Ted Morin

• Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• morinted@gmail.com
• www.tedmor.in

About Ted

A University of Ottawa co-op student studying to be a software engineer, with a strong interest in web technologies and applications of technology for accessibility purposes. Enthusiastic about the industry, and excited to work on projects that have a big impact on people's lives. Programming is a passion. Clean, efficient, and understandable code is personally important, regardless of the project or language. Prefer working with a team in a position that allows for growth and learning.

Technologies

• JavaScript
• React
• Node
• Angular
• Ionic
• Python
• Java
• Scala
• C/C++
• AutoHotKey

Experience

Open Source Developer

An open source contributor on GitHub account morinted.

• Current lead developer for Plover, open source stenography software written in Python.
• Original projects include:
  • a schedule generator for the University of Ottawa. This Java project used a UML code generator for its core data structures, has a Swing/AWT GUI, draws on a Canvas, and uses a client/server architecture. The web scraping component is made up of two Python scripts. One is a selenium web-driver job that explores the uOttawa website to grab all the course names, and the second is a multi-threaded script to grab the course details, and parses the data with Beautiful Soup and RegEx.
  • Bozzy, a stenographic dictionary reader written in Scala, as a fourth year capstone project.

Clearwater Clinical

Full Stack Developer

August 2015 to present

• Work on a Java server that interfaced with AWS in order to support a cloud-based application.
• Select a technology and build a front-end portal for each of Clearwater's products. The React-Redux portals saw a quick startup and get rapidly updated and released.
• Sprint management was done through Jira, and code reviews with Gerrit.

Telepin Software

Mobile Application Developer

May 2014 to April 2015

Built a mobile application for mobile transactions using the Ionic framework.

• Created a mobile application in Ionic with a team, and carried it through design, development, and into user acceptance testing.
• Practiced test driven development with an end-to-end and unit test suite to ensure that the application was always customer-ready.
• Performed and received code reviews using Gerrit, tracked issues and development goals with Atlassian Jira.
• Conducted the JavaScript portion of interviews for development positions and aided in selecting candidates.

Citizenship & Immigration Canada

GCMS Automated Tester

May 2013 to August 2013

• Redesigned the test-running Java GUI to be more concise by reducing clutter and predicting user action.
• Automated the running of the regression test suite using an AutoHotKey script to retrieve tests from a queue held on the intranet, then running the tests on up to seven computers at once. This reduced the time it took to run a regression test of a build to half of that of a manual run, and only required one member of the team.
• Created VBA macro-enabled Excel spreadsheets to automate manual tasks that the team had been assigned.

RB Computing Inc.

Computer Technician and Sales

July 2011 to May 2016

• Build, sell, diagnose, and repair Windows PCs.
• Write scripts in Node.js, AutoHotKey, and VBA (Excel) for various in-store tasks, such as verifying that a product exist on the store website.

Skills

Tools

• Comfortable on GNU/Linux, Windows, and OS X.
• Adept with terminal Git.
• Experience using Atlassian Jira and GitHub Issues for issue tracking.
• Frequent use Gerrit and GitHub Pull Request system for code reviews.
• Favorite developer tools include Atom Editor, Sublime Text, IBM Eclipse, and IDEA products such as PyCharm, WebStorm, and IntelliJ.
• Use of Markdown with export via Pandoc for near all text work.

Hobbies

• Practicing real-time machine stenography using Plover.
• Building and programming custom keyboards.
• Typing in the Norman keyboard layout, an efficient alternative to QWERTY.
• Flying and building custom quadcopters.
• Creating style sheets to redesign websites for personal use.

Education

BASc in Software Engineering, CO-OP

University of Ottawa

2012 to December 2016 (expected)

• Currently in fourth year
• University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship
• Current CGPA of 8.8/10 (3.8/4)

References

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