Power Plant Computer Science

Nolan Waite

*** ** ****** ** *******, Alberta, Canada T2N 2C2

1-403-***-**** *****@******.** http://nolanw.ca http://github.com/nolanw

Experience

Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience Lethbridge, AB

Research Assistant 2010 2011

Extended a real-time experiment interface in order to carry out dynamic clamp experiments on neurons,

working with others in the lab to establish operation and required parameters.

Developed a browser-based apparent motion simulator to act as visual stimulus during experiments.

TransAlta Corporation Calgary, AB

Summer Intern 2009

Automated power plant data veri cation and migration using uncooperative proprietary software.

Migrated power plant metrics display interface to a browser-based system.

Kismet Solutions Calgary, AB

Junior Technician 2007 2008

Wrote in-house coordination and collaboration tools.

Developed single-click remote assistance tools.

Visited client sites to troubleshoot problems and maintain servers and workstations.

Personal Projects

Acquire for Mac OS X

http://nolanw.ca/acquire 2007 Present

Wrote a client to play the board game Acquire with players of the Windows client (NetAcquire).

Wrote a decoupled server to support NetAcquire-compatible clients as well as browser-based clients play-

ing among and against one another.

WindowMan

http://nolanw.ca/windowman 2010 Present

Wrote an application to move windows around with hotkeys (e.g. to have the current window

occupy the left half of the screen).

Hotkeys are customizable, and a menu item is also provided for quick reference and access to the prefer-

ences.

Education

University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON

Honours Bachelor of Computer Science 2006 2010

Real-time programming, concurrent and parallel programming, operating systems, database manage-

ment.

Computer networks, algorithm design & analysis, models of computation.

Principles of entrepreneurship, probability, statistics.

Core Technical Skills

Languages: C, C++, Co eeScript, JavaScript, L TEX, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, shell script, SQL

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Favourite frameworks and libraries: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Django, jQuery, node.js, Qt, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra

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