Robert Elves

Software Developer at Tasktop Technologies

Location: Vancouver, Canada Area
Industry: Computer Software

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Robert Elves's Overview

Current

Software Developer and Co-founder at Tasktop Technologies

Past

Research Assistant at The University of British Columbia
Teaching Assistant at University of Victoria
Research Intern at National Research Council Canada

Software Engineer Intern at Communication Security Establishment
Network Architect Intern at Communication Security Establishment
Network Administrator at Island Microsystems

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Education

University of Victoria

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Software Developer and Co-founder

Tasktop Technologies

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry

January 2007 – Present (6 years 6 months)

Creating software that helps developers "Code at the speed of thought".

Research Assistant

The University of British Columbia

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

January 2006 – December 2006 (1 year) Vancouver, Canada

Helped build the Eclipse Mylyn project while supporting its growing open source community. I learned a great deal about the development and management of an open source project and community while improving my technical knowledge of Java and Eclipse Plugin development.

Teaching Assistant

University of Victoria

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

May 2004 – August 2004 (4 months) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Instructed labs aimed at helping students become competent Java programmers.

Research Intern

National Research Council Canada

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry

September 2003 – April 2004 (8 months) Ottawa, Canada

Researched digital information navigation, in particular source code navigation. Learned Eclipse Plug-in Development to build prototype tooling. Other skills acquired include MySQL, XML/XLST.

Software Engineer Intern

Communication Security Establishment

Government Agency; Myself Only; Public Safety industry

January 2002 – April 2002 (4 months) Ottawa, Canada

Exercised low level knowledge of TCP/UDP Sockets and NetBIOS and SMB protocols with special interest in Network Security.

Network Architect Intern

Communication Security Establishment

Government Agency; Myself Only; Public Safety industry

January 2001 – April 2001 (4 months) Ottawa, Canada

Migrated and deployed new DNS infrastructure with special interest in Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention.

Network Administrator

Island Microsystems

January 1999 – December 2000 (2 years) Campbell River, British Columbia

Designed, delivered, and administered numerous networks for both private sector SMBs (primary Legal and Accounting services) and public sector agencies. Duties included establishing both hardware and software requirements, along with delivery and administration. Platforms involved were Linux, Windows NT, and Novell NetWare with custom (IPSEC/PPTP) virtual private networks.