Robert N. Macdonald, B.Sc., M.Sc.
1988–present RamSoft Systems Ltd. Victoria, BC
President and CEO
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Founded company to design and develop software.
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Major clients: BC Ministry of Forests,
Pacific Forestry Centre,
BC Ministry of Education.
Designer/Analyst
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Advised clients on computer technology and supported their
systems, networks, printers and operating systems across a broad range
of platforms.
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Designed FWxWIN, a fire index calculation program implemented
with Delphi.
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Designed a client/server application pair to work over the
internet using the WWW transfer protocols across heterogeneous environments.
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Redesigned and implemented several pathogen simulators for
the TASS system such as ROTSIM and SWAT.
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Designed and developed the LITE system for Dr. P. Comeau
of Research Branch.
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Designed a replicated Microsoft Access database for a research
study at Foothills Hospital, Calgary AB.
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Designed an Access database for online sampling equipment
reconfiguration.
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Designed, developed and supported many application programs
for the the Research Branch of the Ministry of Forests including TIPSY,
SiteTools, Carmean and STARS.
1989-1994 University of Victoria Victoria, BC
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M.Sc., Computer Science. Supervisor: Dr. G. C. Shoja
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Thesis: Implementing Replicated, Distributed Fault Tolerant
Objects.
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Designed, implemented and verified a network protocol to
support the remote execution of replicated processes in a UNIX environment.
1983-1988 University of Victoria Victoria, BC
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B.Sc. (Honours), Computer Science with co-op distinction.
Languages
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C, C++, Pascal, Delphi, Basic variants, FORTRAN, Intel 80x86
and i860 assembly languages.
Operating Systems
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MS-DOS, Windows (3.1x, 95, NT), UNIX, VAX/VMS, OS/2.
Protocols, Scripting Languages and
Interfaces
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TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, HTML, PERL, AWK
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