Paul W. Homer

Current

Principal at Bitcount

Past

Contracter at IBM
Chief Technology Officer at The Medea Group
Ronin at Many (Self-employed)

Programmer at Warp10
Consultant at Bank of Montreal
Programmer/Analyst at Reuters PLC
Programmer/Analyst at Scotia McLeod
Application Programmer at Waterloo Maple Software

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Education

University of Waterloo

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Industry

Computer Software

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Paul W. Homer’s Summary

Nearly two decades of successfully building complex software systems for in-house and commercial application. Capable of conceptualizing, leading and developing exciting new technologies.

Paul W. Homer’s Specialties:

Development of sophisticated commercial software products.

Paul W. Homer’s Experience

Principal

Bitcount

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

March 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)

Initially: some writing at http://www.lulu.com/paul_homer

Then: IBM for 8 1/2 months, supplemental role working on WebFacing in Java. Interesting, but only one a short-term basis.

Now: Princess Margaret Hospital, working on commercializing an in-house Java web-application, since the mid-summer 2006.
Contracter

IBM

(Computer Software industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Chief Technology Officer

The Medea Group

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — March 2005 (5 years )

Directly responsible for the management, architecture, research and development of the company's entire suite of products. Clients were primarily marcom depts for financial companies.
Ronin
Many (Self-employed)

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

April 1997 — March 2000 (3 years )

Have keyboard, will code. Clients included Bank of Montreal, Warp 10, Scotia Capital and The Medea Group.
Programmer

Warp10

(Computer Software industry)

1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
Consultant

Bank of Montreal

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BMO; Banking industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Programmer/Analyst

Reuters PLC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Information Services industry)

May 1993 — March 1997 (3 years 11 months)

One of the primary developers responsible for the design, coding and implementation of the Time Series Server (TSS). The server is a fault-tolerant distributed 2Gb cache for data stored in a Teradata database. The cache provided the historic stock information for the Reuters 3000 product line, which was a multi-million dollar development effort to provide world-wide access to the most up-to-date analysis and stock information for 32 exchanges around the world.
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Programmer/Analyst

Scotia McLeod

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BNS; Financial Services industry)

February 1992 — May 1993 (1 year 4 months)

Designed and implemented an optimized version of the Bond Index calculator (BIX II) to calculate the Scotia Domestic Bond Indices and customized bond indexes. The design was more flexible and was optimized to be 4X faster on the same hardware. It featured an interface to store new dynamic index definitions directly in the database and a single in-core database that could partition rows from direct SQL where clause queries.
Application Programmer

Waterloo Maple Software

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1989 — April 1991 (1 year 8 months)

Ported Maple V from Unix to Macintosh OS 6, including adding a prototype user interface, numerical bug fixing and several complex operating system related bugs. Maple is a symbolic algebra calculator and interpreted language for computing complex mathematical expressions.