Stephen Jender

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What is this site?

This site carries information on myself, Stephen Jender. It is not intended to be a formal resume, though you may take it as such if you wish to offer me a job! (Alternatively, you might like to check out my formal resume.) Information on this site will be of no relevance or interest to most people, so I won't be offended if you leave now.

What am I doing at the moment?

Right now, I'm doing a Bachelor of Arts degree at La Trobe University (LTU), in Melbourne, Australia. I'm majoring in philosophy, with some history and art history on the side. I am scheduled to finish this degree with honours at the end of 2004. My primary area of interest is in the history and philosophy of science.

A brief history

I was born in Canberra in 1980. I moved to Brisbane in 1994, where I completed high school at MacGregor SHS. I graduated from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) with a bachelor's degree in Information Technology in 2001, with majors in software engineering and data communications. After spending a semester working at Powerlink QLD as a C++ programmer, I moved down to Melbourne in order to further my education.

Qualifications

• 2001 - Bachelor of Information Technology, QUT
• 1997 - Senior Certificate, MacGregor SHS

Memberships

• 2003 -- present - Member, Golden Key International Honour Society, La Trobe University chapter

Awards

• 2002 - Dean's Honours List inclusion, LTU
• 2002 - Rene Descartes Philosophy Prize winner, LTU
• 1997 - Senior English Competition winner, MacGregor SHS

Work Experience

• Tutor (C / C++ programming, Unix)
• C++ Programmer (Powerlink QLD)
• MS Access Programmer (for various companies)
• Service station attendant
• 7-Eleven console jockey
• Pizza delivery driver
• Kitchenhand

Skills

Technical

• Programming languages - My weapon of choice is C / C++. I've been involved in one major C++ based project, which was a custom database application. This project also incorporated the use of SQL and the FLTK widget toolkit, and ran in a Unix environment. I'm also quite familiar with Java, Perl and Pascal.
• Operating systems - I'm a Linux user. I run Debian on my desktop and my gateway, and Mandrake on my laptop. I've been using some variant of Linux consistently since around the end of 1998. I've set up Linux machines as Samba, DHCP and NAT servers in various business environments. I'm also competent with anything from the MS-DOS / MS Windows ``family'' and Macintosh operating systems.
• Networking - I'm familiar with various networking protocols (TCP/IP, PPP, etc.) and technologies, and have deployed them in small-scale (< 30 machine) environments.

Non-Technical

• Document preparation - I'm quite familiar with the LaTeX document preparation system (all documents in the essays section were made using it.)

Essays

This section removed due to plagiarism.

Toys

• Pacific Solution - A Java game of the Australian refugee ``crisis''.