Part Time Assistant
Resume:
David F. Pollitt
Brunswick East, VIC 3056
AUSTRALIA
**********@*****.***
Personal Data
Place of Birth : Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth : June 18th, 1966
Nationality : Canadian
Religion : Anglican
Marital Status : Married
Career Summary
English Teacher, St. Johns Anglican Church, Melbourne.
April 2017 to present
I have worked helping to teach English to International students here in Melbourne (Brunswick).
Part time teaching / tutoring Science, Home study of Financial Markets and property management (while in Jakarta Indonesia)
January 2014 to August 2016
I have been learning about Financial Markets, doing some investment work, and managing some residential properties. I also did some teaching / tutoring of Science.
OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE, CIVIC CAMPUS of the OTTAWA HOSPITAL Assistant Writing Consultant (part time)
December 2011 to February 2012
I have been working for Mr. Joshua Raizman who is at the Civic Hospital doing his Ph.D. in Anti Atherogenic Therapy. I am making comments on his Ph.D. Thesis.
OTTAWA HOSPITAL CIVIC CAMPUS and GENERAL CAMPUS Hospital Nurses Assistant (part time)
September 2009 to June 2013
I have been working at the Civic Hospital in patient care looking after patients with special needs, mostly neurologically or psychological needs, including depression, and stress reactions.
CARLETON UNIVERSITY Research Assistant, WEB Developer
September 2004 – March 2006
ØDeveloped a UNIX Server based PHP/MySQL program to collect data for a series of experiments under the guidance of Dr. T. Sherratt, Department of Biology, Carleton University. This program has been used to remotely collect data from students and resulted in our group producing a paper that was published in the Ecology Journal Oikos. Borland Delphi was used for the graphic design in this project.
ØKnowledge of web development using Java script, Visual C# .Net, Visual Basic .Net, Visual C++ and Windows XP development. Additional familiarity with Windows Vista was also gained.
CARLETON UNIVERSITY Research Assistant
September 1999 - April 2001
ØAssisted Dr. Richard F. Dillon in the Psychology Department to put a new interface on a legacy video conferencing system.
ØKnowledge of Windows application development using Borland Delphi (Pascal based).
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA Research Assistant
December 1997 – Spring 1998
ØDeveloped a Visual C++ program to solve Linear Programming problems under the guidance of Dr. J. M. Thizy, Faculty of Administration, University of Ottawa. This program has been used to teach graduate students about mathematical programming.
ØLearned about Windows development in Visual C++ 2.1 using the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) Version 3.1.
Computer Systems Technician upgrade courses, ALGONQUIN COLLEGE
2007-2008
I have also been interested in updating my knowledge of Linux and UNIX, so I have been taking some courses in this regard. During this process I have been working towards the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification. This will increase my effectiveness in the areas Network support, database development, and Internet programming.
A quick summary of my Programming and LAN/Networking knowledge:
§Computer Languages: Extensive programming experience using PHP, HTML, Java-script, Java, MS Visual Basic 6.0, and Database SQL. Lesser knowledge programming in: MS Visual C++, MS Visual C# .Net, Pascal, Smalltalk, FORTRAN, COBOL, Scheme, and Assembly Language.
§LAN MANAGER: I worked as a Novell LAN manager for the Federal Government and I supported over 200 users.
JUNGLE AERONAUTICAL AND RADIO SERVICE (JAARS) May 2006 - September 2006
NGO (JAARS is a Christian Missionary organization which is part of Wycliffe Bible Translators located just South of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA)
Developer/bug fixer (volunteer position)
ØHelped maintained a legacy computer system using C++ and helped with new development using C# and the .Net Architecture that was used for speech and music recognition.
ØLearned some more about Windows Vista at various conferences that I attended.
ØContinued pursuit of Biology education in Neuroscience at Carleton University (part time).
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC WORKS & GOVERNMENT SERVICES CANADA
1991 - 1994
Software Developer
Worked on CDFS project as a Windows programmer/developer (doing prototypes) using Visual Basic and Smalltalk.
Enhanced knowledge of object-oriented and event-driven software design and development.
Education
MASTERS OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, 1998
(Systems Science, Specialized in Biomedical Engineering)
Thesis Topic: Developing a program, using Borland C++ (OWL), to automatically detect chromosome spreads for later retrieval for aberration analysis. This involves auto focusing of a camera and platform movement of the microscope and computer image processing of the captured images. Thesis Advisors: D. Gibbons, Ph.D., P. Eng. and Dr. J. McLean (Biologist).
BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, CARLETON UNIVERSITY, 1993
Hardware Option (High Honors)
Specialized in Object Oriented software development in Smalltalk, Pascal, C/C++, and other languages. Learned about PC hardware and knowledge of computer hardware and software in general. I also have Database development experience using MySQL and experience with Oracle. My honors project involved writing software to solve a problem in mathematical group theory.
BACHELOR OF ARTS, MAJOR PSYCHOLOGY, CARLETON UNIVERSITY, 2000
My areas of interest in completing this degree were in Biological Psychology, child development, and Social Psychology.
Related Skills and Interests
§Lab experience: I have done work in the Chemistry and Biology labs at Carleton University as part of my course of study. Although I have a lot of computer experience, I am also very interested in Biology and Chemistry. In this regard I have been working towards a degree in Neuroscience part time since 2000.
§Experience in Object Orient Programming (OOP) and Object Oriented Analysis (OOA) and in mathematical programming and simulation.
§Proficient with the SQL query language used by Relational Data Bases including MySQL and Oracle. Have had experience designing Data Bases and using commercially available Data Bases.
Referees
-Dr. Josh Raizman: E-Mail: ***********@*****.*** (Biochemist)
-Dr. Paul Marriage E-Mail: *********@*******.*** (retired Biologist)
-Mr.Rowan Williams: Telephone: 614******** (Research Assistant)
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