Sierra Systems

Sierra Systems along with their sister company Sierra-Cedar represents the largest privately held mid-size consulting company in North America with around 1800 consultants in Canada and the US.

Alec held many roles within Sierra that involved him working with Sales, Human Resources, and Delivery Management to help set technical direction and strategy for the company and numerous clients. One of his primary areas of focus was on how to take advantage of emerging technology trends including mobile, social, analytics and cloud computing.

BCMEA and ILWU Local 508

The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) is the multi-employer waterfront organization, representing approximately 65 ship owners and agents, stevedores, container, bulk and break bulk terminal operators on Canada's west coast, extending from Victoria north to the Alaska border. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) represents the workers responsible for the loading, unloading and checking of cargo to and from vessels, and the storage of goods on the docks and in warehouses.

Alec worked with both stakeholder groups to design and architect a cloud based dispatch system built on the Microsoft Azure platform. Alec was also responsible for the architecture of a responsive, multi-channel, public facing website where the union members could get information about the work picture and current assignments.

Bilsland and Griffiths Benefit Administrators

Bilsland and Griffiths are a private sector company that provides benefit administration services to a number of clients including the United Food and Commercial Workers of Canada union. They currently have an aging Oracle System that requires modernization or replacement.

Alec created a roadmap for the organization that documented their current state and provided options and a strategy for modernizing their legacy Oracle Forms application. After accepting many of the recommendations outlined in the roadmap, Alec guided a team of consultants on how to implement improved backups, disaster recovery and had conversations about how to start to move towards the cloud.

BC Ministry of Justice and BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General

The mission of the Ministry of Justice is to administer justice, deliver public safety services and programs, lead emergency management and provide legal advice to Government.

Alec has provided IT strategy and delivery support for the BC Ministry of Justice and related branches for over eight years and is considered a trusted advisor. Alec served on the Architectural Review Board for the Ministry and helped ensure that proposed vendor solutions aligned to Ministry and Central Government direction and standards.

Oklahoma Deparment of Corrections

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC or ODOC) is an agency of the state of Oklahoma. The DOC is responsible for the administration of the state prison system.

Alec documented the current state for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for their Offender Management Solution which was a hodge-podge of around fifty different applications. He helped the client determine their business principles and created a conceptual architecture representing their business vision in order to help guide the replacement of their OMS.

BC Corrections Branch

BC Corrections protects the communities of British Columbia through the safe control and behavioural change of adult offenders. They provide correctional services and programs to people 18 years of age or older who are awaiting trial, serving a jail sentence of less than two years, serving a sentence in the community or being held pending an immigration review.

Alec created a technical solution that leveraged the client’s investments in biometric search technology for inmate identification and electronic signatures. Alec used HTML5 and JavaScript to seamlessly integrate Oracle Forms with a modern web browsing experience for the fingerprint capture.

BC Registry Services

BC Registry Services administers and supports the registration of businesses, personal property and manufactured homes.

Alec was responsible for revitalizing the original Enterprise Architecture work that had been completed for the Branch and worked with the business to articulate a business and technical vision along with a set of guiding principles.

RoadSafety BC

RoadSafety BC is responsible for ensuring that the provinces roads are safe by administering a series of driver fitness and responsibility programs.

Alec designed a robust technical service based on webMethods and Kofax aimed at reducing the backlog of applications submitted to the client through document recognition and processing. The solution was designed to be consumable as a service by other government agencies and partners.

BC Corrections Branch

BC Corrections protects the communities of British Columbia through the safe control and behavioural change of adult offenders. They provide correctional services and programs to people 18 years of age or older who are awaiting trial, serving a jail sentence of less than two years, serving a sentence in the community or being held pending an immigration review.

Alec was the lead architect of a large team of IT professionals building a system to deliver electronic services to Correction’s clients under both custody and community supervision. Alec was involved in the requirements gathering, functional and technical design and implementation of all aspects of the system including the software solution, secure network and secure electronic devices for accessing the services.

BC Corrections Branch

BC Corrections protects the communities of British Columbia through the safe control and behavioural change of adult offenders. They provide correctional services and programs to people 18 years of age or older who are awaiting trial, serving a jail sentence of less than two years, serving a sentence in the community or being held pending an immigration review.

Alec worked with the telecommunications vendor to design and implement an API to integrate the call control system with the client’s case management solution. The goal of integrating the two systems was to provide provisioning of identity from the source of truth into the call control system to reduce the duplication of information in the two systems.

BC Court Services Branch

Court Services Branch (CSB) is responsible for the delivery of all court administration and security services in British Columbia. The branch provides service to the three levels of court and to the public, ensuring the safety and security of all court participants, the smooth running of court and the timely processing of court documentation.

Alec architected and implemented an HTML5/JavaScript application that is used to record the court proceedings and facilitate the recording and transcription of the official court record. Alec used the strengths of the technology to meet the client’s requirements for a system that can be accessed from anywhere but can also run in an offline mode if required.

Security Programs Division

Security services help keep British Columbians safe from harm. The province regulates and licenses security services industries to ensure they operate under the highest standards of conduct and accountability.These industries include armoured vehicles, body armour, and businesses and individuals offering security services such as security guards, alarm installers and locksmiths.

