Programming and Tech
Music
Personal

Education

University of Victoria [September 2002 – August 2008]

  • B.Sc. – Computer Science and Microbiology

University of Victoria [September 2008 – June 2010]

  • M.Sc. – Computer Science

Publications

  • Minifie. D and Coady. Y, “BUSSPASS: Composite-Services to Improve Quality of Life for Persons with Visual Disabilities”, MobEA. 2008.
  • Wong. J, Gibbs. C, Coady, Y, Yazir. Y, Minifie. D and Muzio. J, “Communicating Like Nemo: “Scale-ability” from a Fish-Eye View”, Google Scalability Conference. 2008.
  • Minifie, D. and Coady, Y. 2009. Getting mobile with mobile devices: using the web to improve transit accessibility. In Proceedings of the 2009 international Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4a) (Madrid, Spain, April 20 - 21, 2009). W4A '09. ACM, New York, NY, 123-126.
  • Tzanetakis, G., Benning, M., Minifie, D. and Ness, S. Assistive Music Browsing using Self-Organizing Maps. PETRAE (2009). Corfu, Greece.

Academic Experience

Research – NSERC-USRA [January 2008 – April 2008]

  • Implemented a Google Maps-based Web application to help disabled travelers use public transit. Also implemented Android and iPhone clients.

Teaching Assistant – University of Victoria [September 2008 – December 2009]

  • Marker and Lab Instructor for CSC 110 (Fundamentals of Computer Science I) and CSC 111 (Computer Science Fundamentals for Engineers). Course coordinator for CSC 110, Python edition.

Research – Dept of National Defense (Canada) [April 2009 – January 2010]

  • Helped to implement and evaluate Eclipse-based software visualization tools intended to aid in the understanding of large, Assembly language codebases.

Industry Experience

Apple Inc. [July 2010 - Present]

  • iPhone Accessibility Engineer.  Worked with the VoiceOver team to fix bugs and add enhancements to accessibility software for iOS and MacOS. 

Backstage Industries [February 2010 – June 2010]

  • Development / Computer Science Research.  Helped to implement a fraud detection engine to identify users in online social games.  This involved the creation of machine learning algorithms, data mining techniques and Web development for the UI.

The Internet Shakespeare Editions [Dec 2005 – Aug 2007]

  • Web Developer.  Worked with Java, XML and other Web technologies to implement a Web application to browse and search Shakespeare’s writings, as well as other related documents.   

Skills

  • Proficient with the following programming languages: Java, Objective-C, C, SQL, Javascript, C++ and Python.
  • Experience with following development platforms, tools and frameworks
    • Cocoa, Maven, jQuery, Spring, GCC and jUnit
    • Android, iPhone OS, Mac OS and Web technologies
    • XCode, NetBeans and Eclipse 

Awards

  • May 2010 – WWDC (Apple Developer Conference) Scholarship.
  • December 2008 – Alliance for the Equity of Blind Canadians (AEBC) Scholarship.
  • January 2008 – NSERC Undergraduate Research Award.
  • October 2007 – Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Scholarship.