Kathryn Davies
Victoria
Summary
- Drove innovation at top-tier firms.
- Contributed to high-impact projects during 16 years in science and technology, with 11 years in IT.
- Experienced team lead; managed integration, software, and ops teams, both local and remote.
- Experience working with clients, subcontractors, and third-party vendors, including requirements, build, and designing/leading on-site testing.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Data Developer
Opensignal
06.2020 - Current
- Wrote BigQuery views, tables, and Airflow Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in Python for data orchestration and delivery to clients. Enabled data transfer from BigQuery to Explorer, an analytics platform that enables clients to generate data visualizations and analyze network performance metrics.
- Maintained a legacy Java-based system, ensuring uninterrupted client data access during project transition.
- Pioneered the establishment of a career path framework for developer, architect, and team lead roles, defining role descriptions and promotion paths to enhance employee retention and professional growth.
- Improved development team standards by authoring best practice guidelines.
- Presented strategic solutions to enhance efficiency in technical areas, addressing critical improvement opportunities.
- Initiated and led a technical book club, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement among the development team.
- Provided mentorship and guidance to junior developers, contributing to their professional development and overall team success.
- Actively participated in interviewing candidates for software developer positions, offering feedback and contributing to the team's recruitment process.
Backend Developer
Benevity
02.2019 - 06.2020
- Collaborated on software design and implementation in a cross-functional agile scrum team, including database design, unit testing with JUnit and maintaining Swagger documentation.
- Boosted client donations by implementing a feature enabling employees to match and share contributions, resulting in increased engagement. Successfully rolled out the product at 130 companies, including Google.
- Spearheaded a new project offering sustainability solutions to clients, which was being considered as a potential Benevity product.
- Interviewed and provided feedback on candidates for software developer positions.
Project Co-Lead /Application Developer
IBM Canada
08.2016 - 02.2019
- Managed remote team of 6 to design, implement, and test swagger definition files for a financial institution using IBM’s API Connect, resulting in a contract being extended from 6 months to 2 years.
- Worked with client architect to understand the requirements, delegate tasks, and ensure quality assurance of the final deliverable.
- Assisted management in contract procurement.
- Interviewed and provided feedback on candidates for software developer positions.
- Mentored 3 new employees to help them define and achieve professional goals.
Software Integration Lead
Lockheed Martin
01.2014 - 08.2016
- Lead a team that built Lockheed Martin’s first portable Combat Management System, which allowed us to take the combat system developed in Dartmouth securely overseas to perform demos with clients.
- Mitigated shipboard integration risks and reduced costs by successfully implementing Lockheed Martin’s first on-site vendor software integration event.
- Traveled to the vendor’s facilities to integrate Lockheed Martin’s adapter software with the vendor’s subsystem and collected message data for subsequent analysis.
- Designed detailed procedures to validate TCP message requirements for the interface between Lockheed Martin’s adapter software and vendor subsystems.
- Regularly corresponded with international vendors of peripheral frigate subsystems regarding integration requirements.
- Managed setup, configuration, scheduled builds, and daily support for 3 development and training labs.
- Reduced development time and errors by setting up automated daily build installations and population of databases with simulation variables such as weather or enemy vessels.
- Wrote Python scripts to integrate and install combat simulations and control software in development and training labs.
- Ensured successful build of new modules using an Ant/Ivy/Jenkins tool-chain.
- Used various Linux based tools to debug issues between modules.
Software Developer
Lockheed Martin
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Lead a team that built Lockheed Martin’s first portable Combat Management System, which allowed us to take the combat system developed in Dartmouth securely overseas to perform demos with clients.
- Mitigated shipboard integration risks and reduced costs by successfully implementing Lockheed Martin’s first on-site vendor software integration event.
- Traveled to the vendor’s facilities to integrate Lockheed Martin’s adapter software with the vendor’s subsystem and collected message data for subsequent analysis.
- Designed detailed procedures to validate TCP message requirements for the interface between Lockheed Martin’s adapter software and vendor subsystems.
- Regularly corresponded with vendors of peripheral frigate subsystems regarding integration requirements.
- Managed setup, configuration, scheduled builds, and daily support for three development and training labs.
- Reduced development time and errors by setting up automated daily build installations and population of databases with simulation variables such as weather or enemy vessels.
Research Assistant / Developer
Dalhousie University
01.2011 - 04.2011
- Developed Python plugins for a GIS application that combined digital map data with biological data, including plugins that calculated and visualized alpha diversity (a measure of ecological richness) and linear regression (for users to calculate correlation between two biological or geographical variables).
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Saint Mary’s University
Halifax, NSBachelor of Science - Biology (Honours, Molecular Genetics)
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NSSkills
- Python
- Java
- BigQuery / GCP
- Airflow
- Jenkins
- Git
- Linux Environments
Other Experience in Science & Tech
Additional experience includes Research Technician positions in the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics between 2005 and 2009 (Dalhousie University, National Research Council, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Mount St. Vincent University).
Certification
Architectural Thinking, IBM Canada (2016)
Team Lead Training, Lockheed Martin (2015)
Systems Engineering Training, Lockheed Martin (2014)
Timeline
Data Developer
Opensignal
06.2020 - Current
Backend Developer
Benevity
02.2019 - 06.2020
Project Co-Lead /Application Developer
IBM Canada
08.2016 - 02.2019
Software Integration Lead
Lockheed Martin
01.2014 - 08.2016
Software Developer
Lockheed Martin
01.2012 - 01.2014
Research Assistant / Developer
Dalhousie University
01.2011 - 04.2011
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Saint Mary’s University
Bachelor of Science - Biology (Honours, Molecular Genetics)
Dalhousie University
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