Devon Austen Email & Phone Number

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for the technical roadmap, developing and testing software, and overseeing the technical aspects of company projects.

-Member of a small development team working on the PxPlus language and development tools.

-Member of 13-person team developing the Harris D-Series master control automation product line, which includes DOS and Linux based real-time fault-tolerant automation systems, device drivers for proprietary peripheral devices, GUI windows clients, database applications, and network APIs.-Worked on projects including a serial communication framework for device driver plug-ins, a generic device driver plug-in customizable through XML configuration, and control systems for keying and informational display devices.-Responsibilities for each project include all aspects of management and execution, including initial research and development of requirement specifications, design documentation, customer acceptance, implementation, testing, and field troubleshooting.-Development languages include C, C++ on DOS and a proprietary Linux environment.

-Fundraising for MS research.-Participated in the 10 Km walk.

-Helped setup and run the audio and visual equipment for video rooms, and the event stage.-Ran events and anime showings.

- Enthusiastically made contact with alumni and renewed their relationship with the university.- Reliably verified demographic information for the universities records while making sure alumni were comfortable with giving the information.- Successfully informed alumni about fundraising projects and received donations.-Effectively dealt with rejection as opportunity to find out the alumni's problems and help come up with a solution so they could donate.