Professional Experience

CHRIS TYLER, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

Research Assistant, May 2011 - Present

Created software solutions to allow end users to easily install and customize Fedora Linux onto bootable media for ARM devices (ex. Raspberry Pi) [Fedora-ARM-Installer & Creator]
Created software projects which automates the building of thousands of software packages with complex build dependencies for Fedora Linux on ARM [Koji-Follow & Moji]

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

Independent Contractor, April 2013 - May 2013

Created a plugin module to allow members of the University to administrate, design, & create generalized stationery items such as business cards, letterheads, & envelopes
The plugin required an easy user interface along with flexible server-side capabilities to allow for user authentication, database storage, file access, & admin management

Education

SENECA COLLEGE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

Informatics and Security, May 2012

Researched & created a web site capable of demonstrating & teaching security concepts to students by implementing a purposefully insecure design
Wrote a bachelors thesis paper on implementing cryptographic algorithms to achieve secure local network communication

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

Completed coursework towards Software Engineering, April 2007

Participated in a group project where we built a binary adder using bread boards and logic gates
Learned memory management, socket programming, & process control concepts in C & assembly language

Intermediate knowledge with Python & PHP and basic knowledge of C & Perl
Experience in using bash, awk, grep, sed, tr, ifconfig, tcpdump, iptables, netcat, openssl, ssh, rpm, yum, dpkg, apt-get
Deployed setups running Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP
Practiced administration of VLANs on Cisco IOS catalyst switches and series routers
Analyzed security threats such as Man-In-The-Middle attacks on a layer 2 switch
Studied the mathematical concepts behind cryptographic algorithms for key exchanges, asymmetric/symmetric ciphers, & hashing