About Me
Biography:
Dawid Kasperowicz, aged 26, a first generation Canadian with a strong Polish heritage. Residing in Mississauga, ON, Dawid has graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Information Technology, specialized in Health Industry in 2009. Currently, he is pursuing his Master Degree in Information Systems and Technology at York University, supervised by Dr. Jimmy Haung, and is expected to graduate in 2012.
Since the ripe age of ten, Dawid begun to educate himself in web technologies, developing his first personal website using HTML 4.0 and CSS 1. As he matured, his interests expanded into object oriented programming, computer networking, and computer engineering. From the age of sixteen, Dawid was hired on to small businesses as an on call information technology (IT) support technician, and continues to provide support for various small companies where he is responsible for the maintenance and advancement of their IT infrastructure. In addition, Dawid has also freelanced in web development at the age of sixteen, developing both static and dynamic web solutions, using current web standards and technologies, that continues onto this very day.
Upon graduating at York University in 2007, Dawid was hired as a full time employee at a Microsoft Gold Certified Partnered e-commerce company; Keyora Inc., based in Oakville, as a web developer. For over a year, his responsibilities included continuing the advancement of Keyora Inc. award winning and Microsoft’s preferred e-commerce platform Webfoot, lead web developer for client projects, and was assigned the role of a Hiring Manager for a brief period of time.
Having worked at Keyora Inc. for over a year, Dawid was given the opportunity to continue his education and pursue a Masters Degree in Information System and Technology at York University. He was given the opportunity to be a part time employee at Keyora Inc., and be a teacher assistant (TA) at York University for various undergraduate courses in Information Technology programme.
While pursuing his Masters Degree, Dawid was given the opportunity to be part of Dr. Jimmy Huang's Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Research Lab. His research in the laboratory has allowed him to be produce multiple publications with his colleagues and supervisor, along with being asked to present his research in such international conferences as the 2012 Advances in Health Informatics Conference.
Dawid constantly strives to educate himself in the ever changing IT industry to keep up-to-date with the advancements in the IT industry, in order to be better able to solve current day problems.
Education:
M.A - Information Systems and Technology - York University
Courses:
- SU11 GS ITEC 6002 3.00 A Directed Readings
- WI11 GS ITEC 6205 3.00 M Web Mining
- WI11 GS ITEC 6310 3.00 M Research Methods in Info. Technology
- FA10 GS ITEC 6120 3.00 A Systems Requirements Management
- FA10 GS ITEC 6320 3.00 A Info. Tech. & Organizational Strategy
B.A Hons - Information Technology, Specialized in Health Industry - York University
Health:
- AK HLST 2040 3.00 A Introduction to Health Informatics
- AK HLST 3341 3.00 M Health Informatics II
- HH HLST 4320 3.00 A ehealth
- HH HLST 4330 3.00 M Decision Making & Decision Suppor
Humanities:
- AS HUMA 2920 9.00 A Spreading the Word
Information Technology:
- AS ITEC 1000 3.00 A Introduction to Information Technologies
- AS ITEC 1010 3.00 M Information and Organizations
- AS ITEC 1620 3.00 A Object-Based Programming
- AS ITEC 1630 3.00 N Object-Oriented Programming
- AS ITEC 2010 3.00 A Systems Analysis and Design I
- AS ITEC 2620 3.00 P Introduction to Data Structures
- AK ITEC 3020 3.00 M Web Technologies
- AK ITEC 3210 3.00 M Applied Data Communications and Networks
- AK ITEC 3220 3.00 A Using and Designing Database Systems
- AK ITEC 3230 3.00 A Designing User Interfaces
- AK ITEC 3325 3.00 A Decision Support Technologies
- AK ITEC 4000 3.00 A Independent Research Project in ITEC
- AK ITEC 4010 3.00 A Systems Analysis and Design II
- AK ITEC 4020 3.00 M Internet Client-Server Systems
- AK ITEC 4030 3.00 A Business Process Management Systems
- AK ITEC 4040 3.00 A Requirements Management
- AK ITEC 4220 3.00 M Database Management Systems
- AK ITEC 4305 3.00 M Web Mining
Math:
- AS MATH 1190 3.00 A Introduction to Sets and Logic
- AS MATH 2320 3.00 M Discrete Mathematical Structures
- AS MATH 2560 3.00 A Elementary Statistics I
Modes of Reasoning:
- AK MODR 1760 6.00 B Reasoning About Morality and Values
Natural Science:
- SC NATS 1850 6.00 C Science and Pseudoscience
Philosopy:
- AS PHIL 2070 3.00 A Introductory Ethics
- AS PHIL 2075 3.00 M Introduction to Applied Ethics
- AS PHIL 3050 3.00 M Business Ethics
Social Science:
- AS SOSC 1731 9.00 A CyberCities
- AS SOSC 2312 9.00 A Information and Technology
Interests:
- Web Development
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Programing
- Java
- PHP
- C#
- Databasing
Hobbies:
- Video Gaming
- Photography
- Street Hockey
- Magic: The Gathering
