Alexandru Stan

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Stoney Creek, Ontario

L8G 3N9

905-***-****

aboxl4@r.postjobfree.com

Highlights

Operating Systems: windows, linux (server administration, installation)

Programming: C, Java, Python, Scheme

Libraries: JACK, QT, Twisted

Web Development: XHTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL

Project Management: version control (git, svn), documentation (doxygen)

Extensive understanding of computer networks

Electronics: programming of microcontrollers (Atmel AVR + TI msp430 + ARM), soldering,

designing (Eagle EDA) and assembling projects, coming up with new ideas

Education

Mohawk College

Hamilton, Ontario

January 2011 - present

Computer Engineering Technology

Achieved Dean's Honours

Participated in the AMazeBot Programming Competition.

Online Courses

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario

September 2009 - January 2011

Computer Science

Attended the advanced level CS course: CS145

Won the Google AI Challenge in my 1A term

Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School

Stoney Creek, Ontario

February 2006 - June 2009Cisco Networking Courses: CCNA 1 & CCNA Discovery 2

Awards and Achievements

Dean's Honours in May 2011 at Mohawk College

1st place - "Google AI Challenge" in October 2009 at University of WaterlooParticipated in the Intel International Science Fair in May 2009, Reno, Nevada

1st place - "Programmania" Programming Contest in April 2009, Hamilton, Ontario

2nd best in fair + many other awards - "Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair", Hamilton,

Ontario

1st place - "Programmania" Programming Contest in April 2008, Hamilton, Ontario

1st place - "Fermat" Waterloo Mathematics Contest in February 2008

2nd place - "Programmania" Programming Contest in April 2007, Hamilton, Ontario

2nd place in web page design - "Grigore Moisil" Software Contest in June 2004, Lugoj,

Romania1st place - National Programming Contest in April 2003, Focsani, Romania

Work Experience

Anoven - Software Developer & Electronics DesignerJanuary 2012 - present

Designed the circuit, wrote the firmware and created a GUI interface for a DNA

Electrophoresis Device.

Had to deal with high voltage, and noise sensitive circuits.

Designed a cheap series of battery powered devices capable of logging temperature,

humidity and CO2 levels for an extended ammount of time.

Developed a computer vision system capable of locating mushrooms, selecting the best one

to be harvested and then harvesting them with a robot arm.

Timit - Software Developer & Electronics DesignerFebruary 2010 - August 2010

Designed, Assembled and Programmed a device for bulldozer tip detection

Opplast Inc - Software DeveloperJuly 2010

Built a testing tool which displayed data coming from a serial device in a PyQT interface

Built a tool to configure the parameters on an embeded device

Nutech Electronics - Web DeveloperMay 2010

Designed a new version of the site: http://nutechelectronics.com/

Developed an inventory system for the website

Setup the DNS, email and webhosting settings

Synergy Pro Solutions - Junior Web DeveloperOctober 2008 - March 2009

Deployed two servers for website hosting using Ubuntu

Worked on the CSS/XHTML of http://www.sandhillconsultants.com/

Developed a simple CMS system to help customers edit their sites faster

Personal Projects and Interests

Google AI Challenge

Community organizer: Helping to answer user's questions, administering the forums

System Administrator

Developer: website (PHP), backend (Python)

openCICAD

A serial inter device communication protocol, designed for long range and flexibility.

Uses include home automation, industrial automation and cars.

MIDI Guitar

Unlike a normal guitar this instrument won't have any strings; it will be entirely

digital

I'm developing the electronic circuits for the guitar, firmware for it, and client on the

computer that talks to the guitar and other MIDI software.

Sauerbraten Server

A flexible sauerbraten server written in C++ and Python. HyperServ features a cubescript

interpreter at its core, and all the functions are exposed to the cubescript system.

Other projects can be found in my website or on my github page.

References available upon request.

An online version of this resume can be found at

http://hypertriangle.com/~alex/resume/

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