Chris Charabaruk

Current

Owner, Lead Developer at Taskerrific
Department Head, Gaming at Ad Astra Convention
Independent Software Developer (Self-employed)

Convention Staff at Anime North

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Past

Indie SIG Coordinator at International Game Developers Association
Executive Officer at Toronto Go-Getters Toastmasters
Usability Specialist at Faith Partnership Technologies

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Education

George Brown College

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Chris Charabaruk’s Summary

Chris Charabaruk is a computer programmer with many years of development experience with games and open source projects. Chris grew up writing code on a Commodore 64, and later on branched into C++ and C# development.

Currently, Chris is involved in the development of a Web2.0 task management service called Taskerrific. When he's not working on that, he's usually figuring out ways to help other small businesses benefit from the new modes of communication opened up by the internet.

In 2005, Chris co-founded the Toronto Independent Games Conference, with the aims to promote Toronto as a place of interest in the games industry and to provide networking and educational opportunities for other developers. Between then and June 2009, Chris has also been one of the coordinators of the "Indie" SIG of the International Game Developers Association.

Chris is a strong public speaker, thanks to his participation in Toastmasters International. He has served as President, VP Education, and Sergeant at Arms of Toronto's own Toronto Go-Getters club (formerly Toast IT Toastmasters), and as of June 2009 is a member of Ajax-Pickering Toastmasters. Chris currently has his Competent Communicator award and is working on achieving his Competent Leader and Advanced Communicator Bronze awards by the end of 2009.

Chris Charabaruk’s Specialties:

C++, C#, cross-platform development, Drupal, public speaking, social media

Chris Charabaruk’s Experience

Owner, Lead Developer

Taskerrific

(Internet industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Department Head, Gaming

Ad Astra Convention

(Non-Profit; Entertainment industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Initiating new game event programme for 2008. Collaborating with other department leaders for convention success. Supervising department staff and programming.
Independent Software Developer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

Developing various software products. Available as a consultant or contractor for software and web development.
Convention Staff

Anime North

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Formerly a member of the games department, now part of the operations services department. My responsibilities have always been supervision of an area for the purposes of safety and enjoyability of convention attendees, and occasionally managing equipment.