Employment: Academia and Industry
President and CTO, 2009 onwards
Afinin Labs, Inc.
www.afinin.com
St. John's, NL, Canada
- creation of real-time stock analysis signal-based software
- co-founder of company
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009 onwards
Department of Computer Science,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
www.cs.mun.ca
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Geo-Visual Analytics of Capture Fisheries Statistical Data
- information visualization research issues
- geo-temporal differences in the Newfoundland cod fishery
- integrated exploration of multiple fisheries date sets
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008 - 2009
Department of Computer Science,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
www.cs.mun.ca
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Financial analysis
- interday stock price analysis
- intraday stock price analysis
- automated trading
- Parallel computing
- general-purpose computation using graphics hardware (GPGPU)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007 - 2008
Verafin Inc. (Industry Component, 2007-2008)
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- determination of possible fraud from financial transaction data
.Net Software Developer, 2006
E-md
www.e-md.info
Chester, NS, Canada
- created components and functionality for a stand-alone Windows application to be distributed to medical doctors by a pharaceutical company.
- partnered with a medical doctor to produce a solution that handled prescription and dosage criteria forms for specialized medical regimens.
- created the application using Microsoft Visual Studio, using Visual Basic .NET, ADO .NET, SQL Server Express, .NET framework, deployment with Windows Installer.
- tasks included GUI design and functionality, dynamic form creation and printing, SQL Server database interaction, and creation of a CD-based deployment solution.
Software Engineer, 2005
Greenfield Research, Inc.
www.greenfieldresearch.ca
Halifax, NS, Canada
- created web application components and functionality as part of a team for an ecommerce solution.
- used HTML, XML, Javascript, JavaServer Pages, MySQL, DreamWeaver MX and Apache Tomcat technologies.
- tasks included web page creation and functionality, database creation and dynamic modification, and construction of an application deployment solution.
NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council) Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2000
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
www.cs.dal.ca
Halifax, NS, Canada
- worked with a student partner for a summer term creating and improving a version of the Graphplan planning system in Java.