Curriculum Vitae

Sarven Capadisli

Summary

I like to work with open Web technologies. I try to create interfaces that are useful. I am interested in human-computer interaction, and how it changes us.

Presentations and Talks

  • Microformats and RDF

    • Confoo

      http://confoo.ca
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2010-03-10)

      Mark, Query, and Visualise

    • W3Québec

      http://w3qc.org
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2009-04-20)

      microformats in identi.ca

    • GLIS 663 Knowledge Taxonomies, McGill

      http://mcgill.ca
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2009-03-12)

      microformats: #towerofbabel #pareto #dataportability

    • PHP Québec Conference 2009

      http://conf.phpquebec.com
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2009-03-05)

      Website data through the looking-glass

    • PHP Québec monthly meeting

      http://phpquebec.org
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2009-01-08)

      Interacting with microformats

    • Transcontinental Media Lunch and Learn 02

      http://www.medias-transcontinental.com
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2008-08-14)

      Internal site SEO guidelines

    • Nstein Innovation Leaders Summit 2008

      http://www.nstein.com/summit2008
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2008-05-15)

      Creating next generation Web sites

    • Coder's Saturday

      http://station-c.com/events/coders-saturday
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2008-03-17)

      Microformats overview: how to help machines recognise common data formats on Web documents.

    • Transcontinental Media Lunch and Learn 01

      http://www.medias-transcontinental.com
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2008-01-15)

      Introduction to microformats: what they are, why we need them and briefly how to use them.

  • StatusNet

    • WordCamp Montréal 2009

      http://wordcampmontreal.org
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2009-07-12)

      Making StatusNet and WordPress work together

  • UI design

Experience

  • User Experience Designer

    • StatusNet, Inc.

      http://status.net
      Street Address
      1124 Rue Marie-Anne Ouest
      Extended Address
      Suite 32
      Postal Code
      H2J 2B7
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      Geo
      Latitude
      45°31' 37" N
      Longitude
      73°34' 36" W
      (2008-11 — 2010-03)

      Designed and architected StatusNet platform's front-end user interface; desktop and mobile browsers, platform widgets, templating, and plugins. Used Apache, PHP, MySQL, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, MediaWiki. Made product and identity decisions. Collaborated with an open developer community, worked with company clients, instructed graphic designers and other contributors to the project. Platform's flagship site:

  • User Experience Architect

  • Information Architect

  • User Interface Design

    • kei.ki — The Free Parenting Guide

      http://kei.ki
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2007-04 — 2007-10)

      Designed keiki network's MediaWiki and Drupal UI. Derived an approach to brand keiki's new logo in collaboration with a graphic designer. Established a colour palette, typographical elements and wrote templates in HTML/CSS/Javascript.

    • wikiHow — The How to Manual That You Can Edit

      http://www.wikihow.com
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2007-02 — 2007-06)

      Designed wikiHow's MediaWiki UI. Scope of work included; information architecture (IA), branding, selection of colour palettes, typographical testing and layout design.

    • Certifi.ca — Secure OpenID Provider

      https://certifi.ca
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2007-03 — 2007-04)

      Created the UI design for an OpenID system using HTML/CSS. Selected the colour palettes and advised on logo and branding for the graphic artist.

    • EFnet — The Original IRC Network

      http://www.efnet.org
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2007-02 — 2007-03)

      Wrote the HTML and CSS of a screen design for the EFnet IRC network.

    • Le Groupe Rutagi

      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2006-02 — 2006-03)

      Built an HTML/CSS prototype template and advised on best practices for UI design for a community site. Prepared a UI demonstration written in standards-compliant code. Selected colour palettes to best match the psychological attributes of the site.

  • Research Consultant

    • Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance Concordia University

      http://doe.concordia.ca/cslp
      Street Address
      1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest
      Extended Address
      Room LB-581
      Postal Code
      H3G 2V8
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      Geo
      Latitude
      45°31' 49" N
      Longitude
      73°33' 42" W
      (2007-01 — 2007-02)

      Researched interactive whiteboard technologies for literacy instruction software in classrooms. Outlined the applicable hardware and software technologies and helped establish timelines for future development.

