C.V.
Freida Abtan
subtle.movements@gmail.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Multimedia Productions
Bird Woman (12:00 – 2009, for Electroacoustic Music, Solo Dancer, Costume, and Video)
Grant Recital Hall, Providence, RI, USA, May 26th 2009
BUME Festival, Providence, RI, USA, October, 2009
heartstrings : a string quartet (30:00 – 2005, for Electroacoustic Music, String Quartet, Video, and Sets)
Pixilerations Festival, Brown University, Providence, USA, September 29th, 2007
Send + Receive Festival, Winnepeg, Canada, May 13th, 2007
Signal and Noise Festival, VideoIn, Vancouver, Canada, April 29th, 2005
Tabernacle! Sound in Architecture Festival, Roy Street Art Collective, Montreal, Canada, September 30th, 2005
VideoMusic
Flight of birds (30:00 – 2010, Videomusic)
SOUNDplay Festival, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto, Canada, November8th, 2011 (multi-channel version)
Centre Regart, Lévis, Québec, Canada, December 11th, 2010
Staller Center, SUNY Stonybrook, Stonybrook, NY, USA, November 22nd, 2010
SOUNDplay Festival, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto, Canada, October 30th, 2010
The death of a muse – with Erin Gee (7:29 – 2009, Videomusic)
AKA’s Video Exchange, toured: Peterborough, Toronto, Guelph, London, North Bay Canada, Syracuse USA, 2009
Z-Axis, Paved Arts Center, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, June 5th-July 30th, 2009
The hands of the dancer (21:49 – 2008, Videomusic)
DIEM, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark, November 15th, 2010
2 Visages de la Musique Électroacoustiques, Musiques et Recherches, Brussels, Belgium, May 20th, 2010
International Computer Music Conference, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 17th, 2009
Box Salon, The Rivoli, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 24th, 2009
Exhibit Festival of Digital Culture, Venezio, Italy, July 3rd, 2009
Festival International ZEMOS98, Sevilla, Spain, 22nd–28th March 2009
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, February 17th, 2009
Steel Ball, Zaphod Bebblebrox, Ottawa, ON, Canada, December 20th, 2008
ART TECH MEDIA, Vimcorso, Cordoba, Spain, 26th-28th November, 2008
(dis)Embodied Touch, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottestown, Virginia, USA, November 21st, 2008
Pixilerations Festival, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, October 7th, 2007
Yellow Flowers : a study (5 :09 – 2006, Videomusic)
Factory Works Screening Series, The Factory, Hamilton, ON, Canada, October 15th, 2008
SOUNDplay, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto, Canada, October 3-15th, 2008
Analogue vs. Digital, 4th Fair of Culture, Zagreb, Croatia, 13th-16th December 2007
NWEAMO Festival, New York City, USA, Octoer 27th, 2007
NWEAMO Festival, Boulder, USA, October 19th, 2007
Pixilerations Festival – Ornament, Cable Car Cinema, Providence, USA, October 3rd, 2007
Friesland Media Art Festival, Friesland, Netherlands, September 20th-30th 2007
International Computer Music Conference – Immersive Sound, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27th–31st, 2007
Interactive (Video & Web-based Installation)
Dreamscape (2009, Interactive Video Installation)
Expo’74 (Cycling’74 Conference), Mission Bay Conference Center, San Fran, CA, USA, May 2009
Firewall- Eric Conrad and Freida Abtan (2006 – Interactive Video Installation)
Journée de la culture: Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada, September 29 – October 1, 2006
Wunderkammer (2002, Web-based Interactive Installation)
Net.Art Open, The Irish Museum of Modern Art (online), <http://www.stunned.org/imma/index.html>, 2003
Visual Work (including Digital Print)
Claire 2 (4’8” x 3’ – 2003, Oil on Canvas)
Show Off, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, Canada, April – May 2004
Several versions of the end of the world (Series of 9, 11” x 17” – 2002, Digital Print)
Twin Dogs: A multiples show, Art of the Union, Toronto, Canada, June 2002
Select Digital Prints (assorted sizes – 1998 – 2000, Digital Prints on Assorted Paper Media)
Solo Show: Analog to Digital, KOR Gallery, Kitchener, Canada, June 2000
Views from a window (Series of 3, 6” x 4” – 1999, Multimedia)
Miniature Show, Isolated Ground Gallery, Kitchener, Canada, November-December 1999
Soundtracks
The Carnie – Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (2010, Multimedia Installation)
Lightness and Weight – 6 :42 (2006) is used as the soundtrack music.