Alec helped the Premier of BC achieve her promise of free criminal record checks for volunteer organizations. At the same time, he helped the client modernize the look and feel of their public facing website to a more contemporary style that is accessible on a variety of devices.

BC Provincial Court Office of the Chief Judge

The Provincial Court of British Columbia strives to serve the public by providing an accessible, fair, efficient and innovative system of justice.

Alec helped elaborate the requirements and participated in the service design of the Provincial Court Scheduling System (PCSS) to help address some causes of lengthy delays in the court process. He also led the architecture effort for the solution and helped the team get started on its implementation.

BC Court Services Branch

Court Services Branch (CSB) is responsible for the delivery of all court administration and security services in British Columbia. The branch provides service to the three levels of court and to the public, ensuring the safety and security of all court participants, the smooth running of court and the timely processing of court documentation.

Alec was the principal architect for a multi-year initiative aimed at gaining operational efficiencies and moving towards a common set of architectural patterns. Alec created a reference architecture that helped realize the business vision for the modernization of their technology portfolio.

BC Corrections Branch

BC Corrections protects the communities of British Columbia through the safe control and behavioural change of adult offenders. They provide correctional services and programs to people 18 years of age or older who are awaiting trial, serving a jail sentence of less than two years, serving a sentence in the community or being held pending an immigration review.

Alec was the technical lead for the ICON project which improved the day-to-day activities of Corrections Officers, Parole Officers, Case Workers and others. Alec communicated between the various stakeholder groups and development team to ensure that the solution built on Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL technology met all business requirements and functional designs.

Connecticut Justice Agencies

Through the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) Initiative multiple agencies within the State of Connecticut were brought together to better share information. This includes Police, Corrections, Courts, Pardons and Paroles. Together they funded a shared system called the Offender Based Tracking System.

Alec was the lead developer for the Offender Based Tracking System project, a J2EE-based repository fed by client source system generated events. He wrote technical specifications for the development team and ensured that all code was built effectively and efficiently.

BC Ministry of Technology Innovation and Citizens' Services

The mandate of MTICS is to grow British Columbia’s technology sector, champion innovation, and enable the delivery of cost-effective, accessible and responsive services. In order ot meet that mandate, the vision of the SMTP project is for the BC Public Sector to have cloud based, fully integrated IT Service Management tools and processes, including flexible access and delivery for staff, customers and service delivery partners.

Alec led the Order Management technical team who are responsible for designing the technical solution that will allow all BC Ministries and Broader Public Sector users to submit order requests through the HP ServiceAnywhere SaaS portal. He was responsible for designing the architecture that would ensure that requests would go through all the required financial and technical approvals and would then be routed to the service providers for fulfillment. Finally, he designed the process for communicating with the BC Government Financial authority to recover the cost of services ordered for Government clients, or to initiate billing for BPS users.

BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

The Passenger Transportation System (PTS) Project is intended to develop and implement a modernized, web-based system that acts as a replacement to the legacy PTLS. The PTS Project aims to provide a scalable and flexible, web-based solution, enabling Public Transportation applicants, licensees, the Public Transportation Branch (PTB), and Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement (CVSE) to work from a single IT system, enhancing licensing compliance and enforcement capabilities, and reducing risks due to data corruption and system outages that the legacy system resulted in.

The PTS Project was the first project within MOTI to adopt and successfully deliver Agile methodologies, standards, roles and responsibilities that could be leveraged during other eligible MOTI IMB projects. Through iterative-based requirements elicitation, feature design, continuous development and deployment, and consistent product demonstrations with the project stakeholders, multiple minimum-viable-product releases were achieved that included input from stakeholders, providing incremental improvements to their business processes, and a level of transparency in to the overall project and its progression. As the Technical Lead / Service Designer on the project, Alec was responsible for the following tasks:

BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations

This assignment included the review and analysis of the requirements for improving service delivery and optimizing processes across lines of business for Crown Land Tenure Systems along with the creation of the technical architectures, User Experiences, and Services Designs required to implement the solution. In addition, Alec also has the responsibility of managing the development team to ensure the work is completed on time, and is of the highest quality.

In a series of workshops Alec has lead a group of Crown Lands’ Subject Matter Experts in guided walkthroughs and elaborate discussions of the proposed user experience that will be developed within the TITAN system to integrate with the NRPP Common Client Service Component. Alec has developed these wireframes in an iterative fashion based heavily on input from the users.

Alec has also been engaged in ongoing design reviews, and documenting dependencies, for integrating common components for Financials within the CLTSCI architecture. Systems are being designed and implemented to abstract critical functions and data validations from presentation layers. Alec has been working with a number of external project teams on this issue.

Ontario Court of Appeal

Built on an Ingress database, the Court Operating System (COS) has been the system of record for the Ontario Court of Appeal for over 20 years. Due to the security vulnerabilities and integration challenges with the aging technology, the Court of Appeal for Ontario sponsored a project to consider options for Modernizing COS which included replacement with a SaaS Product, Replacement with a Rapid Application Development Platform such as Microsoft Dynamics, Custom Build, and technology modernization upgrade.

Alec was responsible for providing information on both the custom build and technology modernization options as well as for providing feedback on the SaaS and RAD options. Alec was responsible for the following: