Customer Service Assistant

Carol Wang

email: abp4o1@r.postjobfree.com

web: http://www.arghc.com/

Contains:,, Multimedia Publications

and Exhibits,,,,, Teaching

Experience,,

Languages: Perl, C, C++, LaTeX, Pascal, FORTRAN, Lisp, BASIC, Icon

Internet Applications, Protocols, and Tools: HTML, XHTML, XML, XSL, CGI, FTP, telnet, SMTP, analog, CSS,

excite for web servers, web server software

Desktop Publishing and Typesetting

Applications: AMS LaTeX, LaTeX, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Gimp,

Corel Painter

Graphics Applications: GL, Rayshade, RenderMan, Inventor, Open GL

Math Applications: GNU Calc, GNUplot, Maple, Mathematica, SAS

Databases: Postgres SQL, GDBM, MySQL, DBase, Faircom, Paradox, Paradox

Engine

Hardware: Intel PC, Apple Macintosh, Silicon Graphics, SUN, DEC

Alpha, IBM mainframes, IBM workstations, NeXT, VAX 7xx

Other Hardware: Audio systems, CD-ROM, Film Recorders, Motion Capture Devices,

Nonlinear Video Editing, Optical Scanners, 3D Input Devices,

Video Capture, Video Recorders, most data storage devices and

printers

Operating Systems: Apple A/UX, BeOS, AIX, IBM, IRIX, Linux, Mac Finder, MS DOS,

MVS/TSO, NextStep, Plato, SunOS, UNIX, VAX VMS, VM/CMS, Windows

Other Skills: Animation, Conversational Mandarin, Drivers License

"Computer Implementation of a Series Solution for Constant Coefficient

Ordinary Differential Equations" in Computers

Math. Applic., Vol. 31, No. 3, 1996, pp. 43-60.

"Langwidere: A New Facial Animation System" In Proceedings of

Computer Animation 1994, pages 59-68, Geneva, Switzerland, May

25-28, 1994.

Langwidere:

A Hierarchical Spline Based Facial Animation System with Simulated

Muscles Master's thesis, University of Calgary, October

1993.

"We

Want a Rock!" In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Western

Computer Graphics Symposium, pages 38-40, Silver Star Mountain,

Vernon, BC, March 28-30, 1993.

"Talking

Heads: Developing Pull" In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual

Western Computer Graphics Symposium, pages 114-119, Silver Star

Mountain, Vernon, BC, March 28-30, 1993.

"Current

Trends in Facial Animation, or Langwidere: Not Just Another

Witch." In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Western Computer

Graphics Symposium, pages 103-108, Sunshine Village, Banff, AB,

April 6-8 1992.

"Automating

Facial Gestures and Synthesized Speech in Human Character

Animation." In Proceedings of the Third Annual Western

Computer Graphics Symposium, pages 39-40, Silver Star Resort,

Vernon, BC, April 8-10 1991.

"Evolution of the Long-Tailed Bird" with sound by Stephen Hansen Smythe.

A short film illustrating the development of the Chinese character for

bird from an image to the modern ideograph.

Screening at the Metro Cinema, Edmonton, AB, May 7-8 1993.

Screening hosted by the Film and Video Arts Society of Edmonton during

the "Cowtown Showdown" film festival, January 21, 1993.

Alliance members' screening by the Independent Film and Video

Alliance at the Mediatheque festival held at the Musée

d'Art contemporain de Montréal, September 22-26, 1992.

"Knot on a Table" with Brian Wyvill. The Visual Computer,

7(2-3):Cover illustration, May 1991.

Content and Coding Author - a figure

skating fan's information source

Carol's Computer

Graphics Research Home Page

Chinese

Knotting Home Page

Carol's

Symbol Page

Site Creation or Installation and Maintenance The Canadian Women's Internet

Association

Professional:

Mar 2003 - Kalef

Consulting -

Feb 2003 - Kalef

Consulting -

1994 - Character Animation Systems Course

Academic:

1994 - -

Master of Science Computer

Animation

1990 - University of

Regina - Bachelor of Science, Honours Co-op combined degree

in Computer Science and Mathematics

Other:

2002 - Makiko

Tada - San Francisco Cherry Blossom Festival Kumihimo

Workshop

1994 - Quickdraw Animation Society Intermediate Adult Animation

1993 - Quickdraw Animation Society Beginner Adult Animation

Work Experience: 2000-Present Chief Technology OfficerElegant Solutions

Consulting

Vancouver, BC

System prototyping, office management and administration,

human resource management, light systems administration,

XML/XSL coding, and Perl programming.