Solo Show, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
A Murder of Crows – Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (2008, Multimedia Installation)
Lightness and Weight – 6 :42 (2004) is used as the soundtrack music.
Solo show: the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2010
Solo Show, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany, 2009
16th Sydney Bienniale : Revolution – Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia, June 18th – September 7th, 2008
The Killing Machine and Other Stories – Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (2007, Multimedia Installation)
Heartstrings – 3 :48 (2004) is used as the soundtrack music.
Solo Show: The House of Books has no Windows, The Modern Art Oxford Gallery, Oxford, England, 2008
Solo Show, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain, February 2nd, 2007
Solo Show, Miami Art Museum (MAM), Miami, FL, USA, 2007
Fracas – Eduardo Menz (5 :00 – 2006, Experimental Short)
Creeping Ivy – 1 :33 (2002) is used as the soundtrack music.
AsoloArtFilmFestival, Milan, Italy, 2009
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece. 2008
Ybor Festival of the Moving Image,Tampa, Floridaa, USA, 2008
Double Negative Film Collective Group Screening, Ex-Centris, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2008
Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, YT, Canada, 2008
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, 2008
Vidéoformes,Vidéothèque éphémère, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2008
Victoria Film Festival – Victoria, BC, Canada, 2008
Drop the Camera: Appropriated Footage, Cultural Anxieties, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2008
Winnipeg Avant-Garde Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 2007
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2007
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2007
Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2007
Les Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2007
Immaterial – Stephanie Loveless (5 :00 – 2003, Experimental Short)
Original soundtrack created : Immaterial – 5 :00 (2003), February-March 2003
International Festival of Cinema and Technology, Orlando / Los Angeles / New York USA, London UK, 2006
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. June 2005
Antimatter Festival , Victoria, Canada. September 21st. 2004
Festival de l’Image Nouvelle, Sherbrooke, Canada. September 2004
L’Evenement Interuniversitaire de Creation Video, Montreal, Canada. February 2004
Liquid Bodies, Toronto, Canada. October 25th, 2003
MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. October, 2003
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Audio & Audiovisual Solo Performance
Pitch Black Audio Series, Raw Sugar, Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 22nd, 1011
DIEM, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark, November 15th, 2010
KulturHaus Abraxus, Augsburg, Germany, November 5th, 2010
STEIM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 4th, 2010
CREALAB, Nantes, France, November 2nd, 2010
dia de los muertos Festival, Caen, France, November 1st, 2010
Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Canada, October 28th, 2010
The Knot Gallery, Athens, Greece, July 1st, 2010
Mutek Festival, Monument National, Montreal, Canada, June 3rd, 2010
Holophon.ca, Regina, SK, Canada, July 25th, 2009
VideoIn Arts Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 31st, 2009
Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, USA, March 26th, 2009
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, February 17th, 2009
Naropa University, Boulder, CO, USA, October 10th, 2008
Mutek Festival, Theatre du Nouveau Monde, Montreal, Canada, May 29th, 2008
Altavoz Festival, Venice, Italy, May 24th, 2008
Cap Sembrat Festival, Barcelona, Spain, May 23rd, 2008
Noise Istanbul : Signals from Outside, Dogzstar, Istanbul, Turkey, March 25th, 2008
