Skills &
Qualifications
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Usability & Human Factors
- Task analysis
- Knowledge elicitation techniques:
- Questionnaire design & analysis
- Structured and informal interviews
- Focus group sessions
- Ecological approach to interface design (for complex systems)
- Prototype evaluation using
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Design Reviews
- Task-based laboratory experiments
- Statistical analysis
Computer
- Object Oriented Software Design
- Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Assembly
- Basic network administration on Unix network
- Familiar with MacOS & Windows type PC
- Prototyping using HTML and Visual Age Java
Electrical Engineering
- Circuit analysis & design: pspice, hspice
- Signal analysis: Matlab
- Optical communication
- Radio systems: transmission line & antenna design
Web Development
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Experience
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GUI & Software Developer - IBM (1999-Present)
Wizard Design Team Lead
- IBM Toronto Software Lab
- Responsibilities include complete life cycle of Wizards (Design, Code, Validation, and Service)
- Maintain design consistency of wizard-type GUI
- Working with users on evalation of wizards
- Design overall wizard interface interaction (generating Consistency Guideline for over 5 separate teams)
- GUI evaluation and validation through user and focus group sessions
Principal Investigator - DCIEM (1996-1998)
- Defence & Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM)
Contract
- Designed and prototyped a single camera stereo-video system for
Aerial Search & Rescue/Reconnaisance applications
- Specified required hardware
- Development of necessary software on a SGI-IRIX platform
- Integration of system components
- Preliminary field testing and laboratory experiments of the system
performance
Teaching Assistant (1997-1999)
- Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
- Teaching six courses including:
- Human Centered Design
- Ecological Interface Design
- Workplace Ergonomics
Laboratory Assistant (1995)
- Ergonomics in Teleoperation & Control Laboratory
University of Toronto
- Maintained laboratory website
- Repaired laboratory equipment
- Assisted in Human Factors laboratory experiments
Computer Operator/Programmer (Summer 1994)
- Venture Mfg Ltd. (Hong Kong)
- Responsibilities included:
- maintained computer database
- computer support
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Education
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Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc) - University of Toronto
Human Factors, Industrial Engineering
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc) - University of Toronto
Engineering Science - Electrical Engineering Option
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Publications
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Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc) Thesis
An Investigation of Potential Benefit of Hyper-Stereoscopic Video for Aerial Search and Reconnaissance
Jan 2000 - University of Toronto
Visual Detection with Hypersterescopic Video for Aerial Search and Rescue
HFES Annual Conference Proceeding (HFES 2000)
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