Brian B.

## BIO | **Education [login to view URL]     BioChemistry          Trent University M.C.S. Computer Science  Ottawa University Alcatel Canada: Senior Software Designer (Transport Solutions Division) **· Lead SL/Web designer – developing web enabled test tracking system for division use – XML backend on <font color= "#3333FF">· Risk management database with Web interface</font> **Alcatel Canada: Senior Software Designer (Tools/Application Development Group - MSWAN)** · Currently working with the Development Technologies group in the Data Business Unit at the DE3 (Senior) level. <font color= "#3333FF">· Acting manager for 1 year during manager's maternity leave (x 2). </font><font color= "#3333FF">· Rated as "Outstanding" overall on all Performance appraisals received since beginning employment with Alcatel/Newbridge </font> <font color= "#3333FF">· Technical Lead/Chief Systems Integrator for a variety of proprietary products including real-time development and automation testing products </font> · Responsible for design and development of a wide range of database, web and standalone applications.  Implementations of these products varied significantly. <font color= "#3333FF">· Utilized SQL, Tcl/Tk, C/C++, Java, Javascript, various networking protocols, web technologies (HTML,DHTML etc.)- developed on Windows NT, 98,Linux and Solaris platforms </font><font color= "#3333FF">· Extensive knowledge of “makefilesâ€, GNU applications, build procedures. </font><font color= "#3333FF">· Extensive knowledge of testing, testing methodologies and test automation.</font> | | **WorkDynamics Technologies Inc. Ottawa, ON **Software Designer · Lead test team on creating and implementing test procedures for quality control of complex work-flow application.  This application is used by government agencies the world over, to control document flow and processing. <font color= "#3333FF">· Created several components for this application and developed testing procedures and test cases for the entire system using a variety of operating systems.  Implementation was in Visual Basic, C++ and Java </font>· Used a variety of testing tools including the popular Rational Rose Test Suite <font color= "#3333FF">· Utilized a variety of database formats including SQL Server, Oracle, and SQLAnyWhere and Access </font> | | ** National Research Council  Ottawa ON **Lead Software Designer (Contract position) · Lead team in development of web data-mining application.  This application would mine various web sites for data that met a specific critieria (usually matched a glob pattern) and the data would be returned and stored in a database or displayed graphically. <font color= "#3333FF">· Lead and coordinated design team from concept to final implementation. </font><font color= "#3333FF">·  Implementation was done using Perl/Tk, C++, Java and VBScript.</font> | | | ## Area of Expertise **Compiled/Interpreted Languages **C/C++/C#       Visual Basic/VB.NET/VBA Javascript       Unix scripting SQA Basic PL/SQL              XML PHP                Perl/Tk Tcl/Tk            SQL PL/SQL **Databases** SQL Server Oracle            MySQL SQLAnywhere   **OSes** Linux Unix Solaris Microsoft 98/2000/XP **Other **CGI Web Services OOP/OOD