University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON

Graduate Studies

• Candidate for Master's of Management Sciences
• Intended areas of focus include: social networks, knowledge management and human-computer interaction

 

Undergraduate Studies

• Honours Bachelor of Mathematics with a major in Computer Science
• Courses of note: Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, and Applied Cryptography
• Major projects: Developed a middleware library that allowed for parallel processing in distributed systems as well as a program for mirroring and serving websites

 

Assistant Web Developer

Toronto, ON

 

Imagine Canada

• Redesigned the imaginecanada.ca website to use a CSS layout, reducing page size by 7 times and improving performance
• Performed content updates to four of Imagine Canada's websites.
• Designed and implemented a process to maintain the source code and images of Imagine Canada's websites through the use of Subversion and SyncBack.
• Created CSS templates for the redesign of nonprofitscan.ca (new design has not launched yet)

 

Sport Supervisor

Waterloo, ON

 

University of Waterloo

• Created the schedule for the Campus Recreation ultimate frisbee league
• Communicated the schedule information to team captains and the league supervisor
• Supervised games; ensured that equipment and teams were present and that games ran smoothly

 

Programmer

Akron, PA

 

Mennonite Central Committee

• Developed a custom bug-tracking system using a Movable Type weblog
• Configured Apache with SSL for separate internal and external web use
• Created backup scripts with Linux shell and DOS scripting
• Converted procedural FoxPro reports into SQL based reports

 

Programmer

Akron, PA

 

Mennonite Central Committee

• Customized phpaga open source time-tracking system for use in MCC
• Researched and made recommendation for firewalls and intrusion detection systems

 

Consultant

Akron, PA

 

Mennonite Disaster Service

• Participated in the creation of specifications and database design for a custom information management system
• Developed a web-based front end for the information management system using PHP

 

Intern

Waterloo, ON

 

Peaceworks Consulting

• Learned PHP though development of Phormation, an open source project that helps automate the process or creating web-based forms with a database backend
• Contributed documentation to Phormation using DocBook

 

Volunteer Coordinator

Waterloo, ON

 

UW Canada Day Celebrations

• Coordinated and scheduled approximately two hundred volunteers needed for running the day's activities
• Learned about the planning involved behind large one-day events