Special Skills
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Industrial Visual Basic experience (2 years)
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Academic and Industrial C++ experience (1.5 Year)
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Industrial Database Development which included complex SQL queries for MS-SQL Server, MS-Access and My-SQL (1.5 Years)
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Component based development using COM and ActiveX
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Academic Java & Java Script experience (1 year)
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Extensive use of Visual Studio since including 5.0, 6.0 and .NET (since 1997)
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Source Safe and CVS
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ADO, RDO, DAO, Win32, JDBC, and CPLEX
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GUI Development in Visual Basic, GTK and TK
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Operating Systems: Windows (NT-4, 2000, XP, 9x), and Linux
Employment History
Technical Support
September 2003-Present
- Extensive Experience trouble shooting Win NT, 9x, me, 2000, XP based computers
- Trouble shooting Mac OS 9 and OS X systems
- Experience dealing in public relations
Programmer / Analyst
October 2001-May 2003
- Extensive Visual Basic and VBA programming
- Database programming for MS-SQL and Access using SQL, ADO, & RDO
- Linear Optimization Programming for Hydrological systems
- GUI programming using Visual Basic, ActiveX and the MFC
- Customer support; Installation, setup, support, debugging
- Requirements Analysis; and conversion of customer requirements into detailed specification
- Implementation of New Features into legacy system with emphasis on minimizing change and maintaining backwards compatibility
- Hardware, Software, & Network setup and support
Numerical Research
May 2001-August 2001
- Programmed finite element analysis software for ridged wave-guides
- Learned wave guide propagation and diode laser theory
- Gained MatLab, Windows and Linux experience
- Worked independently with minimal supervision
Teachers Assistant for Computational Physics Course
September 2000-December 2000
- Answered questions and helped with computer problems during class
- Assisted students with assignment problems
Simulation Research Assistant
May 2000-August 2000
- Extensive C/C++ programming experience in a UNIX environment
- Creation of new application designed to reproduce results of other systems, with emphasis on accuracy of results
- Implemented System such that application load could be spread across many networked Computers
- Developed and programmed protein simulation experiment
- Extensive use of Monte Carlo and Metropolis simulation technique
- Performed statistical analysis of generated data
- Productive member of a dynamic problem solving team
Service Representative
September 1999-January 2000
- Technical writing of equipment operations and procedures manual
- Modified engineering drawings for release to customers
- Tested and analyzed products, created with new processes
Field Research Engineer
September 1998-April 1999
- Performed field data collection and analysis
- Beta testing of in-house software package
- Performed structural, life cycle, user delay and cost analysis
- Developed Visual Basic macros designed to assist in data analysis
- Extensive PowerPoint experience
- Answered Phones and Inquiries from public
Software Developer
January 1998-April 1998
- Object oriented software development
- Graphical User Interface design & database programming experience
- Developed algorithm for space allocation and weight distribution
- Wrote help files for Windows
Education
Bachelor of Science in Honours Theoretical Physics
August 2001
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Subjects:
Classical
Mechanics, Computational Physics, Electromagnetic theory, Optics,
Quantum Mechanics, Solid State Physics, Statistical Thermodynamics.
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Senior Research Project:
Protein and prion structural dynamics simulation
Additional Experience
- Some experience in Ruby, Python, BASH, DOS
- GUI Development in GTK and TK
- Network set-up and maintenance
- File and printer sharing over TCP/IP
- President of University of Waterloo Undergraduate Physics Society
- Writer for local on-campus news letter
- Volunteered for Friends of the Summertown Ski Area
- Volunteered for Food Not Bombs
Awards
- Xerox work term report award, runner-up
- Optimist club University entry scholarship
Interests
- Open source software
- Amateur Chef
- sustainability
- Politics
- Reading Science Fiction novels