[This document is automatically generated. Please excuse minor typographical errors.] Rimon BARR 17 Parklawn Crescent, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 6W9, Canada Tel: (905) 731-5739 E-mail: rimon.barr@utoronto.ca Homepage: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~barr EDUCATION May '98: Graduating with an Honours B.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto combining a Computer Science specialist and Biology major Jun '94: Graduated from Thornlea Secondary School with distinction and scholarship CURRENT OBJECTIVE * Further my expertise and experience in the field of Computer Science * Apply my talents to solve challenging problems innovatively EMPLOYMENT Sep '96 - May '98: Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, University of Toronto * Conduct tutorials, office hours; mark assignments, tests: csc108, csc148, csc258, csc270 Sep '97 - Dec '97: Researcher, Database Group, Computer Science, University of Toronto * Worked under the guidance of Professor Alberto Mendelzon on the WebOQL project * Created a module which allows WebOQL engine to query LDAP directory sources May '97 - Sep '97: Developer, DB2 group, Toronto Laboratory, IBM Canada * Designed a low latency, high throughput, reliable communication protocol between nodes in a distributed database cluster for the Intel Virtual Interface architecture * Studied improvements made in the TPC-D database query benchmark May '96 - Sep '96: Researcher, Biochemistry and Immunology, University of Toronto * Worked, with guidance of Professors Emil Pai and Brian Barber, on computer models to determine whether certain epitopes from HIV retain conformation when inserted into antibodies Sep '95 - May '96: Researcher, Vision Group, Artificial Intelligence, University of Toronto * Modelled a robot planner, the module which converts requested goals into a sequence of robot primitives that satisfy them, under the supervision of Professor John Tsotsos * Learned high-level algorithms dealing with artificial intelligence; worked on low-level hardware controllers and gained experience working in Unix May '95 - Sep '95: Software Design Engineer, Office Group, Microsoft Corporation * Interned with Microsoft at their headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Gained practical experience in robust code, the commercial software world and deadlines. Learned valuable software development practices * Coded algorithms for the Toolbar Team of the Office ’97 group, now also being used by other groups Jul '94 - Sep '94: Software Quality Assurance, ATI Technologies Inc. * Generated benchmark reports for each driver release and automated this process * Created an MS-Test based application to reduce bottlenecks and expedite testing through reliable test suite management: automatically initialise conditions, generate reports and recover from crashes, so tests could run independently and produce consistent results Jun '93 - Jul '94: Consultant, Vehicle Information Centre of Canada (VICC) * Generated rate-pages (vehicle statistics) distributed to Canadian insurance companies * Designed applications to accelerate rate-page production from days to minutes, allowing more timely updates, better service and added income COMPUTER PROFICIENCY * Languages: C, C++, Java (OOP), VB, Pascal, Delphi, Perl, Lisp, Prolog, Awk, ASM * OS: Win 3.1/95/NT (Win32API, OLE, COM, etc.), Unix, DOS * Database: DB2, Sybase, Access, Paradox, JDBC * Web: HTML, CGI, JavaScript, TCP/IP, RMI * Apps: Office, Smartsuite, Corel, AutoSketch, PageMaker, etc. and can quickly learn others ACADEMIC and COMPETITIVE ACHIEVEMENTS 1998: * Included on the Dean's list every year to present * 1st individual contestant in University of Toronto Inter- Campus Programming Contest (2 years) 1997: * Recipient of Daniel Berlin Memorial Scholarship for Computer Science * Member of UofT ACM team; 6th place in Regional ACM Annual Programming Contest * Winner of IBM/Footprint HeadStart Java Contest; received Aptiva computer and job offer * Inducted into the National Golden Key Honour Society * Selected to attend leadership conference with Andersen Consulting 1996: * Awarded Biochemistry summer research fellowship 1995: * Received additional scholarship in second year based on first year results - * Won the University of Toronto National Scholarship Book 1994: Award * Received an entrance scholarship to the University of Toronto * Canadian Association of Physics contest: 1st in school, 30th in Ontario, honourable mention * Waterloo Sir Isaac Newton Physics contest: 2nd in school, 98.5 percentile in Ontario * Waterloo Descartes Mathematics contest: 2nd in school * Awarded certificates and pins for excellence in math, physics, computers and the full curriculum SCHOOL INVOLVEMENT * Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1996 * Elected Immunology Student Association class representative in second and third year * Member of school Reach for the Top Team (General Knowledge Team) * School First-Aid squad, chess, debating, public speaking, peer tutoring, yearbook editorial staff * Hobbies: soccer, karate, reading and collecting quotations COMMUNITY ACTIVITY Feb '96 - Dec '96: Webmaster, Jewish Federation Internet Committee * Member of the Internet Steering Committee * Set up and maintain the web site; creatively develop this new medium * Please visit: http://www.feduja.org/ Jan '91 - Dec '96: Volunteer, St. John Ambulance