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Creative, motivated, computer systems engineering graduate with strong problem solving skills seeks challenging software engineering position with company pushing its field's boundaries
EDUCATION
- B.Eng Computer Systems Engineering 2005, CARLETON UNIVERSITY, Ottawa ON
- Maintained 10.47/12 GPA (A-) in first year and was on the Dean's Honours List. Graduated with distinction (B+ CGPA).
- Computer Systems Engineering is an amalgamation of the software and electical engineering programs, concentrating on real-time systems and object-oriented software development. (www.sce.carleton.ca)
- North Dundas District High School (NDDHS), Chesterville, ON
- Dunning Foubert French Immersion School, Orléans, ON -- Kindergarten to Gr. 3
SKILLS
- Programming:
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Object-Oriented Java and C++ (currently studying C++). Visual BASIC 6.0 and .NET. Familiar with Intel and Motorola Assembly, Rational Rose RealTime, and, to a lesser extent, C, Perl, ASP, and SQL. UDP/TCP, Client/Server architectures, IPC, multi-threaded applications; Real-time systems; UML and, to a lesser extent, OCL.
- See "Experience" section at http://www.geocities.com/smozoma/work/
- Member of high school programming team that placed 1st in Eastern Ontario in the 1999 ECOO programming competition (using VB 6.0)
- Maths and Problem Solving:
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1st in school board on Gr. 10 Waterloo Math Contest and 1st in school in Gr. 12. 1st in school in OAC year's U. of Waterloo SIN physics contest and U. of Toronto da Vinci Engineering contest.
- OSs:
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Windows 9x & XP Pro, MS-DOS, and some Linux (currently learning Fedora).
- Website Design:
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Standards-compliant HTML & CSS. In addition to work experience for Computing and Communications Services at Carleton U., has maintained a personal website since 1996 and has created websites for NDDHS and part of the National Capital Commission's X-Canada Quest website (both are now down). Some experience with ASP and SQL.
- Language:
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Anglophone with four years in French immersion (Kindergarten to Gr.3); decent oral French skills (though rusty and limited active vocabulary). Learning Japanese.
- Misc Software:
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Photo, video, and audio editing and compression (appropriate formats/ codecs, VirtualDub, Photoshop…); some 3D Animation (Truespace 4), architectural CAD; more.
- Soft Skills:
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Excellent written communicator, thorough, analytic, problem solver, organized, goal/deadline driven, creative/innovative/resourceful, multi-tasker...
TEAMWORK SKILLS
- Part of a two-man team who organized, programmed, created NDDHS's first digital CD-ROM yearbook
- Three years with NDDHS's computer programming team
- Completed several group projects for university classes, often assuming an organizational/leadership role
AWARDS & MERITS
- Carleton University entrance scholarship and bursary
- Fred Lobb Construction Grade 12 Building Construction Award (highest mark in Gr. 12 Communications Technology class focusing on architectural CAD and model construction)
- Received 4-years honours and Ontario Scholar plaques and technology certificate in high school
- In the gifted program in public school and high school
- Esso Medal of Achievement (1992, hockey)
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Computing and Communications Services (CCS), Carleton U. – Spring 2004
- Job Title: Web Content Editor (Co-op)
- Duties: Managed CCS website (http://www.carleton.ca/ccs).Added several useful new features and improved standards-compliance & accessibility; created database-driven System Status page and Announcements page using Access, SQL, VBScript, & ASP; quickly created easy-to-use VB applications to simplify site/database updates by other CCS employees; organized and ran Web Team meetings; Edited spelling, grammar, and writing style throughout the site.
- Professor John W. Chinneck, Dept. of Systems and Computer Eng., Carleton U. – Summer 2002 & Summer 2003
- Job Title: Programmer/Analyst (Co-op)
- Duties: Worked on five main projects using Visual Basic 6.0/.NET and some Perl and C:
- MProbe is a program that aids in solving/analyzing complicated systems of equations.
- MPSFileReader & GAMSFileReader are DLLs used to read in a file containing a model of a mathematical system to be solved/maximized/minimized and communicate it to another program (such as MProbe).
- The Downloads Webpage is a webpage form with a Perl script that collects volunteered user information.
- New MProbe Samping Methods improving the randomness of variable-space sampling in MProbe, since I discovered that the sampling wasn't properly random.
- I expanded on the existing capabilities of MPSFileReader, adding a GUI and the ability to create, edit, and write MPS files. GAMSFileReader, I completed from scratch in summer 2003. Great care was taken to ensure that it would be easy for future programmers to work with the code, if needed. I take pride in the readability of my code.
- My main accomplishments with MProbe were the addition of the ability for MProbe to use MPSFileReader and GAMSFileReader, and the addition of an important new window (the "Points Workshop"). I also discovered several important bugs, one of which I had to analyze, write a report about, suggest a solution for, and give a presentation on. The main discovery was that the random sampling points were not evenly distributed (a somewhat significant algorithm bug that went unnoticed for years); I developed and incorporated new, more random, sampling methods into MProbe (which might be in the version after 5.0).
- I also wrote daily reports on my work and progress.
- Information on MProbe and MPSFileReader: www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/mylinks.html
OTHER INTERESTS AND HOBBIES
- Programming interesting and useful applications (www.geocities.com/smozoma/programming/)
- My customized version of VirtualDub is somewhat popular
- Playing various sports, table hockey, and Sega NHL '94
- Keeping up with technology and science news
- Working on my website
- Japanese Animation
- Online comic strips
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