About

I currently reside in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada. I was a Senior Software Developer for Atimi Software Inc, doing Macintosh and Windows development, and I am currently freelancing doing ASP.NET and iPhone app development. I have twelve years of software development experience — and my work for Atimi involves contract work for clients who are household names, and because of NDA reasons I am not allowed to divulge who they are. Suffice to say that I am extremely proud of the work I have done for my clients, and there is a very good chance that you might be using software that I have contributed to! 

Currently on the side I am developing an iPhone app to help students learn a section of the Arabic language  using iPhone SDK 3.0 (for RTL support). 

Besides software development, I am into digital photography. See my photos on Flickr. Strictly amateurish stuff for now, but hopefully with more practice I can have a better eye for composition. I have shot a couple of events for free, they are a couple of sets on my Flickr page. I (used to) shoot with a Pentax K10D with a couple of my favourite lenses, and a AF360FGZ flash. I plan to move to the Canon system.

I was born in Singapore – I migrated to British Columbia, Canada, in 1989. I had the benefit of the best education systems in both countries. I was a student at Raffles Institution, Singapore’s renowned all-boys top secondary school, and I continued to ace my academic classes in British Columbia’s best high school and continued on to the renowned Computer Systems Technology program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and the Computer Science program at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Interesting things of note:

• My StockTicker game (as part of a group project) is being used by the Alberta Securities and Exchange Commission in their educational programs.
• I have two patents (pending)
• I wrote the original treatise on How To Write An Indiana Jones Movie
• Some of my Java code has been used in:
  • JFreeVote (a set of tools to manage a e-vote process)
  • Corda Server (in its FreeLib.jar)
  • MCPD Forms Management System (Montgomery County Police Department, Maryland)
• There is a Shazron Hotel in Blackpool, UK (no relation of course)
• I am male (a lot of people can’t really tell from my name)
• I believe that Mac and PC can, and should co-exist peacefully 

Shazron Abdullah, April 2009