Bo Chen

Bo Chen

GIS Application Development Technologist (Co-op)

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  • About me

    Senior Manager, Application Development at First National Financial LP

  • Education

    • Mohawk College

      2009 - 2012
      Diploma Software Development (Co-op)
  • Experience

    • City Of Hamilton

      Sept 2011 - Jan 2012
      GIS Application Development Technologist (Co-op)

      • Provided general IT support for department members• Designed, developed and implemented HR model for Staff Information Management System (C#, .NET)• Built queries and reports for budget analysis team (Crystal Report)• Use Geomedia to map city’s infrastructure projects (road, bridge, storm sewer etc.)• Assisted project manager to complete Bridge Inspection Process Procedure and Budget Process Procedure Design

    • XSite Group

      May 2012 - Aug 2013
      Software Developer

      • Convert a complex multiple-store inventory management system (Xsite Price Book Manager – written in VBA using Access 2003) to a web application (C#, ASP.NET, SQL, JQuery)• Acted as development team representative, worked closely with business analysis team of company’s major client - Pioneer Petroleum (owns over 200 gas stations and stores) to discuss and document work flows for business and feature requests, and answer and explain technical related questions• Converted to feature requests to programmable functions with development team, estimated project time, documented business related inquiries, and contacted Pioneer’s BA team for solution• Attended bi-weekly Pioneer shareholder meeting to demonstrate new application features and report project progress• Reproduced all relevant functionality for supplier, inventory and permission models • Access to SQL database re-design and re-modeling (SQL)• Domain object modeling Show less

    • Entripy Custom Clothing

      Sept 2013 - Dec 2015
      Software Developer

      • Implemented new CMS e-commerce solution to replace old legacy web store (Entripy.com), reworked product model, simplified order process workflow between sales representative and customer, reduce processing time from average 15 minute per order to fully automated • Customized web store front-end UI to become cross browser responsive (Bootstrap)• Wrote customized plug-ins for new features to allow administrator to have flexibility to add and remove them for business needs (ASP.NET MVC, Telerik)• Integrated new web store to company’s internal ERP system – NetSuite to synchronize customers’ information and order details (C#, Suite Talk)• Customized new e-commerce solution to support multi-store to allow schools, teams and business partners to open stores under company’s management (Entripyshirts.com, Entripyshops.com) Show less

    • BMO

      May 2016 - Mar 2020

      Led IDP (15 teams with 200+ developer) DevOps transformation initiativeLed IDP DevOps team on CI/CD pipeline development and implementation for Hadoop ETL, SSIS and Netezza platformIDP source control and management process design and standardization IDP intake and SDLC process standardization and process improvementNetezza to Hadoop platform migration QA/UAT testing process designNetezza to IPS platform migration testing coordinationSQL Server 2012 to 2016 platform upgrade and SSIS migration solution design and coordination Team project planning and delivery Show less • Initiated fraud technology agile transformation, provided agile process coach to team members and business project managers, successfully on boarded business project managers to JIRA as product owner for fraud operation development, applied Scrum to .NET development team and Kanban to data warehouse development team• Facilitated agile adoption retrospective for the team with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance• Provided .NET development team project forecast, estimation, and status update to senior technology officer• Initiated fraud technology DevOps transformation, designed code check in process and branch strategy, provided solution for automated build and deployment, reduced QA and UAT deployment process from average 2 day to less than 5 minutes • Developed fraud detection, mitigation and notification system to allow fraud detection team to monitor account transaction activity, block compromised debit card and ABM terminal, and send notification to customer in near real time• Acted as fraud technology representative, worked closely with business project manager on requirement gathering and solution design on North America fraud case management system to eliminate excel and paper case, resulting significant improvement on business performance Show less

      • Software Developer, Tech Data & Analytics - IDP

        Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
      • Software Developer, Corporate Technology - Fraud

        May 2016 - Nov 2018
    • First National Financial LP

      Mar 2020 - now
      • Senior Manager, Application Development

        Jan 2024 - now
      • Manager, Application Development

        Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
      • Assistant Manager, Application Development

        Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified Scrum Master

      Scrum Alliance
      Feb 2018