Emile Cantin

emile.cantin@usherbrooke.ca

Languages: French (Native), English (Fluent)

PROFILE

        I am a student dad, with two wonderful daughters. I am currently looking to improve my programming skills after spending two internships on the auditing side of IT. I love to learn new skills, and I am looking for an interesting environment to do so.

ACADEMIC FORMATION

Bachelor’s degree - Computer Engineering

Université de Sherbrooke - in progress                                                2008-…

        3.72 cumulative average to date

WORK EXPERIENCE

Intern, IT Controls and Security

IBM Corporation                                                                        Fall 2011

  1. Viral and malicious activity assessment: NIDS and Honeypot installation and configuration
  2. Computer forensics: Offline virus analysis with a customized BackTrack Linux

Student, Networking team (Part-Time)

IBM Corporation                                                                        2011

  1. Update to the network management application written in Perl CGI
  2. Cisco IOS environment and configuration (Very basic stuff)

Intern, IT Controls and Security

IBM Corporation                                                                        Fall 2010

  1. Web application vulnerability assessment with IBM Rational AppScan
  2. Ethical hacking demonstrations for developers

Intern

STICorp                                                                                Winter 2010

  1. Improvements to the in-house time-tracking and billing application in ASP .NET
  2. Development of a server application for wireless alarms indicators (network programming)

Phone Technician

Bell Technical Solutions                                                                Summer 2009

  1. Installation and repair of residential phone lines
  2. Understanding of electrical phenomena in play

SKILLS

Web development

        LAMP stack, Microsoft stack, Java+GWT stack, CGI (Perl) stack

        Symfony2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, jQuery

Embedded development

        µC/OS-III, mbed, PIC

Desktop development

        Network programming, Qt, MFC, WinForms

System administration

        Debian-based Linux (Apache with nontrivial configuration, LDAP server), OpenBSD

General software development

        Design patterns (MVC, MVP, Command), Continuous integration (Jenkins), SVN & Git

Applications

        Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, Netbeans, GE Proficy Historian, IBM Rational AppScan

IMPLICATION

Canadian Cadet Movement

        Currently administration officier for my cadet corps                                2003-…

Symfony2 project

Contributions to documentation (pending)                                        Fall 2011

CSGames 2011

        AI, SQL and Web competitions                                                Winter 2011

  1. Third place for Web competition

PROJECTS

Academia

  1. Online teaching software                                                        Summer 2011
  1. Project management (Agile)
  2. Java with Model-View-Presenter pattern and GWT
  1. Toy robot                                                                        Fall 2008
  1. Project management (Waterfall)
  2. C++ Object-Oriented Programming
  3. Technical prize
  1. Many others...

Personal

  1. PHP Web sites                                                                2009-...

        http://cc2446.ca: Object-Oriented PHP with Symfony2

  1. Darts game on calculator (My first lines of code!)                                2006-2007

        http://www.ticalc.org/pub/89/asm/games/darts.zip: Procedural C on TI-89

INTERESTS

Web development                R/C Helicopters        Climbing

Android development        Snowboard