• C99 and C++: 3 years of experience through course work, personal projects and competitions
  • Example: Graphical animation of Towers of Hanoi
• php: 6 years of experience through personal projects and competition
  • Example: Image to ASCII art conversion through a web interface
• Python: 2 years of experience through personal projects and competition
  • Example: Animated GIF lexicon of Conway's Game of Life
• JavaScript: 6 years of experience through personal projects
  • Example: Camp sign in/out system
• AutoIt v3: 3 years of experience through personal projects
  • Example: Automated solvers to various word games
• Experienced with Regular Expressions, MySQL, AJAX, JSON, HTML, and CSS
• Currently working towards developing knowledge of bash and perl

• Very comfortable with using the command line in all major operating systems
• Editing: vim, Dev C++, Eclipse, SciTE
• Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
• Currently working towards learning the gnu make build system and the subversion and git revision control systems

• Passionate about learning new technologies - vast majority of technical knowledge was self taught out of interest
• Teaching: developed while explaining technical concepts at Virtual Ventures Science and Technology Summer Camp to groups of 10 to 40 people

• Honours Software Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, September 2009 - Present
• Relevant Courses:
  • CS 137 - Programming Principles
    • Topics: C99, recursion, ASCII, Unicode, searching, sorting, bisection method.
    • Grade: 100%
  • SE 101 - Introduction to the Methods of Software Engineering
    • Topics: Risk analysis, computational decision making, project planning, intellectual property.
    • Grade: 92%
• Relevant Assignments:
  • Lego Mindstorms Path Following Robot - SE 101
    • Programmed a Lego Mindstorms RCX to navigate a map using input from light sensors
    • Worked in a group of five to generate source controlled code using subversion
    • Coded in Not Quite C (NQC) - a C like language designed for use with Lego Mindstorms
  • Scribbler Robot Demo - SE 101
    • Developed a demonstration of the Scribbler robot using Python
    • Benchmarked robot for accuracy and consistency with motors and sensors
    • Demonstrated ability of robot to write words when provided with a marker
    • Verified that instructions for letters were right by using Python Imaging Library (PIL)

• Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, ON, September 2005 - June 2009

Virtual Ventures Summer Camp, Ottawa, ON, Summers of 2007-2009

• Designed original lesson plans to educate campers aged 10-15 about graphic design, computer science and information security
• Taught groups of up to 40 campers about HTML, CSS and webpage creation through SSH and SCP
• Created online registration system in php and MySQL serving hundreds of parents
• Created AJAX powered camper sign in/out system used by camp instructors throughout summer 2009

Ottawa Carleton District School Board, Ottawa, Ontario, November 2008

• Commissioned to design a system to manage registration for sessions attended by teachers during PD days
• Used JavaScript form validation and a combination of php and MySQL to store data and export to a CSV file
• Completed and delivered the product in two weeks, ready for use by teachers from across the school board

Minota Hagey (Velocity) Residence, Waterloo, ON, January 2010 - Present

• Designed and implemented a system to motivate people to learn through achievements, ranking and competition
• Developed prototype in a weekend in a group of four
• Created using php and MySQL

University of Waterloo, September 2009 - Present

• One of nine students selected to represent the University of Waterloo
• Worked in a team of three to rapidly develop and implement solutions coded in C++ to problems within five hours
• Debugged code and designed test cases on the fly during competition
• 13th place finish out of 113 teams in East Central North America

University of Waterloo Class of 2014 Software Engineers, September 2009 - Present

• Ensure that facilities owned by the Software Engineering department are maintained in a usable state
• Set up a virtual private server for class to provide remote shell access, web space, MySQL database access, and revision controlled project management
• Elected by Class of 2014 Software Engineers

Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, ON, September 2007 - June 2008

• Parsed a Google Calendar and output events in custom format for front page of www.lisgar.ca
• Made website cross-browser compatible with HTML and CSS
• Created using php and MySQL

• Software Engineering Entrance Scholarship, University of Waterloo, September 2009
  • Awarded to students of academic excellence entering the Software Engineering program
• President's Scholarship of Distinction, University of Waterloo, September 2009
  • Achieved above 95% Grade 12 average
• Student's Council Physics Prize, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, June 2009
  • Highest final grade in Grade 12 Physics
• The Jerry Dermer Memorial Prize in Engineering, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, June 2009
  • Awarded to the student with the highest academic standing pursuing engineering in post-secondary studies
• William Aird Ross Scholarship for Grade 12 Math, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, June 2009
  • Highest combined average for Advanced Functions, Calculus and Vectors, and Statistics

• National Bronze Medallist, Canadian Computing Contest, University of Waterloo, February 2009
• 1st Place in Eastern Ontario, Canadian Computing Contest, University of Waterloo, February 2009
• 1st Place Team in Eastern Ontario, Educational Computing Organization of Ontario, April 2009
• 1st Place Team, Algonquin SAT Programming Olympics, May 2008 and 2009
• Best User Interface in Show, Algonquin SAT Programming Olympics, awarded by Computer-Human Interaction in the Ottawa Area (CapCHI), May 2008 and 2009