My full-time job is as an Applications Engineer in Vancouver, Canada, managing support and development of an ultra-compact embedded computing platform designed for space- and weight-constrained applications. I have been leading teams to support embedded computing platforms for the past few years and have aided and trained customers across North America, Europe, and Asia on a variety of compact rugged computing and software-defined radio platforms.

I’ve previously earned both Masters and Bachelor degrees in Applied Science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, where I studied systems engineering and focused my graduate research on multi-agent systems. The algorithms I worked to design and implement allow intelligent manufacturing resources to negotiate their own schedules with other production resources, in order to find a schedule that completes all orders in minimum time. The results of my simulations were first presented at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics in Washington, D.C. in October 2003 and the following year in the Hague, Netherlands. Implemented using JADE (a Java based multi-agent framework), the technique shows vast improvements over centralized methods.

Nowadays, I’m simply a technophile who enjoys reading and learning about new gadgets, technologies, trends, and tools for collaboration.