifax, NS January 2006 - September 2007 Quest Reporter 6.0 provides automated discovery and comparison of configuration-related items to support planning, securing and auditing Windows based networks. Reporter is implemented as an enterprise Microsoft Windows desktop application using a number of Microsoft technologies including .NET, and Sql Server. Hummingbird Ltd. - Dartmouth, NS February 2003 - December 2006 Hummingbird Enterprise Instant Messaging provides presence, secure instant messaging, group chat to large enterprise clients in reg and integration with other enterprise systems. Hummingbird IM is implemented using a federated client server architecture using J2EE and Windows technologies such as Visual C++ and MFC.

Hummingbird Ltd. - Dartmouth, NS May 2002 - February 2003 Calendaring project - Adding recurring appointment and multi-person meeting capability to the Hummingbird Collaboration product. Hummingbird Ltd. - Dartmouth, NS December 2000 - May 2002 Hummingbird Enterprise Information Portal - A portal that provided a single point of access to all Hummingbird Enterprise products including Document Management, Knowledge Management, Collaboration, and other third party enterprise applications. The project involved implementing many of the services such as servlet containers, JSP engines as well as implementing complex searching of structured and unstructured data. Hummingbird Ltd. - Dartmouth, NS December 1998 - December 2000 Hummingbird Bi Broker provides job scheduling, query execution, data mining, user and authentication services to the Hummingbird BI suite. Implemented using CORBA, C++, J2EE, and other enterprise technologies. Sanga Research Canada Inc. / Sun Micrososystems - Halifax, NS April 1998 - December 1998 Org Tool - a US military-Sun Microsystems joint project that provided an interactive organizational chart for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Org Tool was implemented using Java technologies such as Swing, JDBC, and JNDI. Sanga Research Canada Inc. / Sun Micrososystems - Halifax, NS April 1998 - December 1998 T.E.A.M is an application that allows mechanics on the shop floor to view jet engine assembly instructions, perform QA inspections with electronic signoff, bill of materials, time accounting, parts and change requests, and alphanumeric paging. T.E.A.M was implemented using Java technologies and IBM java station hardware. Software Kinetics Ltd. / Quarterdeck inc. - Halifax, NS June 1997 - April 1998 Quarterdeck TuneUp - A client/server based windows 95/98 driver and software-updating tool. TuneUp was implemented using a number of Microsoft technologies such as MFC, Visual C++, and SQL server.