Resume

Professional Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant: CIS*3750: Systems Analysis and Design in Applications University of Guelph September to December, 2011
- Designed a programming assignment.
- Designed lab presentations.
- Designed marking rubrics for and marked assignments.
- Designed and delivered a lecture (on debugging).
Google Summer of Code: GXml project for GNOME Google May to September, 2011
- Designed a GObject API corresponding to the XML DOM Level 1 Core specification, and a large suite of unit tests.
- Implemented the API and tests.
- Ported an existing XML-using software from libxml2 to GXml for testing and demonstration purposes.
- Attending the Desktop Summit conference in Berlin to briefly present the project.
Graduate Teaching Assistant: CIS*2750: Software Systems Development and Integration University of Guelph Guelph, ON, Canada January to April, 2011
- Maintained and extended the course automarker, implementing in C automated tests for the semester's assignments.
- Designed the automated test suites and plan for two assignments.
- Administered labs and tutorials educating students in fundamental programming concepts.
- Provided individual assistance to students in understanding course material and programming concepts.
Graduate Teaching Assistant: CIS*3750: Systems Analysis and Design in Applications University of Guelph Guelph, ON, Canada September to December, 2010
- Created and administered labs and tutorials educating students in fundamental programming concepts.
- Designed a class assignment in collaboration with Dr. Kremer.
- Evaluated written and programming assignments to well-defined rubrics.
- Helped students personally overcome specific challenges.
Systems Developer Broadridge Financial Solutions Vancouver, BC, Canada May to September, 2010
May 2008 to June 2009
- Database-driven and web-based development
- Custom development for a client bank's systems for features such as fee management and client data collection.
- Optimise and manage database performance in business-critical features
- Define XML storage schema for client, account, etc. business data, and implement system to process it from within our database system.
Teaching Assistant: CIS*1200: Introduction to Computing
University of Guelph Guelph, ON, Canada January to April, 2008
- Organised and conducted tutorials covering a variety of introductory computing projects.
- Administered tests and graded assignments.
Security Tester Research in Motion Waterloo, ON, Canada May to August, 2007
- Verified the security of mobile BlackBerry devices.
- Developed a system to automate testing for a rare issue with cryptographic tokens.
Quality Assurance Analyst ACD Systems Ltd. Victoria, BC, Canada October to December, 2006
- Identified and reported issues found with the lifecast.com web product.
- Prepared a system, developed scripts, and trained a fellow employee, for performance testing.
System Maintainer Canadian Institute for Health Information Toronto, ON, Canada January to May, 2006
- Maintained and developed the Java-based software change and integration system.
- Automated manual tasks and provided training for successor.
Software Developer TRIUMF Lab for Particle and Nuclear Physics Vancouver, BC, Canada May to August, 2005
- Developed software to automate tuning of optics used to direct the ion beam line.
- Developed a data collection and report generation system to automate arduous manual clerical work.

Academic History

In progress: Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Guelph started September 2010
Thesis in Natural Language Processing
- School of Computer Science Graduate Student Representative, Winter 2011
  Represented graduate student interests within the School of Computer Science.
- Graduate Student Association Director for the School of Computer Science, Fall 2011
  Represented SoCS student interests within the GSA
Bachelor of Computing Honours with Distinction, Co-op
University of Guelph August 2008 3.7 (80.487%) Concentration in German Language

Relevant Courses

CIS*3200 Software Engineering 88% Learned fundamental Software Engineering principles and methodology. In a group, specified, designed, implemented, and validated a web news filtering system. Dr. Deborah Stacey
CIS*3430 Systems Analysis and Design in Applications 87% Learned patterns, development methodology and process, UML, requirements and analysis. Collaborated in a group of 5 to implement a computer-based version of the board game Clue. Dr. Judi McCuaig
CIS*3110 Operating Systems 93% Learned fundamental OS architecture, regarding memory, drivers, CPU scheduling and concurrency, file systems, and so much more. Implemented a small game running concurrent threads, debugged and fixed a mouse driver for OpenBSD at a low level, and wrote a FAT16 filesystem driver for OpenBSD. Dr. William Gardner and Rick Macklem
CIS*2450 Software System Development and Integration 93% Learned broad range of topics on computing, including basic design of application, interface; I/O, record parsing, regular expressions, database access, language binding, testing, and more. Implemented a MARC record parser in C, a TKinter GUI with Python, with MySQL DB access. Dr. William Gardner

Honours

Graduated Bachelor of Computing with Honours, Co-op, with Distinction
Dr. Ted Swart Scholarship for highest average across CIS courses in 2004-2005

Personal and Community Activities

Web Design for GlobalNewt.com, the website of Global Newt Games, proprietor of educational board games.
Developer for libgdata, and open source library for accessing Google Services
- Primary contributor for PicasaWeb support.
Creator of Gender Guesser, open source question and answer system
- A multimedia graphical application for testing a user in various media.
- Originally intended to aid in the learning of German noun genders, but supports arbitrary textual, video, and audio questions
- http://www.kosmokaryote.org/codepoems/genderguesser/