Jeremy Roman

Education

• University of Waterloo
  Honours Computer Science, co-op
  September 2009 – present
  • Candidate for Honours Bachelor of Computer Science
  • Intend to graduate in 2014 with a Minor in Physics
  • Enrolled in Computational Science from Fall 2009 through Spring 2010
  • 94.5% average on 3.25 units in 1A term (Fall 2009)
  • 93.1% average on 3.25 units in 1B term (Winter 2010)
  • 96.6% average on 3.25 units in 2A term (Fall 2010)

Skills

• Technical Skills
  • Significant experience in Ruby (especially the Rails framework), HTML and related technologies (including jQuery), PHP and C
  • Familiar with Java, Python, C# and PLT Scheme/Racket
  • Proficient with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (especially Debian and Ubuntu)
  • Development experience using web services including Amazon S3, EC2 and SQS
• Transferrable Skills
  Initiative:
  • At Demeure, was praised by supervisor for "actively providing his own thoughts and opinions on design, implementation and priorities … He effectively advocated for his positions".
  • At Sun Life Financial, created tools to streamline package testing and deployment workflow.
  • At the University of Waterloo, responded to questions by classmates in CS 135 newsgroup, occasionally exploring extracurricular subject matter.
  
  Communication:
  • In the Computer Science Club, documented existing and new systems and software, categorized existing documentation, and consistently responded promptly to requests from members.
  • At Sun Life Financial, wrote packaging standards recommendations to prepare for Windows 7 and presented recommendations to co-workers.
  
  Time Management:
  • At Sun Life Financial, completed tasks well ahead of schedule while executing side tasks and assisting coworkers.

Experience

• Demeure
  Co-op Student, Dev Team
  January 2011 – April 2011
  • Worked on a web application implemented in Ruby on Rails running on Amazon Web Services (including S3 and EC2).
  • Participated in the agile style of software development.
  • Earned co-op rating of "Outstanding."
• Sun Life Financial
  Summer Student
  May 2010 – September 2010
  • Client Computing department
  • Worked to ensure application compatibility during an upcoming deployment of Windows 7 to over 15,000 end users.
  • Built software packages for Windows XP and Windows 7 for deployment via Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007.
• Columbia Sobeys (#878)
  Bakery Staff
  September 2008 – May 2010
  • Worked with others in the preparation and packaging of bakery products and the upkeep of the bakery.
  • Provided prompt and courteous service to customers.
• Waterloo Region D.S.B.
  ITS Assistant
  July 2006 – August 2006
  • Installed and configured a server with Fedora Core 5 and Apache 2.2 for use as the corporate web server.
  • Installed operating system and server software on multiple production OpenBSD servers.
  • Designed and developed a simple curses-based rsync frontend for use on web servers.

Clubs & Societies

• Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
  • As a member of the Systems Committee (since late 2009) and System Administrator (in fall 2010), maintained and improved club systems and software providing various services to members, including a mirror of open-source software serving hundreds of concurrent requests.
  • Supported systems used by hundreds of members of a wide range of purposes.