| 1995- |
Jade Internet Development Inc.
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| 1994-1995 |
Sabatical.
Studied the design and construction of finite autonomous state machines for use in the telephony industry, including IVR's, Voice Recognition, Speech to Text, Text to Speech, plus systems for combining network routing with telephone switching to coordinate access between the Internet and the telephone network. Studied methodologies in small business management. |
| 1986-1994 | Network and Central Computing Facility Manager,
Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF), 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, (604) 222-1047 Did everything relating to networking at TRIUMF, including maintenance and configuration of routers, bridges, servers, hubs, organization of topology and allocation of IP addresses, plus trouble shooting, and upgrades using all types of hardware and software tools on all platforms and all operating systems (VMS, Unix, and DOS). Implemented BITnet, HEPnet, and BCnet (the B.C. branch of the internet) at Triumf. Regular attendee of most InterOp and CAnet conferences, as well as sessions on implementation of ATM hosted by the American DOE. Also managed the Data Analysis central computing facility, and provided support to the Cyclotron Controls, and about 250 other machines in several dozen divisions and departments around the site. Beta-tested the first versions of Mosaic and the World Wide Web, making us the first Beta test site in Canada on the Web. (Not a big deal given the fact that HTML was created at CERN, and TRIUMF is affiliated with CERN.) Colaberated with Misha Kopcakov at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Moscow to bring their mailers and other Internet software into synch after it became okay for Russia to have official presence on the net. Reported to John Macdonald, Physicist and overseer of computing issues at Triumf. |
| 1981-1985 | Software Engineer, Principal Group Ltd., Edmonton.
Designed and wrote PGL's online banking system for their American operations, and their U.S. dollar savings account for Canada. Did statistical work for the department of Investments (orthoganol factor analysis of variance). Showed accounting a way to solve a problem with the anualization of their General Ledgers using formulas borrowed from physical chemistry, and showed Investments how to increase their mutual fund redemption floats by using a statistical procedure rather than the standard equation out of the accounting texts. It might be relevant to note that at no time have I ever actually taken a course in computer science, yet by my third year I was tutoring computer science students at the U of L. When I started at PGL I had never seen a GEAC before, nor heard of the ABL and ZOPL languages, and in a year was writing an entire banking system single handed, including design. When I started at TRIUMF I had never seen a VAX before, nor had any experience with a network, and within six months was maintaining of all of the above. |
Related experience: | |
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Have done lots of consulting on hardware and
custom software
problems for the public and private sector, including a POS system
that's still the most cost effective at customization and has
the lowest cost of ownership in the industry.
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| 1984 | Disassembled the rom of a Toshiba word processor, decifered it,
wrote a boot and bios, burned that into an eprom, and brought the
machine up as a CP/M system. Designed and built an interface card
to enable that machine to talk to a Chroma synthesizer, wrote the
device drivers and software for recording, editing, and playing
back music, plus stuff for doing remote control of synthesizer
internals.
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| 1982 |
Was a consultant on Statistics to the University of Alberta Hospital
from 1981-1984.
My speciality is Orthogonal Factor Analysis with unequal
group sizes to reveal hidden effects.
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| 1980 |
As an undergrad wrote software to aglutinize the morphemes and
phonemes of the Blackfoot language according to the lexical and
syntactical rules as defined by Dr. Franz.
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| 1981 | Designed and implemented software models of biological systems
for Dr. Kunuso at the U of L. The lung model was used by
experimentors to do research on collapsed lungs.
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Wrote many games. Have been published in Computing Canada twice.
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Experience not related to computers: | |
| 1971 |
Finalist in the Southern Alberta Regional Science Fair, became the
youngest person to date to be promoted to the National Finals (in
McMaster University that year). Had to receive a special dispensation
to be allowed to attend the Nationals because I was in the eigth grade
and up until then they had a rule that you had to be in highschool.
Study was on the effects of Cyclamates on the development of Chick Embryos. |
| 1973 |
Made two animated cartoons, of 11 and 6 minutes in length, using single
stop (rather than the 2/4/8 frames per stop normal ratio).
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| 1973 | Won the Southern Alberta Regional Social Studies Fair.
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| 1974 | Southern Alberta represenative to the North-Western American Debating
Championship, Helena, Montana, three minute impromptu class.
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| 1974 |
Southern Alberta representative to the United Nations Science Seminar,
Edmonton, Alberta.
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| 1975 |
Started as cameraman at local T.V. station, worked up to switcher, and
within four months was heading local production. Best production was
a six part series on nuclear power and weaponry, including an animated
nuclear attack on Mealstrom Airforce base in Montana.
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| 1975-1976 |
Member of three theater companies: Actor with speaking parts in the first,
trombonist in the pit orchestra for the second, and light/sound/effects
technician for the third.
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| 1977 |
T.A., first and second year Calculous, U of L.
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| 1977-1980 |
Hike Trails Director, Southern Alberta Regional Service Corps.
Spent the summers exploring the mountains from Waterton Park north to the Crows nest Pass, West from the Flathead Valley and East to the Prairies, mapping out trails and writing trail logs describing best locations for camp sites for a provincial government plan to develop a provincial park in the regions. Also taught basic wilderness survival to groups of scouts working on their Chief Scout award. This was how I put myself through school. Only almost got eaten by grizzlies twice. |
| 1978 |
Student Representative, Faculty of Mathematics, U of L.
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| 1979 | D.J., Student Radio
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| 1979 | U of L track and field team, long distance. |
| 1980 | City of Lethbridge track and field team, long distance.
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| 1980 |
Rhodes Scholar Candidate.
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| 1981 |
Did study on the Commorison effect, a curious phenomena reported
by a Rhomanian on the attenuation of the activity of biological
enzymes by periodic exposures to ambient light.
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Programming Skills | |
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C/C++, Basic, ABL, Zopl, Assembler, Java, Perl, PHP, mySQL, Pascal etc.
I have never had trouble learning any programming language and tend to simply adopt them as required. I understand the basic theory of how all computers work, and therefore understand the underlying purpose and intent of all 2GL, 3GL, and 4GL languages. | |
Interests and Hobbies | |
| Philosophy, Musical composition, Genetics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cosmology, Relativistic and Quantum physics, Ecology, Evolution, Art (pencil and paint), Animation, History, Current Events, Political Geography, Climatology, Astronomy, Neuropsychology, Neuropharamcology, and Writing. | |
Other Notes of Interest | |
| People think I am a good writer; thorough in the essentials, yet with a talent for condensing large, detailed concepts into simple, readable, abstract sized briefs. |