Anne's Computer Resume (version H)

10 Billingsgate Crescent Ajax, Ontario L1S 2R8

Cell Ph.:  (416) 458-4968 E-mail: anne.shier652@gmail.com

Anne L. Shier                        

Summary of qualifications	Secondary School Teacher  - Toronto District School Board §  full-time teacher from September 2000 to June 2015 (then retired) : §  Taught Computer Programming (Grades 10–12), Computer    Engineering (Grades 10–12), Desktop and Internet Publishing (Grade 12), Systems Analysis and Design (OAC), Business Computers (Grades 9 and 10), and Career Studies (Grade 10) §  Am well acquainted with Java, Turing and C / C++ languages §  Have a solid knowledge of computer networking technologies §  Graduated from Seneca College of A.A.&T. with a Computer Programming and Analysis 3-year (advanced) diploma (1996) §  Achieved a certificate from Ryerson University (8 credits) in Information  Systems Management (awarded in Spring 2009) Technical Systems Analyst / Programmer Analyst §  Worked for RBC, Systems and Technology department for 2.5 years as a Programmer/Analyst and Technical Systems Analyst on the mainframe
Professional experience	1996 to 1997               Seneca College – School of Computer                                      Studies - Don Mills Campus Full-time Teaching Assistant: ·               Tutored in Applied Problem Solving (Math) for 3 semesters ·               Tutored in C Programming for 2 semesters 1997 to 1999                 Seneca College – School of Computer Studies – Newnham Campus Part-Time Instructor: ·               Taught Applied Problem Solving for 2 semesters ·               Taught Introduction to Computer Systems and C Programming for 2 semesters ·               Taught Introduction to Computer Systems (including Web Page Design and Programming concepts) for 1 semester 1997 to 1998               RBC Financial Group – Systems and                                     Technology Department (Royal Direct                                     Telephone Banking System) Full-Time Programmer/Analyst: ·            Worked in Mainframe Host Group – Aug./97 to Dec./98 ·               Engaged in Y2K planning and testing  ·               Revised and tested various DB2 database programs   ·               Resolved production problems, as required ·               Set up new personnel with DB2 access, as required ·               Wrote an online DB2 program to search the Company table ·               Worked on various projects and implementations ·               Revised the online Operations Manual. 1998 to 1999               RBC Financial Group – Systems and                                    Technology Department (Indirect Lending                                     System) Full-Time Technical Systems Analyst: ·             Worked as Mainframe Host Person – Dec./98 to Nov./99: ·               Engaged in Y2K testing ·               Revised and tested various online IMS programs ·               Worked on a major implementation (a special report) ·               Resolved numerous production problems ·               Revised the online Operations Manual
Professional memberships	Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF), Ontario College of Teachers (OCT), Association of Computer Studies Educators of Ontario (ACSE), and Institute of Canadian Bankers (ICB)
School-Wide Initiatives and Goals	·         Worked in four Computer Programming Contests (one at Don Mills, one at Campbell, and two ECOO Contests at York University);  ·         Helped to prepare the Campbell Robotics Team for competition ·         Taught computer-related activities to interested teachers on two different P.A. Days at Campbell ·         Became involved in running the Campbell Computer Programming Club for two years
Hobbies	Past karaoke singing, listening to music, watching TV and movies, reading, writing short stories, photography, and traveling within Canada and abroad
Interests and activities	Being an actively-involved grandmother; maintaining and updating my own personal blogs, publishing short stories, and working at being the best Computer Science teacher I could possibly be
Volunteer experience	Assistant / Head Judge in Ontario and Alberta (10 years);  Women’s Gymnastics Judging Assistant at the World University Games in Edmonton, Alberta in 1983 (Universiade’83);  St. John’s Ambulance Brigade member (3 years);  Assistant / Head Coach for 3 amateur sports clubs / teams (7-8 years in total)
Awards received	The Tom Proctor Business Communications Award for Seneca College – 1994; The School of Computer Studies Scholarship for Seneca College – 1995; Associate of the Institute of Canadian Bankers (AICB) designation – 2005

