Accomplishments
In the Fall of 2008, I began work on my Masters of Science in the department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. My graduate studies are also being supported by a scholarship from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
In September 2008, I presented my first publication at the Visual Languages and Human Centric Computer conference in Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. In November 2008, my second publication was presented at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work conference in San Diego, California. I will be presenting my third publication during the SUITE workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering in May 2009.
In October 2005, I also founded my own business called Student Geeks Inc. The business is in the business of providing technical support to both businesses and individuals. This company provides hardware, virus removal, and software configuration support.
Skills
During my time as both Vice President of Events for the Computer Science Undergraduate Society and as a project manager on course projects I gained number of interpersonal skills. These include planning, organizating, co-ordinating, and communication skills. Due to the large amount of work load from both my courses, and these two positions, I also gained a large amount of experience with time management.
Interests
I am particularily interested in the human computer interaction, software engineering, tool support, search systems and web based systems areas of computer science. I have found that a number of existing software systems do not have a particular focus on how the user will use the system, the users strengths, and weaknesses.
Overall my biggest interest is making systems work for people.
Other Information
For anyone that is interested in more information about me, I recommend checking out my Publications and Projects. There is also more information regarding my work experience on my LinkedIn Profile or regarding more general topics on my Google Profile.