I am not currently seeking a full-time job, but I keep this up because sometimes interesting people happen upon it. This resume has not been updated since 2003.
| Education |
Bachelor of Computer Science and Mathematics (Co-op), Highest Honours.
Carleton University 2003 |
| Technical Skills |
Operating Systems:
Unix (eg: SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, OSF), Windows and DOS, Linux and FreeBSD, MacOS, etc. |
Programming/Scripting Languages:
- C/C++
- Java
- HTML/XML
- Perl
- PHP
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Active Server Pages (ASP)
- Python
- Pascal
- BASIC
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Software/Tools:
- Programming environment (Visual C++, gcc/g++, jdk, etc)
- Assorted development tools (dbx, xldb, gdb, cvs, Purify, Perforce, ObjecTime, etc.)
- Office suites (WordPerfect, Microsoft, Lotus)
- Database/Spreadsheet (Oracle, ODBC, MS Access, Lotus 1-2-3, DBase, etc.)
- Web development (PHP, mySQL, Perl, Apache, Microsoft Front Page, etc.)
- Graphics (Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Microsoft Photopaint, etc.)
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| Work Experience |
Wireless Research Developer
| Bitflash Inc. | [Summer 2001] |
- Worked with the developing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard on various wireless devices.
- Ported a Bitflash SVG rendering engine to the Agenda VR3 (the first Linux handheld released to consumers). This work was presented at the SVG 2.0 inaugural meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) SVG working group in June 2001.
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Software Developer, Universal Data Access
| Cognos | [Summer-Fall 2000] |
- Worked as part of the UDA group which produces a common interface to develop on different operating systems (eg: SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, OSF, VMS, Windows) and access data through different database drivers (eg: Oracle, Sybase, ODBC).
- Added new features and diagnosed and fixed bugs on the variety of platforms supported by UDA.
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Network Assistant and Web Designer
| Canadian Youth Foundation | [Summer 1999] |
- Involved in maintenance of both the internal network and the Career Circuit Network (http://www.thecircuit.org/)
- Responsible for troubleshooting computer related problems, such as retrieval of data from corrupted files, repair of network connectivity issues, and answering technical questions
- In charge of the IT department in the absence of the head
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Programmer
| egroup inc. | [1997-8 School Year] |
- Created online applications with Active Server Pages and SQL
- Responsible for system administration tasks, such as installation and configuration of an IMAP server to do POP
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Web Programmer and Graphic Designer
| Galactics | [Summer 1997, 1998] |
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| Extra Curricular Activities |
- Lead Developer of dynamic content scripts for http://mbl.ca/
- Mailing list administrator for zone12.com, efreaks.org and mbl.ca
- Contributor of Eurocom Laptop information for the Linux Laptop documentation
- Implementor for a Multi-user gaming environment (developing/altering code base in C)
| LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org) |
- Overall List Manager for the LinuxChix mailing lists
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| National Capital Freenet (http://www.ncf.ca/) |
- Administrator of the Menu System and Maintainer of CapitalFind
- Office volunteer: answering calls, solving technical problems (such as PPP, email and web setup), opening mail, preparing deposits, processing new accounts
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| Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation (http://www.spacesim.org/) |
- Co-commander of Elementary Education Programmes (1997-1998): designing and running programmes and training sim members to run them, contacting schools, facilitating visits.
- MOO Administrator (wizard) for simMOO (an educational online environment)
- Astronaut for Europa '97 Mission
- Member of the "techie task force" designing and programming software, doing system administration, setting up videoconferencing, fixing robots, etc.
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| Macoun Field Naturalists Club |
- Editor and Layout of the The Little Bear (annual publication) for issues #50, #51, and #52 (50th anniversary issue)
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| Additional Skills and Achievements |
- Good English writing and editing skills
- Functionally bilingual (spoken and written French)
- Oda T. and White T., "Developing an Immunity to Spam." In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2003), Chicago, July 2003.
- White T., Kaegi S. and Oda T., "Revisiting Elitism in Ant Colony Search." In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2003), Chicago, July 2003.
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (2003)
- A. D. Dunton Scholarship (Carleton, 2002)
- Dean's List (Carleton, 1999 & 2002)
- Gordon Robertson Scholarship (Carleton, 1999)
- President's Scholarship (4 year renewable scholarship, Carleton, 1998)
- Robert O. Hursti award for music (Lisgar Collegiate, 1998)
- W. K. Baldwin scholarship (Ottawa Field Naturalists Club, 1998)
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