Jeff Taylor
VP At Enjoying Some Freedom at Home
London, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Taylor is a seasoned life-safety executive with 13+ years in senior leadership and over three decades of hands-on experience managing sales, service, and facilities across Canada and the US. As Vice President and co-owner of a multi-branch life safety services company, he designs fire and security systems, drives strategy, negotiates major contracts, and implements policies that boost quality, efficiency, and employee engagement. He combines technical grounding in avionics with a business administration background to bridge operational detail and strategic decision-making. Known for coaching managers and instituting metrics-driven incentive programs, he has a track record of reducing costs while improving customer loyalty. An unexpected facet: he has also contributed to the Astropy open-source project as a QA/test automation contributor, demonstrating a focus on code quality and practical problem solving beyond his core industry.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Avionics Technology, Avionics, Avionics Technology, Avionics at Canadore CollegeBusiness Administration and Marketing, Business Administration and Marketing at Fanshawe College
Github Skills (5)
astropy10
pytest10
python10
testing10
astronomy9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff focused on improving the robustness of the Astropy library by adding and modifying tests. They added a new test to check for specific failure scenarios when adding rows to tables. Additionally, the user corrected typos in the documentation and moved code to its correct location to resolve a bug. This work demonstrates a focus on code quality and ensuring correct functionality.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
durga2112/CARTAvis
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 days
code-visualizationalmavisualization
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