Andrew Dlugan

Current

• Research Analyst at Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)
• Public Speaker at Toastmasters International

Past

• 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

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Education

• The University of British Columbia
• University of Saskatchewan
• University of Saskatchewan

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Public Speaking Blog
• Current Employer - MDA
• The Open Directory

Andrew Dlugan’s Summary

Technology champion with 15 years of experience in complete life-cycle software development.

Andrew Dlugan’s Specialties:

* information architecture, usability, web technologies
* software development - requirements analysis, system design, algorithm design, implementation, Perl
* communication, public speaking, writing, leadership

Andrew Dlugan’s Experience

• Research Analyst

  Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  * Initiated and led project to develop employee skills database
  * Championed adoption of company-wide corporate intranet wiki
  * 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

• Public Speaker

  Toastmasters International

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization focussed on communication and leadership. www.toastmasters.org
  
  * Award-winning speaker and speech evaluator
  * Toastmasters Club Officer

• 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)

• 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

• The University of British Columbia

  Medical Imaging 1996 — 2005

  PhD Thesis: Quantitative Microscopy with Digital Micromirror Devices

  Activities and Societies:

  Green College

• University of Saskatchewan

  B.Eng., Engineering Physics, 1991 — 1996

• University of Saskatchewan

  B. Sc., Computer Science, 1991 — 1996

Additional Information

Andrew Dlugan’s Websites:

• My Public Speaking Blog
• Current Employer - MDA
• The Open Directory

Andrew Dlugan’s Interests:

information architecture, usability, internet, search, wiki, web 2.0, scripting languages, imaging public speaking, communication, Toastmasters, motivation theory literature, photography, travel, woodworking

Andrew Dlugan’s Groups:

Toastmasters International

•    Public Speaking Bloggers
•    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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