Scott Kirkwood's Résumé

Rua República Argentina 430/204 Belo Horizonte, MG 30315-490, Brazil
Home: 011 +55 (31) 3287-3755 Cell Phone: 011 +55 (31) 8819-6097 Fax: (617) 812-2428

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E-mail: scott@forusers.com Web Site: www.ForUsers.com Blog: scottkirkwood.blogspot.com CPF: 013040106 Nationality: Canadian

Google, Inc. - September 2006 until 2009
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Software Engineer • Became a full-time Google engineer working in Java, Python and C++.

Sysmap Solutions, S/A - March 2005 to August 2006
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Computer Consultant • Created a a production system in Java for the celular company TIM in São Paulo to import varios text files into a few database tables. Program was complicated by the need to retrieve the files via SFTP and be able to recover and continue from any failure. • Worked at Sysmap for Telemig Celular mostly in Java, Python and C++. Wrote a Workflow system in Java that runs in JBoss. Successfully replaced their older Vantive Workflow system with less resources, better error handling and an easy system for upgrades. Went into production on time with almost no problems.

Sysmap Solutions, S/A - July 2004 to February 2005
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Computer Consultant • Worked for at Convergys on a project for Vivo creating programs in C++ and Java. Designed a wrote a Java system to safely unify duplicate customer data on a production system.

Ventus IT Solutions, S/A - November 2003 to May 2004
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Computer Consultant • Contracted by Ventus to build a Integration Server in Java, Python and XSLT. Also built an editor (IDE) using the in wxPython and integrated with Subversion.

Schlumberger Sema - September 2002 to December 2003
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Computer Consultant • Continued the projects for Telemig Celular for a different parent company.

ForUsers - August 2002 to August 2004
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Consultant • Created a Python and C++ application which tracked passive markers from a video animation used for gait analysis.

Renaissance do Brasil - November 2001 to August 2002
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Computer Consultant • Worked on a project for the cell phone company Telemig Celular. • Wrote Java services which worked with OIF for PeopleSoft/CRM. • Wrote XSLT transformers to transform XML. • Designed Python programs to perform unit and integration testing.

ForUsers - November 2001 to November 2002
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Consultant • Designed two PHP web applications for two professors at the University UFMG. • Used MySQL for database storage. • Created dynamic (DHTML) web pages that worked both in Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers.

Samarco Mineração SA - November 1998 to April 1999
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Consultant • Created a ActiveX web application which views and prints Crystal Reports documents over the intranet. • Used Visual C++ and ATL to design the component. • Created an over-the-web installer in C++.

Hummingbird Communications Ltd. - August 1998 to April 2000
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Senior Software Developer • Worked remotely in Belo Horizonte over the internet - continuing the work I had been doing in Canada. • Among other things, created a middle-tier to connect to Oracle Express and Microsoft's OLE DB for OLAP.

Andyne Computing Limited - March 1995 to August 1998
Kingston, Ontario
Product Manager • Lead a team of developers, which wrote the commercial product PªBLO (now called BI/Analyze) and CubeCreator. • PªBLO was written from scratch for Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 using C++ and MFC. • Acted as manager to eight others in the team including technical writing, quality assurance, a development assistant, and several software developers. • Conceived and designed much of the user interface and technical enhancements. • Gave seminars in C++ to other developers. • Continued performing some software development as I managed. • Gathered experience in C++, MFC, Win32, OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP, Client-Server, multi-threading, OLE (client, server, automation, ActiveX, etc.), Java, HTML, XML, and VB. • Note: Andyne was later bought out by Hummingbird Communications Ltd.

Andyne Computing Limited - April 1993 to March 1995
Kingston, Ontario
Senior Software Developer • Wrote the connectivity layers to Oracle's SQL*Net, Sybase's DB-Library, Microsoft's ODBC, Hyperion's Essbase and Informix Metacube. • Wrote many of the C++ classes now used throughout the company. • Wrote an installer in C++. • Wrote and maintained code on the Macintosh using MacApp in Pascal.

