Mike VandeVelde

(604) 869-9868 (Hope)
(778) 786-8831 (Vancouver)
mikev@uniserve.com

Education : BC Institute of Technology
Graduated with a Computer Systems Diploma in the Applied Artificial Intelligence Option in November 1996. Some of the courses I took included introductory courses in C, C++, PC Assembler, COBOL, Lisp, and Prolog. I took courses in C graphics, introductory network theory, computer hardware, and systems analysis and design. I also took some business courses including accounting, marketing, economics, and statistics. The Applied Artificial Intelligence option introduced me to the theory and application of concepts including expert systems and neural nets.

Hope Secondary School
Graduated in 1994 with $175 in Provincial Passport to Education credits and a $250 bursary from Transmountain Pipeline Co. Courses taken included math and physics up to grade 12, French and electronics to grade 11, and the career preparation program which included the provincial Superhost program.
 Work Experience : January 2009 - Present
Whitsell Consulting
(303) 635-0944
231 East 11th Avenue
Broomfield, CO
I work remotely on a part time freelance basis for this company, all Lotus Notes & Domino work, for a wide variety of clients. Some internal database work, some public web work.

October 2008 - November 2008
Mike's Computer Shop
(604) 870-0262
1-31550 South Fraser Way
Abbotsford, BC
I mainly worked on the website for this retail store, but also answered phones and helped out at the front counter as needed. I became very comfortable programming in PHP and using mySQL, and very familiar with osCommerce.

January 2008 - August 2008
TeamSpace Inc.
(902) 444-3490
Suite 304, Bedford Tower
1495 Bedford Highway
Bedford, NS
I worked remotely for this company, maintaining and enhancing an existing collection of Lotus Notes databases. Gained familiarity with Java, DXL, backend Notes calendaring, and several JavaScript frameworks.

October 2007 - December 2007
Stream
(604) 702 5100
7955 Evans Parkway
Chilliwack, BC V2R 5R7
Telephone technical support for *large* format printers.

January 1999 - August 2007
HealthSpace Integrated Solutions Ltd.
(604) 860-4223
417 Wallace Street
Hope BC
I was the first employee at this company, which now has around a dozen. I had a hand in building almost every piece of software used. We created a multi-database Lotus Notes application for public health professionals with a public web front end, as well as many internal databases. I worked almost entirely in Lotus Notes/Domino gaining mastery of LotusScript and @Formula, including a lot of web development gaining expertise with HTML & CSS & JavaScript, and also did some SQL & PHP with MySQL.

August 1997 - August 2001
Rainbow Country Internet Services
(604) 869-9868
500 Coquihalla Street
Hope BC
I started my own web site development / hosting company in 1997. The main focus of the company was a website about the Hope area, www.rainbowcountry.bc.ca. I shut down the company in the summer of 2001, and now maintain the website as a hobby.


Since high school I have spent almost no time without being in school or holding some kind of job. I was a baker, a bartender, and a Subway Sandwich Artist. I even spent some time sorting paper for recycling. The details are commented out in the HTML source code for this page, if you're curious.

 Other Experience : Personal Information : I was born on January 23rd, 1976, in Terrace BC. I lived in several northern towns until I moved to Hope in 1990, where I graduated from high school in 1994. I lived in Burnaby for the next two and a half years while studying at BCIT. When I graduated, I moved back home. I have been playing with computers since we got our first Commodore VIC-20 when I was around 8 years old, and I have known what I wanted to do ever since. References : References can be provided upon request.
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