Resume

Target Position: Software Developer

7 years of C++ across 4 years of production code and several dozen school projects.
8 months of ActionScript 3.0 and MXML while completing a product cycle in a team of 5 on a commercial Rich Internet Application; familiarity with Adobe AIR.
1 year of Java across 4 university programming courses; 1 industry project involving C#.
Quality assurance: built auto tests for desktop applications, algorithms, and debugger engine.
Leadership skills: team lead for 3 IT projects each involving 4+ team members.
M.Sc; Top graduate (top CGPA) in the Faculty of Applied Sciences in graduating class.

Software Developer, R&D, INETCO Systems Limited (2008 – 2009, 8 months, full time)

Gathering and fulfilling high priority user requirements for a Rich Internet Application (RIA).
Prototyping and implementing collaborative designs using Flex Builder 3 for several RIA sub-systems using a mixture of agile and waterfall methodologies.
Parsing XML using ActionScript for client to server communication during several projects.
Investigating and resolving a blocker daylight savings bug in Adobe’s DateTimeAxis while working with Adobe JIRA and rallying 9 votes to ensure speediness of resolution.
Developing web debugging skills in resolving race conditions, leakages, and data corruption.

Tools Programmer, ATG, Radical Entertainment (2008, 6 months, full time)

Iterating with character and lighting artists to eliminate productivity bottlenecks in 2 desktop applications while saving the company several months of productivity (C++/Qt/C#).
Collaborating with graphics programmers and game programmers to repair and improve render selection in a game editor, a hot spot for unintended integration bugs (C++).
Communicating action items, timelines, and progress to 10+ clients in person and via wiki.
Refining code reading and debugging skills while working with graphics code, game code, pipeline code, tools code, and legacy code written by 20+ programmers.

Pipelines Programmer, NBA Live, Electronic Arts (2004, 4 months, coop)

Maintaining art pipelines while serving requests from artists and producers (Perl/qube).

Tools Programmer, ATG, Radical Entertainment (2003 – 2004, 8 months, coop)

Coding and auto-testing the engine of a Lua debugger (C++/PS2/Xbox/GameCube/PC).
Teaming up with programmers and Lua scripters for code review, piloting, and integration.

Research Assistant, Graphics Lab, Simon Fraser University (2002 – 2003, 8 months, coop)

Researching, designing, and implementing a 5000-line 3D volume rendering algorithm and integrating it into a 100,000-line rendering pipeline (C++/wxWindows/bash).

Master of Science, Computing Science (2005 – 2008): Two refereed publications (GI 2007, EuroVis 2006).
Bachelor of Science, Computing Science, with Math Minor (2000 – 2005): Top graduate (top CGPA) in the Faculty of Applied Sciences in graduating class.

Visual Fidelity of 3D Regular Sampling and Reconstruction (2006 – 2008, 2 years, full time): Spearheading a group of 8 in developing visual response analytics, user studies, and pipelines for volumetric rendering, signal down-sampling, and data plot generation.
Legal Representative (Workers Compensation, 2002 – 2007, 5 years, part time): Representing my mother for 3 rounds inside the Workers Compensation system, and 3 days of oral hearings with written submissions at the British Columbia Supreme Court.
The M-Poster (Maya Animation, 2003, 3 months, part time): Managing a team of 5 in producing a short animation that received the top grade in class.
BugBase (Bug Tracker in Java, 2001, 3 months, part time): Following the waterfall software engineering model, scheduling tasks such as design, coding, testing, and review in detail for a team of 4 for the majority of stages in the project.
Tennis Club President (Simon Fraser University, 2000 – 2001, 1 year, part time): Creating a home page, coordinating weekly in-door plays, and managing club finance.

NSERC CGS-M Scholarship (National, 2005 – 2007).
Computing Science Graduation Award: for top undergraduate student in Computing Science (Grad Year 2005 – 2006).
ACM Programming Contest: 23^rd out of 82 teams in Pacific Northwest (International, 2003).
Gordon M. Shrum Scholarship (University, 2000 – 2005).