Addisu Hailegiorgis Desta

Addisu Desta

Dupont/Dundas ( the junction)

Phone: (416) *** ****

E-mail: addisu@myself.com

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Objective

• I am ambitious to start from scratch, if ugly to tear down and build again
• Enthusiastic to help people to grow and get motivated so that they believe they can do anything they want in their life.

Professional Experience

.NET Developer (Contractor) Nov 2007 – Present

Cyberplex, Toronto, Canada (www.cyberplex.com )

• Working on different projects and technologies…don’t know yet….NET 2.0, Sharepoint, BizTalk, …

.NET Developer (Contractor) March 2007 – Oct 2007

Stewart Title, Toronto, Canada (www.stewart.ca)

• Design and develop Title Insurance application, .NET 2.0, CAB framework, Design Patterns, C#, Microsoft SQL Server 2005

.NET Developer (Contractor) Dec 2005 – March 2007

Rogers Communications Inc, Toronto, Canada (www.Rogers.com )

• Working on a Call Center Software development using .NET.
• I got the experience working with really big team but found out that it is impossible to change the way things are working

Software Developer (Independent) Jan 2006 – Present

Ethiopioneers, Toronto, Canada (www.ethiopioneers.com )

• Doing web portals for the community, www.misirach.org, http://jga.misirach.org and so on
• Motivating people to pursue to professional career as EthioPioneer

Software Developer Jan 2005 – Dec 2005

Esprida, Mississauga, Canada (www.Esprida.com )

• Applied some of the distributed systems course and software engineering ideas on the distributed device management system for Kodak kiosks
• Got idea how to write code to read card readers (can be applied to credit card readers)
• Compared both .NET and J2EE frameworks and finally decided not to continue on J2EE; too many specifications and frameworks to do small things

Software Developer (Contract) Jun 2004 – Dec 2004

TGL Systems, Toronto, Canada (www.TGLSystems.com)

• Developed an Application Security management system that can be integrated on any .NET application. But .NET 2.0 Membership and Role based security is overwhelming that made me stop doing that
• Some thoughts about re-designing the insurance application into a web platform
  

Software Developer (Contract) Feb 2004 – May 2004

Investors Group, Winnipeg, Canada (www.investorsgroup.com )

• Got my first Canadian experience working in one of the biggest company in Canada and working in one of the coldest place in the world, Winnipeg a.k.a. “Winter-Peg”

Programmer (Contract) Feb 2001 – Aug 2003

Business Software Solution/Logic System/ TGL Systems (Canada Based)

• Practiced pair programming for six months working with my team member watching him writing code.
• Learnt how many risks are there in our life doing many classes of insurance for African Insurance Organization
• Designed and implemented a Visio like CASE Tool for my M.Sc. class leading 10 students.

Software Engineer Aug 1999 – Feb 2001

Cybersoft (www.cybersoft-intl.com)

• Practically worked on a number of roles ranging from Network administration, Network Design, Full Software life cycle, graphics design, interactive multimedia, animation, web site, video editing
• Finally decided to focus more on software design and architecture
• Thanks to this company, I got a broad knowledge to many things during my ambitious age

Education (Credentials assessed to be equivalent to Waterloo University)

• Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering 2003
  • (Only coursework completed, i.e. 24 out of 30 credit hours)
  • Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering (Honors) 1999
  • Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Certifications

• MCAD .NET 2006
• MCP .NET 2004