Duncan Kerr
Director, Training And Work Methods at Toronto Hydro
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Kerr is a pragmatic operations and training leader with over a decade of experience building safety, sustainability and apprenticeship programs within utilities and manufacturing. He has led multi-million dollar budgets and teams of 20+ in both unionized and non-unionized environments, delivering measurable results such as >$1M in supply chain cost reductions in under six months and implementing ISO-aligned EHS systems in less than 18 months. Comfortable at the intersection of people, process and compliance, he combines continuous improvement, change management and project delivery skills to scale training and work methods across large matrixed organizations. His background spans engineering, ergonomics and human factors through to senior management, including an international assignment in Australia that yielded recurring savings and strengthened global collaboration. An avid learner and effective communicator, Duncan is equally at ease facilitating committee consensus or making decisive calls when needed. He also contributes to open-source engineering efforts, having helped maintain and modernize a high-performance time-series datastore to support Python 3.x.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Kinesiology, Bachelor of Kinesiology at McMaster UniversityMBA, Management and Information Systems, MBA, Management and Information Systems at Wayne State UniversityMSc, Biomechanics, MSc, Biomechanics at University of Guelph
English, French
Github Skills (11)
pandas10
mongodb10
python10
mongodb-database10
pymongo10
database9
time-series9
databases9
build-process8
testing8
numpy7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
man-group/arctic
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
High performance datastore for time series and tick data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 15 reviews, 44 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Duncan primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the `arctic` time series datastore. Their work involved fixing bugs related to data handling, particularly with different versions of pandas and pymongo. They also made updates to the build process, including pinning specific versions of dependencies and removing support for Python 2.7. The user's commits also included optimizing database queries and adding Python 3.8 support.
pythonticktickstoretick-dataarctic
dunckerr/nestormakhno
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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