@cvee

Chris Verwymeren

iStrategyLabs; Washington, DC
Chief Technology Officer 2011- Present

GE Social Fridge
- Combined Arduino hardware with software written using C++ and node.js to create a vintage refrigerator that automatically opens after every ten Foursquare check-ins.
- The GE Social Fridge was displayed by General Electric in their GE Garage at SXSW 2012.
DCWeek Dashboard
- Developed a node.js and Twitter powered web dashboard to track and display Digital Capital Week 2011 related tweets over the course of the festival.
Open-Source
- Created the open-source node.js libraries node-topsy and node-twitter.

Freshcode; Winnipeg, MB
Software Developer 2009 - 2011

Bodega
- Bodega is a Mac app that makes it easy for customers to manage their installed apps, discover new apps and share discoveries with friends.
- Developed the customer facing Mac OS X desktop app as well as the robust backend system used to drive the customer app. The backend system was implemented using Apache, PHP and MySQL while the customer app was implemented using Objective-C and Cocoa.
DrugHub
- DrugHub is a iOS app designed to assist customers in managing their medications.
- Responsible for creating heavily modified versions of base-level UIKit classes to achieve the custom styled user interface.

TailStorm; Winnipeg, MB
Software Developer 2007 - 2009

Designed and implemented a file transfer utility using C++, JavaScript, XUL and XPCOM.
Developed a framework using the Java Native Interface (JNI) framework to provide access to C based Linux system calls from Java.
Re-architected existing MySQL databases to improve and enforce data integrity.
Acted as system administrator for the company Mac OS X and Linux servers.

Avant Systems Group; Winnipeg, MB
Developer/Analyst 2004 - 2007

Developed the Zamber Suite component xDSL Profiler, a J2EE web application that monitors Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) equipment and automatically makes adjustments to achieve optimal performance.
Led development on the web application component of TecNet, a full-featured circuit provisioning system used by telecommunications providers to maintain their physical and logical network infrastructures. Development was accomplished using Google Web Toolkit, Java, JavaServer Pages, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript and Oracle.
Using C/C++, Qt and Oracle, designed and implemented enhancements to the desktop application component of TecNet targeting a Windows and Solaris environment.

Creator

Contributor

University of Manitoba, Bachelor of Science: Computer Science (Major Co-op), 2002