Complete Life-Cycle Software Professional, Leader, Speaker
Vancouver, Canada Area
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- Project Engineer at Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)
- Public Speaker, Trainer, and Coach at Six Minutes Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
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- Research Analyst at Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)
- Administrator, Meta Editor, Volunteer at Open Directory Project
- Software Developer at America Online (AOL)
- Microscopy Researcher at BC Cancer Research Centre
- Web Architect at BC Cancer Research Centre
- Education
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- The University of British Columbia
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of Saskatchewan
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Andrew Dlugan’s Summary
Technology champion with 15 years of experience in complete life-cycle software development including:
-- business analysis
-- stakeholder management
-- project management
-- team lead and supervision
-- requirements analysis
-- planning
-- estimating
-- budgeting
-- architecture and design
-- development
-- testing and integration
-- operations support
Andrew Dlugan’s Specialties:
* information architecture, usability, web technologies
* software development - requirements analysis, system design, algorithm design, Perl
* communication, public speaking, writing, leadership
Andrew Dlugan’s Experience
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Project Engineer
Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)
(Public Company; MDA; Defense & Space industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
* Initiated and led project to develop employee skills database
* Championed adoption of company-wide corporate intranet wiki -
Public Speaker, Trainer, and Coach
Six Minutes Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
* Founder and author of Six Minutes Presentation Skills Blog, one of the top 10 public speaking sites
* Developed and delivered both technical and soft skills courses and seminars in corporate and public settings
* Coached clients with public speaking and speech writing
* Member of Toastmasters International (non-profit communications and leadership organization) since 2005
*** Award-winning speaker and speech evaluator. Six time provincial finalist, with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes.
*** Toastmasters Division Governor - Responsible for training and coordinating 22 clubs
*** Toastmasters Club Officer -
Research Analyst
Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)
(Public Company; MDA; Defense & Space industry)
January 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 8 months)
* Designed and implemented components for a testbed to evaluate distributed information fusion and dynamic resource management algorithms - CanCoastWatch project
* Designed and implemented image understanding algorithms for Automatic Building Detection (ABD) project -
Administrator, Meta Editor, Volunteer
Open Directory Project
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
October 2000 — October 2006 (6 years 1 month)
Software Developer for Editor Tools:
* Developed a suite of web-based software tools to aid other editors.
* Developed framework to allow translations of editor-produced tools.
* Led initiative to adopt a common authentication system for other software developers.
Volunteer Editor:
* Edited sites and categories of popular Internet directory dmoz.org.
* Led several taxonomy reorganizations.
Administrator / Meta Editor:
* Supervised editorial activities of over 8000 editors.
* Analyzed security of project data and software.
* Led adoption of software bug and feature tracking system.
* Assessed strategic strengths and weaknesses in search marketplace. -
Software Developer
America Online (AOL)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
April 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 7 months)
* Developed tools and improved architecture for the Open Directory Project (ODP, DMOZ) at http://dmoz.org/ which is sponsored by AOL (formerly Netscape, formerly Gnuhoo)
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Microscopy Researcher
BC Cancer Research Centre
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)
September 1996 — January 2005 (8 years 5 months)
* Incorporated digital micromirror devices into the light path of a conventional microscope
* Developed tomographic algorithms to produce 3-dimensional images of tissues
* Aided in the development of a high-tech startup company based on this technology - Digiopt -
Web Architect
BC Cancer Research Centre
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)
September 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 5 months)
* Designed and implemented http://www.bccrc.ca/
* Established the first unified website for all research departments.
* Designed architecture and XML-based content management system.
* Trained employees to add/edit/maintain web content.
Andrew Dlugan’s Education
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The University of British Columbia
Medical Imaging 1996 — 2005
PhD Thesis: Quantitative Microscopy with Digital Micromirror Devices
- Activities and Societies:
- Green College
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University of Saskatchewan
B.Eng. , Engineering Physics , 1991 — 1996
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University of Saskatchewan
B. Sc. , Computer Science , 1991 — 1996
Additional Information
Andrew Dlugan’s Websites:
Andrew Dlugan’s Interests:
-- information architecture, usability, internet, search, wiki, web 2.0, scripting languages, imaging -- public speaking, communication, Toastmasters, motivation theory -- running, literature, photography, travel, woodworking
Andrew Dlugan’s Groups:
Toastmasters International
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Toastmasters International Members
Andrew Dlugan’s Honors:
Partial List of Publications:
* Automatic building detection and 3D shape recovery from single monocular electro-optic imagery. Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XVI. Edited by Kadar, Ivan. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6567, pp. 656716 (2007).
* DMD-enabled confocal microendoscopy. Proc. SPIE Vol. 4251, p. 192-198, Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications V, Valery V. Tuchin; Joseph A. Izatt; James G. Fujimoto; Eds.
* Improvements to quantitative microscopy through the use of digital micromirror devices. Proc. SPIE Vol. 3921, p. 6-11, Optical Diagnostics of Living Cells III, Daniel L. Farkas; Robert C. Leif; Eds.
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