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Member of core architecture team for a financial trading system at a Chinese financial company. I was responsible for the design and implementation of underlying technologies such as communication, object serialization and memory management.I designed and wrote a serialization protocol. This was initially written in Java, and then ported to C# and C++. A zero-copy design, which lazily serializes and deserializes in place instead of creating, copying and destroying large objects… Show more Member of core architecture team for a financial trading system at a Chinese financial company. I was responsible for the design and implementation of underlying technologies such as communication, object serialization and memory management.I designed and wrote a serialization protocol. This was initially written in Java, and then ported to C# and C++. A zero-copy design, which lazily serializes and deserializes in place instead of creating, copying and destroying large objects. Additionally, the protocol supports encryption, allowing messages to be encrypted with multiple keys so that different users can handle the same message but only see the data that they are entitled to.I also wrote a SQL-like query language that allows for selection of messages based on fields within an object. Although all object types could be used, if the object was generated by the serialization protocol the language would be able to use this knowledge to access object field values in a few nanoseconds. Show less

I was one of the core developers of AmbrosiaMQ, which is a high performance messaging system designed for global-scale systems. In the course of my employment with U1 I had managed geographically diverse development teams, developed many enhancements to AmbrosiaMQ, and consulted with software companies implementing JMS on top of their messaging products.

Development of core engine for OLAP product, including high-performance CORBA with C/C++/Java/DCOM bindings and custom scripting language modeled on Visual Basic syntax to tie it all together. Big Data long before it was called Big Data (and when a few TB was huge).

POSIX standards development, software development, consulting, testing and porting. Development and support of Lex, YACC, AWK, POSIX conformance test suite. Porting POSIX to IBM MVS, SunOS, DOS, Windows, HP MPE, etc.

At Mitel I was an intern working on their circuit board layout CAD system. Programming in MainSAIL, I worked on a program to clean up CAD drawings. While testing, I discovered that the Mitel line card (used to connect a phone line to the phone switch) was not powered, and only worked because the card contained very few low-power (CMOS) parts and the input lines provided enough power to (usually) run the card. The card had a high failure rate due to this problem.

At Bell I worked in their “Living Lab”, which investigated new technologies for use within Bell. Much of my work focused on a mobile networking project, using a somewhat portable device that weighed 20 pounds and would network at 9600 baud while walking around. Most code was written in C.

At Metlife I interned with an actuary, writing code in FORTRAN to accurately calculate future values for a pension system.

I worked on software and hardware jobs for clients such as the City of Ottawa, engineering and accounting firms. I wrote a device driver for the QNX real-time operating system to interface an Apple drive controller on an IBM PC. Most programming was done in C.