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Experience

Software Engineer, Medio Systems, Seattle, Washington
March 2010 - Present

Web user interface engineering, interaction design, and user interface "Jack of Many Trades"

Software Engineer, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington
April 2009 - February 2010

Designed, developed, and deployed novel data mining and visualization system for associating human diseases with proteins using a database of peer-reviewed biomedical literature
Developed and deployed proteomics data query service on national cancer research grid
Developed AJAX web administration tools for biomedical content repository and laboratory sample tracking system

Software Development Engineer (SDE), Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington
August 2005 - August 2007

Designed, implemented, deployed, and supported new product data processing pipeline; decreased website 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 support engineer in his successful promotion to SDE role

Software Engineer, Red Hat Canada, Toronto, Ontario
May 2003 - June 2005 (Intern hired as regular employee)

Developed and supported Linux developer tools plug-ins for a large product based on the Eclipse IDE
Developed and implemented effective quality assurance procedures for product testers and release management procedures for release engineers
Designed and developed automated test data collection and web-based reporting engine for team’s internal use

Software Engineer, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
May 2002 - September 2002

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

Community Technology Instructor, Red Deer Public School District, Red Deer, Alberta
1999 - 2001

Developed and delivered original technology courses on web design and Internet skills
Volunteer instructor for ‘Internet for Seniors’ program

Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Toronto
September 2007 - January 2009

3.9/4.0 coursework GPA
Thesis title: How Developers Use an Awareness Tool: Patterns and Scenarios
Designed, implemented, deployed, and evaluated a collaborative visualization tool for software teams and conducted an empirical field study
Teaching Assistant for undergraduate software engineering courses
Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008
Helen Sawyer Hogg Graduate Admission Award, 2007

Bachelor of Science, Computing Science & Business, University of Alberta
2000 - 2005

Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize for top-performing computing science intern, 2005
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