Howard Bartel Email & Phone Number

Canada

Coquitlam

Converse with and do/attend activities with clients who may have physical/mental disabilities. Document activities and any changes in client health/behaviour.

Home

Provide care to parent with Alzheimer's disease (until death in January 2014) and to two siblings with Fragile-X Syndrome. Make meals, manage finances, make and drive to appointments, plan outings, etc.

Telecommuting

Rated usefulness of web search results for a given query and user location, following a detailed set of guidelines. Rated relative quality of lists of web search results from different search engine algorithms.

Vancouver

Designed and executed manual and automated tests; Analyzed test results; Documented test procedures and results (Word, Excel, TestRail); Reported issues (Jira); Verified bug fixes; Managed test documentation system; Scripted custom analysis tools; Extracted requirements from customer specifications; Wrote test cases to cover requirements; Prepared canned.

I provide numeric variable language support for automated voice response systems (C++, XML). This involves researching how numbers and numeric phrases (dates, duration, etc.) are spoken in various languages, determining the set of sound clips to be recorded to represent all supported values, and encoding the logic for sequencing the clips so that the.

Wrote Tcl/Tk and bash (linux) scripts to control a series of command-line programs;Added substantial enhancements to complex software systems (Linux C++);Integrated code developed by researchers into production environment;Designed test cases from software requirements; Assisted with pre-release testing, peer code reviews;Conducted structured regression.

Coordinated with computational linguist and other engineers and linguists to develop a customizable engine for a cross-lingual query/search tool (MS Visual C++);Made improvements to the system through analysis of tests;Wrote technical documentation to describe program usage, algorithms used, testing procedures

Software EngineerPorted and maintained legacy software systems for transcribing satellite image data to film and tape (VAX Pascal, Fortran, Unix C++);Provided on-site customer support of geographical mapping system in Germany;Participated in requirements analysis and high-level design for several software subsystems; Designed and implemented two subsystems.