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Professional Experience
- Web Developer (September 2006 - present)
- Develops internal and external applications using PHP, Perl and JQuery
- Project manager for domain brokerage platform
- Led a support team for a client management application
- Overseeing processes to manage traffic and revenue statistics and analysis
- Contributes to website optimization for traffic, click through and revenue
- Teaching Assistant, CMPT 470 Web Information Systems (January 2006 - April 2006)
- Learned to convey complex material in an easy to understand manner
- Marked assignments and dealt with disagreements over grade distribution
- Education Support Specialist (co-op) (May 2005 - December 2005)
- Developed internal web applications from user specifications using ASP
- Maintained existing applications in web front end and database back end
- End user training on newly developed systems/functions
- Learned to predict user needs and be proactive on fulfilling them
Finance Tracking System (unnamed, still in progress)
- Web application used to track personal expenses
- Planned features include reports, graphs, scheduled expenses and predicted expenses
- Utilising the Django web framework
- Web application used to track experimental data on birds
- Includes report creation, spreadsheet data upload and up-to-date searching
- Web interface means user can access it anywhere with an Internet connection
- Created from ground up using PHP, Postgres, Smarty, and Apache technologies
- Interviewed several different potential users to gather knowledge in the field
Education
- BSc. Computing Science, History Minor (September 2001 - August 2006)
Relevant Skills
- Extensive knowledge of HTML, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL
- Previous experience with MySQL, Python, JQuery, Dojo, C++
- Good coding practices including version control and optimization
- Operated under both scrum and test driven development cycles
- Strong personal skills including good communication, analytical thinking and working in team-based environments
- Adapts well to new technologies and ideas.
Interests and Activities
- Personal web projects
- Hockey pools
- Nature photography
- Blues and jazz music
- Saxophone, piano
- Music festivals
- Cooking
