Contact Details
Email: javid@mavaddat.ca
Phone:+1 604-243-1541
Address:2746 E Hastings St
PO Box 57053
Vancouver, BC
V5K 5G6
Professional Qualifications
Experience
Current Work
2015 Nov - Present
Teaching coding, chess, math, English, and public speaking
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Independent contract tutoring at multiple education agencies in the Greater Vancouver area including
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Wendu Education in Burnaby, BC
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R. L. Education Centre in Richmond, BC
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Little Ants Education in Richmond, BC
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Chess with Chan at the Yaletown Roundhouse Community Centre, and
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University Neighbourhood Association at UBC.
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Enthusiastic education of children ages 4 to 15 (pre-school to grade 7).
2014 June - PresentPhilippine Overseas Labour OfficeVancouver, BC
IT Professional Services
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Employed custom PowerShell scripts to automate functionality recovery (e.g., LAN printer address) due to external router’s DHCP IP address changes.
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Employed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) to provide consistent and recoverable application availability between common workstations.
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Successfully honed office’s technological resilience by succinctly communicating key principles of security engineering (e.g., least privilege), best practice requirements to staff.
Past Work
2014 April - JuneMercy for Animals CanadaVancouver, BC
IT Assistant
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Creatively transitioned designs (Adobe Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC) into responsive HTML5 websites with novel CSS3 markup to fulfil unique interface requirements.
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Quickly modernized, overhauled obsolete ASP.NET, C# webpages into company’s custom content management system using LAMP stack.
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Built PHP application to list nearest vegan restaurants for thousands of email clients from postal code or city name using REST API directory.
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Resourcefully created and updated webpages and templates by formatting, editing images and other materials for websites and emails.
2014 January - MarchSKIO Music Inc. Vancouver, BC
Junior Software Engineer
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Precisely ported current CMS website (WordPress) to a static HTML5, CSS3 responsive design (http://www.skiomusic.com) with added responsive customization.
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Independently created custom Tumblr theme from basic template with consistent brand scheme, custom Twitter feed box, responsive design (http://skio-music.tumblr.com).
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Collaborated with lead developer to write modules, functionality for Amazon AWS hosted (AWS S3 with Elastic BeanStalk Python application deployment) Django backend with dynamically generated JavaScript frontend.
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Swiftly corrected previously-incorrect DNS records by directly modifying several incorrect name records that allowed the team to coordinate their current site with their domain.
2011–2012Jila.net Media Inc.Vancouver, BC
Drupal Development Engineer
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Designed, tested, and assembled custom-themed Drupal web platform for social networking. (http://www.godornogod.com; http://atheistrepublic.com)
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Diligently migrated entire company’s LAMP stack to Amazon AWS with Elastic Load Balancing on Auto-Scaling AMI’s using intuitive AWS Command Line Interface
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Developed, debugged custom modules with innovative forum technology to pioneer avenues of discussion between communities of diverse beliefs.
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Executed front-end security analysis along fourteen axes of vulnerability.
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Effectively executed requirements elicitation in communication with users and director.
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Intelligently prioritized start-up company requirements to realise brand vision.
2011–2012EOS Lightmedia Inc.Vancouver, BC
Firmware Engineer for Microcontroller Lighting System
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Worked harmoniously in team of lighting designer, lighting engineer, and electrical engineers to develop new LED lighting fixture product for company.
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Planned and designed LED layout on building-model for research centre in North Carolina.
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Successfully designed, implemented, and tested lightweight, efficient lighting-datagram router on open-source Arduino microcontrollers in Java IDE and C-based open-source code.
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Created user-friendly web-interface on Arduino microcontrollers with dynamic IP-address reassignment and debugging web page.
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Independently researched mechanisms for controlling seven-hundred smart-LED’s with ten separate microcontrollers and interfacing with public.
2010–2011Farzin Yadegari Architect Inc.North Vancouver, BC
Web Developer and IT Specialist
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Generated highly effective networking solutions with limited resources to establish server-client relationships with multiple peripherals in office.
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Designed, coded, and published professional company website implementing jQuery interfaces on a customized WordPress platform.
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Coordinated design-schedules between head architect and senior architects.
2006UBC Faculty of Applied ScienceVancouver, BC
Software Engineering Research Assistant
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Designed, implemented, and tested control system software on microcontroller (using IBM Assembly and MATLAB) for dynamically coordinating movement of precision motors to realize inkjet printing of organic thin-film transistors and supercapacitors.
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Investigated the research potential of organic supercapacitor and device fabrication using inkjet micropatterning.
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Prepared concise and clear verbal daily reports in close teamwork with research fellow and associate professor advisor.
Volunteer Experience
2014Force of Nature AllianceVancouver, BC
Community Outreach Manager
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Determined organising to mobilise voters to support ecologically-responsible technologies, fuel-alternatives, and exuviating our dependence on tar-sands-based pipelines.
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Rallying team of cohorts to regularly engage the public in key political ridings by door-to-door canvassing, tabling, phone banking.
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Collaboratively assisting in NationBuilder frontend design using Sass for CSS, Liquid markup language, and responsive HTML5.
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Cultivating resource and team organising by engaging in ongoing leadership trainings by OrganizeBC.
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Environmental advocacy (LeadNow, Dogwood Initiative, ForestEthics).
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English teacher and learning Mandarin for four months in Hunan, China.
Education
2005–2010University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC
B.A.Sc. Computer Engineering program, Software Engineering specialization
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Dean’s list recognition of excellence for two semesters.
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Fourth year in program.
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Excelled as software development leader in multiple computer engineering project groups.
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Project course in security engineering project with focus on designing usable software security and access control within distributed systems.
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Granted NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award to apply creative firmware engineering methods in four months of supervised lab research in EECE department.
2000–2005Moorpark Community CollegeMoorpark, CA
Physics and Electrical Engineering
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Overall GPA of 3.63, A average.
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Placed on Dean’s List for four semesters consecutively.
USA national silver medallist of college speech and forensics team.
Interests
Competitive chess, public speaking, philosophy of science, ethics, Philosophers’ Cafés.