  • Java Integrator

    • Nurun

      http://www.nurun.com
      Street Address
      711 Rue de la Commune Ouest
      Postal Code
      H3C 1X6
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      Geo
      Latitude
      45°29' 53" N
      Longitude
      73°33' 10" W
      (2006-04 — 2006-12)

      Took on the Integrator role in the Java development team. Involved in planning and developing front-end components; utilized semantic markup, wrote SEO guidelines, and established an Integrator/UX Analysis documentation.

      Latest projects include integration of sites:

  • Web Administration, Design and Development

    • Campbell Cohen Law Firm

      http://www.canadavisa.com
      Locality
      Montréal
      Region
      QC
      Country
      CA
      (2005-05 — 2006-04)

      Utilized standards-compliant code, including security, redundancy, designing and planning the system deployment of 5 sites on a FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP system setup. Creating reports, documentation, log analysis, as well as intra-net development was part of my routine task list.

      Relaunched using Mambo CMS on back-end. Content upgrade, high focus in SEO, integration of CRM (GoldMine) and business requirements with front-end component development.

      Administration as above:

  • Web Design and Development

    Implemented using CSS, MySQL, PHP, (X)HTML

Technical Skills

Education

  1. B.C.S. Honours [Computer Science]

    University of Windsor
    Locality
    Windsor
    Region
    ON
    Country
    CA
    (1998 — 2004)

  2. B.A. General [Psychology]

    University of Windsor
    Locality
    Windsor
    Region
    ON
    Country
    CA
    (1998 — 2002)

Research Assistant

  • Dr. Angela C. Sodan

    University of Windsor
    Locality
    Windsor
    Region
    ON
    Country
    CA
    (2003-07 — 2003-08)

    Research responsibilities included reading journals and suggesting attainable alternative AI methods for Job Scheduling in Parallel Computing.

Volunteer Experience

  • microformats

    http://microformats.org
    Locality
    Montréal
    Region
    QC
    Country
    CA
    (2006-01 — present)

    Evangelise (e.g., presentations, articles, IRC) and contribute to the development (e.g., figure, Wiki, IRC logs, mailing lists) of microformats.

  • EFnet — The Original IRC Network

    http://www.efnet.org
    Locality
    Montréal
    Region
    QC
    Country
    CA
    (2003-01 — 2008-12)

    Provide technical support, channel moderation and operation for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in a real-time chat network: IRC Efnet in #CSS, and #SEO channels.

Youth Mentor

  • Gombos Family

    Locality
    Ramsau
    Region
    STMK
    Country
    AT
    (2000 — 2004)

    Youth Mentor for children ages 5-13, helped learn computer concepts to properly use search engines as well as supervising outdoor activities.

  • YMCA

    http://www.windsor.essex.ymca.ca
    Locality
    Windsor
    Region
    ON
    Country
    CA
    (2004-01 — 2004-04)

    Youth Mentor, responsible for the after school program at YMCA, and Concord Elementary School for a group of 5-25 students at a time. My responsibilities were further extended with carrying out day camps for children between 5-12 ages.

Supplemental Information

  • A Linear-Time Algorithm for Computing All 3-Edge Components of a Multigraph

    University of Windsor
    Locality
    Windsor
    Region
    ON
    Country
    CA
    (2004-01 — 2004-04)

    Presented the understanding knowledge of the paper and developed a Flash animation for real-time explanation.

  • KBBK end-game in Knowledgebase

    University of Windsor
    Locality
    Windsor
    Region
    ON
    Country
    CA
    (2002-01 — 2002-12)

    Developed a knowledgebase project using the Java language for a King Bishop Bishop vs. King chess endgame.

  • D* Pathfinding in Parallel Computing

    University of Windsor
    Locality
    Windsor
    Region
    ON
    Country
    CA
    (2003-01 — 2003-04)

    Presented the D* search algorithm using MPI with the C language.