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Abbotsford, Bc, Canada

Abbotsford, Bc, Canada

Contracting to various companies (PLATO Learning, Themis Program Management, MoveDigital, Global Eduation & Learning Community) to provide various design, development, system and network administration, and consulting services.

Burnaby, Bc, Canada

Agassiz, Bc, Canada

Agassiz, Bc, Canada

Sr. Software Engineer for the www.curriki.org website.

Assisted various non-profit clients with their systems at the Hurricane Electric datacenter in Fremont. Installed various operating systems, configured network interfaces, helped install and configure console management services, statistics monitoring, security monitoring, helped manage network switches, ran cables, helped with the website accessable by clients to provide for network and other client information.

Mountain View, California

Responsible for the development and integration of back-end systems and personalization components for a large subscription based website. Responsible for integration between various E-Learning systems. Responsible for implementation of navigation and library components for an education website in PHP. Was PLATO's representative to the Schools Interoperability Framework Association (www.sifinfo.org). Responsible for negotiations with third party software vendors and subsequent incorporation of third party software. Provided direction and leadership to other engineers in design and implementation of web applications, especially in the area of security. Provided configuration expertise for installation and performance tuning web (Apache), email, database (Oracle and MySQL), and application servers. Provided technical expertise to IT in troubleshooting various difficulties. Provided evaluation of software tools, components and hardware configurations to executive management.

Mountain View, California

NetSchools was acquired by Plato Learning in 2002.Responsible for the development and integration of the back-end systems and personalization components for a large subscription based website. Provided design and implementation of a unified login system incorporating an LDAP server. Responsible for implementation of navigation for an education website in PHP. Responsible for negotiations with third party software vendors and subsequent incorporation of third party software. Provided direction and leadership to other engineers in design and implementation of web applications, especially in the area of security. Provided configuration expertise for installation and performance tuning of a VPN, LDAP server, web server, email server, and application servers. Provided technical expertise to other engineers and system administrators in troubleshooting various difficulties. Provided evaluation of software tools, components and hardware configurations to executive management.

Newark, California

Responsibilities include designing and developing portions of a message oriented middleware software product using C++ and Java, managing the code integration for the release of the software package, and maintaining a development lab containing fourteen servers.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Managed technical and business operations including server administration and financial administration for a business which provides Internet based solutions such as electronic publishing, multi-media development, kiosk services and interactive education systems. Consulting responsibilities included systems analysis for clients, and developing web based applications using Perl, C and Java.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Designed and developed a UNIX user account management system written in C and Perl which used an Oracle database and included a Web CGI interface. Analyzed a distributed network for integrity of security and developed and applied patches and fixes as needed. Provided network administration. Provided technical consulting to the Electronic Publishing Services help desk.

Saanich, Bc, Canada

Designed and developed a distributed UNIX user account management system written in C which accessed a BASIS+ database. The application was integrated with an electronic mail system used to provide distance education to individuals in British Columbia. Performed system administration tasks on a number of Solaris boses and provided technical support to users throughout BC via phone and e-mail.

Tumbler Ridge, Bc, Canada

B. Sc., Computer Science

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