Career Goal:

• CPU Architect (or VLSI related), Software Architect, or Financial Engineer

Research Interests:

• CPU Macro-Level Architecture, Machine Learning, Adaptive Algorithms, and Financial Engineering

2009 - Amazon (Seattle) - Prime Software Engineer

• Prime AdAttribution - re-architected database schemas (Oracle and MySQL) and modified logging infrastructure to more efficiently attribute Amazon Prime signups to specific ads
• Various ticket fixes on Amazon.com retail website

2009 - Google (Mountain View) - Linux Kernel File Systems Software Engineer

• Statistical research and analysis on disk latency and bandwidth - designed and implemented disk benchmarks, data analysis on disk performance across entire Google fleet
• Linux Kernel Power Capping Module - modified a Linux kernel module to output detailed CPU usage
• Created various scripts and utilities to assist in statistical disk data analysis

2008-Current - University of Waterloo (Waterloo) - VLSI Researcher

• Instruction Snooping to Increase Performance for CISC CPU Architectures
• Simulated on 65 nm at 2 GHz with SPEC2000
• Working with Professor Mohab Anis
• Submitted paper for IEEE ISCAS 2010 (first author)

2008 - Intel (Santa Clara) - Mobile Platforms Architecture Power and Performance Engineer

• Adaptive Power Algorithms Research - designed and prototyped several dynamic frequency algorithms for CPU and GMCH to reduce dynamic power leakage, +55% in CPU power reduction with no performance penalty in certain apps/games
• Multi-Chip Package Power Controller Integral Algorithm - higher CPU/GFX performance while maintaining same TDP (patent pending)
• Research, analyze, simulate and forecast next generation Mobile Platform Architectures
• Created various scripts and utilities to assist in power and performance data analysis

2007 - NVIDIA (Santa Clara) - DirectX 9/10 Driver Performance Engineer

• multi-GPU Shader Research - research on DX10 apps for offloading vertex calculations to IGPU on multi-GPU platforms for Hybrid-SLI implementations
• Driver Optimizations - various driver optimizations resulting in +20% performance on a platinum title
• Various new driver features and bug fixes

2007 - AMD (Markham) - DTV Hardware Engineer

• HD2Player - High Bandwidth Video Playback Research and Development - researched and developed a custom video system designed for 1920x1080 @ 120Hz playback with throughput of over 6Gb/s and designed to scale over 240Hz
• DVI2LVDS Board - using Verilog, developed a FPGA for a custom proprietary board for converting a DVI/HDMI signals to LVDS for a variety of LCD panels
• Floating-point Matrix Optimizations - optimized existing matrix code with SSE2 and SSE3, in some cases performance increased over 100%
• Various video, image and misc. utilities (upsampling, text/picture in picture, frame insertion/duplication for simulation, image conversion to/from proprietary formats for BMP, YUV and PNG)

2005-2008 - Brixon Solutions (Thornhill) - Project Manager and Software Developer

• Managed various projects from planning to completion while proactively communicating with customers to meet their needs
• Developed custom software solutions for clients using technologies such as C#, Linux, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, and HTML

2006-2008 - University of Waterloo ASIC Team

• GZip ASIC Development - Developing Huffman Decoder and IO Communication Block (low level transport system with data integrity system over RS232)

2005-2006 - Unionville High School Robotics Team Leader

• Manage and integrate mechanical, electrical, programming, and media teams
• Negotiated and acquired sponsorship funds from companies such as ATI and Pathcom
• Worked with time and budget constraints
• Co-led rookie team to a 6-4-0 record and placed 28th out of 74 teams in the Toronto Regional FIRST Robotics Competition

2010 - National University of Singapore

• 4 months Student Exchange

Society of Actuaries

• September 2008 - Completed SOA Exam P

2006-Current - University of Waterloo - Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering with Option in Management Sciences

• Year 3 - Graduate in 2011
• University of Waterloo Merit Scholarship

2002-2006 - Unionville High School

• Honour Roll
• Ontario Scholars' Award
• Ontario Principals' Award

2009 - Seattle Food Lifeline

• Packaged frozen food for redistribution to soup kitchens and shelters

2007 - UHS Robotics Team Mentor

• Mentored and assisted former Robotics Team

2004-2005 - School Network Administrator

• Helped manage school's computer network
• Installed hardware, created and deployed disk images

2005 - Grade 11 Computer Science Teaching Assistant

• Helped teach students Java

2002-2004 - Local Doctor's clinic

• Organized patients' files
• Prepared files for appointments and created templates for Doctor's usage

SHA-1 Research on Core 2 Duo

• Research project aims for maximum efficiency of the SHA-1 algorithm on the Merom class processors, minimal pipeline stalls, minimal cache misses, and maximal IPC are main priorities
• Optimization techniques include SSE2, loop unrolling and inline functions
• C version is 41.37% faster than the default code given in RFC 3174 (both compiled on Visual Studio 2005)
• Assembly and SSE version of algorithm is in development

3D Rendering Engine

• Simple 3D Software Rendering Engine
• Simple API allows creation and rendering of 2/3D Polygons
• Written with my own rendering algorithms (no OpenGL or DirectX)

SSE memcpy

• 30-70% faster than default memcpy of "string.h" in Visual Studio 2005 on Release mode with optimizations depending on data transfer size
• Written with SSE assembly with SSE2 prefetch

Networking

• Java and C# multithreaded server and client

Various Custom Mini-Robots

• Built from scratch without guidance
• H-Bridge - DC bidirectional motor control
• Stepping Motors - Custom built DLL using the inpout32 library for high speed stepping motor control

Personal Investments

• Wealth Management from savings, contracting and internship earnings
• Diversification and management of portfolio into stocks, options, bonds, cash and equivalents (USD and CND)