Anne's 30 Year Computing Career (Part R - the finale) --> to be run as a Java program

// The "Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtR" class.
// Part R - the finale
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;

public class Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtR
{
    static Console c;           // The output console

    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        c = new Console ();

        c.println ("I am just one of those very lucky individuals who was\n"
                + "in the right place at the right time and was thus able\n"
                + "to take advantage of an opportunity to teach that I'd\n"
                + "wanted for a very long time. But, I cannot say that\n"
                + "up-and-coming teachers in the future are going to\n"
                + "have the same kind of opportunities I've had; never-\n"
                + "theless, I wish them all the very best. In a couple\n"
                + "of years, I'll be retiring with a full pension that\n"
                + "reflects the fact that I finally made it to the top\n"
                + "of the salary grid and stayed there for at least 5\n"
                + "years, so I guess you could say, I am very lucky\n"
                + "indeed to have had this wonderful teaching career\n"
                + "for as long as I have.\n");
        c.println ("This is the end of Anne's story of her 30 Year Computing\n"
                + "Career.");

    } // main method
} // Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtR class

Anne's 30 Year Computing Career (Part Q) --> to be run as a Java program

// The "Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtQ" class.
// Part Q (final copy)
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;

public class Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtQ
{
    static Console c;           // The output console

    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        c = new Console ();

        c.println ("Public school teachers in Ontario have suffered much\n"
                + "in the last few years because the Province of Ontario\n"
                + "is broke; the TDSB is broke; and, when it comes to\n"
                + "looking for scapegoats, teachers' salaries, benefits,\n"
                + "and working conditions have all traditionally come\n"
                + "under attack. So far, we are hanging together since\n"
                + "our union, OSSTF (Ontario Secondary School Teachers\n"
                + "Federation), has instructed us very wisely about how\n"
                + "to act as a group during these hard times.  We know\n"
                + "we are a strong group and we will not capitulate\n"
                + "easily to external, or even internal, employment\n"
                + "pressures.\n");
        c.println ("(to be continued AND concluded in Part R)...");

    } // main method
} // Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtQ class

Anne's 30 Year Computing Career (Part P) --> to be run as a Java program

// The "Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtP" class.
// Part P (final copy)
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;

public class Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtP
{
    static Console c;           // The output console

    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        c = new Console ();

        c.println ("While teaching at Campbell, I earned 2 additional\n"
        + "AQ courses at UT-OISE during the next 3 summers\n"
        + "(I took one summer off), finally earning my Computer\n"
        + "Science Specialist certificate. I also made a decision\n"
        + "to enroll in a certificate program in Information Technology\n"
        + "at Ryerson U. that would span 3 years of part-time study.\n"
        + "In fact, my IT and CS Specialist certificates allowed me to\n"
        + "eventually reach the top of the salary grid.\n\n"
        + "In conclusion, although I've had some setbacks and dis-\n"
        + "appointments during my computing career, the moments\n"
        + "that mean the most to me are my students' achievements. \n"
        + "I reasoned that if they succeeded in my classes, that\n"
        + "meant I also succeeded as their teacher. It's been\n"
        + "an amazing feeling to have accomplished so much in\n"
        + "just the last 15 - 17 years of teaching computer\n"
        + "science as well as other courses. (I had also taught\n"
        + "computer studies at Seneca College night school for\n"
        + "a couple of years). Without any hesitation, I can say\n"
        + "that teaching (especially teaching computer science) is,\n"
        + "and has been, the best career I 've ever had.\n");
        c.println ("(to be continued in Part Q)...");


    } // main method
} // Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtP class

Anne's 30 Year Computing Career (Part O) --> to be run as a Java program

// The "Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtO" class.
// Part O (final copy)
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;

public class Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtO
{
    static Console c;           // The output console