Spark Festival, The Nomad World Pub, Minneapolis, USA, March 1st, 2008
Htmlles Festival, The Savoy/Metropolis, Montreal, Canada, October 20th, 2007
Freida Abtan’s CD Release Party, le Cagibi, Montreal, Canada, June 14th, 2007
Send + Receive Festival, Winnepeg, Canada, May 11th, 2007
Epoxy Festival, Sala Rossa, Montreal, Canada, May 3rd, 2007
>TILT 4: A tribute to Hugh LeCaine, Société des Arts et Technologies, Montreal, Canada, November 12th, 2006
In Collaboration with other Sound Artists
Freida Abtan and Erin Gee, Z-Axis Exhibition Concert, Paved Arts Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, July 24th, 2009
As part of Nurse With Wound, Radar Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, March 20th, 2008
Freida Abtan with Aircraft!, La nuit Blanche, Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada, March 3rd, 2007
Subtle Movements with Scant Intone, Panospria Night, Sala Rossa, Montreal, Canada, August 12th, 2006
Freida Abtan with Joda Clément, Mutek Festival, Société des Arts et Technologies, Montreal, Canada, June 3rd, 2006
As part of Nurse With Wound, Great American Concert Hall, San Francisco,U.S.A, June 17th, June 18th, 2006
RELEASES
The Hands of the Dancer / The Temple of the Dreamer (56 :50 – 2010, Audio CD, 21:49 – 2010, Video DVD)
Solo Audio CD and Video DVD Released on Finite State Recordings / Jnana Records, February 2011.
Leonardo Music Journal – On Improvisation – Dreams of Waking (7 :02 – 2010, Audio track)
The piece “Dreams of Waking” appears in an issue of the Leonardo Music Journal devoted to improvisation, December 2010. The piece is credited to f.a.s.t. : Freida Abtan Shane Turner.
Steam and Fiction (20:25 – 2010, 256k mp3 release)
A collection of music composed of three songs was published as part of the Vague Terrain Online Journal of Digital Culture’s 17th issue on “Collaborative Spaces”, under the name f.a.s.t. : Freida Abtan Shane Turner. The ‘ep.’ was published alongside an artist statement concerning the means of collaboration between the artists. <http://vagueterrain.net/journal17/FAST/01>.
Ostinato 11 – Freida Abtan vs. Joda Clément (28 :29 – 2008, Audio track)
Ostinato 20 – Orpheus (19 :15 – 2008, Audio track)
Ostinato 24 – Untitled (18 :12 – 2008, Audio track)
The Ostinato series was a limited run of Audio CDs and fine art packaging and prints by visual artist Jérôme Fortin, curated by Eric Mattson. They were displayed within a string of gallery exhibits and later published on Mattson’s experimental music label ORAL. ‘Freida Abtan vs. Joda Clément was recorded live at the event Inter_act 2 during the 2006 Mutek festival in Montreal, Canada. ‘Orpheus’ was recorded during a performance of a commissioned audio work at the Epoxy Festival, Montreal, May 2nd, 2007. ‘Untitled’ was a recording of a 2007 club performance.
Heartstrings (26 :02 – 2007, 256k mp3 release)
Electronic and acoustic versions of the four movements of “heartstrings – a string quartet” were published as part of the Vague Terrain Online Journal of Digital Culture’s 7th issue on “Sample Culture”, along with an artist statement. <http://vagueterrain.net/journal07/abtan/01>.
Subtle Movements (71 :27 – 2007, Audio CD)
Solo Audio CD Released on United Jnana, distributed internationally by Revolver.
Cache 2004 – Lightness and Weight (6 :42 – 2006, Audio track)
The piece “Lightness and Weight” appears on the compilation Cache 2004 released by the Canadian Electroacoustics Community (CEC).
Please see http://www.discogs.com/artist/Freida+Abtan for a complete list of audio publications as part of the music group Nurse with Wound.
PUBLICATIONS
Freida Abtan, Shane Turner. “Improvisation and the subconscious mind.” Leonardo Music Journal (On Improvisation). MIT Press, December 2010.
Freida Abtan, “The Illusion of Pure Music.” Intransitive Web Magazine, August 19th, 2010, <http://www.intransitiverecordings.com/music/the-illusion-of-pure-music/>.
