Zakacat's Super Wonderful Personal Website

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Consider this website my work in progress. I will also learn to write HTML and create a basic website that can showcase all of my relevant and not-so-relevant skills.

Projects

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Some news this fine day!


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North Island College is a community college on Vancouver Island where I achieved my engineering first year equivalent. I also worked on a couple paid research projects during my time there.

Aquaculture and an Oyster Flipper

I was also part of another project invloving the assembly of an ocean CO2 sensor.





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At UVic, for my SENG 310 Human Computer Interaction course, I was part of a team of 4 who designed and prototyped an app called MeetSoup. The app was an attempt to connect people who had food to give away with people who want free food.

MeetSoup Documentation




Android

The first app that I made as a part of my Intoduction to Android course at NIC.

Check out my repository here.

A bit juvenile, I suppose, but practice nonetheless. This is a spam app that can send multiple text messages to multiple recipients instantaneously.

This is another assignment from NIC, but I put extra time to go above and beyond wiht extra settings and an appealing aesthetics

Check out my repository here.

This was a self-assigned project as I studied more Adroid development in my own time. It was to try and include everything that I heard learned, but became very heavy. This app has some potential, I feel, but also needs direction. I would love to continue an app like this if I felt there was a want for one.

Check out my repository here.

Technical Drawings

A hand sketch of a common playing die.

A hand sketch and CAD drawing of my A5 Samsung phone.

A CAD drawing of a sheave.

Sketches and instructions for a scale model boat of someone else's design.

An isometric drawing of the word fuck. It made for a good sticker!

Arduino

A video of some of the basics of Arduino. It includes code.

A video of some more basics of Arduino, but a bit more difficult.

Code Examples

A video displaying some Bash commands, moving through file spaces, and showing code examples of C and Python from course assignments.

Contributions

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Here we go!


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Codingame is a website for practicing writing code, solving coding problems, and contributing insight and coding problems.

My Codingame profile
My Clash of Code contribution
My Classic Puzzle contribution

Experience

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I am so old and fragile.

3rd Year UVic SEng Student

I am to start my third semeter in UVic's Software Engineering program as of the Summer of 2023.

The courses I have successfully completed are:

CSC 225 Algorithms & Data Structures I

ECE 310 Digital Signal Processing I

ECON 180 Intro: Econ & Final Project Eval

SENG 265 Software Development Methods

SOCI 220 Media & Contemporary Society

CHEM 101 Fundamentals of Chemistry

ECE 255 Intro to Computer Architecture

ECE 260 Continuous-Time Signals & Systems

ENGR 130 Intro to Professional Practice

MATH 122 Logic and Foundations

The courses for which I am currently regisered for are:

CSC 226 Algorithms & Data Structures II

SENG 275 Software Testing

SENG 310 Human Computer Interaction

STAT 260 Introduction to Probability and Statistics

NIC Engineering Foundations Certificate

Certificate as proof of completion of NIC's Engineering Foundations Program. 1st year Enigineering Degree Equivalent

Official Transcript from NIC. Note the courses of which I dropped out from in 2009. Second time's a charm!

A letter of confirmation for making Dean's Honour Role.

Top of Class: Chemistry 12

Top of Class: Computer Science 2

Top of Class: Engineering Design 2

Top of Class: Finite Math

Top of Class: Calculus 1

Top of Class: Static Physics

Red Seal Journeyman Iron Worker

Proof of Apprenticeship implies that aside from the schooling, I completed my 3600 plus hours in an iron worker role.

Proof of Qaulification implies that I completed the examinations to graduate as Red Seal and Journeyman.

TESOL Instructor

Proof of TESOL certification. With this I taught English for an extended period in Colombia.

This certification is more important to English instructors whom their first language is not English. However, I received the highest mark of all the instructors at the institute that I worked at.

UVic Certificates

This certification shows that I received an A or higher in Math Logic and Foundations at UVic

About Me

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I am totes norms.

I am currently a Software Engineering student at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. I am 33 years old. I am an avid runnner. I enjoy movies, travelling, socializing, and puzzles. My long term goal is to have a well-payed, remote job where I have significant responsibility, and I can travel to different countries for months at a time while still pursuing my career. For a deeper insight into who I am as a person, you can follow me on the below social medias.


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Here are some photos of me doing some of the things that I am passionate about.

Running

Completing my first full marathon in Medellin, Colombia

Teaching

A special day in English class

Hiking

Lost in ciudad perdida in Falan, Colombia

Iron Working

Wonderful view of the Olympic mountains from Victoria

Study

Working on the CO2 sensor research project at North Island College

Traveling

Volcan Payaca near Antigua, Guatemala

Videos

One of several amateur videos that I have posted on Youtube