Ryan Allen

Current

• QNX Resident (Germany) at QNX Software Systems
• QNX Resident (Germany) at Harman/Becker Automotive Systems

Past

• Automotive Software Developer at QNX Software Systems
• Support Developer at QNX Software Systems
• Software Specialist at Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd.

• Programmer Analyst at Kingston Online Services
• Technical Support at Kingston Online Services

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Education

• University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
• St. Lawrence College

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Industry

Computer Software

Ryan Allen’s Summary

Software developer with an interest in developing to standards. Experience in embedded software development, database-driven software, and IP networking from a variety of roles.

Ryan Allen’s Specialties:

QNX, real-time software, embedded applications, database-driven software, POSIX, IP networking

Ryan Allen’s Experience

• QNX Resident (Germany)

  QNX Software Systems

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; HAR; Computer Software industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

• QNX Resident (Germany)

  Harman/Becker Automotive Systems

  (Public Company; HAR; Automotive industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

• Automotive Software Developer

  QNX Software Systems

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; HAR; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  - Work directly with members of customer project teams to help in developing and delivering leading-edge automotive infotainment systems.
  - Maintain source branches for core deliverables for multiple customer projects, including the core operating system and a full-featured multi-media system. Back-porting fixes and making new fixes available to other branches.
  - Work with customer project teams to maximize useful information for QNX to act on. Narrow problem cases for QNX's R&D teams, providing detailed analysis of problems and suggested solutions.
  - Assist in the preparation and delivery of multiple project-specific releases. Provide input on relevant change requests.

• Support Developer

  QNX Software Systems

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; HAR; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  - Responsible for support of entire QNX Software product range with emphasis on kernel, system libraries, filesystems and networking/protocols. Supported customer development and engineering teams developing on QNX platforms using QNX and GNU tools and utilities for embedded and other applications.
  - Customer-oriented software development tasks include development of example applications, review and debugging of customer projects, and providing information and recommendations on system and architecture design.
  - Direct customer-facing role requiring strong communication skills, self-direction, and time and stress management; representation of company to customer base.

• Software Specialist

  Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd.

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; FCT; Oil & Energy industry)

  February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)

  - Supported and maintained existing custom real-time control software (primarily C and C++ on QNX RTOS v4), including end-user support for system engineers.
  - Responsible for maintaining fuel cell target software image (QNX RTOS v4), and development servers (QNX RTOS v4, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD).
  - Participated in development of a multi-tiered, multi-platform data management system utilizing a number of tools and technologies, including: C, C++, PHP, UNIX shell scripting, GNU GCC, Watcom C, PostgreSQL, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, FTP, CVS, HTML, and XML.

• Programmer Analyst

  Kingston Online Services

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2001 — March 2005 (3 years 8 months)

  - Wrote PERL scripts, Bourne shell scripts, utilities (C, on Solaris and GNU/Linux), and web-based applications (PHP, MySQL) for staff use to simplify daily operations and complex tasks.
  - Developed, documented, and tested procedures and scripts for systems administration staff to ease major software upgrades and transitions.
  - Responsible for development, integration, and maintenance of customer management system.

• Technical Support

  Kingston Online Services

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2000 — February 2005 (4 years 6 months)

  - Diagnosed account and network problems to provide sufficient, relevant information to systems administration staff for rapid problem resolution.
  - Provided telephone and in-office technical support to clients.
  - Trained new part-time and full-time staff, and resolved escalated support issues.

Ryan Allen’s Education

• University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

  Honours Baccalaureate in Commerce , Management , 2006 — 2011 (expected)

• St. Lawrence College

  Computer Engineering Technology , 2001 — 2004

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