Freida Abtan “A Phenomenological, Time-based Approach to Videomusic Composition. ” In: Proceedings of the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2009, CEC – eContact! 11.4, December 2009. <http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/11_4/abtan_videomusic.html>.
David Birnbaum, Freida Abtan, Sha Xin Wei and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Mapping and Dimensionality of a Cloth-based Sound Instrument.” In: Proceedings of the 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC’07), Lefkada, Greece, July 2007.
Freida Abtan, Shane Turner. “Steam and Fiction – artist statement.” In: Collaborative Spaces, Vague Terrain Online Journal of Digital Culture 17, 2010. <http://vagueterrain.net/journal17/FAST/01>.
Freida Abtan. “heartstrings: a string quartet.” In: Sample Culture, Vague Terrain Online Journal of Digital Culture 7, 2007. <http://vagueterrain.net/journal07/abtan/01>.
Freida Abtan. “An Evening with Sound and Radio Artist Christian Calon. ” In: Electroacoustic Activities in Quebec, CEC – eContact! 6.2, 2003. <http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Quebec/Abtan.html>.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Between Popular and Academic Electronic Music.”
The UnConference at ICMC 2010, Stonybrook University, Long Island, NY, USA, May 4th 2010.
“Strategies for Spatial and Temporal Re-mapping Leveraging Pre-render Material.”
Cycling74 Expo: Science Fair, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2009.
“Mapping and Dimensionality of a Cloth-Based Sound Instrument.”
Sound and Music Computing Conference 2007, Lefkada, Greece, July 12th, 2007.
“Contact” with Karmen Frantiva
Dancing the Virtual, Montreal, Canada, May 2005.
“OpenSource Software and Culture in Electronic Music Production.”
Artavistic, Montreal, Canada, September 2005 (by request).
In and Out of the Studio, Montreal, Canada, July 2005.
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Comitié Artistique de Réseaux des Arts Médiatiques January 2011 – Present
Artistic board member of Montreal’s dedicated Electroacoustic Music organization. The board is responsible for curating the yearly Akousma Festival as well as other concerts sponsered by Réseaux.
UnConference Chair, ICMC 2010 April – June 2010
Organized and curated the UnConference mini festival during the International Computer Music Conference at Stonybrook, NY, June 2010. The UnConference included paper presentation, concerts, and self-organizing sessions.
Audio Curator, le Cagibi December 2009 – Present
Monthly experimental music series featuring salon-style, deep listening, electronic music events.
Consultant to Chantal Dumas April 2008
Consulted on the conceptual design and implementation of the software for her installation Le Vivant Bruit du Corps, implemented by David Drury.
Consultant and Composer to Janet Cardiff and George Miller 2007 – present
Consultant on technical implementation and composition of spatialization effects within several sound installations. I also composed and re-configured music for several installations around the overall sound design concept. Installations: The Killing Machine and Other
Stories (2007), The Murder of Crows (2008), The Carnie (2010).
Workshop Facilitator, Tiny Noise Festival May 2007
Workshop on Sampling and Sample Culture for the Tiny Noise Festival: Alternative Energy, Montreal, Canada, 2007.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2010 Recipient of a Brown University Creative Arts Council Grant to fund artistic production research
2009 Recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship for Doctoral degree scholars
2009 Recipient of the Fonds Quebecois de Recherche sur la Société de la Culture (FQRSC) Quebec Graduate Scholarship for Doctoral degree scholars
2008 Big Muddy Film Festival, Fracas for which I created the soundtrack received the Audience Choice Award for Best Experimental Film/Video
2007 Recipient of a Canada Council Travel Grantto perform as part of the 2007 Istanbul Art Bienniale in Istanbul, Turkey.
