Geoffrey K. Holden B.Eng.

11 Seabright Pl. Mt. Pearl NL A1N 5L3

gholden@ieee.org 709-745-5654 http://resume.geoffholden.com/ Memorial University of Newfoundland http://www.mun.ca/

Prince Philip Dr. St. John’s NL A1C 5S7 4200

Convocated in May 2004 with a 76.5% academic average and a 3.3 GPA. 1998 2004 Mark Baldwin and Associates http://www.newfoundland.dalecarnegie.com/

50 Birchview Dr. Pasadena NL A0L 1K0

The Dale Carnegie Course is designed to improve skills in human relations and public speaking using the Dale Carnegie Principals and practical exercises. These exercises included setting and achieving professional and personal goals and then giving a presentation every week. 2002 SEAformatics Group, Memorial Univeristy of Newfoundland http://www.seaformatics.ca/

Prince Philip Dr. St. John’s NL A1C 5S7 4200

Deployment and testing of sub-sea acoustic modems

Software development on embedded Linux

Investigation of sub-sea networking algorithms

Mar 2010 Present Progress Software, formerly IONA Technologies http://www.progress.com/

570 Newfoundland Dr. St. John’s NL A1A 5B1

Created a Requirement Tracability Matrix web application using Ruby on Rails

Wrote a set of user interface guidelines to help avoid common mistakes, and increase inter-product consistency

Fixed bugs and created demos for Apache ActiveMQ

Bug fixing and feature development for Artix Data Services

Produced and managed patches for the Artix product

Bug fixing and new feature development for SonicMQ

Jul 2007 Dec 2009 Google Inc. http://www.google.com/

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043

Automation of tasks through the development of scripts and administration tools.

Configuration of system and network parameters.

Monitoring of system stability and performance.

Ensuring 24x7 operation of cluster.

Comprehensive documentation of procedures.

Feb 2006 Jun 2007 Verafin Inc. http://www.verafin.com/

570 Newfoundland Dr. St. John’s NL A1A 5B1

Software design and development.

Researching and implementing new technology.

Responsible for the architecture and design of the technical environments (servers, storage, database, middleware, software, network and desktop) for the various developed and integrated applications.

Responsible for the management of the network, servers, and workstations.

Jan 2004 Aug 2005 Institute for Ocean Technology, National Research Council http://iot-ito.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/

1 Kerwin Place St. John’s NL A1B 3T5

Connected a Visual Basic application to an internal C library for real time processing of 6D model positions

Created an application to drive 3D actuators simulating wave movement.

Sept 2003 Dec 2003 C-CORE http://www.c-core.ca/

Morrissey Rd St. John’s NL A1B 3X5

Development in Java, CCS PIC-C, and Dynamic C

Worked on a large project with a team of designers and programmers

Jan 2003 May 2003 Department of Computer Science, Memorial Univeristy of Newfoundland http://www.cs.mun.ca/

Prince Philip Dr. St. John’s NL A1C 5S7 4200

Created a Windows 2000 authentication DLL, allowing the department to offer Windows Terminal Services using secure one-shot passwords.

Implemented source code revision control for the systems group

May 2002 Aug 2002 Department of Computer Science, Memorial Univeristy of Newfoundland http://www.cs.mun.ca/

Prince Philip Dr. St. John’s NL A1C 5S7 4200

Created shell scripts to automatically synchronize installed software and configuration files from one master server to slave servers across campus

Wrote a technical report on automated system administration tools

Sept 2001 Dec 2001 http://www.ieee.org/ 2000 Present

Currently treasurer for IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador Section

Served as webmaster for IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador Section

Publications Chair for 22nd Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE09)

Member of the publications comittee for the 17th International Engineering Management Conference (IEMC2005)

Served as Vice-Chair Technical for Memorial University of Newfoundland’s IEEE Student Chapter

http://www.slug.nf.net/ 1998 2006 Was An active member of the St. John’s Linux Users Group. This involved giving regular seminars and organizing a moderately sized group. http://gkhphoto.com/ Interested in photography, and have been maintaining a photo blog since Feburary 2008. C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Shell Scripting, Regular Expressions JSP, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSL, Web Services CVS, Subversion, Clearcase, Perforce Make, Ant, Maven, CruiseControl, Continuum UML, Design Patterns