299 Somerset West, Unit G02, Ottawa ON,
K2P 2L3,
(613)239-0361
jam@jammys.net
JOB
EXPERIENCE
October 2001 - Present
Xandros Inc., 600-1410 Blair Place, Ottawa, Ontario
Quality Assurance - Xandros Desktop Product. Performing and creating testing strategies. Xandros Desktop, is a Linux based desktop Operating System, designed to replace Windows in an office environment. During my time here, I have been involved with testing, design and support issues of the release product, updates, as well as configuration and administration of several of the public and private servers.
July 2001 - December 2001
Open Concept Consulting, PO Box 1023, St. B, Ottawa, Ontario
PHP/MySQL Web developer - WLP Contract. Designed and implemented the web interface for admin, and end users to an on line bibliography searching/filtering system.
May 2000 - July 2001
Rebel.com, 150 Isabella, Ottawa Ontario
Quality Assurance - NetWinder Office Server Product. Performing and creating testing strategies. The NetWinder OfficeServer is a small footprint, low heat, low power, Internet server-in-a-box. It is based on the Linux RedHat OS,operating on a custom hardware computer. During my time here, I have been involved in creating and performing test plans, reporting bugs, making suggestions for changes in the web based GUI, as well as feature enhancements. I have also taken on managerial duties as the team leader.
January 1999 - May 2000
Cyberus Online Inc - an eisa.com company, 99 5th Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario
Unix system administration - One of Ottawa's Largest Internet Service Providers. Daily maintenance of customer accounts including virtual domain (web, email and ftp) services, as well as programming, application/system configuration, and installation of ISDN and ADSL equipment for new customers. Operating Systems in use included Solaris, Solaris x86, and FreeBSD. Programming projects include an IP address allocation tool, and the bulk of the user administration tools for the EduNET project providing uniform Internet access to Carleton University, Ottawa University, and La Cité Collégiale. Most web development done was using PHP3 and the MySQL database system.
May 1998 - January 1999
P&L Communications, 134 Sparks St, Ottawa, Ontario
Linux Contract - installation, configuration, and
Linux training, of Intel Red Hat
5.0,
with KDE, on machines ranging from 486dx4-100 up to
Pentium2-300MHz.
January
1998 - December 1998
Algonquin College - night school professor and teaching assistant
Introduction to Programming in C++ (1st semester) CST5413
C Language (2nd semester) CST5405
January 1993 - May 1998
Algonquin College - paid tutor
specializing in C and C++ Programming, as well as Linux/Unix Administration.
PERSONAL
EXPERIENCE
Software Installations
Debian/Xandros, Red Hat, SuSE and Slackware Linux
FreeBSD x86, Solaris 2.5/2.7 x86 and Sparc
TCP/IP
services such as: INN (news), Sendmail/PostFix/Courier/Exim
(email),
Bind (DNS), Apache w/PHP/SSL (WWW), MySQL (SQL
database), TWIG (Webmail), FreeS/WAN
(IPSec), and OpenLDAP (LDAP Server)
Linux 2.0/2.2/2.4 Kernel fire-walling and masquerading, with the Squid proxy
Hardware
Cisco, Ascend, and Livingston brand hardware
ADSL / ISDN Bridges & Routers
"Cable Modems", and analog modems
10Base2 and 10/100BaseT Ethernet cabling and installation
PC configurations including IRQ settings
Approximately 18 years of programming experience in languages such as:
6502, 8086 & 68000 Assembly Language
C and C++ on computers using Amiga OS, MS-DOS/Windows and various forms of Unix
PHP and MySQL web based database programming
FORMAL
EDUCATION
September 1994 - August 1998
Computer Engineering/Computer Technology - Computer Science
Algonquin College, Rideau Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
September 1992 - 1995
Computer Systems Technician Diploma *
Algonquin College, Rideau Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada