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Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada, R2M 5H9

Ka-Ping Yee

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CURRENT ADDRESS
Cambridge, MA
USA, 02139

B. A. Sc. (Hons.), Computer Engineering, U of Waterloo
Graduate Student in Computer Science, UC Berkeley

SPECIAL SKILLS

demonstrated presentation, communication, and teamwork skills
confirmed world-class analysis and problem-solving abilities
quick to learn and readily productive even in new situations
experience in C, C++, Python, PHP, SQL, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Java, Scheme, Prolog, 68k and x86 assembly
familiar with Internet standards including HTTP, SGML, HTML, XML, TCP/IP
comfortable in various Unix and Windows operating environments

ACHIEVEMENTS

IBM Ph. D. Fellowship Recipient [2002, 2003]
Software Carpentry Open-Source Software Design Competition [2000]
- designed Roundup, winner of the "issue tracker" contest category
Professional Engineers Ontario
- Gold Medal for Academic Achievement [1998]
Governor General's Silver Medal [1998]
- the highest undergraduate award given at the University, awarded for the top graduating student in a Bachelor's degree program
Computing Research Association
- runner-up for the Outstanding Undergraduate Award [1996]
ACM International Programming Contest: member of Waterloo's three-person team
- won the world championship at the Finals [1994]
Putnam (Undergraduate) Mathematics Competition [1993]
- highest scorer from the University of Waterloo
International Mathematical Olympiad: member of Team Canada
- Canada's only 1993 gold medallist; placed 12th individually worldwide [1993]
- became youngest ever Canadian competitor; won honourable mention [1991]
First place: International Computer Problem-Solving Contest [1992]
First place (national): Sir Isaac Newton Physics Contest [1993]
First place (national): Descartes (Grade 13) Mathematics Contest [1993]
First place (national): Euclid (Grade 12) Mathematics Contest [1991, 1993]
First place (provincial): Executive Game economic strategy simulation [1993]
Canada-Wide Science Fair: exhibitor [1989, 1990, 1992]
- best junior project at fair (project on chaos in nonlinear systems) [1989]
- provincial awards for projects on simulating dynamics, neural networks, and evolving algorithms

PROJECTS

Fly Enhancer <http://flyenhancer.org/> [2001]
- a public search engine for clusters of binding sites in cis-regulatory DNA in the fly genome
national survivor registry for victims of September 11 terrorist attacks [2001]
Flamenco <http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/> [2001]
- a series of user interfaces for browsing large collections using faceted metadata
pydoc <http://pydoc.org/> [2000]
- the standard documentation generator and interactive help system for Python
Udanax Green Front-End <http://udanax.com/green/> [1999]
- a graphical interface released with the Xanadu hypertext system
- presented at the 1999 O'Reilly Open Source Conference
Crit Link Mediator and Annotation Publisher <http://crit.org/> [1997]
- the first system to enable public in-line annotation on any public Web page
- presented at the third Extropian Conference in San Jose
- received the Engelbart Hypertext Achievement Scholarship awarded by Dr. Douglas Engelbart and the Foresight Institute
Medium-Independent Notation for Structured Expressions <http://minse.org/> [1996]
- the first and only widely-accessible system for math in Web documents: an extensible representation, prototype parser, renderer, and polymediator
- site won the 1996 Canadian Internet Award for Best Science Site
Shodouka <http://www.shodouka.com/> [1995]
- still the only platform-independent language mediator for the Web, allowing anyone to view Japanese pages without special software
- site won the first ACM Webbie Prize for Best Student Site

WORK EXPERIENCE

Industrial Light and Magic: Production Software Engineer [Jun 1998 to Jul 2000]
- developed and maintained interactive graphics software in daily use in film productions (such as Star Wars I, The Mummy, and The Perfect Storm)
- supported an active community of painters, technical directors, and other computer graphics artists of widely varying technical ability
- designed and built the department's innovative issue-tracking system, Roundup, documentation generator, and other Intranet-based services, on own initiative
- received film credits on "Wild Wild West" and "Rocky and Bullwinkle"
Xerox PARC: Software Intern (evaluation: outstanding) [May to Aug 1997]
- developed in Python using ILU (a distributed programming system) for a project to deliver document processing services on the Web
- created several Web-based tools for Python developers
- helped write an HTTP server in Python that supports SSL
- received CMM level 3 training in software review procedures
Alias|Wavefront Tokyo: Software Developer (evaluation: outstanding) [Aug to Dec 1996]
- gained some familiarity with Maya
- designed and implemented 13 new tools (shipped with A|W PowerAnimator 8.0) using the OpenAlias plug-in API, including a powerful new 3-D deformation tool for modelling and animation, an interactive region modification tool for character modelling, several evaluation and conversion tools, and a new selection mode
- worked on a new cartoon-style renderer and collaboration tools for A|W users
- performed network troubleshooting and WWW site maintenance
- created a Web-based system for tracking software orders
University of Waterloo Math Faculty Computing Facility: Hardware Engineering Assistant (evaluation: outstanding) [Aug to Dec 1995]
- maintained network equipment for the Math faculty and computer-controlled robot and model train systems in the real-time laboratory
- developed the front-end interface software for robot control
- designed and prototyped an effective portable cable tester
- quickly created a Web-based hardware service request manager
Canadian Space Agency: Software Engineer (evaluation: outstanding) [Jan to Apr 1995]
- created and managed the Agency's World-Wide Web site
- invented and constructed a unique system for remote (via CGI) management, editing, and validation of users' HTML documents
- designed a communications protocol for a 3-D force-feedback device
- developed user interfaces while learning Tcl/Tk
Alias Research Inc.: Software Developer (evaluation: outstanding) [Jul to Aug 1994]
- implemented new polygonal modelling functionality for Alias' industry-leading 3-D design and animation package
- designed, implemented, and tested FlipBook 2.0, a stand-alone SGI application for interactive sequencing of 2-D sprite animation (shipped with Alias since version 6)
Norlus Research Inc.: Computer Programmer [Aug to Nov 1989]
- helped design a natural-language interface based on semantic translation
- learned LISP; wrote and debugged code for language interpretation

