Experience

• University of Waterloo

  NSERC USRA Student Researcher

  NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
  
  • Worked in the field of virtual environments, focusing on haptics and binaural sound
  
  • Experimented methods of capturing Head Related Transfer Functions using audio equipment and signal processing
  
  • Developed simple programs for Sensable haptic arms in virtual environments
  
  • Tested image processing application (kinematics, pose etc.) using Optitrack Motion Capture

• University of Waterloo

  Sessional Lecturer

  • Taught ECE 207- Signal Processing, which is a second year core course for both electrical and computer engineering undergraduate students

• Broadcom

  Intern- Bluetooth Verification Engineering

  • Worked within the Bluetooth Embedded Verification team
  
  • Tested and verified communication protocols of Bluetooth chipsets
  
  • Analyzed USB, UART, and over the air Bluetooth traces
  
  • Tested various layers of the Bluetooth protocol stack

• Apple

  Apple Intern - Acoustic Design Engineering

  • Worked on audio signal processing and acoustics on the audio accessories team

• Electronic Arts

  Associate Software Engineer

  •Part Playfish Montreal team developing highly distributed, social video games (Restaurant City)
  
  •Worked on Unity 3D to create tool/GUI to organize flash files
  
  •Worked with server programmers to develop a data repository system
  
  •Helped develop a database design for storing all Restaurant City’s static game data, using some “NoSQL” approaches
  
  •Assisted programmers translate data from JSON format to Apache Thrift format
  
  •Worked on web service allowing users to export data from database in Apache Thrift Binary format using a number of different programming languages