    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        c = new Console ();

        c.println ("I started teaching computer science at Albert Campbell\n"
        + "that fall, thrilled to have been sent there.  I continued\n"
        + "to be assigned to teach computer science courses, mostly\n"
        + "to Grades 10 and 11.  Later, I was asked by the Business\n"
        + "department to teach business technology, which consisted\n"
        + "of teaching user software like Microsoft Office (Word,\n"
        + "Excel, Access, and PowerPoint), Internet, and web page\n"
        + "design to Grade 9. That was perfect for me.  Even later,\n"
        + "I was asked by the head of computer science to teach\n"
        + "computer engineering, a Gr.10 course that was included\n"
        + "in the CS roster of courses at the time. A few years\n"
        + "later, I was asked to teach Introduction to Business,\n"
        + "which was not considered a computer-related course at\n"
        + "all; still, I made it one by creating several Power-\n"
        + "Point presentations on the chapters of the Business\n"
        + "textbook and uploading them all into a PickUp folder\n"
        + "under my own folder, 'Shier', for this course. Every\n"
        + "student at Campbell has access to the PickUp folder\n"
        + "no matter what courses they take. It's a very handy\n"
        + "thing for all students to have. My teaching career\n"
        + "was going gangbusters. In other words, I was having\n"
        + "the time of my life at Campbell.\n");
        c.println ("(to be continued in Part P)...");

    } // main method
} // Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtO class

Anne's 30 Year Computing Career (Part N) --> to be run as a Java program

// The "Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtN" class.
// Part N (final copy)
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;

public class Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtN
{
    static Console c;           // The output console

    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        c = new Console ();

        c.println ("In my third year at Don Mills C.I., the Ministry of Edu-\n"
                + "cation decided to do away with OAC (Ontario Academic\n"
                + "Credits), which used to be known as Grade 13. I suppose\n"
                + "it was thought that OAC was a wasted year in high school\n"
                + "and that the entire high school curriculum could be taught\n"
                + "in 4 years instead of 5. That was the year I was declared\n"
                + "surplus (a procedure done in every public school annually).\n"
                + "But now, I was in a position in which I had some documented\n"
                + "teaching experience; I just had to hope that another school\n"
                + "had a need for my particular skill set as a teacher. It was\n"
                + "almost the end of the summer of 2003, just before the Labour\n"
                + "Day weekend, when I got the telephone call to report to\n"
                + "Albert Campbell C.I. I got this position for only one reason\n"
                + "- because I could teach the Java programming language,\n"
                + "a language I had managed to learn while teaching at Don Mills.\n");
        c.println ("(to be continued in Part O)...");

    } // main method
} // Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtN class

Anne's 30 Year Computing Career (Part M) --> to be run as a Java program

// The "Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtM" class.
// Part M (final copy)
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;

public class Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtM
{
    static Console c;           // The output console

    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        c = new Console ();

        c.println ("I was convinced by this time that teaching computer science\n"
                + "was what I was meant to do with my life. I liked the kids\n"
                + "in my classes; they appeared to like me back; and, I would\n"
                + "not have had it any other way. Teaching was enjoyable and,\n"
                + "through it, I could develop the kinder side of my person-\n"
                + "ality - the part I liked most about myself. In the fall of\n"
                + "2000, I was finally offered a full-time teaching job at\n"
                + "Don Mills C.I. and was thrilled to accept it.  I would\n"
                + "spend the next 3 years there teaching a lot of different\n"
                + "courses related to computers, but not necessarily computer\n"
                + "programming - computer engineering, for one thing, was just\n"
                + "another brand new thing I had to learn so that I could\n"
                + "teach it. Fortunately, I was very interested in the course\n"
                + "material (computer networking) and embraced this new task\n"
                + "in my career quite happily.  Two years later, I had passed\n"
                + "all of my teaching performance appraisals (4 of them)\n"
                + "and was then given the much-coveted 'permanent' status that\n"
                + "I'd been seeking for so long.\n");
        c.println ("(to be continued in Part N)...");

    } // main method
} // Annes_30Year_Computing_Career_PtM class