Bishop's University - July 1990 to July 1991
Lennoxville, Québec
System Administrator • Worked as system's administrator for a Sun UNIX network. • Designed and wrote a software metering program both on the client and server in C++. • Wrote a PCL parser to count and charge students for laser printer pages. • Wrote an on-line student questionnaire. • Wrote a computer reservation program. • Wrote system software for both UNIX and DOS. • Taught mini-courses to professors on UNIX. • Published a computer center newsletter. • Installed both UNIX and PC software for both student and professor use. • Was given the task of networking 3 Suns servers to 38 personal computers and 4 printers, despite the fact that neither I, nor anyone else had any UNIX experience. • Hired and managed 14 computer consultants who worked as monitors in the Cole Computer Center.

Champlain Regional College - January 1991 to May 1991
Lennoxville, Québec
C.E.G.E.P. Teacher • Taught 420-914-75 Introduction to C Programming Language to 15 students in the Computer Information System's department.

Bishop's University - May 1989 to July 1990
Lennoxville, Québec
Computer Programmer and Research Assistant • Astrophysics research assistant to Dr. Lorne Nelson. • Developed programs in Pascal to display graphs of stellar functions. • Wrote utilities in C to input and manipulate tabular data. • Maintained FORTRAN programs written by Dr. Nelson. • Used Mathematica and Sygraph to solve and display functions. • Used TeX, a typesetting language, to produce photo ready articles for publication in journals.

Champlain Regional College - April 1988 to September 1988
Lennoxville, Québec
Computer Programmer • Designed and wrote Karel, a robot simulation designed to teach the basics of Pascal programming. Written in Turbo Pascal this program interpreted Karel programs written by the student complete with integrated text editor and map design screen (for the robot's "world"). • Wrote a keyboard-typing tutor to teach students the keystrokes of applications like Word, Excel, and WordPerfect.

La Brasserie Labatt Limittée - April 1987 to August 1987
Montréal, Québec
Computer Operator • Responsible for the backup of Labatt's 4 DEC mainframe computers. • Also responsible for the output and maintenance of Labatt's three high-speed printers.

La Brasserie Labatt Limittée - April 1986 to August 1986
Montréal, Québec
Database Programmer • Designed and wrote a dBase III application complete with user documentation (French and English) for Labatt's marketing department.

Chimo! Magazine - Summers of 1984 to 1985
Montréal, Québec
Circulation Manager and Data Entry Operator • Upgraded Chimo!'s circulation list of 15,000 from hand-typed cards to computer database. • Maintained both lists as change of address forms came in.

Self employed - Summers of 1981 to 1984
Montréal, Québec
Magician • Entertained children for birthday parties. • Was given a good review in Montréal Calendar Magazine. • Did a few performances for groups greater than 200 in both English and French.

Queen's University - September 1991 to April 1992
Kingston, Ontario
Master's of Science (Computer Science)
Received the Frank Carrel Scholarship.

Bishop's University - September 1986 to April 1990
Lennoxville, Québec
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
Minored in Mathematics. Received the Vice-Chancellor's Award (1990) - the third highest academic award given in the University, Graduation with Distinction (1990), Albert Kwong Award (1989), Dean's list (1989).

Champlain Regional College - September 1983 to April 1987
Lennoxville, Québec
DEC (Social Sciences)
This two year college is unique to Québec.

Loyola High School - September 1981 to April 1986
Montréal, Québec
High School Leaving Ceritificate
Loyola is a Private High School. French immersion program.

Visual C++- 16 years
My first experience with C++ was when it first came to DOS under Zortech C++ in 1990. I have been using Visual C++ exclusively for more than 15 years. I have taught courses in C++ and have given informal seminars on the subject as well.

Python- 8 years
Python is one of my favorite programming languages. I've written several larger projects using Python and wxPython.

Java- 6 years
At Telemig Celular did extensive development in Java. I also wrote an Integeration Server in Java which passes messages using XML and XSLT.

PHP- 4 years
I have written several large web projects in PHP.

Pascal- 4 years
I have stopped using Pascal since about 1993. However, I had been using it extensively around that time.

OLAP/BI- 5 years
I worked exclusively in the field of BI and OLAP while at Andyne and Hummingbird.

Visual Basic- 3 years
I have used Visual Basic mostly for testing purposes, and for small projects.

JavaScript- 11 years
I have used JavaScript and AJAX for many web projects.

HTML/DHTML- 13 years
I used to and still write most of my HTML by hand instead of using an HTML editor. Also created WML pages for my cell phone.

XML/XSLT- 3 years
This document was written using XML and XSLT. I also wrote more than a hundred transformers for Telemig Celular.

