at Open Text
Ottawa, Canada Area
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- Software Developer at Open Text
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- Senior software developer at Compusult
- Software Developer at Idokorro Mobile
- Software Engineer at Cognos
- Senior Software Designer at Databeacon
- Software Engineer at Bell-Northern Research/Nortel
- Education
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Jeff Sparkes’s Summary
I enjoy working on server software and the challenge of increasing performance, stability and scalability. I have been using Java web services recently, and also have lots of experience with C++ and STL, python and perl
Jeff Sparkes’s Specialties:
Java, C++, performance, portability, XML, webservices, Linux, Unix
Jeff Sparkes’s Experience
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Software Developer
Open Text
(Public Company; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
July 2009 — Present (6 months)
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Senior software developer
Compusult
(Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Working on CS-W (catalog services for the web) server and client.
CS-W is a web service that allows discovery and browsing of metadata about data and service. Specifically this software was used to handle GIS software for mapping software. I was improving performance and working towards the 2.0.2 standard.
The job required Java, XML web-services and Oracle database programming. -
Software Developer
Idokorro Mobile
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
I designed and implemented a scalable clustered Java-based proxy server for a BlackBerry application.
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Software Engineer
Cognos
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — September 2006 (1 year )
Part of the team working on a multi-user multi-threaded OLAP/BI database.
My main focus was improving the performance, achieving a near doubling of throughput. This was mainly accomplished via improving shared object between layers, which allowed caching. -
Senior Software Designer
Databeacon
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 2005 (8 years )
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Software Engineer
Bell-Northern Research/Nortel
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 1990 — May 1997 (7 years 2 months)
Supported propiertary email system COCOS.
Migrated COCOS away from mainframe to Unix servers.
Worked on prototype web presentation/whiteboard project.
Jeff Sparkes’s Education
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
1982 — 1987
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Jeff Sparkes’s Interests:
xp, xprogramming, dynamic languages, Java, J2EE, Linux, Unix, xemacs, refactoring, unit testing, optimization, software design, portability, portable software, eclipse, jvm, python, scheme, common lisp, ocaml,xml,webservices
Jeff Sparkes’s Groups:
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Ottawa Technology Network
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