• Software Engineering Specialist
• Logic Major
• Mathematics Minor

University of Toronto

• Extremely meticulous and organized.
• Strong work ethic.  I can work independently with little to no guidance as well as within a team.
• Strong communication skills.  I posses the ability to work with and build relationships with colleagues and customers to achieve the desired end goal.

• Extensive experience with Linux, particularly Red Hat Linux 6-9.x, RHEL, Debian, Fedora Core 1-4, Ubuntu 6.06
• Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, routing and DNS.
• Exceptional professional writing and document formatting ability.
• I pride myself on producing clear, efficient and well documented code.
• Ability to quickly learn new programming languages, paradigms and techniques.
• Exceptional knowledge of latest PC hardware & software trends along with the ability to build, troubleshoot and repair PCs.

Application Developer

• Work as part of a 20+ developer team to maintain and develop new features into the Eloqua Application.
• Worked on low-level optimizations to the database layer and application code to support scaling of the application to support 5+ million visitors.
• Tasked with designing new features into the application using our own home-grown web developement framework which is built using Visual Basic and the .NET 2.0 framework.

Software Developer

• Within one year, promoted to lead developer on flagship INFOtrac CRM product.
• Re-Engineered poor calendaring system into a full featured PIM comparable to Microsoft Outlook.
• Redesigned UI to not only have a more modern look and feel, but to enhance usability through intuitive design.
• Transformed product from an outdated, difficult to install and configure package to a modern, easy to use commercial quality product.
• Created a wide range of company specific web applications using PHP/MySQL (running on Red Hat Linux) to automate support tasks, bug tracking, etc.
• Implemented Crystal Reports 8.5 and Crystal Reports XI engine into the core product to allow users to create and run custom reports through INFOtrac.
• Currently developing Web Service using C# 2.0 to expose INFOtrac API to web developers.

Programmer Analyst

• Hired to work in a small team to produce a 2-tier inventory and holiday booking system for Eurosun Holidays Inc. (an Independent Tour Operator) using Visual Basic 6 with SQL Server 2000 as the backend.
• The system consisted of over 100,000 lines of Visual Basic 6 code, over 50% of it was contributed by me.
• All functionality and requirements were met by their deadline.

Network/Database Administrator

• Setup and continually maintained a MS SQL 2000 database containing client info, connection information, integrated with CRM and accounting system.
• Set up and maintained a small network, including a Linux web, mail and dial-up server, as well as an internal integrated Windows domain.
• Successful in integrating Windows 2000 domain controller with Samba PDC to set up a seamless computing environment.

Co-Founder/Webmaster

• Co-Founded and ran a high profile PC Hardware web site which provided daily news on the news and events in the tech industry.  We also provided extensive reviews of various PC hardware products.
• The site existed before the explosion of hardware review sites and remained profitable throughout its existence.
  Gained extensive experience with PHP and MySQL.
• On average, the front page of the web site received 1000 unique visitors each day.
  

• Set up and maintain my own Linux server using CentOS 4.1 (RHEL fork). The server provides virtual hosting for 5 domains, including web, mail, ftp, pop, imapd, and ssh services. The server also acts as router and firewall for my internal network. Several services are forward to machines internally.
• Beta tester for several large corporations including Microsoft and Symantec. Notable products tested: Windows 98-Windows 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003 and 2005, Microsoft Office 2003-12.