Resume.pdf - Michael Fourie

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Michael Fourie (604)-363-3616 | michael.fourie@queensu.ca | linkedin.com/in/michael-fourie | www.michaelfourie.com EXPERIENCE Industrial Alliance Financial Group – Vancouver BC Internship, SAL (Sickness, Accident, and Life) Admin May 2019 – Aug 2019 ● Processed data entry of client’s personal information from insurance certificates and requested for information from clients when required ● Communicated with representatives from partnered car dealerships regarding client information ● Worked in an Agile environment, taking part in daily SCRUM meetings BetaLabs – Kingston ON Android Developer Jan 2020 – Sep 2020 ● Planned, developed, and tested a native Android app including UI, core functionality, and third-party SDKS ● Successfully integration with Node back-end API ● Participated in weekly stand-ups discussing last weeks completion, next week’s goals, and blockers Algorithmics International School of Programming – International Python & Scratch Teacher May 2020 –Current ● Taught children aged 5 – 17 the basic concepts of algorithms and programming in Python over Zoom ● Organized lessons for the children, created visuals to display in the lesson, and encouraged an engaging and welcoming digital environment for students to learn in ● Successfully hosted free trial lessons where parents could decide if the lessons were rightfully suited for their children Teachers Assistant – Queen’s University CISC 101 (Introduction to elements of Comp. Sci) Teachers Assistant Sep 2020 – Current ● Marked weekly assignments and answered student questions daily ● Held office hours with strong student engagement PROJECTS AND EXTRACIRICULAR CycleAI – Machine Learning Recyclable Sorter – Hackathon Winner Feb 2020 ● Developed a mobile image recognition application in Python using Kivy, TensorFlow, OpenCV, and Keras for QHacks, a hackathon hosted at Queen’s University ● Allows users to take a photo of waste, and uses a convolutional neural network to mask the images and promptly inform the user on which bin the waste belongs in ● Overall winner of QHacks 2020 and winner of The Mayors Innovation Challenge Award at QHacks ● Pitched app to the Kingston’s Mayor at the Invitational Mayors Innovation DanceParty – Machine Learning Music Generator Nov 2020 ● Hackathon project developed as a react web-application that uses TensorFlow’s position recognition algorithm to generate music based on dance moves. ● Python Flask backend integrated flawlessly with a React JavaScript frontend. Queen’s Frosh Week Leader – Queen’s University Sep 2019 ● Lead incoming first year students through orientation week, guiding them through activities, teaching them about the University, and providing a safe and welcoming environment EDUCATION Queen’s University – Kingston, ON Sep 2018 - Current Bachelor of Computing; Cumulative GPA: 3.8/4.3 Dean’s Honour List (2018/19, 2019/20) Relevant Courses Completed: Intro to Computer Science I & II (Python and Java), Data Structure, System Level Programming, Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Software Specifications, Software Quality Assurance ADDITIONAL Technical: Java, Python, C, UNIX, Git, Haskell, Bash Scripting, JavaScript, SQL