Robert Sabourin

Experience

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  Infolytica Corporation

  Sept 1981 - Aug 1987

  Manager Software Development

  Infolytica Corporation is a Montreal-area software development company focused on developing tools, technologies and services related to analysis and design of electromagnetic devices. Infolytica products are used throughout the world allowing for detailed analysis and non-destructive testing. Responsible for a staff of six Engineers, Technical Support and student programmers. Responsible for implementing, planning and tracking of various projects: Generalized Database Management System for CAD, command decoding system, keyboard input system, three dimensional finite element CAD system, and human computer interface. Managed porting of complete CAD system (approximately 500,000 lines of code) to several minicomputers, workstations and PC platforms. Show less

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  Alis Technologies

  Oct 1987 - Aug 1997

  Manager Product Development

  Alis Technologies is a Montreal-area software Development Company focused on multilingual enabling technologies for virtually all languages of the world.Responsible for all elements of Software Development Process to ensure market requirements were met with timely delivery and exceptional quality. Achieved zero field reported software defects on several products. Refined development process to the point of requiring only one system test cycle on several development projects. Managed a staff of 21 including Project Managers, Software Quality Assurance Manager, Integration Testing Manager, Software Developers, Technical Writers, Linguist and Department Coordinator. Projects: Development of major software and embedded system applications including PC (Windows and DOS based Terminal Emulators with network support); character, line and laser printers; video display terminal products; Internet-related products (Multilingual Web Browsers and Electronic Mail products); and Client-Server applications. Peripheral product developments involved value-added firmware to OEM devices using a variety of firmware development tools, cross assemblers, in circuit emulators and source code control systems.Performed OEM product sourcing negotiations including source code license agreements. Extensive international travel was required to meet job objectives.Managed a major cooperative development efforts with AT&T Bell Labs (VDT Group) which involved coordinating development at facilities in Chicago, Montreal and with Beta Test sites in the Middle East. Prepared technical R&D summary documentation required to secure Tax credits. Prepared several successful grant proposals including two major projects funded in part by the NRC through the IRAP program and one major project supported in part by CANARIE. Awarded GOLD for CANARIE Phase I and CANARIE Phase II project proposals. Show less

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  Purkinje

  Aug 1997 - Feb 2000

  Director of Software Engineering

  Purkinje develops medical clinical documentation products which are used at the point of clinical encounter. Medical practitioners use the products and technology to document the patient's medical encounter "live". Thus requiring a highly specialized state of the art custom user interface (virtual paper); Integrated medical knowledge bases; Pen-based systems; and highly reliable robust (vital) software.Managed a team of 55 software development and medical professionals comprised of four Software Development teams, a Software Quality Assurance team, User Education team (doc/training) and a Software Architecture team with an annual budget of $4.5 million.Responsible for leading the R&D Department to over 20 successful on-time, on-budget and on-quality product releases. These releases included a Clinical Note Component and the successful adaptation of Purkinje DCI product and Medical Knowledge Base for the US Market.Reorganized the Development team to be more efficient and cost effective through the implementation of "light effective" software development processes focused on market needs. Established the important role of Product Management in Marketing and outside of R&D. Reorganized, restructured and "spun-off" the development of Medical Administrative software products.Recovered two major failing development projects which were then brought to commercial success.Implemented an effective software development process including use of formal inspections, peer reviews and software quality assurance and testing. Process changes were implemented on an incremental basis.Managed a $750,000 CANARIE-funded project. (Federal Government Funded Grant - negotiations with CANARIE, formal reporting of technical and financial aspects of the project).Successful in SR&ED Tax Credit technical project description preparation and organization.Negotiated and managed several OEM sourcing agreements for embedded data and software components. Show less

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  AmiBug.Com, Inc.

  Feb 2000 - now

  Rob is the primary consultant and president of AmiBug.Com, Inc focusing on Consulting, training and professional development in all areas of software engineering.Rob is passionate about software testing. Rob pioneered Just-In-Time-Testing principles to software development life-cycle models and has development many important courses, workshops and tutorials about Just in Time Testing, Exploratory Testing, Unit Testing, Visual Models in Test Design, Agile Testing, Agile Test Automation, Software Requirements and other topics in Software Engineering. .Consulting projects often involve helping companies and teams implement agile development methods and product quality improvement through implementing light effective practises. Show less AmiBug.Com offers a comprehensive range of workshops, tutorials and courses that cover key issues in Software Engineering, Software Testing and Software Quality Assurance. Our blend of the latest theory and current industry practice gives participants practical skills they can apply right away! Lots of real-world examples show effective ways to get things done. AmiBug.Com workshops are always engaging they offer a fun and productive learning experience.AmiBug.Com workshops, tutorials and courses are delivered on site. Some Amibug.com courses are offered publicly through many partners around the world.Keynote Presentations are presented as motivational, informative presentations often coupled with corporate events. Several select topics are available. All are based on a series of highly praised international conference presentations given by Robert Sabourin.Workshops and Tutorials. Over sixty software engineering topics are available. Emphasis is on small group, hands on, exercises.Short Courses are available in one, two or three day formats. Courses are targeted to small groups and cover subject matter in depth. Short courses include rich examples and case studies. Time is taken to explain the philosophical and theoretical basis of the material. Exercises can be adapted to customer’s current projects. Show less

  • President

    Feb 2000 - now

  • President and Principal Consulant

    Feb 2000 - now
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  McGill University

  Sept 2005 - now

  Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering

  Teach Software Engineering in Practice, 304-428B, Mandatory undergraduate Software Engineering Course. Class size has varied between 45 and 85 students. Cover practical aspects of implementing a software engineering life-cycle models from product idea to maintenance and support.