About Me

Research Experience

Haystack Project, MIT, Cambridge, MA (Aug. 2000 to present)

• Built and evaluated a system for supporting exploration needs of experienced software developers.
• Designed a system to automate information exploration and navigation.
• Designed, implemented and integrated a custom language into Haystack to ease templating and interaction of HTML pages with our server.

Software Engineering Group, University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (May 2000 to Aug. 2000)

• Researching the practical applications of WML and VXML for IBM.
• Working on a conversion utility for intelligently converting web-sites to VXML.

Intelligent Sensing Systems, University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (Sep. 1999 to Dec. 1999)

• Researched on various topics relating to digital image processing.
• Worked on implementing real-time compression on a microprocessor for cameras.

Parallel and Distributed Systems Group, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (Sep. 1997 to Dec. 1997)

• Researched the design of a Java Virtual Machine and assisted in its implementation.
• Developed routines for loading Java class files into the virtual machine.

Industry Experience

Software Design Engineer, 3C Infotech, Waterloo, ON (Jan 2001 to Aug. 2001)

• Developed a system to support transparent IP-tunneling between multiple disjoint networks.

Product Development Lead, Watminds Consulting, Toronto, ON (Sep. 2000 to Dec. 2000)

• Managed a group of 5 developers in developing an instant messaging-based auction platform.
• Designed and implemented the core of the Noah project.

Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corp., Mountain View, CA (Jan 2000 to Apr. 2000)

• Implemented functionality to do lossless image manipulation in Microsoft Office.
• Added functionality to increase accessibility for selecting objects in Office Art.

Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA. (May 1999 to Aug. 1999)

• Researched various Web Technologies to convert a tax management package to a web-based implementation.
• Re-architected and implemented a hierarchical data storage provider.

Test Technology Engineer, PMC-Sierra, Vancouver, BC (Sep. 1998 to Dec. 1998)

• Gained extensive experience in debugging gate-level models of devices in Verilog HDL for PowerFault-IDDQ.
• Automated various tasks in debugging models using Perl.

Software Engineering Aide, Motorola Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON (Jan. 1998 to Apr. 1998)

• Took part in the test design, plan and scripts execution to find bugs in the system.
• Wrote scripts in C for simulating messages sent by mobile radios to a real-time application in a site controller.

Junior Software Engineer, Castek Software Factory, Toronto, ON (May 1997 to Aug. 1997)

• Added functionality, designed windows and tested operations for components.
• Created standards for test harnesses in client/server relational database operations of components.

Junior Network Analyst, VoiceStream Wireless, Chicago, IL (Dec. 1996 to Jan. 1997)

• Produced computer models to assist in identification of weaknesses in GSM network components.
• Designed and implemented algorithms to accurately calculate complex traffic related functions.