Years Experience Project

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dizazzo

software architect & developer

About Me Software

Development

Highly organized and motivated individual, who needs little

encouragement in unsupervised work environments.

C / C++

Possesses a strong leadership ability, accented by an outgoing

personality. 5+ years experience

Dedicated team player who works well in group environments.

Java / ME / EE

Communcates thoughts, opinions and ideas clearly.

5+ years experience

Education Ruby

3 years experience

The University of Western Ontario

Period: 2005 - 2011

Objective-C / Cocoa

Quali cation: Bachelor of Science (4 Years)

Specialization in Computer Science, Minor in Game Development 2 years experience

C# .NET

Achievements at Western 1 year experience

Excellence

Completed the course "Game Engine Development" (CS4483) in my

Web

nal year with a nal grade of 100% (2010-2011).

Programming

Mobile App

Developed components of the university's mobile application for

Blackberry smartphones (2010-2011).

HTML5 / xHTML

Internship 5+ years experience

Selected for the Science Internship program, and hired by IBM Canada

Ruby on Rails

(2007-2008).

3 years experience

Extra Curriculars

Vice President of External A airs, Computer Science Student Society

Javascript / jQuery

(2006-2007).

3 years experience

PHP

Interests

1 year experience

I enjoy cooking and experimenting with new recipes. If I wasn't a computer

scientist, I'd be in culinary school.

I also enjoy Formula 1 racing, World Rally Championship, auto shows, and Top

Gear.

Creating and developing video games on mobile and console platforms has

become my recent interest, but I will always desire to be on a team working on

a AAA PC title some day.

Work Experience

Gameloft Projects

Game Developer Unannounced

May 2011 - Present Gameloft

2011

New Unannounced Project (iOS/Android)

Took the initiative to design and develop a new 2D animation system for Urban Crime

the project. Gameloft

Developed the networking and multiplayer components of the game. 2011

Urban Crime (iOS)

Developed core game play features: player experience and leveling,

itemization, and shop purchases.

Developed an in-game store which was connected to purchase and

business intelligence tracking.

Often sought out to implement new game features in short time-

frames.

Developed in C++ using an in-house engine and Objective-C for iOS-

speci c functionality.

IBM Projects

DB2 Cloud Developer DBaaS

September 2009 September 2010 (1 year) IBM

Developed a prototype for the future evolution of the project on DB2 2009

PureScale.

DB2HAS

Investigated implementation details on cloud-based platforms for the

IBM

DBaaS project.

2008-2009

DB2

DB2 Application Developer

Express-C Appliances

May 2009 August 2009 (4 months)

IBM

Evaluated system design for DB2 Health Advisor Service and created a

change propsal for the project. 2008

Successfully implemented parallization changes to support threaded

ImDS

execution and reduced output size for large-scale systems by 50%.

IBM

W orked closely with project team members to synchronize service

2007-2008

structure changes with ongoing project development.

SAP Software Developer

September 2008 December 2008 (4 months)

Designed and implemented a web-based automation and tracking

system to organize internal tests of SAP and DB2.

Demonstrated the ability to work remotely and still be a valuable

contributor to the development team.

Spoke on behalf of IBM's Future Blue program, designed to generate

student interest in employment at IBM.

Linux Software Developer

May 2007 August 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Co-designed and developed a distributed deployment system capable of

deploying terrabytes of data to conference workstations.

Maintained a partner database, and marketing collateral for new product

o erings.

Assisted with IBM Conference logistics in the United States, Europe and

Canada (business travel).

Projects

Unannounced Project

Gameloft

Designed and developed a brand new 2D animation system which supportes frame animation, motion

tweening functions and animation management.

Developed multiplayer functionality of the game by implementing a peer-to-peer event replication system.

Urban Crime

Gameloft

Developed core game play features: player experience and leveling, itemization, and shop purchases.

Developed an in-game store which was connected to purchase tracking.

W responsible for a signi cant amount of generalist development tasks.

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Developed in C++ using an in-house engine and Objective-C for iOS-speci c functionality.

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

IBM Canada Ltd.

Researched scalable delivery cloud platforms for DBaaS; Websphere Application Server vs. DB2 PureScale.

Assessed the technical merits and pitfalls of each platform choice.

Created a JAVA-based API adapter for DBaaS to control a PureScale instance.

Integrated the API into the service using a memory-cache model, representing a complete PureScale

instance to prevent excessive communications between the DBaaS service and the PureScale controller.

DB2 Health Advisor Service

IBM Canada Ltd.

Improved scalability on large distributed systems for the DB2 Health Advisor Service.

Refactored the project to use threaded code for parallel execution for multiple database nodes.

Reduced the size of generated XML output by 50% or more for large-scale systems.

Ubuntu DB2 Express-C Appliances

IBM Canada Ltd.

Created a way to quickly introduce users to DB2 Express-C on Linux by building Debian packages.

Assembled ready-made appliances for multiple hardware architectures, both in virtualized and non-

virtualized environments.

This project helped Canonical sell support contracts to Ubuntu LTS customers and directly has had a

positive impact on IBM's revenue.

Image Deployment System (ImDS)

IBM Canada Ltd.

Co-designed and developed a highly scalable, distributed P2P framework.

The system allowed for automation and deployment of terrabytes of data to thousands of remote

machines.

Created the front-end interface for the system, and helped design the service layer, which facilitated

communicatons between the back-end and front-end.

The system is frequently used by IBM in large conference deployment logistics. It has had successful

applications at Information on Demand in Las Vegas, 2007, SAP T ech. Ed. Orlando, 2008 and Information on

Demand Europe, 2008.

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