Nathalie Lussier

CEO at Nathalie Lussier

Quebec, Canada

Current
Past
  • Application Software Developer at Morgan Stanley
  • CPU Firmware Developer at Platform Solutions Inc.
  • Trading Application Developer at Morgan Stanley
Education
  • University of Waterloo
Connections
128 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Nathalie Lussier’s Summary

Software developer interested in web technologies that mix programming and appealing graphics.

Very flexible and open to learning new technologies.

Personal goals include publishing a book and accomplishing my life's purpose.

Nathalie Lussier’s Specialties:

Experienced knowledge of Java, C++, C#, Adobe Flex, OpenGL, Intel Itanium and IBM z/Architecture Assembly, XML, HTML, Visual Basic, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office, CVS, Perforce, ClearCase, computer components installation & software installation and troubleshooting for Windows, Macintosh, Unix and Linux operating systems.
Familiar with Perl, SOAP, Matlab, PHP, JSP, MySQL, SQL, JDBC, ASP, Apache servers, JMETER, VoiceXML, MIPS & M68000 assembly languages & digital video editing.


Nathalie Lussier’s Experience

  • President/CEO

    Nathalie Lussier (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    January 2009Present (11 months)

    Holistic Lifestyle Design Consulting

    Raw Food Coaching

    Web Marketing Consulting

    Writing

  • Application Software Developer

    Morgan Stanley

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Financial Services industry)

    September 2007December 2007 (4 months)

    * Worked closely with clients to design and develop an Adobe Flex interface to display key business data in a refreshing format.
    * Implemented dynamic charts and graphs from XML SOAP responses to give users a visual understanding of the data in Flex and Action Script.
    * Developed an Export to Excel function to retrieve data from Flex into a spreadsheet format that can be saved by users.
    * Wrote end-to-end functionality starting from Flex, through ASP.NET to pass SOAP messages, to coding Java server side database queries and data aggregation.

  • CPU Firmware Developer

    Platform Solutions Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2007April 2007 (4 months)

    -Lead the daily bug status meetings, developed a PHP tool to display transient bug counts, managed the assignment of bugs to developers and tracked their progress.

    -Learned the IBM z/Architecture assembly language by writing, testing and debugging new z/Architecture instructions using Intel's Itanium Assembly language.

    -Leveraged self-modifying code to develop a dynamic debugging tool, written in Intel Itanium Architecture Assembly.

  • Trading Application Developer

    Morgan Stanley

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Financial Services industry)

    May 2006August 2006 (4 months)

    -Designed and developed two new client-side C# view modules while adjusting to changing specifications and time constraints.

    -Leveraged C# serialization and SOAP request/response messages to communicate with the Linux-run server side code while tracing the messages through from C# to Java in Eclipse.

    -Wrote unmarshalling code to take XML and dynamically create columns and rows in a grid and display SOAP response data to traders.

    -Incoporated my modules into the existing pricing form to recalculate prices based on the changing data retrieved from the feeds.

  • Software Developer

    ALT Software

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2005December 2005 (4 months)

    -Became the sole developer for the C#-based test automation project (both build and test managers), implementing over 30 new features while increasing the level of stability and performance of the program.

    -Leveraged C/C++ and OpenGL to create visual test cases to verify a safety critical Aerospace graphics driver.

    -Traced through the graphics driver code and helped driver developers to pinpoint bugs, while acquiring a deeper understanding of graphics and low level programming.

    -Developed keen interpersonal skills by working with QA for the automation program, while catering to the needs of users and keeping the MySQL back-end and the GUI front-end well organized.

  • Speech Application Developer

    Nuance

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2005April 2005 (4 months)

    -Researched and proposed a new database system and implemented the database layer changes with a co-worker.

    -Reimplemented two modules of the Voice Recognition program, performed developer tests, created a personal schedule for time management while meeting release deadlines.

    -Worked with a team of testers and developers to debug and maintain existing code base and also worked remotely with a team from an offsite office.

    -As a Quality Assurance Engineer in 2004 I wrote and debugged Perl scripts, to set up new testing environments for different aspects of the software product.


Nathalie Lussier’s Education

  • University of Waterloo

    20032008


Additional Information

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Nathalie Lussier’s Interests:

writing, reading, raw food preparation, graphics design, martial arts, working out, traveling, faeries

Nathalie Lussier’s Groups:

CUSEC 2005

  •    Waterloo Alumni
  •    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Green
  •    Morgan Stanley Active & Alumni
  •    University of Waterloo
  •    Tweeple

Nathalie Lussier’s Honors:

"Women in IT" Scholarship - Morgan Stanley, 2006
"Senator Frank Carrel Memorial" Scholarship - Queen's University, 2003
"Nortel Networks" Scholarship - Ottawa and Carleton Universities, 2003
"Arthur E. Curtis" Prize for student pursuing Engineering, Stanstead College, 2003
"Computer Science" Prize and "Web Site Club" Prize - Stanstead College 2002, 2003


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