Resume

Professional Experience

Developer (Contract)
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Guelph January, 2014
- Automated and optimised process for creating internal Sharepoint sites and pages
- Developed features in JavaScript/HTML such as a collapseable sitemap
- Development on survey tools used for scheduling training sessions, using PHP and ASP
Google Summer of Code:
GXml usability for JavaScript and C
Google, GNOME May to September, 2013
- Created a polished, stable release of GXml DOM library.
- Targetted memory usage, API design, error handling, documentation, and community growth.
- Presented a lightning talk at the GUADEC 2013 conference in Brno.
GObject-XML serialization for GNOME
May to September, 2012
- Designed a GObject-XML serialisation API, based on existing json-glib serialisation.
- Implemented API and comprehensive tests.
- Presented a lightning talk at the GUADEC 2012 conference in A Coruña.
GXml project for GNOME
May to September, 2011
- Designed, implemented a GObject API corresponding to the XML DOM Level 1 Core specification.
- Designed, implemented a comprehensive test suite.
- Ported an existing XML-using software from libxml2 to GXml for testing and demonstration purposes.
- Presented a lightning talk at the Desktop Summit conference in Berlin.
GSA, Web developer (uoguelph.ca/gsa)
Graduate Student Association,
University of Guelph 2012-2013
- Migrated content to new Drupal-based website for easy content maintenance.
- Assisted in design of interface.
- Provided training for GSA employees, developing web guides featuring video.
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.
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.

Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Guelph September 2011-on going
- Designed and delivered tutorials, seminars, and computer labs for:
  - CIS*3760: Software Engineering
  - CIS*3260: Software Design IV
  - CIS*2750: Software Systems Development and Integration (3 times)
  - CIS*3750: Systems Analysis and Design in Applications (2 times)
- Delivered a lecture for CIS*3750 on Debugging.
- Engineered an automarker for CIS*2750, a programming intensive course.
- Covered topics including Software Engineering, Software Design, Object Oriented Design, Java, Python, C, game and AJAX-based web programming.

Academic History

Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Guelph September 2010-on going
Thesis on Graph-based Syntax Parsing in Natural Language Processing
- Guelph Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, executive Fall 2012-current
  Organised events, managed communications, recruitment, and research.
- Graduate Student Association Director for the School of Computer Science, Fall 2011-Fall 2012
  Represented SoCS student interests within the GSA.
- Student Volunteer Connections, board member, Summer 2012
  Represented GSA interests within SVC.
- School of Computer Science Graduate Student Representative, Winter 2011, Winter 2012
  Represented graduate student interests within the School of Computer Science.
Bachelor of Computing Honours with Distinction, Co-op
University of Guelph September 2003-August 2008 3.7 (80.487%)
Concentration in German Language
Dr. Ted Swart Scholarship for highest average across CIS courses in 2004-2005

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

Volunteer and Open Source Activities

GQE, Web developer (demo: uoguelph.ca/~rschwart/gqe)
Guelph Queer Equality 2013
- Created website using HTML5 Canvas, JS, and CSS
- Cross browser testing and compatibility
CIJF, Web developer (iaido-canada.com)
Canadian Iaido and Jodo Fund 2013
- Updated website from basic HTML to use PHP, CSS, and JS
- Reorganised and migrated large content
Global Newt, Web developer (globalnewt.com)
Global Newt Games 2009
- Redesigned web page in a fun and colourful manner
Maintainer for libgxml, an open source library for accessing Google Services
2011-on going
- Primary contributor for PicasaWeb support.
Developer for libgdata (wiki.gnome.org/libgdata), an open source library for accessing Google Services
- Primary contributor for PicasaWeb support.
Creator of Gender Guesser (kosmokaryote.org/codepoems/genderguesser/),
an 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