About

Erik Yuzwa

Erik Yuzwa

Sr. Web Developer and Generalist

Location
Calgary, Canada Area
Industry
Computer Software

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Curriculum Vitae

Senior web and desktop developer eager to help you solve problems and reach your business goals.

I've created a successful career around providing custom integration work between company networks and 3rd party software by vendors.

I can also work with your business to help you identify (and resolve) problems or deficiencies in your existing web technology stack and help you get back on track.

Specialties

custom web and mobile development, HTML5, css, jquery, php, Android, iPhone, .net, custom software, web server configuration

Curriculum Vitae

Sr. Web Developer (Contract)

TeleCommunication Systems

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TSYS; Telecommunications industry

2011Present (1 year) Calgary, Canada Area

Delivering a complex mobile solution targeting the iOS and Android browser platforms using a basecode comprised of HTML5 and JQuery Mobile.

Sr. Web Developer (Contract)

Apis Design Inc.

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

December 2010Present (1 year 3 months)

Currently providing some maintenance and enhancements for a client site developed in ASP.NET 2.0 and hitting a SQL server instance. Parlez vous C#? Mes oui.

Owner

Wazoo Enterprises Inc.

Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry

November 1999Present (12 years 4 months)

With a love and passion for computer systems and gaming, I started the company to focus on providing a high quality level of web system support. I cut my teeth on ASP1.0 and IIS4 back in the day, and grew up through the emerging web technologies as they've risen.

Along the way I've been running an online game development company that has released 2 books published by Charles River Media. I'm currently focusing on developing more Flash games along with social media projects.

Senior Web Client-Side Developer (Contract)

Ibertron Technologies Inc.

June 2010June 2011 (1 year 1 month)

I'm currently involved in a project focused on converting a desktop based manual process, into a web reporting application in .NET 2.0. My strengths on this app are directed at kicking up the client facing pages with layers of CSS, JQuery and JSON magic to provide a dynamic and pleasing user experience for the client.

Web Analyst

Cenovus Energy Ltd.

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CVE; Oil & Energy industry

January 2010August 2010 (8 months)

2008 * 01.09.2009 Responsible for providing support to various business units under the collective umbrella of Corporate and Investor Relations. My daily activities involve things like:
Assisted the rest of the web team in the task of providing and supporting the documentation behind our infrastructure and the applications we host in the webteam's internal wiki.
Helped to maintain the content publishing and migration process from dev, tqa and finally to production servers.

Corp. Relations Web Analyst

Cenovus Energy Ltd

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CVE; Oil & Energy industry

April 2001August 2010 (9 years 5 months)

for providing support to various business units under the collective umbrella of Corporate and Investor Relations. My daily activities involve things like:
Supporting the company's intranet CMS tool : IBM's PortalBuilder, which uses LDAP and Java to organize and render content.
Performing daily health monitoring on our mixed Intel / Unix server farm. This includes all the basic OS checks, as well as keeping an eye on the IIS sites we have running.
Using scripts written with PHP, Perl, JSP and .bat / .vbs to help automate error-prone points along the content publishing chain and other misc. day-to-day tasks.

Contract Corp Comm IT Support

Cenovus Energy Inc.

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CVE; Oil & Energy industry

December 2009January 2010 (2 months)

I work in an IT support role to the Corporate Communications and Investor Relations team. I'm assisting with operational tasks such as backend server monitoring and configuration, along with working with our clients on the external website and company intranet portal.

Cutover Web Technologist

EnCana / Cenovus Energy

August 2009January 2010 (6 months)

2010 Responsible for helping the effort required to clone the existing EnCana data center to the newly formed Cenovus Energy data center. This was a major project involving every corner and branch of I.T.
My daily activities involved things like:
Running daily health monitoring checks on the mixed Intel / Unix server farm that provides the content for our corporate intranet as well as our external WWW site.
Communicated regularly with the other branches of IT * infrastructure, security, active directory and the database gurus * to isolate and resolve any problems / incidents which arose during cutover.

Contract Corp Comm IT Support

EnCana

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ECA; Oil & Energy industry

20082009 (1 year)

I transitioned from a strictly web application server operational role, into more of a support function to the Corporate Communications and Investor Relations team(s). I was still performing operational functions, but also providing IT assistance for issues concerning the external company website and company intranet portal.

Contract Web IT Support

EnCana

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ECA; Oil & Energy industry

20022008 (6 years)

I worked with the web team to create and maintain an extremely complex web application environment. I created, configured and monitored web site solutions for various hosting and integration. Through the years, I've had a deep working experience with IIS4, IIS5, IIS6, Jrun3.1, Jrun4.0, ColdFusion3.5, ASP, PHP, LDAP, Java, Active Directory, Tomcat6.0, Weblogic 8.1 and Weblogic 10.0.

Web Services Analyst

EnCana Corporation Ltd

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ECA; Oil & Energy industry

January 2002January 2008 (6 years 1 month)

2008 Responsible for providing a wide range of web service support, planning and maintenance. During my tenure, I had many daily tasks such as:
Assisted the lead Web Systems Architect in designing and implementing a robust shared hosting environment which included streamlining proper web application testing across the Integration, TQA and Production hosted environments using a mix of technologies including IIS, Active Directory, BEA Weblogic, Apache Tomcat and an Oracle backend
Have designed and developed several IIS6.0 scripts for setting up new sites and updating the IIS metabase for easier, less error-prone site creation and management
Am currently coordinating a large effort to migrate our existing JRun and Weblogic 8.1 infrastructure over to our new Weblogic 10.1 server environment.
Using the J2EE servlet specification, I was responsible for the architecture and design of a web application project to enable the company to post and view classified ad information.
Helped with the architecture for the creation of a workflow pipeline for our integration, quality assurance and production J2EE, .NET and IIS hosting environments
Am responsible for deploying produced web applications from other developers into our corporate managed J2EE servlet container
Have taken the time and opportunity to aid other developers in code review sessions to ensure adherence to corporately published standards and practices.

Curriculum Vitae

  1. HTML5
  2. jQuery
  3. CSS
  4. PHP
  5. Mobile Applications
  6. Web Development
  7. iPhone
  8. JavaScript
  9. Flash
  10. Custom Software

Curriculum Vitae

The University of Calgary

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

19951999

Curriculum Vitae

Websites:
Interests:

social media, web development, game development and learning new things.

Honors and Awards:

Perfect attendance award in High School. rawr.