1. SPECIALISTS IN PERMANENT STAFFING
REFERENCE CHECK
Candidates’ Name: Bran Kop Date: July 19, 2007
Company Contacted: Canadian Institute for Health Information Tel.: 416-481-2002 x3515
Person Contacted: ***REFERENCE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST*** Title: Project
Supervisor/Technical
Lead
Dates of Employment: February 2005 To: February 2007
Candidate Job Title: Consultant
Reason for Leaving: End of Contract
Working Relationship / Length of time worked together? Approximately 2 Years
What were his/her major responsibilities? Architecture, Design, Development, Deployment of CORR, Grouper systems
Strengths? (Examples)
Learnt new frameworks quickly - Completed our scheduling implementation after learning from scratch in a very short time
period
Very persistent and thorough – Code was very well documented, the trickiest problems were solved quickly, and other
developers who followed did not have problems reading and understanding Bran’s code
What were some of his/her characteristics that you admired most?
Thoroughness and Ability to learn things quickly
Weaknesses / Areas for improvement
None that I can think of
How would you rate his/her communications skills? (Presentations. Written Reports. Documentation)
Excellent in all three presentations. He presented to a large group and explained the implementation of quartz. His written
reports were thorough. His documentation was consistent and always complete.
How would you rate his/her problem-solving skills?
Excellent. He solved some of the trickiest problems we were facing by going deep down in research.
Was he/she receptive to feedback and constructive criticism? Did he/she use that information to improve their
work?
Yes on both counts.
Was he/she willing to work overtime as required?
He always consistently put in overtime work when critical deadlines were looming, but according to Company policy could not
charge the extra hours. I appreciated that a lot.

2. Can you tell me how he/she performed under pressure?
He was calm and resolute. He always got the job done regardless of the pressure.
Tell me about how he/she contributed as a member of a team?
He always worked with the team members and ensured that everyone was in sync.
What can you tell me about how he/she interacts with others? (Peers. Subordinates. Managers)
He interacts professionally with everyone whether they are peers, subordinates, or managers
How would you rate his/her technical skills?
Excellent technical skills. His technical skills resulted in a very robust application that is currently being used very actively at
CIHI
Describe the employee’s work ethic. Did he/she show the required initiative for the role?
Excellent work ethic. He always took the initiative to ask whether this additional piece needed to be designed and developed to
enhance the usability or reliability of the application. In the end, we would implement his suggestion, because they were
normally great suggestions.
We are considering this person for an ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT position.
Do you think he/she would excel in this role? Why?
I think Bran would excel in this role. He has the mind of an architect and can always look at the big picture while drilling down
into details of code. His architecture has resulted in very sound systems at CIHI.
Would he/she be considered by you to be re-hireable?
Yes No Why
not?
Yes
Additional Comments
Anything else we should be aware of?
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