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Nicole Parrot

multi-faceted techie and mom

Nicole Parrot

Welcome!

From an industrial engineering background, to a decade of professional experience as a software developer, and years of homeschooling experience, I can bring a varied set of tools to your projects.

Work Experience

Modular Robotics

Director of Technologies

Jan 2020 - present

Rethink all internal systems to get them out of their silos and onto the cloud.

Supervise China production, planning.

Inventory Management.

Server maintenance - nginx, Apache, NodeJS, Python.

Modular Robotics

Software Engineer

July 2019 - Dec 2019

Transfer the Dexter Industries products into the ModRobotics family.

Dexter Industries

Tutorial Writer, Software Engineer, promoted to CTO in Feb 2018

June 2015 - July 2019

Creating tutorials for the GoPiGo robot and the GrovePi+ board.

Lead DexterOS project, and GiggleBot design, manufacturing and software.

Created and co-taught Dexter Days, a teacher professional development training session

Kontenu

Back-end Wordpress Admin - Web Servers

June 2015

Installing droplets from scratch at Digital Ocean, on NGINX, paying close attention to security issues, manually installing Wordpress, MySQl, PhpMySql, and optimizing the installation. I've also moved Wordpress websites, optimized page downloads and rendering, and coded Redmine plugins.

Fabule Fabrication

Tutorial Writer

August 2014 - December 2014

Authoring several beginner oriented tutorials on how to control Clyde, an Arduino-based lamp, including how to connect it to the Arduino IDE to change the programming, connecting it to other devices using Xbee connections, and controlling the ambient colors through jelly bean candy.

West Island Alternative Learning Centre

Coordinator and Teacher

September 2010 - 2018

Scheduling full days of classes for each of the students attending the centre. Classes cover French as a Second Language, Canadian History, Logic, Arts, singing, Science labs.

First Career

Freelancer

1998 - 2003

(please note that none of these websites still exist in their original format due to the fleeting nature of the Web)
  • Biztrek Partner (Australia).
  • Search engine creation Éditions Sur Scène (Surscene.qc.ca)(ASP, Access)
  • Intranet work for Fédération des Cégeps. (ASP, Access, VBScript, IIS 4.0)
  • Parental email control for Zeeks LLC (www.zeeks.com) (C++, C, ASP, VBscript, MS SQL, Rockliffe Mailsite, IIS 4.0)
  • Shopping cart for AustralianFlowers.
  • Tools and applets for Mailsite (Email server) Rockliffe
  • TheForce.net tech lead, and forum administrator.

Softimage / Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

May 1994 - November 1998

  • Soft|3D and XSI development. Member of the UI team.(C C++ COM Unix Windows OpenGL).
  • Group Leader 1995-1997.
  • NT Port team member. Microsoft/Redmond and Montréal.
  • Maintenance and dev work on Soft|3D on both Windows and Irix (SGI)

Virtual Prototypes Inc (now called Presagis)

Software Development Engineer

May 1991 – April 1994

  • User interface specialist.
  • Project lead on Stateform Editor 3.1
  • Consultation work for VPI's clients on their user interface design.
  • Design of highway surveillance system interface. Arizona Department of Transportation, Phoenix, Arizona (1993)
  • Consultation work for IBM Rockville, Maryland, on Air Traffic Control (1991).

La Société Désig Inc.

Software Development Engineer

Dec 1989- May 1991

  • Lead programmer for their Hotel Management System, including the bookkeeping software.
  • Support hotline.
  • Supervision of the translation effort to Spanish, for both software and written documentation. Presentation in Spanish, Tecnotur 90, La Havane, Cuba.

Skills

Best at:

  •  Python
  •  Presenting
  •  Teaching / Mentoring
  •  Learning New Technologies
  •  Arduino / Raspberry Pi

Worked with:

  •  C / C++
  •  Wordpress
  •  HTML / CSS
  •  PHP / ASP / Perl

Learning:

  •  Django
  •  MongoDb
  •  Git / GitHub
  •  Data Wrangling

Education

École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1989

Industrial Engineering, specialization in Computer Science

The specialization was in generic Computer Science, but also in Robotics, and User Interface design from a cognitive ergonomics point of view.

McGill University, Physics, 1984-1985

First Year

CEGEP Brébeuf, 1982-1984

D.E.C Pure and Applied Sciences

College Ste-Marcelline, 1982

High School diploma

Let's keep in touch!

nicole@parrot.ca