Helena Jeeves
Acting IT Manager, Canadian Wildland Fire Information Systems (CWFIS)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolHelena Jeeves is an experienced software leader and current Acting IT Manager for the Canadian Wildland Fire Information Systems, bringing nine years of formal experience and decades of hands-on engineering across government and research environments. She combines full-stack expertise—Java, JavaScript, SQL, legacy RIA tech (Flex/ActionScript) and Python—with a track record delivering mission-critical systems for wildland fire response, ocean observatories, and astronomical instrumentation. Known for a pragmatic "right tool for the job" approach, she has led web development teams, supported real-time data systems (cabled and wireless observatories), and moved between research and operational contexts with ease. Helena’s background at NRCan, NRC, Ocean Networks Canada and IBM demonstrates an ability to bridge research science and production-grade software, often integrating diverse data stores and legacy platforms. Based in Victoria, BC, she pairs technical depth with a steady, can-do management style and a history of keeping projects resilient under pressure. An under-the-radar strength is her fluency with both older RIA stacks and modern service architectures, making her effective at modernizing long-lived systems.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (29)
observation10
specification9
open-access8
data-access8
science8
data-access-layer8
doi8
portal8
brep7
service-worker7
react7
infrastructure6
browser6
portable6
sandbox6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hjeeves/vos
May 2018 - Mar 2023
client and server implementation of VOSpace specification
Contributions:1 PR, 79 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 11 months
specification
hjeeves/core
Oct 2017 - Dec 2020
core libraries used by modules in other OpenCADC repositories
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
repositoriescore-libraries
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