Tom G.

Tom G. has extensive work experience, beginning in 1995 as a Development Engineer at Microsoft Corporation. Tom then moved to Great Lakes Research & Development Ltd. in 1996 as a Development Lead, where they conceived, designed, and led the development of OAI, a middleware product that successfully bridged Amdahl’s mainframe database with Visual Basic. In 1998, they became Practice Manager at Montage DMC. In 2001, they founded DesignAxiom Ltd., a product development and consulting practice based around Adobe Flash application development. In 2014, they became a Product Manager and Technical Team Lead at Cisco, leading a team of 6 developing two interactive 4K TV demos for the World Cup in Rio and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In 2015, they became Technical Team Lead at Quiver Media Inc., managing a team of Android, iOS, and Node developers. In 2016, they became Technical Lead at Anthem Media, migrating an existing Objective-C app to Swift 2 and then Swift 3, adding infinite scroll to the social feed and support for new screen resolutions. In 2017, they became Technical Lead at Auvenir, a Deloitte venture, leading a team of back-end and front-end developers developing a SaaS app for financial auditors. In 2020, they became Engineering Team Lead at Qeepem, architecting and engineering a consumer app that uses ML to handle documents. Finally, in 2021, they became Chief Technology Officer at Openscreen.

Tom G. attended the University of Manitoba from 1983 to 1987, where they earned a Bachelor of Computer Science (BCSc) degree in Computer Science.