Christopher Potvin

Experience

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  Off to Work

  Nov 2011 - Aug 2012

  Events Staff Member

  • Winner of the "Best Newcomer Award" in a staff of upwards of 3000 staff members with no previous experience. • Worked as a team server in numerous waiting events such as their VIP restaurants and halls, including but not privy to the following: The Savoy Hotel by Fairmont, Chelsea Harbour Hotel by Millenium Hotels and Resorts, Coworth Park by the Dorchester Collection.• In charge of running services in a VIP box at Emirates Stadium, Wembley Stadium and Craven Cottage, some of my responsibilities were the setup, take down, and presentation of our products. Show less

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  Sicilian Pasta Kitchen (SPK) Edmonton

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Server/Bartender/Barista

  • Held the responsibility of opening and closing of the restaurant.• Expansive wine knowledge with our house wines such as Masi, Graffigna, etc. • Can make a number of different cocktails and coffee based drinks.

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  BOOM! Marketing

  Jun 2013 - Jun 2017

  Brand Ambassador

  • Promotional representative for Corby Distilleries• Southern Ontario Brand Representative for Wiser's Whiskey• Wine sommelier

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  Triple Tier Marketing

  Feb 2017 - Nov 2017

  Touring Brand Ambassador

  • Technical guide for the Telus Future Home • Showcased, maintained, and explained various smart home technologies inside of the home. • Travelled and toured the province of BC in a team of 6.

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  Alberta Health Services

  May 2019 - Jan 2023

  • Primary in architecting, developing, and testing an assortment of RPA processes. • Responsible for mentoring and onboarding practicum students in RPA. • Serve as a Primary Controller. • Serve on the Development Design Authority.• Well versed in the creation of technical documents associated with RPA such as Application Assessments, PDDs, SDDs, ODIs, BQAs etc.• Created and developed several shared utility Blue Prism objects. • Continuously working on any application upgrades, bug fixes, enhancement requests or production deployments for automations. Show less • Developed an application to enable 10,000 managers in AHS to see the IT Resources their staff have access to (MVC/AJAX Web Application).• Architected an Azure DevOps solution to support version control of 150 packages, 50 gold queries, etc. Lead the migration project and offered training to team members.• Actively participating in scrum meetings, Kanban boards and working in an agile environment.• Built and automated Python scripts to interact with multiple different API’s including Cisco AMP, EasyLMS and Zoom.• Automated Emailers built using C# for 8,000 employee online training classes. • Data Access and Ingestion using SQL Server Ingestion Services packages. • Importing, scheduling, and maintaining of SQL Server Database Jobs. Show less • Automated Test Scripts - Created and implemented automated test scripts using C# with the Selenium testing framework for My Health Alberta – Government of Alberta, MyHealth Records and MyChart which is accessible by Alberta’s 4M residents.• External and internal HTTP verification tool - This windows form application uses the C# HTTP WebRequest class, Selenium and Log4Net.• It recursively traverses from page to page, scanning +4000 anchor tags in the html DOM and writes to a log file the HTTP status of the each href link. Show less

  • Senior RPA Developer - A.I., Analytics and Automation Developer

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Software Developer / Data Analyst

    Nov 2019 - Jan 2021

  • Junior Software Developer / QA

    May 2019 - Oct 2019
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  Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Marking Assitant - OOSD Fast-Track Program

  • Marking assistant to the current instructors of the Object Oriented Software Development program.• I oversaw providing feedback and grading various assignments (labs), UML diagrams and threaded projects from the students. • Projects and assignments were programmed in the open source (JavaScript, PHP, MySQL) and Microsoft (C#, MVC, .Net/Asp) segments of the program.

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  Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

  Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

  RPA Adjunct Instructor - Continuing Education and Professional Studies

  • Instructing a 3-month boot camp that focuses on building and expanding students' RPA foundation.• Developed and assessed course content, including capstone projects for future iterations.

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  SS&C Blue Prism

  Jan 2023 - now

  Senior RPA Developer - Professional Services Americas

  • Lead Developer in delivering end-end automation builds for existing and new customers in Blue Prism Cloud and Next Gen.• Lead Generative AI RPA Developer in constructing training material for professional services and developing a customer facing service offering that leverages Generative AI within Blue Prism. • Delivery of numerous Knowledge Support sessions on a number of different topics including Development Best Practices, APIs, Code Stages, Interfacing with Websites and numerous bespoke sessions. • Responsible for running and maintaining a couple of Customer Satisfaction automations that includes setting up and running both Development/Production environments on our SS&C Private Cloud. Show less