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Daniel Bigham
359 Havendale Cres.
Waterloo, Ontario N2T 2T2
Residence: (519) 342-2550
daniel.bigham@gmail.com
http://www.danielbigham.ca/
Summary
Highly motivated, innovative software developer. Especially skilled at GUI design, algorithmic optimization, and internet technologies. Strong organizational skills. Experienced in over 15 languages, including C/C++, C#, PERL, Java, and JavaScript.
Education
 | 1999: Ontario Secondary School Diploma from Woodstock Collegiate Institute |
Software Development Experience
Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, PERL, Visual Basic 6, Java, JavaScript, Mathematica, PHP, Ruby (and Rails), Scheme, Standard ML, Haskell, Prolog, Turing, Modula-3, and Assembly
Operating Systems: Extensive experience with both Windows and Linux
Internet Technology: HTML, AJAX, ASP.NET AJAX, PHP, Ruby on Rails, XML, Apache, IIS
Work Experience
| Wolfram Alpha | Champaign, IL | Current Employment |
Software Research and Development
| Natural language parsing |
| Spelling correction |
| Navtech Inc. | Waterloo, ON | 2004-2009 |
Software Developer
| Senior intermediate team member building applications using C# and ASP.NET 3.5 (AJAX) |
| Mission critical operations supported 24x7 |
| Experience working with a large code base spanning several product lines |
| Entrepreneurial Software Development | Woodstock, ON | Summer 2003 |
| Developed an application for moving companies affiliated with Allied Van Lines |
| Real-time calculation of complex pricing models, accomplished with very efficient design |
| Generation of professional looking quotations in PDF format |
| Whitestone Inc. | London, ON | Summer 2002 |
C Programmer, Website Developer
| Software development on an OS390 mainframe for Manulife Financial to generate millions of financial statements per year |
| Integration of open source software into an existing product |
| ASP web programming and web graphic design |
| Bigham The Mover | Woodstock, ON | Summer 2001 |
Developer and IT Administrator
| Phone based and in-residence quotations |
| Personnel and equipment scheduling |
| Customer information systems |
Personal and School Projects
| Personal research in the field of artificial intelligence to parse and answer English queries. Encoding structured information about the world. |
| Wrote handwriting recognition software from scratch to recognize my handwriting at 98% accuracy |
| Developed AI to compete in the Microsoft Terrarium competition using C#. Achieved a first-place North American ranking late in the contest. (2002) |
| Spring-physics simulation engine (2000) |
| Virtual machine for debugging assembly language (2000) |
Selected Accomplishments
Canadian Computing Competition (1999)
Placed 21st in Canada. (Perl)
Deans Honour List (Winter 2003)
Grade average of 90% during my last term at the University of Waterloo.
Second Proficiency Prize, Grade 12
Second highest average of my grade 12 class, including a final grade of 97% in OAC computer science.
Online Gaming League
Architect and manager for three years of one of the original gaming leagues on the Internet, with 600 members at its peak. This project involved several thousand lines of PERL code and served as a means for becoming experienced with many Internet technologies.
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