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Consultant 1061920 Ontario Inc. 2016 – present. I am part of a team which is designing a series of inter-related political satire web sites using Indesign, Photoshop, php, javascript, WordPress and Docker.

Consultant Rap Almanac 2015 – 2018 I helped to manage – and modernize a data management system that uses various language libraries to perform semantic and sentiment analyses on rap and hip hop lyrics. Technologies employed include Django (python), java and php; the Alchemy language analysis library; the Watson artificial intelligence platform and Docker. The main table of the database contains over 330,000 song lyrics, in a dozen different languages.

Freelance Developer and Consultant. I have done contract work for a variety of clients including Good Robot (I employed Max/MSP and an Arduino micro-controller to control a motion sensitive sales kiosk), Rainforest Alliance (I created a cell-phone based, web/map enabled field research data collection tool).

Freelance Developer and Consultant. I have done contract work for a variety of clients including Good Robot (I employed Max/MSP and an Arduino micro-controller to control a motion sensitive sales kiosk), Rainforest Alliance (I created a cell-phone based, web/map enabled field research data collection tool).

Freelance Graphic Designer, Video Editor. I have done contract/subcontract work for New York University, James Marquand Real-estate, Kaplan University, Ontario Hydro, and Pollution Probe, among other clients.

Visual Artist. I have two main artistic interests, cubist video and the visualization of mathematical topologies. I am also working on creating a filter to make dance video look like charcoal drawings (please see the samples pages that I have appended to this document).

Freelance Instructor. I have done a variety of freelance training projects including teaching Grade 7 students mathematics using art (2011); teaching video programming to the video artist Charles Atlas (2009); and a wide range of corporate and technical college training.

Researcher, City Technical College of NY, Ontological Database Design and Implementation, 2007 – 2008. I was part of a small team of researchers who put together a multi-media database of downtown Brooklyn as part of an experimental project on database interfaces. This system used digital architectural models (Maya objects) provided by the City of New York to construct a three dimensional model of Brooklyn’s downtown. This three dimensional interface was used to trigger queries against the Protege reasoning engine. The communication layer was Java /RMI; the display layers were constructed in Pure Data and Max / MSP.

Assistant Vice President and Project Manager, Options and Foreign Exchange Technology, Lehman Brothers, 2003 – 2007, Corporate Advisory Technology, 2001-2003, Investment Banking Technology, 2001-2003, and Fixed Income Technology 1997-2000. In these positions I managed teams of developers in America, India, Japan and the United Kingdom on work related to futures, options and foreign exchange trading, investment banking and fixed income derivatives. On a daily basis I dealt with up to 35 distinct applications written in a variety of languages in including C# and Java; and 5 different database management systems (Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MS SQL Server and Access). Several of these systems were responsible for millions of transactions on a daily basis; and three of which were identified as “Tier 1” applications, which were subject to stringent compliance monitoring.

Senior Programmer/Analyst and Architect, United Parcel Services, April 1996 – April 1997

I helped to design the front end for the UPS order taking system, which at that time was one of the largest distributed databases in the world; and had 35,000 daily users (and millions of customers).

Project Manager and Senior Programmer/Analyst, Nabisco,August 1995 – April 1996

I worked on a number of projects at Nabisco related to information security and Microsoft Exchange.

Senior Programmer/Analyst, BMW Canada, November 1994 – April 1995.

Instructor, Institute for Computer Studies, Institute for Advanced Technology, Beezix Software and Logan Design Systems, 1990 – 1995.

Researcher, AdAge Ontario, 1990 – 1995. I worked on a multi-year project analyzing the relative benefits of distributive versus centralized database topologies.

Researcher, Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, 1988 – 1990

In this position I researched, wrote and designed 19 research reports related to 539 of Ontario’s graduate programs. This project has a profound impact on my intellectual development because it required me systematically to review all areas of research currently being conducted in North America..

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Graduate Center Scholarship Award, Polytechnic Institute, NYU, 2007, 2008

William Dunlop Modern History Prize, University of Toronto

James Henderson English/History Award, University of Toronto

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Masters in Science, Integrated Digital Media, Polytechnic Institute of Engineering at New York University, 2009. I graduated from this program at the top of my class.

Masters in Economic History, University of Toronto, incomplete. I completed the course work for my degree but did not complete my thesis because I was recruited by Nabisco to work on their computer security system.

B.A. Honors, University of Toronto, Economics and History.

Secondary School Honours Graduation Diploma, University of Toronto Schools

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This story was originally written for my Media Law course at NYU-Poly. The assignment was to produce an artwork which raised a legal issue, in this case about the relationship between parody and copyright.

A caveat about the content. The main character, Bexx is supposed to be a charming but unsympathetic shopaholic. This story is ultimately a critique of her behaviour. HOWEVER, when writing with in her voice I compose words which progressives may condemn as “neo-colonialist”. I have done my utmost to tone down the offensive words and where-ever possible balance them with something positive. And for the record, Kolkata is an amazing city. My brief visit their had a profound impact on my view of the world.

That being said, if a reader has an issue with Bexx’s world-view and language – or identifies a factual error – please politely let me know your thoughts about how to rectify my indiscretion, bearing in mind my purpose, and the nature of my characters.

A final word, to motivate you to read the story to its conclusion. This story is a parable, with a of moral at the end. I’ve put a ton of thought into making that moral much less obvious than it appears. My questions for my readers are: “what lesson does Bexx learn during her visit?”, and “does her insight fundamentally change who she is?”