Bob Mclaren
Retired at Financial Statement Services, Inc.
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Mclaren is a results-driven project and program manager with 14 years of hands-on experience leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver complex telecom and IoT solutions on time and on budget. His career spans startup-to-enterprise roles—VP Engineering at Aegis Mobility, Customer Program Manager at Sierra Wireless, and leadership positions at Ericsson and UTStarcom—where he built scalable server farms, release processes, and high-performing teams. Known for strong communication, decision-making and problem-solving, he blends practical engineering insight with a bottom-line focus to shepherd products from requirements to first customer ship. As an active contributor to the popular SendGrid C# library, he has directly improved email recipient handling and categorization, showing he still enjoys tackling technical details even after retiring. Based in Vernon, BC, he pairs deep delivery experience with a knack for rebuilding teams and processes to meet aggressive timelines.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours, BSc Honours at University of Alberta
Github Skills (16)
e-mail10
net10
asp-net10
csharp10
sendmail10
transactional-emails10
dotnet-core10
send-email10
netstandard9
dotnet9
dotnet-cli9
dotnet-new8
nunit8
unit-testing8
sendgrid-mail7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/sendgrid-csharp
May 2012 - Jul 2013
The Official Twilio SendGrid C#, .NetStandard, .NetCore API Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Bob contributed significantly to the SendGrid C# library by implementing and modifying methods related to email recipient handling and categorization. They added the `AddTo()` and `SetCategories()` methods across multiple interfaces and classes, allowing for multiple recipients and category assignments in emails. The user also made minor adjustments to variable names for consistency and added unit tests to validate the functionality of the `SetCategories()` method. This work directly enhances the library's capabilities for managing email campaigns and tracking performance metrics.
csharpsendgridtwilioc-sharpdotnet
bobmclaren/httpsnippet
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
HTTP Request snippet generator for many languages & libraries
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
http-requestsnippet-generatorsnippetfiddlerlanguages
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