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Jordan Naftolin jordan@naftolin.com 2800 Elliott Ave Apt. 1116 Seattle, Washington 98121 (206) 374-8352 http://jordan.naftolin.com Relevant Skills Innovative, ambitious, and outgoing Practical problem solving and leadership skills Knowledgeable in C++, Java, Java servlets, Web Services, XML, and Design Patterns Experience with Struts, Lucene, Tomcat, Xerces, Xalan, and Ant Familiar with PHP, UML, SQL, .NET Fluent in English and French Education University of Waterloo Waterloo , Ontario Sept 1998 - April 2003 Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science (Honours, Co-op) Graduated with Distinction Awarded $4,000 Cognos scholarship in recognition of academic performance, work evaluations, and extra-curricular involvement Consistently achieved a greater than 80% average in each academic term Work Experience Microsoft - Software Design Engineer August 2003 - Present Redmond , Washington Software Developer on the Portable Media Center team Responsible for implementing the synchronization engine for transferring data to and from device Responsible for the integration of the Digital Rights Management components Responsible for maintaining and extending the Media Library functionality Organized and led a 4-hour workshop on Product Design during the 2005 DigiGirlz summer camp IBM - Extreme Blue Intern June 2002 - Aug 2002 Cambridge , Massachusetts Created a Web Services framework making it easier to interact with and develop user-centric Web Services Created clients to demonstrate the capabilities and usefulness of this framework using Sash Presented the framework to IBM CEO Sam Palmisano at IBM Corporate Headquarters Infusion Development - Software Developer Sept 2001 - Dec 2001 New York , New York Site architect and lead developer for CodeNotes.com, an online community for the CodeNotes book series Designed and developed a set of administrative tools to update and maintain CodeNotes.com Assisted in writing several CodeNotes articles Implemented the content management system used by Infusion WiseUncle - System Architect Jan 2001 - Apr 2001 Toronto , Ontario Assisted in the design and creation of the WiseUncle system framework Designed and implemented an XML data persistence mechanism Responsible for the design and implementation of the WiseUncle data management tool IBM - XML Engineer May 2000 - Aug 2000 Cupertino , California Worked on the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) server development team Responsible for the process of converting Stylebook XML to PDF Proposed and implemented a more efficient system for organizing the ICU documentation XML source files Presented a Tech Talk to IBM, Cupertino (topic: The PDF Generation Process) Active committer to the XML Apache Formatting Object Processor (FOP) project Panelist and FOP presenter at the Java One Apache XML BOF KL Group - Java Developer Sept 1999 - Dec 1999 Toronto , Ontario Designed and created a robust test harness for the server-side testing of Deploy Director Assisted other employees in learning about servlets and how to profile them for memory leaks Volunteered to edit the "KL Group Tour" digital video Consultant Feb 1999 - Sept 2000 Toronto , Ontario Co-started and operated a consulting business that offered the design and development of web applications Contracted to design and create the Financial Tools Education Planner servlet for The Financial Sector Contracted to implement a registration web site prototype using JDBC KL Group - Java Developer/Tester Jan 1999 - Apr 1999 Toronto , Ontario Designed and created a mock ATM servlet for Threadalyzer demo Worked on the JProbe servlet profiling process Worked on JProbe's integration with JBuilder Volunteer Work 'Hunt the Wumpus' project Jan 2005 - Present Work with high school students to teach them the principles of Object Oriented programming, and help them develop a computer game with their newly acquired skills Created a documentary about the project to promote it across additional schools Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference Sept 2000 - May 2003 Waterloo , Ontario CUTC 2003 Co-Chair Responsible for managing and leading the executive committee team leads for Industry Relations, Academic Relations, Public Relations, Student Relations, Sponsorship, Finance, Logistics, Operations, Social Events, and Registration Waterloo Village Council May 1999 - Aug 2000 Waterloo , Ontario Elected as House Representative Organized campus-wide comedy night Markham's Mayor's Youth Task Force Sept 1997 - June 1998 Thornhill , Ontario Elected as Chairman Organized "Youth Week", Markham job fair, and youth conference Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving Sept 1996 - June 1998 Thornhill , Ontario Started school chapter and acted as chapter President Organized informative school assemblies and awareness fundraisers Hobbies Tennis, basketball, baseball, piano, movies, reading, and writing Writing fun and useful software utilities Working with digital video, images, and electronics References available upon request. 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