David Bolivar

Canada

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Who was your most influential mentor and what did they teach you?

Bob Williams, who I worked for early in my career. He taught me to focus on the business results of implementing software rather than the wonders of the technology.

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Work history

Enbridge Gas Distribution February 2008 to August 2008
SAP Synchonization Lead

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How would you describe your time at Enbridge Gas Distribution?

Facilitated a collaborative plan for synchronizing 16 legacy systems with SAP. Conducted workshops with the technical and business leads to identify the synchronization issues and generate a consensus on how best to provision the target systems. Produced detailed analysis documents along with step-by-step tasks and roles documents for legacy system support staff to execute during testing and SAP go-live.... read more
Rogers Communications / Diabsolut July 2007 to June 2008
Senior Software Architect / Developer

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How would you describe your time at Rogers Communications / Dia...?

Collaborated with Diabsolut (ClickSchedule VAR) and Rogers to architect an integration adapter that spliced ClickSchedule into Rogers existing IBM MQ Series communications in a manner that caused minimal disruption to the legacy infrastructure. Designed and developed integration software remotely using C++ on a high availability AIX UNIX platform.... read more
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Direct Energy / SONA Mobile March 2007 to October 2007
Architect, Technical Lead, Senior Developer

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How would you describe your time at Direct Energy / SONA Mobile?

Working with the Director of Field Service Operations, architected and specified a complete solution that included a new C#.NET GUI mobile front end, integration with Clarify (legacy CRM) and ClickSchedule (scheduling and work force optimization application), and a phased cut-over mechanism. Collaborated with SONA Mobile to deliver a package of off the shelf software, customized software, and professional services to meet business requirements.... read more
Direct Energy February 2005 to April 2005
Senior Software Architect / Developer

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How would you describe your time at Direct Energy?

Working with the Direction of Integration, designed and an interface between a Clarify CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) and an Advantex UCAD mobile field radio system (with 400+ mobile wireless workforce crews) using Microsoft Visual C++ and Oracle PLSQL.
Enbridge Gas Distribution September 2003 to July 2007
Application Architect / Technology Consultant

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How would you describe your time at Enbridge Gas Distribution?

Participated in four major initiatives providing technical expertise and leadership. Projects included integrating an Advantex wireless field radio system with STORMS, performance testing of EnVision enterprise systems, and RAD (Rapid Application Development) of an enterprise Leak Survey web application using J2EE.... read more
CA4IP September 2000 to June 2003
Senior Software Architect / Manager / Developer

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How would you describe your time at CA4IP?

Architected, designed, and managed the implementation of a web based application, with built in workflow, for outsourcing bookkeeping work to international firms based in Uganda (Cayman Consults) and India.

Worked closely with this chartered accountant firm's business principals to define the business requirements, plan the deliverables, and set out a budget. Acted as the lead software developer supervising 2 other developers. Prepared technical documents used for a US Patent application and SRC (Scientific Research Council) grant application.... read more
Enbridge Gas Distribution August 1997 to September 2000
Application Architect / Senior Software Developer

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How would you describe your time at Enbridge Gas Distribution?

Worked as a programmer analyst and senior software developer designing and building components for the OWMS (Operational Workflow Management System) which was used as the enterprise tool for scheduling, dispatching, and tracking approximately 600 wireless field crews across the Toronto franchise.
Sun Microsystems November 1996 to June 1997
Software Developer

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How would you describe your time at Sun Microsystems?

Performed assignments in the sustaining engineering group that worked on various
Enbridge Gas Distribution September 1996 to October 1996
Senior Developer

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How would you describe your time at Enbridge Gas Distribution?

Designed and implemented a UNIX based interface between SYBASE OpenServers and an Advantex mobile field radio network.
B & W Entertainment February 1996 to July 1996
Systems Architect / Manager / Developer

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How would you describe your time at B & W Entertainment?

Worked closely with the business principals to design and implemented a 48 line IVR (Interactive Voice Response) CTI (Computer-Telephone Integrated) system that processes live 800 and 900 voice telephone traffic from across Canada and the United States.
Nesbitt Burns February 1995 to February 1996
Lead Software Developer

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How would you describe your time at Nesbitt Burns?

Designed and implemented middleware cross platform sub-system to support real time
McDonald's Restaurants of Canada October 1994 to February 1995
Senior Developer

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How would you describe your time at McDonald's Restaurants of C...?

Developed a Windows based COD (Customer Order Display) for Drive Through operations that connects directly to proprietary POS (Point of Sale) systems.
UNISYS GIS December 1993 to October 1994
Senior Developer

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How would you describe your time at UNISYS GIS?

Performed various upgrades and enhancements to the System 9 GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
TaxSaver Software September 1993 to December 1994
Architect, Senior Developer

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How would you describe your time at TaxSaver Software?

Developed a Windows accounting application, known as TaxSaver Software, used by small businesses.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce July 1993 to September 1993
Developer

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How would you describe your time at Canadian Imperial Bank of C...?

Continuation of data feeds Risk Management project started in Aug/92.
Sietec Open Systems April 1993 to June 1993
Developer

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How would you describe your time at Sietec Open Systems?

Development of document storage and retrieval software, demo programs, and debugging of Visual Programming Tool (Visual Builder).
NATIONAL GROCERS March 1993 to April 1993
Developer

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How would you describe your time at NATIONAL GROCERS?

Development of a DB2 Mainframe to MS Excel Spread Sheet extract utility using Gupta SQL Windows.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce August 1992 to March 1993
Developer

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How would you describe your time at Canadian Imperial Bank of C...?

Design and implementation of a legacy data feeds that bring financial data into a unified SQL database used as input to a Risk Management system (Position and Dollars at Risk).
Northern Telecom February 1992 to August 1992
Developer

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How would you describe your time at Northern Telecom?

Feature enhancement and maintenance activities on a UNIX based C application used by telephone companies to configure DMS100, DMS200, and DMS300 telephone switches.
McDonalds Restaurants of Canada October 1990 to January 1992
Developer

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How would you describe your time at McDonalds Restaurants of Ca...?

Downsizing of mission critical applications from a mainframe to a DOS character GUI environment for use in restaurants across Canada. Implemented distributed RAIMA databases that gathered information at over 200 sites and reported electronically to a Tandem mainframe on a daily basis.

Education

Technical University of Nova Scotia September 1976 to May 1981
Bachelor of Engineering

How would you describe your time at Technical University of Nov...?

Industrial Engineering

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