2007 Recipient of a Brown University Entrance Fellowship
2006 Recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship for Master’s degree scholars
2004 Winner of the Mills Purchase Prize in Fine Art (under the category of Painting and Drawing)
2004 One of the top 10 finalists for JTTP Times Play, Young Electroacoustic Composers Competition.
RELATED EDUCATION
2007 – Present Brown University, PhD, Computer Music and Multimedia
2005 – 2007 Université de Montréal, M. Mus, Electroacoustic Composition
2002 – 2005 Concordia University, BFA, Digital Image and Sound in the Fine Arts, Electro-acoustic Studies
1994 – 1999 University of Waterloo, B. Math (hon), Computer Science, Combinatorics and Optimization
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Workshop Instructor, Toronto Animation Society November 10th– 13th 2011
Designed and taught a workshop called “Animating Time and Space” as part of a residency with “New Adventures in Sound Art” for the Toronto Animation Society. The workshop covered temporal and spatial remapping strategies for video as an animation tehcnique. It was taught in Adobe’s After Effects software with real-time examples in Cycling74’s Max/Jitter programming environment.
Part-time Faculty, Concordia UniversitySeptember 2010 – Present
Designed the syllabus and twice instructed the course CART211: Creative Computation and Network Culture, an introduction to computational art. Each class had a substantial lecture component, covering topics ranging from the History of the Internet to Virtual Space and Identities, Interactive Composition and Performance and Physical Computing. The course also included labs on relevant web publishing and media design software, as well as studio project critique.
Designed the syllabus and co-instructed the course CART370: Introduction to Real-Time Video Programming, an introduction to real-time video manipulation and computer vision techniques in Cycling74’s Max/Jitter programming environment.
Teaching Assistant to Joseph Rovan, Brown University January – May 2010
Responsible for the entire course MUSC 0221 Electroacoustic Improv Ensemble – Special Topic: AudioVisual Improvisation, including organization, curriculum, instruction, and technical production. The course focuses on audio and visual improvisation using different means of electronic and instrumental production and maintained collaboration with a separate improvisatory dance group. I also designed and instructed a weekly supplementary workshop series on special topics of interest including: basic electronics for audio, video shooting and editing skills, mask making, glass diffusion materials, and several audiovisual software packages.
Teaching Assistant to Joseph Rovan, Brown University September – December 2009
Responsible for the entire course MUSC 0220 Electroacoustic Improv Ensemble, including organization, curriculum, instruction, and technical production. The course focuses on audio improvisation using different means of electronic and instrumental production. I also designed and instructed a weekly supplementary workshop series on special topics of interest including: basic electronics for audio, basic sound recording, and several audio software packages.
Sound Designer for Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company / Brown University Consortium January – May 2009
Responsible for selecting, editing and cue programming all sound media during a production of Molière’s The Lovers Quarrel, produced at the LaSalle Academy and directed by Jesse Geiger. Composed ambient sound materials as well as specific object sounds and special effects
Teaching Assistant to Dennis Miller, Brown University January – May 2009
Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of a weekly lab section for the course MUSC1230 Topics in New Media Theory: Composing with Image and Sound covering technical audiovisual production skills, including: video and sound recording and editing skills, sequencing, sound processing and moving image manipulation. First line of support to students in the development of their productions. Organized and led discussion of theoretical concepts from reading materials assigned in class.
Teaching Assistant to Todd Winkler, Brown University September – December 2008
Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of a weekly lab section for the course MUSC200 Computers and Music. Labs covered all technical aspects of the course including basic audio editing, processing, sequencing and multi-tracking, and an introduction to simple computer music concepts via programming in MAX/MSP. I was also responsible for collecting, evaluating and discussing the composition assignments, as well as essay and exam marking.
Teaching Assistant to Todd Winkler, Brown University January– May 2008
Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of a weekly lab section for the course MUSC1220 Interactive Installation. Labs covered responsive sound and video programming in Cycling74’s MAX/MSP JITTER real time environment, as well as and an introduction to sensors, and out of the box electronics-interfaces for the computer. I also edited and produced a series of DVDs featuring Prof. Winkler personal documentation of the interactive installations on display at several major international festivals.
