Antonio D'souza

September 2008 –
October 2009

VMware, San Francisco, CA

• Designed crucial features for new desktop virtualization product (Client Virtualization Platform).
• Wrote back-end for controlling display topology via XRandR and NV-Control.
• Prototyped GTK+ application for configuring endpoint device.

September 2005 –
August 2008

VMware, Palo Alto, CA

• Investigated causes of most common usability issues in VMware Workstation and drove efforts to address them.
• Produced detailed specifications for new features added to Workstation in version 6.5.
• Introduced new functionality to, fixed existing bugs in, and refactored Workstation codebase.
• Reviewed changes to both design and code proposed by other developers.
• Mentored an intern while he designed and implemented a major new feature.
• Delivered technical presentations at college campuses and interviewed prospective team-mates to support recruiting efforts.
• Designed and wrote an Eclipse plugin that simplifies remote debugging of Java code using Workstation.

January 2005 –
April 2005

IBM Canada, Toronto, ON

• Identified usability issues in IBM WorkPlace suite and proposed detailed solutions to them.
• Streamlined and documented process for provisioning new servers.

September 2003 –
December 2003

Sun Labs, Mountain View, CA

• Independently conducted research into validation of fields in data structures used internally by Sun's reference Java compiler.
• Produced abstract syntax tree consistency checker for use in automatic source code transformation system.
• Added minor functionality to innovative source code visualization tool.

January 2003 –
April 2003

IBM Canada, Toronto, ON

• Ported internal stack unwinder of DB2 Universal Database for Linux to AMD x86-64 architecture using C.
• Investigated and fixed several defects in Linux port of DB2 on PowerPC, IA64 (Itanium) and x86-64 architectures.
• Organized career development seminar for interns.

May 2002 –
August 2002

IBM Canada (formerly OTI), Ottawa, ON

• Held full responsibility for FTP and WebDAV components of open source Eclipse IDE (designed, developed, documented, tested & debugged both of them).
• Assisted in maintenance of CVS component in Eclipse.

September 2001 –
December 2001

CheckFree i-Solutions, Waterloo, ON

• Wrote front-end of online billing and payment software using server-side Java.

January 2001 –
April 2001

CheckFree i-Solutions, Waterloo, ON

• Improved performance of data processing engine written in Java by a factor of 3.
• Prototyped COBOL-to-Java translator.

August 2007 –
December 2009

826 Valencia

• Assisting students from local schools with essays.
• Helped run a craft booth at annual pirate-themed fair.

October 2005 –
October 2007

Hands On Bay Area

• Led a Teamworks project series focused on the city of East Palo Alto in 2006.
• Led a special event to clean up the San Francisco zoo on HOBA Day in 2007.
• Helped plan expansion of projects related to teaching and youth as member of HOBA committee.
• Volunteering at dozens of events, especially those involving landscaping and community development.

September 2004

St. Paul's College at UW

• Led first year students in group activities to facilitate social interaction.
• Familiarized students with campus layout and services.

September 1999 –
August 2005

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

Honours Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science with a minor in English.

Relevant Courses:

• Software Architecture (grad-level course)
• Compiler Construction (using Ada & Java for target & implementation languages, respectively)
• 3-D Computer Graphics (using Python with TKinter and C with OpenGL)
• User Interface Design (using Java with Swing and C with XLib)
• Distributed Systems (using C with the BSD socket library)
• Operating System Design and Development (using C++ and a MIPS emulator)
• Concurrent Programming (using C++)
• Software Engineering and Design Patterns (using C++ with the STL)
• Formal Language Grammars and Parsing (using Java)
• Advanced Data Structures (using Java)
• Object-Oriented Design (using Java)
• Probability Theory