Daniel David O'Connell

doc@robot-one.com

Offering:

 Contract software, teaching, machine tool work, custom automation systems, technical management.

Located at:

 1708 2nd Concession, Adjala
RR 1, Palgrave, Ontario
L0N 1P0
Phone: 519 942-4815

Current Projects:

Building animatronic tricycle.
Repair flight simulators for Toronto Aerospace Museum.
Teaching "Introducing Personal Robotics" to various schools, community groups.
Variety of job shop work.

Programming:

Many years of hacking Fortran. Experience with other languages including APL, Basic, C, Cobol, Java, Ladder logic, Perl, Python and some I would prefer not to remember!

Management:

Founder and president of Faxtel Information Systems.
President NeXT Users Group.
Founder and President Toronto Internet Users Group.
Experience with taking company public.

Additional Skills:

Applied use of mathematics, advanced approaches to Stock Market. Developed analytics for TACTIX, a tactical asset allocation model. Worked on several approaches to technical stock analysis using genetic algorithms and neural networks.

Part Time Teaching:

Calculus and Computer Science - Sir George William's University.
Introduction to Computers - Montreal Protestant School Board.
Fortran - Control Data Institute.
ESL - Jewish Community Center.
Contraptions, Machines and Inventions - TIP program at the University of Toronto Schools.
Introducing Personal Robotics. - Big Brothers, Scouts Canada.
I also like to promote the Python programming language and give a tutorial based on the material here.

Contractor
(Sept. 97 - Present)

Independent Contractor

President/Chief Programmer
(July 82 - August 97)

Faxtel Information Systems

Retail Stock Broker
(July 78 - June 82)

Dominion Securities / Nesbitt Thompson

Programmer
(Sept 68 - June 78)

Various

Education:

B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science - Sir George William's University.

Special courses:

American Management Association President's Course.
The Managerial Grid.

Spoken Languages:

English, French, Russian.

etc:

Canada FIRST Outstanding Mentor Award - 2003.
Home shop machinist. Mathematics. Robotics and almost anything with buttons, knobs, switches that comes apart.

References available upon request.