June 1998
to Present
GenoPro.com, Montréal, Québec
- Created GenoPro, the world's most popular software for drawing family trees and genograms.
- Responsible for software architecture, development and quality of the product GenoPro; personally contributed 278,000 lines of C++ code.
- Designed and written a custom database engine capable to foster object inheritance and circular references, a feature not available in any commercial database.
- Designed a report generator capable to generate HTML reports using VBScript and JavaScript technology. GenoPro's report generator is as powerful as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), supporting the built-in ASP objects and much more.
- Utilized web services to implement online utilities, such as sending genealogy files to other users, performing online backups and publishing genealogy trees on the web at http://familytrees.genopro.com/
- Implemented an online collaboration system for the localization of GenoPro. GenoPro is now available in 25 languages.
- Responsible for product documentation, user feedback and customer support.
- GenoPro is the recipient of numerous awards from national newspapers, to computer magazines and multiple web sites, such as Family Tree Magazine and Newsweek.
- Responsible for website development and e-commerce solutions as well as selling GenoPro to stores such as Amazon.com and CompUSA.
- GenoPro has been sold to individuals and corporations in 170
countries around the world including many federal agencies.
August
1998
to December 1998
May 1999
to August 1999
Asea Brown Boveri Inc., Guelph, Ontario
- Responsible for overall software architecture, development and quality of a graphical application to collect data and generate reports for power transformers.
- Traveled to Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Thailand to meet customers to discuss software specifications and requirements.
- Provided a scalable architecture and a flexible design to allow smooth growth and easy maintainability on the Windows NT platform using Oracle database.
- Interviewed, hired and trained two software developers.
- Worked under time pressure; personally contributed 48,000 lines of C++ code in addition perform code reviews and revise product documentation.
- Finished project weeks ahead of schedule and received a five-figure bonus for early completion.
- The software is used in 28 power plants in 22 countries around the
world.
February 1998
to April 1998
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
- Worked as a member of the Windows NT Driver Development Team.
- Implemented routines to validate ActiveMovie’s kernel-stream filters.
- Wrote a small kernel-mode driver assisting filter validation and error detection.
- Implemented asynchronous I/O for ActiveMovie’s file I/O streaming driver.
- Utilized hardware support to implement driver volume control for audio card.
May 1997
to August 1997
September 1996
to December 1996
September 1995
to December 1995
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
- Worked as a member of the Windows NT Networking Development Team.
- Assigned to create DNS Manager – a tool for Internet management.
- Individually designed, implemented and completed DNS Manager; wrote 15,000 lines of C++ code during period of six weeks.
- Maintained various components of the Microsoft Management Console such as System Services Manager, Send Console Message, Schema Manager, DS Manager and My Computer Management snapins. Snapins are OLE In-proc server for the console and are commonly built from the ATL library.
- Maintained DHCP and WINS Networking tools – implemented a variety of features and fixed miscellaneous bugs.
- Completed OLE/COM, MFC and Java programming courses.
- Established to write solid code along with remarkable debugging techniques.
May 1996
to August 1996
Newbridge Networks Corporation, Kanata, Ontario
- Worked as a member of the ATM Networks Application group.
- Wrote C and C++ code for the 36170 ATM switches.
- Debugged and tested communication ports for high-speed transmission lines.
- Developed tools to increase both personal and team productivity.
- Learned to use various UNIX components, including OpenWindows, SunOS, Solaris and
VxWorks.
January 1995
to April 1995
April 1994
to August 1994
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
- Worked as a member of the Microsoft Money Development Team.
- Acquired skills to read and understand large amounts of code at a glance.
- Individually designed, implemented and documented the Graphic Engine
of Money for Windows 95. - Designed and constructed UI controls to improve Look & Feel of Money.
- Prepared and gave a speech to the Money Development Team regarding the design and
features of the Graphic Engine including various UI controls.
January 1993
to April 1993
May 1992 to
November 1992
University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec
- Worked for the Athletic Department researching an efficient and accurate method to measure the skin area on the human body.
- Created SkinSkan, a Pascal program to compute skin area.
- Demonstrated the accuracy and the efficiency of the SkinSkan Method by comparing results
to values measured from recognized methods.
June
1992
to December 1992
Dr. Michel Kérouac, Sherbrooke, Québec
- Assisted Dr. Kérouac's research on muscular activity during hypnosis sessions.
- Responsible for maintaining database and generating reports from data collected during hypnosis sessions
- Worked under self-imposed schedule, up to 90 hours per week.
- Developed time management skills and learned to deal with stress and overwork.
January 1991
to May 1991
Commission Scolaire des Cantons, Granby, Québec
- Taught DOS during Saturdays to Grade 5 & 6 students.
- Competent to deal with ‘slow-learning’ students.
- Developed good public relations skills.