Studio Assistant to James Moses, Brown University September – December 2007
Responsibilities included setting up and administrating the video facilities for the Computer Music and Multimedia (MEME) program at Brown University, and helping with the technical production of all MEME concerts and events including the Pixilerations Festival of Digital Art.
Flash Developer, eroby.net March– July 2007
Responsible for implementing the conceptual designs of Emily Roby on the website for her Tattoo studio, eroby.net.
Instructor, Studio XX March-April 2007
Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of a 4-week workshop on basic electronics for audio, including basic electronic concepts, schematic interpretation, component and value recognition.
Teaching Assistant to Sha Xin Wei, Concordia University September – December 2006
Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of a lab section of the class (13 weeks), including a 6 week course in real-time video using Cycling 74’s Max/MSP Jitter programming language. COMP471 / CART 498C Topics in Multimedia. Computer Graphics: Real time Video.
Research Assistant to Sha Xin Wei, Concordia University / Hexagram September 2005 – August 2007
Duties included spearheading the immersive video and audio research groups, designing and implementing software libraries for immersive instrument development, team lead and responsive audio instrument designer for the WYSIWYG responsive cloth project.
Flash Developer, Giovanni Models June – October 2006
Implemented the website designed by illustrator Jack Dylan in Macromedia Flash.
Programming Tutor, Studio XX February – March 2006
Provided two separate artists in residents with help and instruction in Macromedia Flash’s Actionscript.
Teaching Assistant to Sha Xin Wei, Concordia University September – December 2005
Responsible for curriculum and instruction of a 6 week course in real-time video using Cycling 74’s Max/MSP Jitter programming language, for CART 498C: Topics in Multimedia. Alchemy and Real-time Media.
Technical Director, Studio XX May – August 2005
Responsible for system administration, equipment, and technical support for the art center’s classes and members.
Teaching Assistant to Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University February – March 2005
Responsible for 4 week cross-level curriculum and instruction featuring core programming-related concepts with examples in Macromedia Flash’s Actionscript.
Instructor, Fine Arts Student Alliance (FASA) Concordia University March – April 2005
Responsible for 8 week curriculum and instruction featuring core programming concepts with examples in Macromedia Flash’s Actionscript.
Programmer / Digital Artist, Le Corps Indice May – August 2004
Flash developer and content creator for the new media dance company’s web-based fine art project La Creature.
Instructor, Studio XX June – July 2004
Responsible for 4 week cross-level curriculum and instruction featuring core programming-related concepts with examples in Macromedia Flash’s Actionscript.
Video Artist, The Blue Rider Ensemble May – August 2004, May – August 2003
Created a collection of videos interpreting chamber works created by the ensemble.
Research Assistant to Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University / Hexagram October 2002 – April 2003
Duties included bibliographic research, as well as software development in Macromedia Flash’s Actionscript.
Research Assistant to P.K. Langshaw, Concordia University / Hexagram October 2002 – March 2003
Developed generative, text-centered, digital, visual art based on interpreted poetic works as part of D.Verse Media.
Junior Software Developer, ATI Corporation February 2001 – August 2001
Responsible for bug-fixes within the multimedia playback engine for ATI’s TV Wonder product line (C++).
Junior Software Developer, Inscriber Technology Corporation May 1999 – January 2001
Duties included development of plug-in architecture (C++) for the stylized, glyph-rendering component of Inscriber’s real time broadcast graphics system. I was also the liaison with the development team at Discreet Logic.
Junior Software Developer, OpenText Corporation May – August 1997
Developed web-based, secure, statistical applications to track search results in the Open Text Web Index, a popular search engine, for the purposes of advertising (Shell/Bash Script, Perl, CGI, HTML) under UNIX OS.
Quality Assurance Manager, OpenText Corporation November – December 1996
Managed the Quality Assurance team for Internet Anywhere. Developed the QA product test strategy and database.
Quality Assurance Specialist, MKS August – September 1996
Tested the Internet Anywhere product. Reported to the Quality Assurance team lead.