Bernie Lees

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ABOUT BERNIE LEES

Bernie is a DevOps Engineer who brings over 30 years of release management experience across diverse and complex service oriented architecture, and has been able to produce results within large corporations such as Shaw, Telus and Neteller. One of his specialities is in automating business processes to free employees from time consuming tasks. Other areas of specialty have been in migrating legacy systems to current proven technologies, which has often been done by implementing Open Source systems. Bernie is no stranger to building businesses, as an equity partner and director of technology at Calgary Telecom, Bernie implemented Voice over IP Technologies (IVR/PBX solutions) and created a solution for the complex billing requirements of using multiple service providers - the technology developed was later sold to VoEX and then Alcatel.Bernie was also involved with World Wide Learn’s expansion, a 3 person company with $1M per year revenues, and after Bernie’s enhancement to their technology the company was able to generate $12M in revenue just a year later.A key member at Neteller, an online payment transfer provider, Bernie was an early employee helping the company grow to from 96 to over staff members. Bernie was involved throughout the development process of Neteller’s Identity verification services (IVS) solution. Neteller’s high performance and high stability environment was a critical factor to the company’s success, with downtime costing approximately per minute. Bernie’s responsibility was to ensure that Neteller’s heavy traffic experienced minimal downtime, and high volume seasonal requests were handled without disruptions. His expertise in this area was to identify system bottlenecks, root cause for instability issues and creating programs and systems to proactively solve these.