Joe Rideout - Résumé


Contact Information:

Joe Rideout
128 Hillsdale Ave. East, Toronto, ON, Canada M4S 1T5 

Cell: (416) 995-6152


Professional Objective:

    To apply the principles of quality and economy to a software
    engineering position, to help my employer make more money, faster.
    

Qualifications:

    Academic excellence: consistently high GPA and top scholarships at
    both the graduate and undergraduate level.
  
    Industry experience: 2 years of software engineering experience
    acquired through internships at 4 different companies.
  
    Algorithms and data structures: sound understanding of the theory
    and practice of algorithms and data structures acquired through
    extensive coursework, teaching, and recreational problem solving.
  
    Tools and languages: a proven ability to quickly learn programming
    languages, paradigms and tools and apply them in innovative ways.
  

Education:

    MSc. ABD in Computer Science, September 2003-Present
    University of Toronto
    
      Overall GPA: 3.95 out of 4
    
    Projects:
    * Research Area: Probabilisitic algorithms and hash functions for
      load balancing
    
    BMath in Honours Computer Science Co-op, May 2003
    University of Waterloo
    
      Overall GPA: 87% out of 100%. Graduated with dinstinction,
      Dean's Honours List
    

Scholarships and Awards:

    * NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering
      Research Council, May 2004-May 2005 One of the most prestigious
      awards offered nationally to graduate students in Canada.
      ($17,300)
    * J. Wesley Graham National Scholarship, University of Waterloo,
      September 1998-May 2003 The highest-valued scholarship in
      Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. ($16,000)
    

Employment History:

    IT Analyst
    Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, New York, NY
    May 2002-August 2002
    
    Developed productivity tools for a 5-person Java software project:
    integrated JUnit into the project allowing developers to easily add
    unit tests and created an automated nightly build and testing
    process with email notifications on failure.
    
    Used a combination of Perl and the Java reflection API in a novel
    way to create a generic unit test for over 30 existing classes. This
    idea transformed two weeks of grunt work into three days of
    challenging work.
    
    Investigated the use of other "agile" tools such as aspect-oriented
    programming and produced a detailed report.
    
    
    Software Engineer
    Pumatech, Emeryville, CA
    January 2001-April 2001
    
    Developed features in C++ for Browse-it, a Palm OS and Windows CE
    web browser.
    
    Added support for cascading style sheets to the server-side proxy.
    
    Ported client-side code from Palm OS to Windows CE.
    
    
    Software Developer - Special Effects
    Discreet (Now Autodesk), Montreal, Canada
    May 2000-August 2000
    
    Added features and fixed bugs in Flame, an Academy Award®-winning 3D
    compositing system.
    
    Conducted extensive refactoring of the "action" source code, a
    single module of more than 15,000 lines of C++ and legacy C.
    
    
    Software Design Engineer
    Softimage, Montreal, Canada
    September 1999-December 1999
    
    Developed a tool in C++ for exporting textured 3D models and
    animation from Softimage, a renowned character animation suite, to
    the Sony Playstation format.
    
    Developed several other tools to help animators produce 3D models
    and animation for game platforms including a "polygon search" tool
    to locate and select faces in a polygon mesh according to geometric
    search constraints.
    

Publications:

    Rosco Hill, Joe Rideout. "Automatic Method Completion". 19th
    IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
    (ASE'04). 2004. 228-235.


Academic and Leadership Positions:

    * Director, Teaching Assistants' Training Programme (TATP), May
      2004-May 2005 Helped organize over 20 training seminars for
      graduate students in all faculties at the University of Toronto.
      Personally prepared and conducted 8 training seminars. Helped over
      20 graduate students individually by observing tutorials and
      reviewing teaching dossiers.
    * Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto, September 2003-May 2005
      Courses taught: Computability and Logic (graduate level), Theory
      of Computation, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis, Operating
      Systems
    * Member-at-large, Computer Science Graduate Student Benevolent
      Society, May 2004-May 2005 Organized an unprecedent number of
      social and cultural activities for graduate students in the
      department of computer science at the University of Toronto.
    

Last modified September 2005.