Overview
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, published numerous articles for magazines, newspapers and online sites
- Familiar with a variety of web technologies used in building websites for business, professional and personal use - see http://www.softcoded.com
- Author of books "Object-oriented PHP" and "DocBook for Writers" and contributor to "PHP Hacks" (O'Reilly Media, 2005)
- Technical reviewer for "PHP: The Good Parts" (O'Reilly Media, 2010)
- Delivered presentation on PHP and Apache Solr at Northeast PHP 2012 (Boston)
- Delivered presentation on MySQL utilities at the Ontario Linux Fest 2008 (Toronto)
- Created Java frontend for MySQL (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlgraphic/)
- Experienced using Subversion and XML for creation and maintenance of documentation in a variety of formats
- Developed Android applications for personal and professional use
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer
- Programmer Analyst Diploma, CDI College of Business & Technology, Toronto
- Masters Degree in Political Science, York University, Toronto
- Honours Degree in Political Science, York University, Toronto (First Class Honours)
Work experience
Open Text (formerly Actuate Canada) Toronto, ON
Used MKS and RoboHelp to maintain existing documentation of enterprise software, originated new documentation as required
Interacted with developers, internal users and QA personnel to develop documentation
Developed scripts for validating documentation
Message Systems (Columbia, MD - remote employee)
Developed processes for validating documentation and improving the speed and quality of documentation
Used data from Google Analytics to modify documentation presentation and search
Implemented Apache Solr as documentation search engine
Upgraded to DocBook 5.0 and the latest XSLT style sheets
Used PHP to output XML "databases" in different formats
Performed installations in order to better document applications
Used Subversion and DocBook to maintain existing documentation of email-related enterprise software, originated new documentation as required
Interacted with developers, internal users and QA personnel to develop documentation
Wrote scripts and used the Autotools toolset to transform DocBook XML into HTML, EPUB and PDF format
Automated document validation and updates, used doxygen to generate documentation from internal source code comments
MySQL AB (Uppsala, Sweden )
Originated new documentation for MySQL software products including Workbench, GUI Tools and commercial monitoring software
Assisted in maintenance of the MySQL manual
Used Subversion and DocBook to maintain existing documentation of the MySQL database
Portfolio