1999-Present ConsultantArghC

Consulting

Vancouver, BC

Site design and maintenance, Java programming, CGI coding,

host selection and installation.

1996-1999 Technical DirectorRadical

Entertainment Vancouver, BC

Designed and implemented corporate intranet. Deployed

corporate Internet presence. Specified and assisted in

firewall deployment. Set up inter-office VPN. Technical lead

and administrator of a team with up to 8 members.

1995-1996 WebmasterCyberion Networking

Corp. Vancouver, BC

Installed, configured, and maintained Apache 1.1.1, Apache

1.1b1, NCSA httpd 1.4 and 1.5, Netscape Netsite 1.1 and

Communications Server on DEC Alpha, Sun Sparc 5, 20 and Netra on

SUN Sparc 5 and 20. Configured and administered multiple virtual

hosts.

Installed and authored custom web sites for business customers.

Wrote custom CGI's in C and Perl for server statistics analysis,

database creation and maintenance, online shopping, and

server-push animation. Installed and debugged Java Applets.

General customer service via email. Server statistics analysis.

1993-1995 ConsultantPacific Rim

Communications. Calgary, AB

Created the cover illustration for a magazine. Installed httpd

on various machines. Wrote HTML documents, both standard (HTML

2.0) and Netscape enhanced (HTML+), and CGI scripts for various

applications with Perl and C. Used Visual Basic to write a real

estate listing and image dialup database, and a yellow pages

information server.

1994-1995 ProgrammerSide Effects Software

Inc. Toronto, ON

Used C++ to write modules for a computer animation system,

including motion capture, character animation, and sound

editing.

1989-1993 ConsultantSymbiosis Computer

Services. Calgary, AB

Worked on a Windows-based image archiving project using Visual

Basic and ObjectVision which included data capture, image

processing and image compression. Created five custom

accounting packages using the Paradox Application Language, and

C with the Faircom database development toolkit.

Co-op Work Experience:1988 Summer ProgrammerBell-Northern Research Ottawa, ON

Worked on a Macintosh (Plus, SE, II) and an IBM-AT clone to create a

telecommunications specific language preprocessor for a simulated

telephone environment.

1988 Winter ProgrammerBell-Northern Research Ottawa, ON

Used XPM PASCAL and the Problem report Library System to resolve

Problem Reports for the XPM Performance Department. All solutions

were tested in a Captive Office environment.

1987 Summer Programmer Winnipeg, MB

Wrote a PL/1 application to link separate word processing and

electronic mailing systems. The Atlas Graphics mapping package

was studied for possible applications at the Canadian Wheat

Board.

1986 Fall Programmer Calgary, AB

Wrote a VAX BASIC database file format conversion application. The DEC

Command Language was used to produce command files for a code

management system.

1986 Winter Co-op StudentBell-Northern Research Toronto, ON

Maintained the Problem Report database during a testing phase of the

Meridian system.

Aug 2002 Basic Kumihimo Seminar Assistant,

Vancouver, BC

Two (2) hour introductory seminar to kumihimo on the

kumihimo disc.

Aug 2002 Advanced Kumihimo Seminar Assistant,

Vancouver, BC

Two (2) hour seminar in advanced kumihimo on the kumihimo

disc.

Jul 2002 All-in-One Kumihimo Workshop Assistant,

Vancouver, BC

Three (3) day workshop in various kumihimo (Japanese

braiding) techniques including the use of maru dai, taka dai,

and kumihimo disc.

Jul 2002 Kumi Muffler Workshop Assistant,

Vancouver, BC

One (1) day workshop in finger weaving (also known as

turban braiding).

1990-1992 Teaching Assistant

University of Calgary

Taught labs and marked assignments for Introduction to Computers for

non-majors, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, and

Pascal programming skills. Introduction to Computer Science,

and Techniques for Numerical Computation.

1986-1987 Marker

University of Regina

Marked assignments for Matriculation Geometry and Trigonometry,

Precalculus Mathematics, Introductory Calculus, and Calculus

II.

Volunteer Work Experience:1990-1991 Director

Univ. of Calgary Chinese Student's Society

Maintained most external text correspondence for the Society. Ticket

clerk and crowd control at dances. Part time office manager.

1990 Summer Instructor

Program for Gifted Students

Taught basic computer graphics concepts. Supervised the production of

a computer animation.

I am a member of,

the International Guild of

Knot Tyers,,

Greater Vancouver Weavers' and Spinners' Guild,

and the Canadian Women's Internet

Association. I enjoy, animation,,,, drawing,

martial arts, and figure

skating.

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