Wow!

Your job posting was a tantalizing read:  I immediately wanted to know more.  As a young company in a cool (warm?) location with an emphasis on atmosphere and employee development, you stood out above the crowd.

My love affair with computers has lasted for some 15 years now.  At age 14, I wrote a GUI program to interact with comic publishers’ websites to deobfuscate download locations for the current day’s comic.  The language?  C.  The API?  Straight-up Windows SDK, event loops and all.  It’s amazing what one can do when one is too poor to buy Visual Studio.  (Yes, that means I didn’t have the benefit of a fancy set of CDs.  Documentation was painfully downloaded over a dial-up connection – patience is a virtue, I’m told!)

After that I moved to the world of MOOs – interactive programmable virtual worlds.  Here I discovered how many of the Internet’s servers worked.  You can interact with anything if you just abide by the IETF’s RFC?  Wow.  I developed SMTP, POP3 and NNTP server implementations to benefit our virtual community and loved every minute of it.  It left a lasting impression on me. 

In fact, it was this exposure to rigorous programming standards and contracts that brought me to my current career as a Software Engineering student: my entrance essay to Waterloo was founded on my appreciation of the subtleties of the software world. 

The subtleties of the software world make for the meat and potatoes of a company founded on automated testing.  I want to know you better – and I hope you’ll want to know me better, too.

All the best in your search for a suitable candidate,

Colin Dellow

COLIN LESLIE DELLOW

or, University of Waterloo Student #20124248

or, 3A Software Engineering Student #23

or, cldellow

LOCATION

1512B 300 Regina St N, Waterloo, ON  N2J 4H2  

phone: (519) 489-1020  email:  cldellow@gmail.com  web: http://cldellow.com/

EDUCATION

Candidate for Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON              Sept 2003 – present

• Relevant courses: Software Abstraction and Specification, Concurrent and Parallel Programming, Human-Computer Interaction
• 98% - More-than-doubled the CS 241 class average on final project of a compiler for a toy language using Java/JLex/JCup
• 104% - Top mark on CS 133 final project of a pseudo-3D Java garden simulation

APPLICABLE BUZZWORDS (Inquire for more details.)

C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Access, IIS, ODBC, Sockets, PHP, Perl, Java, Cocoon, XML, XSLT, HTML, Linux, C, JavaScript, AJAX, PostgreSQL,  MySQL, XSL:FO, CVS, Subversion, N-tiered Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder

OARBS Software Corporation, Waterloo, ON July 2005 – present

• Migrated legacy application from VB/ASP/Access to .NET with PostgreSQL DB
• Worked with customers to enhance product
• Devised bootstrap-based marketing strategies
• Webmaster of corporate site at http://oarbs.com/
• Pursued and successfully completed freelance projects from analysis to deployment worth over $7,000

Senior Enterprise Java Developer

Arius Software Corporation, Waterloo, ON                  May – Aug 2004, Jan – Apr 2005

• Worked with VP of Product Development in architecture design discussions
• Led team of six developers in day-to-day development, testing and debugging
• Migrated company’s largest customer’s data to new version of product
• Developed Extract, Transform, Load tool for stress testing and importing data
• Maintained and extended a codebase of over 400,000 lines of code
• Extended company’s compiler, layout engines, and integrated development environment (IDE)
• Retrofitted AJAX capabilities to legacy Java codebase

LIFE HIGHLIGHTS SO FAR

• Number of multi-threaded C sockets applications written by age 14: 1
• Number of same which received acclamation in its field: 1
• Number of shirts ripped off my back by unsatisfied clients: 1
• Highest Scrabble score in a two-player game: 391
• Most Kraft Dinner consumed in one sitting: 1.4 L
• Number of MBAs I have interviewed for a job position by age 20: 1
• Best comment from TA on my work: “Virtually devoid of course content.”