Software Developer Application

William Zhao

** ********* **** • Toronto, ON M*W*W8 • ***********@*****.*** 647-***-****

Experience

• Xe.com Inc. NewMarket, Ontario

Application Developer Sept. 2013 - Dec. 2013

– Decreased application bitmap memory usage by 300% which led to Samsung app store approval

– Integrated Samsung in-app puchase library to allow users to purchase the application after a trial period

– Developed Android XE Currency Converter using ActionBarSherlock to support Jelly Bean (Android 4.1)

and above

– Implemented new animations for the selection of the user’s favorite currency on the BB10 platform

• Rokk3rlabs Miami Beach, Florida

Software Developer - Mobile Jan 2013 - April 2013

– Developed a database driven iPhone application from conception to release to the AppStore

– Designed the database schema, created the backend api endpoints in PHP and developed the front-end

iPhone user interface and animations

– Leveraged Twitter and Facebook API to authenticate as the user and post on the user’s behalf

• Pivotal Labs (XtremeLabs) Inc. Toronto, Ontario

Software Developer Sept. 2011 - Dec. 2011, May 2012 - Aug 2012

– Co-developed and maintained an Android application with more than half a million daily users

– Built and released an Android application weekly to the client

– Researched and developed a proof of concept Android tablet gaming application that connects Bluetooth

gaming devices with Tablet gaming applications which led to a client project

– Developed an internal iPhone application that annotates and shares feedback on phone images

• Salesforce Work.com Toronto, Ontario

Software Development Intern January 2011 – April 2011

– Developed an internal web application to display and update customer payment information

– Implemented the user interface for a client newsfeed web application using HTML and CSS

• Genesys Laboratories Canada Inc. Markham, Ontario

Software Research Intern June 2010 – Aug 2010

– Developed a web application which integrated speech-to-text transcription and sentiment analysis en-

gines

Core Technical Skills

Languages: C, C++, Java, Objective-C, SQL, JavaScript, PHP, Python, shell script

Web development: GWT, jQuery, Spring, CSS, Hibernate, Jetty, Java Servlet and JSP, XSLT, MySQL Workbench

Development tools: Eclipse, Xcode, QNX Momentics, Robotium, Git, SVN, ClearCase

Education

• University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario

Honours Coop Bachelor of Computer Science 2009 – 2014

Personal Projects

T.O. Road Condition: Android application that leverages Toronto’s latest traffic and road condition data from

Open Data Toronto to provide real time traffic conditions to drivers.

Bieber Love: Android application that displays the latest tweets containing #bieber

Interests

Hobbies: Violin (UW Orchestra), Swimming, Tennis, Table tennis, Playing Go, Skiing and Skating

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