
Software Developer at Lixar IT and Owner, Veddma Webdesign
Ottawa, Canada Area

Software Developer at Lixar IT and Owner, Veddma Webdesign
Ottawa, Canada Area
- Experienced software designer and developer, specializing in web applications
- Mostly work with PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Have designed, developed, and hosted over 60 websites
- Now offering hosting - 300MB for $3/mth and 500MB for $5/mth
Web site design, software development, software design
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)
- Technical lead of the Design and Development team
- Web application design and development
- PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java
- Development of client portals and CMS-driven sites
- LixarCMS development
- Leia (internal project and time management tool) development
- Mapping Lixar's Software Development Life Cycle processes
(Self-Employed; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)
- Website design and maintenance
- Web-related consulting
- Letterhead, logo and banner design
- Web development (PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
December 2005 — March 2006 (4 months)
- Web application development for tracking and reporting student information
- Porting a MS Access database to a PHP/PostgreSQL web application
- Client/Server interface design and development
- Web-based user interface and graphic design
- Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL installation and configuration under Linux
(Government Agency; Research industry)
May 2005 — September 2005 (5 months)
- Struts/MySQL and Struts/Oracle application development
- Web interface design and development
- Caucho Resin installation and configuration under Linux
- Web site design and development with XHTML/CSS
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — December 2004 (4 months)
- WebSphere Application Development Studio Integration Edition plugin development
- WSADIE testing and debugging
- WSADIE test scenarios - creation, correction, execution
- WSADIE string externalization
- Automated testing scripts creation in Rational XDE Tester
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)
- RAD plugin development
- RAD BPEL editor interface design and implementation
- RAD BPEL specification analysis
- RAD BPEL and FDML editors, testing and debugging under Linux and Windows
- RAD BPEL and FDML editors test scenarios - creation, correction, execution
(Research industry)
May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)
- Design and development of Senior Years English Language Arts Assessment Assistant
- XML back-end, Swing user interface, HTML help system
- PDF and on-screen report generation
(Research industry)
January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)
- Servlet-driven database application for storing, accessing and managing contact information with administrative side for internal use, and public side for Kindergarten to Senior 4 website
- Dynamic PDF generation of "Whom Do I Call?" brochure using XML and Apache FOP
- Flash and HTML interfaces for DLITU promotional CD
- Grading application for teachers - Swing interface design
(Research industry)
June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)
- Computational Geometry Research under supervision of Dr. H.Cameron
- Solving pursuit-evasion problems
Master's , Computer Science , 2008 — 2009
Graduate courses taken (each completed with A+):
- Modeling in Software Architecture
- Software Usability
- Systems and Architecture for e-Commerce
- Applied Computational Geometry
- e-Commerce Technologies
- Graduate Seminar
Bachelor's , Computer Science Honours , 1999 — 2005
Bachelor of Computer Science, Honours Co-op program, University of Manitoba,
- Graduated in January, 2005
- Recipient of Guertin Centennial Entrance Scholarship
- On the Dean's Honour List for 2000, 2001
1998 — 1999
Economics, Banking, Accounting 1996 — 1998
- Linux Professional Institute Level 1 Certification
(To verify: https://www.lpi.org/verify, LPI ID: LPI000122664, verification code: mdm4znjgey)
- Web Design Concepts Certification with Brainbench (To verify: http://www.brainbench.com/, profile ID: 5182682)
- Recipient of the Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research Award
- Recipient of Provincial Skills Canada'99 medal for web design
- Participant in National Skills Canada'99 in Kitchener, Ontario
- Recipient of the Golden Web Award for over 15 websites