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<h2>Objective</h2>
<p>
    To have a have a remarkable career as a programmer. To innovate and help develop and maintain exciting new products.
</p>
<hr>
<h2>Skills</h2>
<dl>
    <dt>Programming languages</dt>
    <dd>C (very experienced), C# (experienced), Java (experienced), Python, PHP, SQL, BASH shell scripting</dd>
    <dt>SQL</dt>
    <dd>MS SQL (novice)</dd>
    <dt>Tools</dt>
    <dd>
        Subversion, Unit testing, scrum and agile development, test-driven
        development, Visual Studio (very experienced), Netbeans (experienced), Wing IDE (experienced)
    </dd>
</dl>
<hr>
<h2>Academic Experience</h2>
<dl>
    <dt>
        Design of a Human Recognition system	<span class='pull-right'>Sep 2011 - April 2012</span>
    </dt>
    <dd>
        <ul>
            <li>
                In charge of design and implementation of a human detection and recognition system to be installed on a robot developed by the university of Toronto
            </li>
            <li>Detection and recognition is to be achieved using the Kinect hardware</li>
            <li>Wrote project in C, using the Kinect SDK and OpenCV</li>
            <li>Acquired extensive experience with C, and utilized advanced C features for maintaining this multi-file projects</li>
            <li>Acquired extensive experience installing and working with open source software and SDKs.</li>
            <li>Acquired solid understanding of core computer vision concepts.</li>
            <li>Detection completed very successfully, with zero false positives and minimal false negatives</li>
            <li>Recognition completed in OpenCV using Eigenfaces recognition method.</li>
            <li>Recognition achieved with satisfactory results with 76% accuracy</li>
        </ul>
    </dd>
</dl>
<dl>
    <dt>
        Implementation of a simple Java shell<span class='pull-right'>Sep 2012 - Dec 2012</span>
    </dt>
    <dd>
        <ul>
            <li>Was part of a 4 person team tasked with implementing a simple shell in Java</li>
            <li>Acquired extensive experience working in Netbeans and programming in Java</li>
            <li>Acquired extensive experience working with subversion</li>
            <li>Acquired extensive experience working with Junit</li>
            <li>Used Model-View-Controller (MVC) design, test-driven, and scrum development</li>
            <li>Successfully worked with team to complete project</li>
        </ul>
    </dd>
</dl>
	

<dl>
    <dt>
        Design of an NFC enabled lock<span class='pull-right'>Jan 2012 - april 2012</span>
    </dt>
    <dd>
        <ul>
            <li>Was part of a 2 person team to design and prototype an NFC enabled lock to interface with Android and other NFC enabled smartphones</li>
            <li>Work done as coursework for Microprocessors and Embedded Microcontrollers course</li>
            <li>Programmed the project in C</li>
            <li>Acquired experience working with the 8051 intel processor equipped Atmel board, and Arduino</li>
            <li>Acquired experience working with the NFC chip PN532</li>
            <li>Project completed with 90% mark</li>
        </ul>
    </dd>
</dl>
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<h2>Personal Projects</h2>

<dl>
    <dt>
        Precious Blogs: Blogging engine
    </dt>
    Hosted on <a href="http://www.preciouslives.net">www.preciouslives.net</a> is my personal website and blogging engine written and maintained by me.
    <dd>
        <ul>
            <li>Backend written in PHP and MySQL.</li>
            <li>Front end written with Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery.</li>
            <li>Easy to use, beautiful, obvious interface.</li>
            <li>Unique user experience with lots of jQuery animations.</li>
            <li>Utilizes Cookies. The engine recognizes that you a user is logged in, greets the user and provides logout options in a dynamic navbar.</li>
            <li>Visitors can comment on blog entries.</li>
            <li>Users can create new blog posts, edit previous posts, and manage comments on their posts.</li>
        </ul>
    </dd>
</dl>
<dl>
    <dt>
        Multiple small programs in C#	<span class='pull-right'></span>
    </dt>
    <dd>
        As part of teaching myself C#, I have written multiple small programs
        in the language that utilize different technologies and language features.
        These programs include Lunar Lander, an animated game where the user uses
        the direction pad to land without crashing, as well as an RSS reader
        that utilizes MS SQL server for storing and retrieving RSS entries.
    </dd>
</dl>
<dl>
    <dt>
        Django backend developer<span class='pull-right'>April 2012 - Present</span>
    </dt>
    <dd>
        I am part of a team that develops dynamic websites for paying
        clients. I am acquiring experience in backend development
        in Django, PostgreSQL, and Python. Completed (but not deployed) one website.
    </dd>
</dl>
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<h2>Relevant Courses</h2>
<ul>
    <li>Software Design</li>
    <li>Microprocessors and embedded Microcontrollers</li>
    <li>Numerical methods</li>
    <li>Software tools and systems programming</li>
    <li>Mechatronics systems integration</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2>Education</h2>

<dl>
    <dt>
        B.A.Sc. University of Toronto, ON, Canada<span class='pull-right'>Sep 2007 - Apr - 2012</span>
    </dt>
    <dd>
        <p>Bachelor of applied science in Mechanical Engineering</p>
        <p>
            Took 5 computer science courses for extra credit.
            <ul>
                <li>Annual GPA in 3rd year 3.34</li>
                <li>Annual GPA in 4th year 3.23</li>
            </ul>
            Entered as an international student with $11,000 half tuition scholarship.
        </p>
    </dd>
    <dt>
        Al Nahda National School, Abu Dhabi, UAE <span class='pull-right'>Sep 2005 - Sep 2007</span>
    </dt>
    <dd>
        <dl>
            Completed 3 Advanced level GCSE (British high school equivalent) in 3 subjects:
            <dd>
            <table class="marks-table">
                <tr>
                    <td>Math</td><td>588/600</td><td>A</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>Physics</td><td>581/600</td><td>A</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>Chemistry</td><td>544/600</td><td>A</td>
                </tr>
            </table>
            </dd>
        </dl>
        Completed 8 IGCES in ordinary level with 5 A+'s, 2 A's and one B.
    </dd>
</dl>