John Switzer

2001 – present: Partner, Digital Albatross Design and Consulting

• project management/ needs assessment
• system architect on all projects
• senior developer
• Projects:
  • IMAX Corporation
    • co-implemented the pipeline system for IMAX's DMR (35mm to 70mm) film conversion process
    • co-designed and co-implemented the pipeline for IMAX's 2D-3D live-action film conversion process
    
    UNIX/IRIX/LINUX, Apache, mySQL, PERL, PYTHON, PHP, Java, XML, JavaScript, Html/CSS, Ajax
    
  
  
  • Concrescence Design Inc.
    • designed and implemented a content management system for large web sites (3000+ pages)
    • fully templated
    • flexible sections and page creation with nested default content specification
    • sophisticated photo upload, management and photo gallery authoring
    • full document upload and management capabaility
    • drag-drop navigation authoring
    • multi-tiered administrative access management
    • secured page (SSL) delivery capability
    
    LINUX, Apache, PHP, PYTHON, Java, JavaScript, Html/CSS, Ajax
    
  
  
  • McMaster University (in conjunction with Concrescence Design Inc.)
    • online course selection system for Centre for Continuing Education
    • online job posting and application system for non-academic postings for HR
    • online conference registration systems
    • Presidents Awards online nomination system
    • online web based questionnaires
    • web-based employee newsletter
    
    LINUX, Apache, PHP, PYTHON, PERL, Java, JavaScript, Html/CSS
    
  
  
  • Other Internet Applications
    • online booking and reservation systems
    • e-commerce systems
    • shopping baskets
    • content management tools
    
    LINUX, Apache, PHP, PERL, JavaScript, Html/CSS
    

1999 – 2001: Director, Software Development, Pentranic Inc./ Pentmed Systems

• implementation of the multimedia communications and web projects for the Pentranic companies: video conferencing, distance education, telemedicine
• chief designer and architect on all projects
• managed the development staff and technical product suppliers
• marketing support
• co-designed the Canadian Oncology Societies web site
• set up and maintained a hosting service for telemedicine and distance education services: full database support, interactive medical case studies, streaming media (WMS), automated sign up and multi-level access security

      UNIX/IRIX, NT, Apache, IIS, Windows Media Server, MySQL, PERL, PHP, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, XML

1998 – 1999: Director, Software Development, Creative Media Ventures

• co-designed and co-implemented a private multi-media broadcast network system (client and server side) for industrial/retail clients
• facilities management

      UNIX/IRIX, NT, C/C++, MacroMedia Director/Flash, MPEG

1995 – 1998: Vice President, Software Development, Digital Media Networks

• sat on the execeutive committee
• managed the software department
• was the lead system architect and co-ordinated the on-going technology projects
• designed and co-implemented the server systems to support the multi-channel MPEG video clients.
• led the redesign of the client programming database
• led the port of the system from SunOS to IRIX.

      UNIX/IRIX/SunOS, NT, SQL Server, Access, Empress(RDBMS), C, C++, HTML, MacroMedia Director, MPEG

1994: Software Manager, Digital Media Networks

• supervised the developers
• designed and co-implemented extensions to DMN's multi-media client platforms to support additional display devices
• redesigned and extended DMN’s technical support intranet site

      UNIX/SunOS, Windows3.1, Win95, NT, C, PERL, EMPRESS(RDBMS), HTML, MacroMedia Director

1993 – 1994: Software Engineer, Digital Media Networks

• implemented a remote interface to allow DMN’s clients to access selected portions of DMN’s internal databases (private multi-media broadcast networks for hospitality and retail clients)
• extended DMN’s multi-media display platform
• designed and implemented a language translation system to convert DMN’s large library of customer programming to be usable on the new client platforms

      UNIX, Windows3.1, Win95, NT, DOS, C, PERL, EMPRESS(RDBMS), MacroMedia Director, tcp/ip

1991 – 1993: Software Engineer, Consensys Computers

• ported tcp/ip and NFS for DOS
• implemented network configuration and management utilities for the Consensys PC UNIX product
• implemented user interface and configuration utilities for a software RAID disk array product
• facilities management

      UNIX, Windows 3.1, DOS, C, tcp/ip

1986 – 1991: Software Engineer, Digital Media Networks

• implemented the databases for client programming (private multi-media broadcast networks deployed in hopitality and retail environments)
• implemented automated electronic newsroom and text and graphic authoring tools
• imbedded system firmware development
• facilities management

      UNIX/SunOS, QNX, DOS, C, 8086

1984 – 1986: Technical Project Manager, Human Computing Resources Corp.

• co-designed Chariot authoring environment for complex financial applications
• managed the development team of the Chariot product
• technical marketing support

      UNIX, DOS, C, EMPRESS(RDBMS), UNIFY(RDBMS)

1983 – 1984: Technical Staff Member, Human Computing Resources Corp.

• implementation of the Chronicle accounting and distribution management system
• designed and implemented the interactive online help and demo facility

      UNIX, C, EMPRESS(RDBMS)

1979 – 1983: Honours B.Sc. (Computing and Information Science), University of Guelph

1974 – 1978: Honours BA (Anthropology), University of Toronto