Résumé

Original and sole developer for the eSentry for Open Houses app on iOS. eSentry is a tool for realtors to manage open house visitors.

Technologies: iOS, Swift, Firebase

Lead developer for Kidoodle.TV on iOS and tvOS. Kidoodle.TV is easiest described as “Netflix for kids”, and provides video streaming of kids content plus features for parents to control and monitor the viewing habits of their children.

Technologies: iOS, tvOS, Swift, Objective-C, Core Data

OnQ Solutions develops retail displays. I was the sole developer that maintained their iPad app used in their interactive displays used by retailers, including Costco. The app was managed remotely with a combination of custom software and third-party MDM providers.

Technologies: iPadOS, MDM, Objective-C, Python

Led the development of SiteWatch 2 for iOS, an app for monitoring well operations for the oil and gas industry. A significant part of this involved implementing a custom graphing/plotting library after open source (CorePlot) and commercial libraries (Shinobi Controls) failed to provide satisfactory performance for the datasets involved.

Technologies: iOS, Objective-C

Worked remotely with a small iOS development team based in Los Angeles. My primary activity involved designing and implementing a framework for real-time syncing of data between an enterprise iPad application (that used Core Data) and a remote XML-RPC server.

Technologies: iOS, Core Data, Objective-C

Worked on iOS and Android clients (but mostly iOS) for Calgary Scientific’s medical imaging product, ResolutionMD.

Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, Android

During this time I worked on and released That Word 2, a word-finding game for the iPhone and iPod touch that I initially developed while on sabbatical in 2009.

Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, Python, Django, PostgreSQL

Worked remotely with a small, distributed team on toktok, a speech-enabled call control system (akin to Google Voice in many ways).

Technologies: Java, Hibernate, Spring, VoiceXML, MySQL

During this time I took a self-imposed sabbatical to pursue personal interests that weren’t possible while working full-time at Call Genie: train to run a 40 minute 10k; learn to play piano; catch up on reading; work on some personal programming projects; and learn a bit about some programming languages that interest me (notably the many functional languages that have been gaining an audience: Erlang, F#, Scala, Haskell). I began to experiment with iPhone development, and developed That Word, a word-finding game for the iPhone and iPod touch.

During this time, Call Genie acquired BTS Logic, in Århus, Denmark, and PhoneSpots, in San Francisco. I participated in the technical due diligence of these acquisitions. I continued to manage Call Genie’s Canadian development teams in Calgary and Toronto, and for a brief time, also managed the development team in San Francisco.

During this one year period I managed a development team that grew three-fold to about 20 developers, located in Calgary and Toronto. I also continued to contribute to the design and architecture of Call Genie’s flagship product (see below).

As part of a four-person development team, I participated in the design and implementation of Call Genie’s voice-automated 411-like directory service (à la GOOG-411) for finding businesses, and was the principal developer of its VUI (voice user interface) and a variety of related production tools.

Technologies: VoiceXML, Java, JDBC, Struts, Hibernate, Python, MySQL

I assumed the development of Zi’s eZiTap FEP application for the Symbian-based Sony P800 smartphone (FEP is an acronym for Front End Processor, Symbian’s term for a character input method, such as an on-screen keyboard or a hand-writing recognizer). In 2004 this application won the “Best Productivity Application” for Symbian devices in the Handango Champion Awards.

Technologies: C++, Symbian

Kojents is a software consulting and development firm I co-founded in 2001 with colleagues from E-Zone Networks. Kojents provided consulting services and also launched three games for the PocketPC. During this period I wrote Kojents’ gaming library, and developed Kojents’ first two games, WordHunt—a word-finding game—and Switch—a picture puzzle.

Technologies: C++, Windows CE

I was hired to optimize a graph construction algorithm for a new dictionary compression scheme Zi designed based on tries and directed acyclic graphs. I rewrote their prototype implementation, reducing the run-time to generate the optimized graph for an English word list from about thirty minutes to less than one minute.

Technologies: C++, Python

CSI Wireless hired Kojents, a company I co-founded with colleagues from E-Zone Networks, to implement a system to track the manufacturing, testing, and shipping of wireless products, and to synchronize this data between corporate offices in Calgary and manufacturing plants in Mexico. I was one of two principal developers that worked closely with the client on all phases of the project including requirements specification, design, implementation, testing, and support.

Technologies: C#, Java, C, Python, XML-RPC, PostgreSQL

I was hired to conduct research and build an experimental predictive user interface for cellphones that avoided the conventional (and often deeply nested) menu driven interfaces that prevailed at the time. The UI applied natural language processing techniques that allowed the user to type what they wanted to do. The system would then analyze the input and offer a menu of possible actions based on how the input was parsed. Applying techniques from The Reactive Keyboard, the UI also offered adaptive text prediction.

Technologies: Java (J2ME), C

As a member of a four-person development team, I participated in all aspects of designing and implementing software for a multimedia Internet appliance designed for fitness equipment, delivering audio, video, and web features to end-users. In additional to the multimedia components, the system included networking and database back-end components.

Technologies: C++, COM/DCOM, Visual Basic, SQL

During this time I developed Express Sync, the first contact synchronization software available for Palm devices and the Windows Address Book. Express Sync was launched commercially in March 2000, and I officially supported the product till November 2006 (though I’ve helped customers as recently as March 2010 that are—amazingly—still using the product).

Technologies: C++

Specialized in computer vision. Designed and implemented an optical music recognition system that “reads” scanned images of music scores. I placed second, out of 657 eligible candidates, in the Governor Generals Gold Medal competition for my research and thesis work.