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, California [2000 to present]
- pursuing a Ph. D. in Computer Science (discipline: CHI)
- successfully completed preliminary examinations
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario [1993 to 1998]
- top student in the Computer Engineering class
- held Colonel Hugh Heasley Scholarship, Canada Scholarship, UW Engineering Upper-Year Scholarship, and Microsoft Technical Scholarship
- courses in software engineering, signal processing, computer architectures and networks, design for society, economics and entrepreneurship
- completed second-year Japanese and a nine-month exchange program with the Department of Social Systems Engineering at Tottori University, Japan
St. John's-Ravenscourt School, Winnipeg, Manitoba [1983 to 1993]
- Governor's Honour Roll, grades 8 to 12
- Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship, grades 8 to 12
U. S. Department of Energy Science Student Honours Program [1993]
- synchrotron light experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory
International Mathematical Olympiad Training Sessions [1991, 1993]
Shad Valley, University of Waterloo [1992]
- advanced program in entrepreneurship and engineering
Waterloo Mathematics Contests Seminars [1989, 1990, 1991, 1992]
Royal Conservatory of Music
- completed Grade 8 Piano, Grade 3 Harmony, Grade 3 History

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

Program Committee Member, 10th International Python Conference [2002]
Program Committee Member, 9th International Python Conference [2001]
Teaching Assistant, CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, UC Berkeley [fall 2000]
Special Guest Speaker, Alternative Computing Expo, Melbourne, Australia [2000]
Keynote Speaker, Shad Valley Summit [2000]
Workshop Presenter, Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference [2000 and 2001]
Program Assistant, Shad Valley Acadia [1999]
Cryonic Suspension Member, Alcor Life Extension Foundation [1997 to present]
Member, Association for Computing Machinery [1995 to present]
WWW Maintainer, Club That Really Likes Anime (Japanese animation interest group)
WWW Editor, Imprint (U. of Waterloo student newspaper) [summer 1995]
Orientation Leader, St. Paul's College, University of Waterloo [1994]
Academic Class Representative for Computer Engineering [1993 to 1996]
conducted Waterloo Engineering's first ever electronic scavenger hunt [1993]
Manitoba Science Olympics [1991, 1992, 1993]
- applied creative engineering as a member of a school team
Young Scientists of Canada
- Founder and Chairperson, Winnipeg chapter [1991 to 1993]
- Editor, Sciencesphere (YSC national publication) [1993]
Children's Hospital Research Foundation
- entertained as a juggler at the "Teddy Bears' Picnic" fundraiser [1992]
Exhibitor, Manitoba Schools' Science Symposium [1986 to 1993]
- gained invaluable experience in giving technical presentations
Co-editor, Out of Focus (St. John's-Ravenscourt student newspaper) [1992]
Competitor, National Public Speaking Tournament [1992]
Competitor, Western Canada Debating Seminar [1992]
Competitor, McGill National High School Debating Championships [1991]
- trained to think logically and express ideas clearly under pressure
Volunteer, Heart and Stroke Foundation [1991]
Canadian delegate, London International Youth Science Fortnight [1990 and 1991]
- a perspective-broadening forum of students from over 50 countries
other interests:
- recreational skiing, skydiving, and aiki-jujitsu (yellow belt)
- Japanese animation (anime) and language, juggling, Mao, chess, Go
- music composition and electronic music
- discussions on Internet-related working groups
- programming for the PalmPilot connected organizer
- a few contributions to Python and Grail, the Internet browser written in Python
- nanotechnology, cryonics, and extropianism

This document lives at <http://zesty.ca/resume.html>.
References are available on request.

Ka-Ping Yee

B. A. Sc. (Hons.), Computer Engineering, U of WaterlooGraduate Student in Computer Science, UC Berkeley

B. A. Sc. (Hons.), Computer Engineering, U of Waterloo
Graduate Student in Computer Science, UC Berkeley