ALBERT O'CONNOR

(519) 496-7482

amjoconn@alumni.uwaterloo.ca

55 William Street East, Apt 505, Waterloo, ON, N2J 4Z1

Objective and Summary

A driven, mathematically analytical and resourceful software developer seeking a position in the Waterloo region.  Bringing 5 years of development and programming experience, practical leadership experience and ability to quickly learn new technologies. Possessing passion, vision and dedication for solving interesting problems.

Skills

- Experienced with developing, testing and troubleshooting large programs in C++

- Wrote, maintained, and integrated utility, web, and distributed programs in Python

- Designed and integrated UI written in C# with existing code

- Specified and implemented a distributed build farm with web interface in Python

- Able to research, evaluate and synthesize technical information for development

- Background programming in teams and independently

- Developed on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X

- Possesses leadership experience

- Organized and thorough communicator

- Quick and competent learner

Experience

HARRIS CORPORATION

Developer

2003 - 2008

- Worked in a team of five to develop a real-time client/server rendering framework written in C++   on Windows

- Assisted in the redesign of the streaming media subsystem and developed support for   QuickTime

- Designed and implemented distributed build farm software with web interface, both in Python

- Learned, maintained and extended a custom build system written in Python independently

- Solved issues in released legacy software, written in C and C++

- Deployed and maintained a wiki on Linux for the development team

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Turnkey

2004 - 2005

- Helped to solve a wide variety of practical problems

- Researched answers to questions beyond my personal expertise

- Handled money

KELLY'S MUSIC & COMPUTERS

Web Developer

2002

INSCRIBER

Quality Assurance

2001

Education

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

2005

- Honours Bachelors of Mathematics in Computer Science

- Minor in Pure Mathematics

- Focus on Graphics, Distributed Systems, and Programming Languages in 4th year

Positions and Accomplishments

- Senator, University of Waterloo, 2004 to 2005

- Board of Directors, Federation of Students, 2004

- Alan George Award for Leadership and Contribution to Student Life, 2005

- Federation of Students' Leadership Award, 2003

- Recently completed an around the world trip

Interests

Curling, Drama, DJing