My name is Daniel Isaacs Diaz, and I was born in Panama. I went to high school in Panama, and I was blessed with a scholarship (Walton Scholarship) that gave me the opportunity to study in the United States.
I went to Harding University and got a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. I also have a minor in International Business. I graduated with honors (Magna Cum Laude), and did some interesting work at Harding.
One of the things i did at Harding was extensive research on a topic of my choice. I choose to research on Text Mining.
I also wrote a video game for a Computer Science Software Development Project. The project was done in groups, and all the groups developed the same game which in that semester was “Cambio”. I was chosen to lead one of the projects, specifically a project our team decided to call “Lord of the Cambio”, since were fans of Lord of the Rings.
“Lord of the Cambio” ended up being the winning software project from the Software Development class at Harding University during the 2005 spring semester. It was written by Jed Veatch, Rafael Ramirez, and myself.
After graduation, I started working for a Swedish company in Stockholm. I received training in topics like: XML, XSLT, XPath and DTD’s. I became very proficient transforming XML documents into HTML/XML documents. I also did some work implementing C# applications that inserted XML data into different databases.
After several months in Stockholm, I decided to come back to Panama. Then I decided to work for an online sportsbook company. In this project I developed and optimized dynamic web applications using ASP with JScript as the scripting language, transformed XML documents into other HTML/WML documents and performed some Search Engine Optimization for the website who had approximately 15,000 daily visitors.
Nonetheless, I decided I wanted to get more experience in the .NET technologies. That’s why I decided to work for Real World Systems in Panama. I ended up developing, designing and maintaining a fixed income trading application allowing investors and broker/dealers to automatically execute trades on an online electronic corporate bond trading platform. This was developed in C#. I also did some development in technologies such as WPF and WCF. In fact I was able to present my work on these topics in the International .NET Association in Panama.
I had the opportunity to come to Canada in 2007. I kept enhancing my knowledge in .NET technologies. I worked for 3 years as an ASP.NET Web Developer for The Descartes Systems Group, a Canadian company that offers SaaS logistics solutions. I developed a portal in ASP.NET using C#, XML, JavaScript, ASP.NET Ajax Controls, Telerik Controls, and a DB2 database.
While I was working full-time, I pursued a Master of Mathematics in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo on a part-time basis. The computer science program at the University of Waterloo is one of the top Computer Science programs in the world (that’s what the letter of admission says!!). It was a challenge to work full-time and study part-time, but the key to make it happen is perseverance.
I researched on a variety of topics such as:
Common Clinical Vocabularies in Health Care
Designing Privacy-Aware Cloud Applications
Hadoop Distributed File System Concrete Architecture
Do language-checking tools improve the document quality of non-native speakers?
Mobile Devices: Our companion at the workplace
The Internet: My home away from home
Are Computers stealing away our family time?
Developers Like Requirements Specifications; Project Managers Don’t and a Possibly Transcendent Hawthorne Effect (accepted by the EmpiRE 2011 International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering)
I finished my masters degree in December 2010.
Nowadays, I work at Manulife Financial Canada as an Application Developer.
If you would like to contact me, you can send me an email to: daniel@danielisaacs.com