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I hold a BSc in [http://www.ece.ualberta.ca computer engineering] from the [http://www.ualberta.ca University of Alberta], and am finishing off a BA in political economy from [http://www.athabascau.ca Athabasca University]. I currently pay the bills as a system administrator / programmer for the U of A's [http://www.cs.ualberta.ca CS department], and will be returning to the U of A as a student in fall 2005.

On the technical side, I've been programming for over a decade, starting in the [http://www.moo.mud.org MOO] language, culminating in writing a web server in it back in '96, and moving on from there to more interesting projects. I've had some experience in building embedded systems (e.g. [http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~cdjones/courses/EE552/EE_552_Final_Report_Web.pdf a networked device on an FPGA] and a [http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~cdjones/courses/CMPE582/falconReport_Appendices.pdf digital audio effects processor] on a Motorola MCore with replaceable effects stored on hardware cartridges) and have been entranced by VLSI system design, before giving up the hardware world for a jump into the world of being a high-tech janitor. During my BSc, I worked as a co-op student at [http://www.audesi.com AudeSi], now part of [http://www.windriver.com Wind River]; [http://www.nortelnetworks.com Nortel Networks]; and [http://www.pmc-sierra.com PMC-Sierra].

Non-technically, I've been entirely too involved with [http://www.ualberta.ca/~debate student] [http://www.ess.ualberta.ca groups] and [http://www.su.ualberta.ca government], [http://www.cusid.ca debating], and [http://www.pointsofinformation.ca political commentary] for my own good.

I'll be working on implementing move and rename verbs for gvinum (GvinumMoveRename), FreeBSD's logical volume manager, and documenting gvinum. My mentors are [http://people.freebsd.org/~le/ Lukas Ertl] and [http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/ Poul-Henning Kamp].

Likes: signal

Dislikes: noise