7933 85 AVE NW

Edmonton ABT6C 1G3

Phone: (780) 399-3247

Jonathon Holt

Profile
I am a mentor, team lead and solution architect with a strong focus on relationship management, project logistics and enterprise architecture. Recent experience includes team leadership of a 10-20 person software development team dispersed across North America, business relationship management, business process engineering, and .Net development and maintenance.
Experience

E By Design Technologies Inc.Edmonton, AB

Partner, Director of Technology (2008-present)

  • Execution of corporate strategic plans and tactical planning
  • Leadership of a diverse team of technical resources across North America
  • Relationship management with Senior executives of local clientele
  • Edmonton Partnership development and management
  • Business development

EMMA ConsultingEdmonton, AB

Technical Director (2008-2008)

  • Execution of corporate strategic plans and tactical planning
  • Leadership of a diverse team of technical resources across North America
  • Relationship management with Senior executives of local clientele
  • Edmonton Partnership development and management
  • Business development

Sierra Systems GroupEdmonton, AB

Career Advisor (2005-2008)

  • Annual career development plan with each of 3 consultants or Career Owners (CO). Included education, target assignments, shadow and mentoring opportunities internally
  • Annual "360" performance assessment. Included interview of CO's managers, co-workers and juniors
  • Monthly planning and relationship meetings. Included communications from management team to CO, education plan follow-ups, and ad-hoc feedback discussions

Solution Architect (2005-2008)

  • Project plans and charters
  • Business requirements analysis
  • Technical Architecture definition, conceptual Design and technology selection
  • Liaison with client Enterprise Architecture groups
  • Proof of concept development
  • Development and coding standards
  • Standards development with client Enterprise Architecture
  • 3rd party tool selection and contract negotiation
  • Project task assignment, Bi-weekly development status reporting
  • Solution development, where necessary
  • Contractor recruitment
  • Architecture and deployment strategic planning
  • Enterprise Architecture Standards development

Team Lead (2003-2008)

  • Guide business or development team in planning, executing and reporting on activities
  • Gathering, documenting, validating and prioritizing business requirements
  • Estimating and defining project deliverables
  • Perform quality assurance on deliverables
  • Actively participate in production of deliverables
  • Planning and validating physical and logical infrastructure architectures
  • Incident trouble-shooting and problem resolution
  • Managing adherence to application service level agreements

Developer (1999-2003)

  • Estimate and report on assigned tasks
  • Develop to design specification
  • Develop (manual or automated) unit tests
  • GUI design and implementation
  • Address integration and acceptance test failure

Sierra Systems Group.Edmonton, AB

Co-op (1997-1999)

  • Project deliverable coordination and QA, Project resource time gathering and reporting, Test plan management and implementation

WannerPhotography.com, Side ProjectEdmonton, AB

Graphic Design and Javascript programming (2005)

  • Requirements analysis & Client support
  • Website layout and design, HTML & Javascript development

University of Alberta, Technology Support ProjectEdmonton, AB

Human Resources Department

Technical Support Technician & Payroll Data Entry Clerk (1996-1997)

  • On-site client support (150 clients), Hardware fault diagnosis and correction, Data entry in PeopleSoft HR
Community Involvement

2008

Service Credit Union, DirectorCommunity Support and Governance Committee and Credit Committee

2006-2007

Corporate Challenge Edmonton, Sierra Edmonton Coordinator

2005-2007

United Way - Edmonton, Event Coordinator

2000-2005

Communicator's Edge Toastmasters Club, President

2001-2004

MS Mountain Bike Tour

Education

Enterprise Risk Management and the Market - CUSOURCE Credit Union Knowledge Network (2008)Ottawa, ON

TANGO Business simulation training (2007)

Managing People, Sierra management training program (2006)

Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (ITIL) (2005)

Java Certified Developer (2004)

Bachelor of Arts, Distinction (1995-1999)Edmonton, AB

University of AlbertaMajor: Comparative Literature - Film StudiesMinor: Mathematics - Computer Science

Skills

Languages

  • Java (8 years)
  • C# (5 years)
  • VB.Net (3 years)
  • VB6 (5 years)
  • Perl (1 year)
  • C (1 year)
  • COBOL (3 years)
  • PeopleSoft PeopleCode (3 years)
  • Unix shell scripting (bash, awk, sed, etc.) (3 years)
  • Windows shell scripting (bat, cmd, etc.) (10 years)

Frameworks and APIs

  • J2SE/J2EE (2 years)
  • .Net (5 years)
  • J2SE, MS Access, DB2 UDB (5 years)
  • log4net/NUnit (5 years)
  • /NAnt/CruiseControl.Net (5 years)
  • log4j/JUnit (2 years)
  • BPWin / ERWin (2 years)

Web Technologies

  • (X)HTML (10 years)
  • ASP.Net (C#) (3 years)
  • MS Web Services & Enterprise Libraries (3 years)
  • .Net Remoting (2 years)
  • SMTP.Net, UIdP, Crystal Reports 9 (2 years)
  • XML/Schema (2 years)
  • XML/SOAP Web Services (gSoap C Library) (2 years)
  • XSL/XSLT (2 years)
  • PHP (1 year)

Databases

  • MS-SQL / ADO.Net (7 years)
  • MySQL (2 years)
  • DB2 (10 years)
  • DB2 for z/OS COBOL stored procedures (3 years)

Operating Systems

  • Windows (NT, 2000/2003, XP)
  • Mac OS (Classic, Mac OS X)
  • Linux (Suse, RedHat, Ubuntu)
  • z/OS on Z9 Mainframe