Windows 32 API- 16 years
Extensive knowledge of Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT and even CE.

UNIX- 4 years
Strong knowledge of the Sun OS, Linux and FreeBSD.

Macintosh- 3 years
Wrote my Master's thesis on the Macintosh and worked my first two years at Andyne programming on the Macintosh.

wxPython- 2 years
My knowledge of MFC has helped in learning this excelent cross-platform GUI toolkit very quickly.

Boost- 2 years
Boost is an open source, template based, C++ library. I have helped a small with the development of the library and used it for some of my Python work.

User Interface Design- 6 years
Much of my focus in the last 6 years has been in the area of effective interface design.

Teaching- 1 year
I taught C and C++ at College and University level. Also gave several informal C++ seminars.

Piano- 4 years
I have rekindled my interest in playing the piano.

Sports
I like playing tennis, squash, golf, billiards and windsurfing. I have also been known to fly planes, play volleyball, badminton, and go cycling.

Weight Log
A Google App Engin (GAE) program to monitor my weight and exercise. Also uses Google API Visualization for showing graphs.

Dynamic Typography
A library to show cool looking presentations using Python. Uses pyglet and cocos2d in Python to show a cool presentation with animation. Inspired by the presentations of Laurence Lessig.

Clibpoard Modifier
A wxPython program which can modify you clipboard contents in a variety of ways. Uses a plugin architexture with 17 plugins (so far).

DOT to SVG
DOT is language for creating diagrams quickly and easily. Dot has support for outputting to SVG and to PNG except the diagrams are a little plain looking. This program spruces it up a little by adding shadows and rounded rectangle to the SVG.

MM to OpenOffice Presentation Format
This is a simple utility to convert a FreeMind mind-map (.mm) into an OpenOffice presentation (odp). The root node becomes the start page and each top level node below that becomes a slide. Lower level nodes become increasingly nested lists.

MM to S5
A small routine to convert a MindMap from FreeMind into an S5 (HTML+javascript) presentation.

MM to Meeting Minutes
Program to take notes written with FreeMind into HTML meeting notes. The notes are ordered by time and person.

Spin a Number effect for Gimp
Creates a gimp image suitable to save as an animated gif that spins from 0 to 1 (for example) and then stays at one (i.e. animates only once). It can create numbers that spin up, like an odometer, or numbers that spin down, like an odometer going backwards.

Big Pixels plugin for Gimp
A Python Gimp plugin to take a small image and blow it up with numbered X and Y axes and a superimposed grid. I used this to help create pixelblock images.

Big Pixels plugin for Gimp
A Python Gimp plugin to elarge a small sprite to look good when printed on a plastic banner. See my blog where I describe how I use it for my son's MAME console.

LED Matrix Tools
Routines in Python to send output to an Arduino LED matrix I created. Also useful for creating text banners.

My Time Zones
A small wxPython routine to show the timezones I'm interested in. Uses pytz.

Monitor Output
A routine that monitors the STDOUT and or STDERR and performs actions based on what it found. Uses a plug-in mechanism to make it more flexible. I use this to monitor a server and have it show a notification when it has started listening to a port.

XML to DDL
I started this project with the idea of standardizing the various dialects of data definition languages (DDLs). It grew so that you can compare two different versions of a database schema and it will automatically output the DDL statements required to bring one database up-to-date with the other.

wxOptParse
I started this project because I have a lot of python routines which I use regularly that has a lot of command line arguments throught the excellent OptionParse library. I realized, with a bit of work, I could show these argumens in a dialog box with checkboxes, radio buttons and the line complete with help inside the dialog box. This is all possible without changing a line in the original python program.

SciTE
SciTE is a text editor written in C++ which works in Windows and Unix. I wrote some C++ code which extends its XML capabilities. I use this editor on a daily basis.

Gnucleus
Gnucleus is a C++ program that downloads file from the Gnutella network (similar to Napster). I wrote some code for the tabbed interface and some graphics for showing disk usage.

English
English is my native tongue. Compared to most programmers my written English is quite excellent.

Portuguese
I have lived in Brazil for 11 years.

French
Living in Quebec most of my life I learned quite a bit of French. I was also in the French immersion program where half my courses were taught in French.

German
Spoken.

Scott Alexander Kirkwood, M.Sc.

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