Paul Saulnier's Résumé

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Education

Cumulative GPA: 3.9 on a 4.3 scale, graduated in First Division
Dean's List - (2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2007-2008)
Student Abroad exchange, ESCEM School of Business, Poitiers, France - (Winter 2007)
Computer Science Teaching Assistant - (Winter 2007, Fall 2007)

Participated in all stages of development of including requirements analysis, graphical UI design, coding, documentation, implementation and regular maintenance of several projects:
- Standard Operating Procedures authoring software, featuring a design optimized for timely access by telephone agents
- Task Analysis software in the context of documentation management, designed as a component of an overall commercial product of focus to be sold by Innovatia
- Productivity and efficiency customizations for Arbortext Editor documentation editing suite
Application support. Proactive development of small tools to address problems and improve productivity and efficiency of various workflows
Coordinated implementation of corporate www.innovatia.net web site redesign including cross-browser compatibility and maintenance improvements

Visual C# .NET, Java, Python, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 6, Assembly, C++
PHP, MySQL, JSP, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Apache
Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Acrobat, etc.), Microsoft Office 95 - 2007, Arbortext (Epic) Editor

PAUL SAULNIER, Ehud Sharlin, Saul Greenberg. (2009) Using Bio-electrical Signals to Influence the Social Behaviours of Domesticated Robots. In Adjunct Proc. Human Robot Interaction (Late Breaking Abstracts) - HRI'09. (San Diego, California), 2 pages plus poster, March 11-13. Poster presentation by Saulnier
PAUL SAULNIER, Ehud Sharlin, Saul Greenberg. (2009) Using brain-robot interfaces for controlling implicit social patterns. In Workshop on Brain Machine Interfaces for Neuroprostheses and Robot Control, held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (Kobe, Japan), 3 pages plus poster, May 12. A version of the similar HRI poster/paper above by the same authors. Presentation by Saulnier

Invited Talk - Osaka University, Japan - May 2009
Attendee - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - May 2009
Student Volunteer - ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - March 2009
Student Volunteer - University of Calgary Dept. of Computer Science Industry Day - December 1st, 2008
Attendee - ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) - November 2008
Student Volunteer - Computer Science Workshop, UNB Saint John - March 2008
Student Volunteer - Women in I.T. Event, UNB Saint John - December 2007
Represented UNB Saint John at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in APICS Conference for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science - 2006, 2007

Saint John High School (Saint John, NB), 2002 - Present
Volunteer web developer, designer, system maintenance. Completely redesigned www.sjhigh.ca. Rapidly developed dynamic web-based software tools from scratch based on requirements.
New Brunswick Department of Education (Saint John, NB), 2004 - Present
Web developer. Created www.youthcareerconnections.ca web site for the Youth Career Connections Program which is used by students to download and print application forms and job sheets

CBC Radio Saint John interview (~7 minutes) - June 23rd, 2009
Live television interview (~6 minutes) on Breakfast Television (Citytv Calgary) - March 27th, 2009
Recorded television interview (~2 minutes) on Your City evening news (Citytv Calgary) - March 26th, 2009
CBC Radio Spark interview (~4 minutes) aired nationally - April 1st, 2009
Dozens of web and print articles covering various aspects of my my "Robot Emotional Control" project including MIT's Information Review, Engadget, Gizmodo, Wired and more
Speech from perspective of previous student, Youth Apprenticeship Graduation - August 21st, 2007

English - Native speaker
French - Fluent conversational and written skills. Five month exchange in France.