CARY FELDSTEIN

12279 Ewen Avenue. Richmond, B.C. Canada. V7E 6S8

Home Phone: (604) 271-2247 Cell Phone: (778) 229-2279

E-mail:

Employment Objective
To find a challenging and rewarding position in the aviation industry.
Education

One year of Ph.D. Study – Electrical and Computer Engineering

September 2004 – October 2005
University of British Columbia – Vancouver, B.C.
Research Area: Fault Tolerant Integrated Circuit Architectures.
Completed one year of Doctoral Studies as a member of the “System on Chip” research group.
Supervised by Dr. Steve Wilton and Dr. Guy Lemieux.

Masters of Science - Computer Science

September 2002 – July 2004
University of Victoria – Victoria, B.C.
Research Area: Safety Critical Real Time Systems.
Thesis titled: Development of a Fault Tolerant Flight Control System.
Supervised by Dr. Jon Muzio.

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Co-op

September 1996 – April 2002
University of Victoria – Victoria, B.C.
Participated in Computer Science Co-op Program.
Computer Systems Emphasis.
Skills
Programming Languages: C/C++, JAVA and ADA.
Platforms: Windows, UNIX (Solaris), LINUX, HP-UNIX, and embedded systems.
Design Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio and Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Development Tools: Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 6.0, Dev C++, Rational APEX, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Subversion, CVS, Bugzilla, PVCS and other Bug/Change Request Systems.
Graduate Level Courses: Distributed Computing, Advanced ComputerArchitecture, Software Models: Embedded Systems, Advanced Fault Tolerant Computing, Design & Analysisof Real-Time Systems.
IEEE Continuing Education Courses:System Safety for Software Intensive Systems; Fault-Tolerant Avionics Systems; Modern Avionics Architectures; Digital Avionics Systems; Spacecraft Avionics Systems: Systems Engineering – Avionics Systems Architecture; Building Dependable Software Systems: The Power of Negative Thinking.
Conferences Attended: 21st Annual Digital Avionics Systems Conference (October 27-31, 2002), 23rd Annual Digital Avionics Systems Conference (October 24-28, 2004), ACM/SIGDA Thirteenth International Symposium on FPGAs (February 20-22, 2005)
Publications
C. B. Feldstein, J. C. Muzio, “Development of a Fault Tolerant Flight Control System”, Proceedings of the 23rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference, October 2004. Winner of “Best Student Paper” Award
WORK EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant – Applied Science 160 – University of British Columbia
September 2004 - September 2005 Vancouver, B.C.
Responsibilities: Lead weekly instructional laboratories for approximately 50 students.Mark exams and assignments as required.Supervise exams.
Accomplishments: Contributed previous teaching experience to decision making.Mentored rookie Teaching Assistants.Offered additional tutoring sessions to assist students with exam preparation.

Course Instructor (Sessonal) –University of Victoria

January 2003 - August 2003Victoria, B.C.
Responsibilities: Taught two full courses (one per term).Computer Science 212 (Jan-April) approx. 200 students in class.Computer Science 100 (May-Aug) approx. 30 students in class.Prepare lectures, assignments, laboratories and exams.Evaluate students and assign grades.

Teaching Assistant– University of Victoria

September 2000 - June 2004Victoria, B.C.
Responsibilities: Responsibilities increased with experience and seniority. In final two years responsibilities for large course (400+ students) included preparing labs for whole class, lecturing whole class on laboratory material, supervising lab instructors and markers, maintaining grade database and addressing issues of fraud.

Program Manager – Co-op Work Term – Microsoft Corporation

May 2001 - August 2001Redmond, WA
Responsibilities: Design and create specifications for new features to be included in Microsoft Publisher 2003.
Lead design, code and test review meetings relating to features within my area of responsibility.
Supervise development and testing of features within my area of responsibility.
Accomplishments: Successfully completed design, development and test of new major user interface feature.

Software Engineer –Co-op Work Term –PerceptronForest Products Division

May 2000 –August 2000Parksville, B.C.
Responsibilities: Develop code for new features of lumber mill optimization software using Visual Studio and C++.
Investigate and repair bugs as identified by customers.

Software Engineer –Co-op Work Term – ALI Technologies Inc. (McKesson Medical Imaging Group)

May 1999 - August 1999Richmond, B.C.
Responsibilities: Research and develop video conversion feature for product (from DICOM video format to Apple Quicktime and Microsoft AVI formats.)

Software Engineer – Co-op Work Term – Raytheon Systems Canada

September 1998 - December 1998Richmond, B.C.
Responsibilities: Implement new features in ADA for Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS) as part of Air Space Management (AMS) team.
Accomplishments: Excelled in ISO2001 Software Engineering Environment.

Co-op Work Term – Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental TestRanges

January 1998 - April 1998NanooseBay, B.C.
Responsibilities: Develop Public Relations Website. Assist base staff on various projects such as sonobouy testing, software lifecycle issues and development of resource scheduling system.
Volunteer Experience

Judge – Canada Wide Science Fair

May 2005 Vancouver, B.C.
Responsibilities: Judge student projects in Intermediate Level Engineering and Computer Science (grades 9+10)
Accomplishments: Encouraged students to pursue post-secondary study of the sciences and engineering.

Victoria Chapter Board Member Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

October 1996 - June 2004 Victoria, B.C.
Responsibilities: Assisted with Shinerama Fundraising Campaign.Held board position of University Liaison for many years.Served as Vice President for one year.

Co-EditorPointGreySecondary School Yearbook

July 1995 - June 1996Vancouver, B.C.
Responsibilities: Edit and produce high school yearbook.Responsible for yearbook budget of approx. $25000.Manage creative team of writers, photographers and artists.
Activities & Interests
Golf, Swimming, Ice Hockey, Dogs, Reading, Aviation and Pizza Consuming.