RYAN MEREDITH-JONES

Bachelor of Mathematics - University of Waterloo 1997
 
  
Home Address 

91 Delaware Avenue (bsmt) 
Toronto, Ontario 
M6H 2S9 
(416)516-0896

 School Address 

Room 4303 
Sanford Fleming Building 
University of Toronto 
Toronto, Ontario
  
Email: jrmeredi@dgp.utoronto.ca
WWW: http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~jrmeredi

Education and Academic Achievements

University of Toronto (1997-present)
 
  • Candidate for Masters of Science - Department of Computer Science, specializing in Computer Graphics
  • Member of the Dynamic Graphics Project, supervised by James Stewart
  • Thesis Topic: Motion Blur Algorithms for Computer Graphics
  • Recipient of $31,200 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (1997-1999)
  • Recipient of $2000 University of Toronto Entrance Scholarship (1997)

    • University of Waterloo(1992-1997)
     

  • Honours Co-op Bachelor of Mathematics - Computer Science Major, Combinatorics & Optimization Minor
  • Graduated With Distinction - Dean's Honour List, with 94.5% cumulative average
  • Recipient of $2000 Microsoft Technical Scholarship (1997)
  • Recipient of $1500 Safety-Kleen Canada Inc. / Oil Recovery Division Scholarship (1995)
  • Recipient of  Motorola of Canada Work Report Award (1995)
  • Recipient of $10,000 Canada Scholarship in Science and Technology (1992)
  • Recipient of $3000 Descartes Entrance Scholarship (1992)

    • Technical Skills

    Computer Graphics
     
  • Significant aptitude and experience in the field of computer graphics (particularly rendering), with OpenGL programming experience on the SGI and Windows platforms, as well as detailed knowledge of design and implementation issues in various aspects of rendering
  • 11 months work experience on the Rendering team at Alias|wavefront, working on the Maya renderer

    • Programming Languages
     

  • Strong programming skills and significant work experience programming in C and C++
  • Academic programming experience in Java, Tcl/Tk, Scheme, Modula-3, ML, Prolog, Simula, and APL


    • Employment History

    Alias|wavefront (Toronto)

    An industry leader in the field of professional modelling, animation, and rendering software, A|W products are used in virtually every major digital special effects studio.  I spent 11 months as a co-op student in the Rendering team, working on the Maya renderer.

    Software Developer (Fall 1996, Summer 1997, Fall 1998)

  • Implemented Texture Reference Object feature for polygonal and NURBS geometry
  • Designed and implemented an automatic Rendering test suite for testing performance and correctness
  • Aided in the design and implementation of the Rendering API
  • Did significant performance benchmarking and optimization of procedural textures
  • Was responsible for verifying compatibility between PowerAnimator and Maya renderers

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    Inforium Corporation (Waterloo)

    Founded and operated by some of the leading minds behind the success of WATCOM and Waterloo Maple Software, Inforium produces the LivePAGE family of products, which combine SGML and SQL technologies to store text and multimedia data in an SQL database.  In my 8 months at Inforium, I worked on a variety of projects involving C programming under Windows 3.1.

    Systems Programmer (Fall 1994, Summer 1995)

  •  Designed and implemented a set of Visual Basic VBX custom controls to provide VB access to several component  applications, including a formatted SGML text viewer, a hypertext browser, and a text database query server.  For each component, a mapping from the component's DDE interface to the VB programming interface had to be designed.
  • Overhauled existing Windows setup application for the LivePAGE system, increasing installation configuration flexibility and greatly improving the program's interface.

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    Reuters Information Services (Toronto)

    Working in the Fixed Income Group of the Financial Databases division, I spent 8 months working on maintenance and development of real-time global financial databases in a mainframe APL environment.

    Junior Programmer Analyst

  •  Designed and implemented a critical daily refresh process for a major new Fixed Income financial database, with customized reports being automatically generated and sent to data analysts in Toronto, London, and Singapore.
  • Member of a 24-hour financial database technical support team


    • Special Skills

    Industry Skills
  •  Confident self-starter, able to work individually (with minimal supervision) or in a group situation
  •  Extremely adept at quickly familiarizing myself with unfamiliar or complicated concepts
  •  Strong problem solving skills, honed by exposure to both theoretical and practical material in both academic and industry situations
  •  Excellent oral and written communications skills

    • Accomplished Musician

  • Solo and ensemble experience playing clarinet, piano, and acoustic/electric/bass guitars

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