Academics Background

My Educational Background

• I have a BASc in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo (1998) 
• I completed 2 years of a combined MASc, PhD at Waterloo before leaving to start a new company.
• I completed the Teaching Adults Certificate at Durham College in 2016

My Work Background

• In 1995 I started a small company, dabbling in Online Database Driven Application Development, on the side of my academics to earn money to pay for University.  This turned into a full time business in 2000 in which I operated as CEO until 2015.  In 2015, I sold the company and moved into the academic world.
• As part of the work done with my company, I have worked for many many companies as a consultant and consulting developer.  These companies include many start-up companies as well as established business and organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, University of Waterloo, Canadian Cancer Society, Home Depot, Canadian Space Agency, Department of National Defense, Communications Research Centre, and Children's Water Education Council.  This has given me an exciting experience through business and has given me a great amount of insight into the way many organizations, of varying sizes, work with technology and develop technology strategies for everyday operations
• I started teaching as a part-time faculty at Durham College in 2015 and continuing teaching there today. 
• I was a principle investigator at both Durham College's ORSIE and the AI/Hub from 2015 until 2020 having lead several research projects worth hundred's of thousands in research funds.
• I started teaching as a part-time faculty at Seneca College in 2017 and continue to teach there today.
• I have been involved in several course development projects and had significant roles in converting courses from in-class models to online models though-out the pandemic.
• It was not until I started teaching that I felt that I had found my dream job.  I always enjoyed running my own business and loved the variety of work I was involved in, but teaching and passing experience has by far been my most enjoyable work experience of my life and I plan to teach until that fateful, no don't say it, retirement comes along.

Clint, Personally

My Family

• I am a divorced father of 3 children, but they are getting all grown up now.
  • Krystal-Ann (born 1990), now works for UbiSoft as a Developer Support Technician.
  • Ethan (born 2003), starting pre-health sciences at Durham College in Sept 2021.  He is a life guard in his spare time, when the pools are open and enjoys playing online battle royal games with his friends.
  • Jonah (born 2005), currently mid-way through high-school and enjoys logic games and grindy type games with many rewards.
• All three of my kids enjoy video games of different genres, from Nostalgic Nintendo titles, like Zelda and Mario Brothers, to modern games like Apex Legends etc. 
• Every summer we go camping somewhere different for a few days and enjoy the short amount of time away from technology and screens.

My Interests

I am a big time Video Game freak, I have 132,000 XBox gamer points.  I mostly game on my XBox but do play some on my PC, as I am loving the RTX evolution in many game genres.  My most common games are Call of Duty, MineCraft, Portal, and Gears of War, although I do play Assassin's Creed, Fable, Dead by Daylight, and use to play Fortnite, but didn't everyone.  I own an adult oriented MineCraft server that has been running constantly now for 2.5 years and have enjoyed building a community of adults with common interests.

I also watch a lot of Science Fiction and Adventure movies and t.v. shows.  Amongst my favorites are Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate, Avatar, Big Bang Theory, Lucifer plus others

I love the outdoors, and sports, although the past year has seen my gym membership very under utilized

For many years I ran a seasonal construction company during the summer building backyard outdoor living spaces.  This included pools, sheds, decks, and other outdoor living spaces as well as the odd finished basement, addition, or landscaping job.

My Experience in teaching Software Related Courses

Over the years I have taught many courses using many software languages including:

• Database Development using Database Modelling, No-SQL, and SQL in SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostGresSQL, and MongoDB.
• Introduction to Programming in raw C and C#
• Object Oriented Programming using C++
• .NET Development using Visual Basic .Net and C#
• Web Programming Principles using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Handlebars, Express server, ASP.Net, etc.
• Capstone Project oriented course where students choose their own projects and I assist them through managing the development process.

References

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