Wesley Alcock's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

With software engineering I am a boundless source of vision, drive, and enthusiasm; I want to be a part of something amazing - something challenging - and succeed with a group of people who take responsibility for their work and have a great time doing so. Following five years of experience in architectures and languages across mobile,...

With software engineering I am a boundless source of vision, drive, and enthusiasm; I want to be a part of something amazing - something challenging - and succeed with a group of people who take responsibility for their work and have a great time doing so. Following five years of experience in architectures and languages across mobile, web, and desktop environments, I have a proven passion and adaptability to learn, work with, and manage nearly any technology stack. Throughout my work experience I have not only met but exceeded my employers’ expectations across a variety of tasks and projects; projects where I have taken a leading role in areas ranging from requirements elicitation, research, design, implementation, deployment, maintenance, and even customer relations. https://github.com/blueberySoftware Engineer, Android @ To be completed... From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer, Mobile @ Overview: Working as an independent contractor to build and maintain a mobile app for the business. Responsibilities: Conceptualized, architected, and implemented an algorithmic clothing designer app for Android and iOS. Worked closely with the principal owner of the company to establish scope of the project and held weekly meetings to discuss development progress and product direction. This contract is on-going on a part time basis. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elgami.customizer iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id956091359 From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer @ Overview: Joined a small team of software engineers and graphic designers working in a scrappy startup environment to build ‘awesome’ leaderboards for mobile games. Responsibilities: Working with game developers to elicit requirements for and validate concepts of the product. Developing, testing, and maintaining: ● A back-end REST API (Node.js and ZeroMQ/Redis/MongoDB) ● A front-end responsive web application (Backbone.js) ● SDKs for native Android / iOS platforms and Adobe AIR / Unity game engines Sample Game with LDRLY Integration: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LDRLY.SushiSpin iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/id968481834 From January 2015 to August 2015 (8 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer @ Overview: Joined a team of software engineers responsible for developing and maintaining the Polaris™ motion control software product line. Responsibilities: Developed and took leadership of various projects involving custom embedded Linux processes and cross platform human machine interfaces. Improved and expanded upon a proprietary communication API used internally and by customers for interacting with the Polaris™ platform. Ported existing API functionality from Microsoft .NET to unmanaged cross platform C++. Designed internal and customer workflows for remotely debugging embedded Linux software on the Polaris™ controller. From August 2012 to March 2014 (1 year 8 months) Victoria, BC, CanadaInformation Systems Technician @ Overview: Joined the expanding information systems team as a full-time technician to continue building new and maintaining existing infrastructure within the company. Responsibilities: Installed, configured, and maintained all aspects of physical servers, workstations, network hardware, and enterprise server software. Developed custom web applications and tie-ins to open and closed source content management systems used for online commerce and product support. Interviewed and trained new Co-op students and a full time employee to be a part of the information systems team, and maintained partial responsibility for delegating tasks to them. From January 2009 to September 2011 (2 years 9 months) Victoria, BC, CanadaResearch Assistant @ Overview: Participated in a university research project to design and build an interface between an exercise bike and a variety of computer games (such as Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X, EA’s Need for Speed Carbon, and more). Responsibilities: Writing firmware in C, utilizing and modifying both a C++ program and a custom C# library to send data to and receive date from a USB microprocessor board, and writing a C# user application to act on top of the custom interface library. From January 2008 to May 2008 (5 months) Victoria, BC, CanadaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science @ University of Victoria From 2006 to 2012 Wesley Alcock is skilled in: JavaScript, Java, C#, C++, Objective-C, C, HTML, CSS, Android Development, iOS Development, .NET, Agile Methodologies, Databases, MongoDB, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Qt Creator, Qt, WebStorm, Node.js, Backbone.js, AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Mocha, REST, JSON, ZeroMQ, Windows, Mercurial, Git, Subversion, JIRA, IIS, Apache, Hyper-V, Virtual PC, VPN, VMware, Switches, Routers, RAID, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2