Reza Azimi - Computer Engineering Research Group - University of ...

Designer and Software Developer Diversinet Co., Toronto, Canada
Apr. 2000 – Aug. 2000
Diversinet provides solutions for securing and provisioning mobile business applications in healthcare and
financial services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada, with a global network of resellers and agents.
• Designed and implemented Computer network security software, (Encryption/Decryption schemes,
Digital Signature technology, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology) for mobile devices
and smart cards.
Programmer, Team Leader, and Systems Engineer, Procom Technology Inc. Tehran, Iran
Sep. 1997- Dec. 1999
Procom Technology was a manufacturer of network attached storage servers and Web appliances.
• Was a team leader in the CacheFORCE100 project, a high performance Web Proxy/Cache network
appliance. Coordinated a team of five programmers to build and integrate numerous system software
components mostly written in C, C++, Java, Perl, and CGI. The project also included substantial
performance analysis and optimization effort in order to achieve performance (in terms of server
throughput and response time) competitive to high-end products in the market. Delivered the first
beta release of the fully functional product as scheduled.
• System software developer in the High Performance Web Server project. Designed and implemented
a set of performance optimizations in the Linux kernel to boost the throughput of Apache Web
server. Also modified parts of Apache 1.3.1 to exploit such optimizations.
System Administrator/Engineering Support, Tehran Municipality Statistics and Computer
Organization (TMCSO), Tehran, Iran
Aug. 1996-Sep. 1997
• Member of technology and engineering team that provided technological support and engineering
consultation for several third-party contractor companies who were developing a set of large-scale
information systems to automate work flow in Tehran’s municipality. Used Sun Solaris 2.5 and
Informix Online 5.0 RDBMS engine as the base platform.
Programmer/Analyst, Feiz-Ghadir Industrial (FGI), Tehran, Iran
Sep. 1995-Aug. 1996
FGI was a company of around 200 employees that manufactured auto parts for large Iranian auto companies.
• Analyzed FGI’s financial and inventory systems and participated in the design, development, and
testing of several object-oriented applications to automate these information systems.
Teaching Experience
• Instructor, Operating Systems (CSCC69) University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, Fall 2006
• Instructor, Operating Systems (CSCC69) (co-taught with Alan Rosselet), University of Toronto,
Scarborough Campus, Summer 2005
• Teaching Assistant, Microprocessor Software (CSC372), University of Toronto, 2002, 2003 (Head
TA, in charge of designing and implementing the lab assignments), and 2006 (Head TA)
• Teaching Assistant, Operating Systems (CSCC69), University of Toronto, 2005
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