Contract placement in the software development or online development industries in an innovative position where my varied skills will be best used and appreciated.
My duties included spearheading the largest and most programmatically intensive project ever attempted by the company. As team lead, I was responsible for team management, data structure and architectural design of the entire project. Additionally, I was responsible for the design and programming of the project's key Flash application.
While developing my flash skills, I designed, programmed and debugged two proof-of-concept applications. "Rubynoid" is an homage to the classic game "Breakout", and "The Writer's Sledgehammer" is an application meant to inspire and aid in the brainstorming efforts of story generation.
Over the course of five months in 2004, I created their entire enterprise system and online presence in PHP4 and MySQL. This included designing a database, two separate authentication systems, two complete template-driven websites including all graphics, and a complete inventory and order tracking engine.
I was half of the development team that produced IDON's award-winning educational website construction application. My responsibilities included a large portion of the user interface, all of the filesystem functionality, and all of the output code generation. This project produced output in HTML and JavaScript using its own internal data language, and was written in Visual Basic 5.
I was involved with all aspects of development, including project management, data design, and application architecture. My web specialties include highly advanced JavaScript, using on-the-fly DOM generation and AJAX. Additionally, through my problem-solving skills I have developed a strong reputation for solving problems which have proven challenging.
I designed and implemented the comprehensive data model and the early versions of the UI for E-xact's new transaction and user account management system, in MySQL and Ruby on Rails. This includes a wizard engine, internationalization, and AJAX integration.
While at Minisis, I was in charge of the design and implementation of the user interface and visible portions of their three-tier web-based "Termium" project for translators. This was developed in ASP.NET, and the front end included such features as customizable displays and total internationalization.
My main role was the Enterprise Engine architect (as described in the projects section). Additionally, I performed a variety of IT and graphic art functions, and provided all of the technical services Abbyshot used during this time.
Interspersed with postgraduate studies, I performed short project contracts for a number of companies in St. John's to construct a web presence. My clients included the St John's Royal Regatta, Bally Haly Golf & Country Club, and the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University.
In addition to the NewMediaMentor project above, I constructed ASP pages using VBScript, built websites, provided a variety of IT and graphic design services, and contributed to advanced software architecture.
Lead position on Memorial University's 2004 team
Course concentration in software engineering
Available upon request.