CV
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science
University of Toronto, September 2007 - January 2009 (expected)
B.Sc. in Computing Science with Business minor
University of Alberta, 2000 - 2005
Employment
August 2005 - August 2007: Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Amazon.com, Seattle
- Re-designed, developed, and supported new product data processing and messaging system; decreased web site product data update latency from one day to less than five minutes for Amazon’s worldwide retail businesses
- Successfully migrated over 50 million products to this new system that processes over 1 million transactions per day at peak
- Mentored and coached junior engineer in his successful promotion to SDE role
- Technologies: Java, C++, Perl, Berkeley DB, Oracle, Linux
May 2003 - June 2005: Software Engineer (full/part-time intern)
Red Hat, Toronto
- Ported third-party J2EE application development software and integrated it with large product derived from the Eclipse IDE
- Re-designed, developed, and supported Linux developer tools plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE
- Designed and developed automated test data collection and reporting engine for internal use
- Nominated as Eclipse Software Foundation (Eclipse.org) Committer
- Technologies: Java, PostgreSQL, Linux
May 2002 - September 2002: Software Engineer/Research Assistant
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
- Developed web-based research software for supercomputer systems under supervision of Dr. Paul Lu
- Funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada student research award
- Technologies: PHP, PostgreSQL, Linux
1998 - 2001: Independent technology consultant and instructor
- Developed and delivered technology courses for Red Deer Public School District
- Developed custom web sites for multiple clients
Awards
- Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2007-2008
- Helen Sawyer Hogg Graduate Admission Award, University of Toronto, 2007
- Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize for top-performing computing science intern, University of Alberta, 2005
- Red Hat Award for Outstanding Commitment to Red Hat Values & Culture, 2004
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2002
- Rick Girard Memorial Scholarship for outstanding writing, Red Deer College, 2001
- Jason Lang Memorial Scholarship for academic achievement, Alberta, 2001
- Alexander Rutherford Scholarship for academic achievement, Alberta, 2000
