Courses

APC100 - Applied Professional Communications

Completed the "Applied Professional Communications" course which focuses on skills such as group work, team building, interpersonal communication, presentation skills, conflict and time management. The applications of these skills were explored in detail while keeping the computer industry as its central focal point.

BTC240 - Interpersonal Communications in Organizations

Completed the "Interpersonal Communications in Organizations" course which focuses on verbal and visual means of communication, as opposed to written. Techniques for attentive listening, purposeful body language, and careful speaking were studied as a whole to grasp an understanding of the psychology that makes them effective in our daily lives.

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Web Developer @ Mindblossom

Completed several different web development projects for a handful of major clients based on their required specifications. Several of these projects required working with different indiviuals with different work ethics and standards. My role in these teams was that of a mediator and communication expert to make sure that everyone in the team knew how things should progress and how the set goals should be achieved without any conflict between indiviual team memebers, as well as the clients.

Interests / Life Experiences:

Music Teacher

Taught several different indiviuals how to construct music on a guitar. Helped them understand the theory behind making and understanding of the music, how different chords and scales connect and correspond with each other in order to make the familiar sound that we know and perceive as "Music". Taught students how each note is to be used to create a specific sound of guitar in terms of words and sentences forming a two-way communication between singer and the guitarist.

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Most software development courses require some degree of teamwork. In the past, I have worked in small groups of teams to reach college projects deadlines and from my experience, teamwork is an essential requirement to tackle enormous projects, which are mostly completed faster and more efficiently with more people involved in the workings of the project. Teamwork can be an asset when an understanding has been established among its memebers, otherwise it can also be a stressful situation with no solution. Some courses that I enrolled in Seneca College that required teamwork effort is:

Business Requirements Analysis using OO Models, System Analysis and Design using UML, Canadian Business Environment, Design Patterns in UML, Marketing Principles and Practices, Project Management Methodologies, Technology Planning and Acquisition.

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Software Developer @ ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning)

ABEL is an award winning program that provides access to a community of K-12 and post secondary educators, an established open learning platform, and a research and evaluation program. At ABEL, I was hired as a Software/Web Developer and my job description involved developing and maintaining websites and software for the ABEL program. I was a part of a team of software developers who collaborated together to work on software and web development projects for the ABEL project.

Interests / Life Experiences:

Guitarist in a Rock band

In summer of 2006, I was a member of an indie basement rock band as a lead guitarist. I recognized that performing in a band requires extremely high level of teamwork. Several pieces of songs are prepared each week in layers for recordings of a song. As a band member, I had to ensure that everyone was a team player. I had to ensure that every member attended rehearsals and that practice was sedulous. I am not a professional player and most of our memebers are amateurs struggling musicians, thus effective routine practice was very important. Strong teamwork ensured our performances were of a high standard which was reflected on our "open mic" concert performances.

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BTB720 - Marketing Principles and Practices

This course explored the current business trend toward customer centric marketing. One of the essential requirements for this course was to do a term group project in developing a product and then marketing it to a targeted audience by applying the learned marketing strategic methodologies using an idea of a fictitious company. For this project, I was selected by my peers to be the group leader for our team and I ended up taking over imporatnt duties such as weekly coordination of meetings, delegating task assignment, constructing creative marketing ideas and ensuring the completion of the project at a timely manner.

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Freelance Web Developing

Worked with several different graphic designers for completion my client's requested web development projects. Most of the times, I was assigned the role of the leader, which made me utilize my leadership skills to guide the graphic designers working alongside me to design the required graphics according to the style and requirements of the webpages as I saw suitable. I also acted as the primary contact for the different graphic designers, managed the data related to the website, and was also responsible for organizing, training, and overseeing the progress of the webpage and the accompanying graphics being developed under a tight deadline.

Service / Volunteer Work:

Computer Lab Assistant @ Seneca College

I volunteered as computer lab assistant at "Seneca College @ York" in my early years of college studies. My job duties included making sure that lab computers were operating with up-to-date softwares and all the computers in the labs were glitches and bugs free as well. It was also my duty to gather and assign tasks to my peers so that all necessary work was accomplished in time. Along with maintenance, I also had to respond as an on-site troubleshooter for operating system technical difficulties and administration. I ended up managing a college computer lab of more than 30 computers on a daily basis.

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BTR820 - Research Methodologies and Project

This course introduced me to research methodologies and resources through a series of small research projects that included summarizing, paraphrasing, analyzing and synthesizing information from multiple source of informational resources such as libraries, online catalouges, databases, newspapers, web articles, research papers, etc. Each student in the course was asked to undertake an in-depth research project on emerging or new technologies, culminating it in a formal project presentation. I researched the use of emerging technology such as VoIP (Voice-Over-IP) and wrote a research paper by the name of "Voice over IP (VoIP) : A solution for the needs of Medium to Large sized Businesses".

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Software Developer @ ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning)

When working at ABEL research program, I worked on a online-gaming experience software called "Second Life". Second Life is an online environment in form and structure of gaming characters targeting the online business world for marketing, development and innovation. I was developing and building structures on the ABEL Island (ABEL Purchased Island) in the Second Life game environment for coming online video conferences. My day-to-day work duties included researching material and content for the Second Life building island operations and writing action scripts to manipulate and animate objects in the ABEL island domain. The research taught me how to use the game environment successfully and how to write actions scripts and how to build glorious architectural structures in the Second Life game environment.

Interests / Life Experiences:

Researching on VoIP technology for my Thesis

I used several different library materials to research the content for my white paper on how VoIP (Voice Over IP) communication has changed the face of telecommunication for the future of small to medium sized businesses. This work has improved my reasoning, analyzing and researching abilities and has given me the opportunity to polish my writing and researching skills.