Scott Alexander Kirkwood

República Argentina 430/204 Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais 30315-490 Brazil (31) 3284-3755 (31) 9985-0707 (617) 812-2428

scott@forusers.com www.ForUsers.com 013040106-43 013040106-43 Canadian These are the formal institutions that I have attended. However, I feel that education is an ongoing process that doesn't end at the classroom door ... as with any programmer, I spend a great deal of time educating myself in the latest technologies (with a book and magazine bill to prove it, unfortunately) and I also stay fresh by working on shareware programs. Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Computer Science Master's of Science Received the Frank Carrel Scholarship. Bishop's University Lennoxville, Québec Computer Science Bachelor of 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 Lennoxville, Québec Social Sciences DEC This two year college is unique to Québec. Loyola High School Montréal, Québec High School Leaving Ceritificate Private High School. French immersion program. 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 . I have taught courses in C++ and have given informal seminars on the subject as well. I have essentially stopped using Pascal since 1993 I have worked exclusively in the field of OLAP while at Andyne and at Hummingbird. I have used Visual Basic mostly for testing purposes, and for small projects. I have used JavaScript for many projects. I used to and still write most of my HTML by hand instead of using an HTML editor. This document was written using XML and XSLT. I have developed quite a few programs with Java mostly. Many of my newer projects are written in PHP. Python is one of my favorite programming languages. I use it as much as possible. Extensive knowledge of Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT and even CE. Wrote my Master's thesis on the Macintosh and worked my first two years at Andyne programming on the Macintosh. Strong knowledge of the Sun OS and a little of Linux. Much of my focus in the last 6 years has been in the area of effective interface design. I taught C and C++ twice. I have given several informal C++ seminars. I have rekindled my interest in playing the piano. I like playing squash, tennis, golf, billiars and windsurfing. I have also been known to fly planes, scubadive, play volleyball, play badminton, and go cycling. English is my native tongue. Compared to most programmers my written English is quite good. I have lived in Brazil for . My Portuguese still needs improvement, however because of my other languages I feel that I can learn faster than most. 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. My mother is Austrian and I have spent my vacations in Austria more than 20 times. However, I feel my German needs improvement. Samarco Mineração SA Consultant Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 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. Senior Software Developer Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 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 Project Lead Kingston, Ontario 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 Senior Software Developer Kingston, Ontario 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 System Administrator Lennoxville, Québec 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 online 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 C.E.G.E.P. Teacher Lennoxville, Québec Taught 420-914-75 Introduction to C Programming Language to 15 students in the Computer Information System's department. Bishop's University Computer Programmer and Research Assistant Lennoxville, Québec 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 Computer Programmer Lennoxville, Québec 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 Computer Operator Montréal, Québec 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 Database Programmer Montréal, Québec Designed and wrote a dBase III application complete with user documentation (French and English) for Labatt's marketing department. Chimo! Magazine Circulation Manager and Data Entry Operator Lennoxville, Québec 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 Magician Montréal, Québec 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.