James Henderson


James.M.Henderson@gmail.com
1728-80 Harrison Garden Blvd.
Toronto ON  M2N 7E3
(647) 876-5705

Technical Qualifications

  • GNU/Linux, Windows, UNIX
  • C and C++, Java, VB.NET, SQL, OpenGL, Bash, Python, Perl, PHP, HTML
  • Excellent automation and scripting ability
  • Experience in GUI applications
  • MIPS Assembly

Job Skills

  • Quick to learn and adapt to any new program or language
  • Motivated self starter, with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Efficiency minded person
  • Hard worker

Education

  • Bachelor Of Computer Science Honours Co-op, University of Waterloo
    • Relevant courses
      • Introduction to Computer Graphics
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • User Interfaces
      • Operating Systems

Work Experience

  • Product and Integration, July 2011 - Present, RuggedCom, A Siemens Business

    • Feature design and specification
    • C, Javascript and YANG feature implementation
    • Automated integration testing system

  • GIS Development Team, Sep 2008 - June 2011, Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre

    • Created web application for looking up restaurant inspections using custom livesearch at http://inspectionresults.sdhu.com.
    • Setup and maintained reverse proxy using Varnish and FreeBSD
    • Worked with a team on a hospital infection control web application
    • Added features and cleaned up internal timesheet web application

  • IQ Development Team, Jan 2008 - April 2008, Sybase Inc.

    • Developed and tested Changes to Sybase IQ
    • Performed significant amounts of debugging under UNIX
    • Developed several scripts to increase efficiency for the team

  • Pete's Crew, May 2007 - August 2007, Next Generation Reforestation

    • Worked as a treeplanter
    • Performed under harsh conditions for long hours
    • Worked and lived with between 15 and 60 other planters in a camp environment
    • Planted alone and in a team

  • Quality Assurance, September 2006 - December 2006, RuggedCom

    • Developed & documented an automated test harness in Perl
    • Maintained several test scripts

  • Software Verification & Validation, Relay Engineering, and IT Desktop, September 2004 - April 2006, Research In Motion

    • Worked for 3 consecutive 4 month co-op terms
    • Sent to England to work for 6 weeks as part of last term

References

  • Paul Beach, Project Manager, Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, (705) 942-6938 x30
  • Chuck Shannon, Senior Software Developer, Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, (705) 942-6938 x39
  • Sandip Ghayal, Manager, Sybase Inc., (519) 883-6483
  • Jeff Plager, Software Developer, Sybase Inc., (519) 883-6483
  • Cathrine Newhook, President, Next Generation Reforestation, (780) 532-2220
  • Mira Zafirovic-Vukotic, Team Lead, SV&V, RuggedCom, (905) 856-5288
  • Kumanan Gopalasamy, Team Lead, SV&V Carrier, Research In Motion, (519) 888-7465