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Meet Yong Wei, Quality Assurance Intern

Meet Yong Wei. Yong graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish as a international student. He was born and raised in a very beautiful town in China and is very thankful for the opportunity to study in Canada. This great opportunity has given him a chance to learn different cultures and meet so many new friends. 

Yong has a really good knowledge in the field of cloud computing. He spent almost one year studying Google maps reduced algorithm, simulated it on his own server, and tried to improve it. Because Oris4 is cloud based, Yong is very happy to be working with the Oris4 team and helping to improve the product.  In his free time, Yong enjoys playing ping pong with friends and he will be representing PC Financial in an upcoming ping pong league match here in Nova Scotia.

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Meet Jenelle Tremblett, Marketing Intern

Meet Jenelle Tremblett. Jenelle is from a small town in Newfoundland and after living in Halifax for two years, it takes a little bit of getting to know her to pick up on the newfie accent. Jenelle is in her 3rd year of Commerce at Dalhousie University, studying a mix of finance and marketing courses. After her degree, Jenelle wants to focus on a career in sales and maybe even real estate. 

Being a university student definitely does not take up all of Jenelle’s time. She also works part time at a retail store and is always involved in other extracurriculars. Since April, Jenelle has been a part of organizing a breast cancer fundraising event called A Toast to the Coast. She was a big part of getting sponsorship items and donations which will be auctioned at the event tonight. Jenelle has also had a range of experience in other areas such as lifeguarding and teaching swimming lessons, working at a nature camp, and helping students become entrepreneurs. 

At Oris4 Jenelle works as the Marketing Intern for this semester and can be found at the desk with all of the colorful pens. She really enjoys working here and has recently been learning how to code. Outside of work and school Jenelle enjoys running, making her moms amazing banana bread, and dreaming of owning a boston terrier. She looks forward to the rest of her semester at Oris4!

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Meet Nan Kang, Intermediate Developer

Nan is from Shanghai, China and moved to Halifax in 2010. He graduated out of Acadia University in 2011 with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science. He joined the Oris4 team in September of 2011. Nan plays a crucial role in our development team, working mainly with Mac Sync Client and API integrations. 

Nan is a big fan of music and movies, quoting “the Smashing Pumpkins” to be his favorite band (rock on!). Robert enjoys working in Halifax because of its nice people and his love for “lobster pizza”

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Meet Christien Lomax, Senior Software Architect

Christien was born in Toronto but spent most of his childhood growing up in Annapolis Valley. He attended the Center of Geographic Sciences College here in Nova Scotia and graduated in 1999, with a degree in software development. Christien was part of the originating team when 2nd Act was first founded and is the Senior Software Architect and Manager of Development on our Oris4 team. Christien plays an integral role in our office, overseeing all product development as well as leading our product design and structure management. 

Christien enjoys working at 2nd Act because it has allowed him to voice and implement his ideas. He ADORES his close-knit and diverse development team, and loves working with exciting technology. On his off time, he enjoys spending time with his daughter, kicking back to some video games and catching up on some much needed sleep.

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Meet Kate Kinnear, Senior Software Developer

Kate is from Saint John, New Brunswick and moved to Halifax 4 years ago. Kate graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 2007, with a bachelor degree in computer science. In 2010, she completed her Masters of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. Kate has been part of the development team since 2nd Act Innovations was first founded. As a Senior Software Developer, Kate’s day to day role includes application design and development. Kate enjoys working here at 2nd Act Innovations because there is always something new to work on and new opportunities to collaborate with her team. 

On her off time, Kate enjoys kicking back to a casual book or a video game, quoting the Legend of Zelda series to be her favorite game (note the Link doll on the desk). Kate enjoys working in Halifax because of its mix of big city and small town setting and of course, because of Halifax’s wide variety of amazing pubs (she recommends Rock Bottom).

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Meet Mustafa Ghani, QA Manager

Mustafa is from Karachi, Pakistan and moved to Halifax back in 2000. In 2004, he graduated from Dalhousie with a bachelor degree in Computer Science and is currently working on completing his MBA at Dalhousie, Rowe School of Business. Mustafa joined our Oris4 team back in early 2012, taking up the position of Quality Assurance Manager and Test Architect. In a regular day, Mustafa sees a range of responsibilities which include business analysis, systems integration, regression testing, change/release management, project planning and managing our QA team. Although he has a lot on his plate, Mustafa enjoys the responsibilities and challenges that come with being a quality assurance manager. 

Out of the office, Mustafa enjoys traveling, having recently traveled to Cancun and Dubai. He hopes to travel to Cuba in the near future. He enjoys watching cricket, and listening to his favorite artist, Yanni. 

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Meet Marek Lipczak, Researcher & Developer

Marek is from Plock, Poland and first visited Canada back in 2005 through an exchange program. Marek focused his education around his passion for technology, graduating with a Master’s degree in Engineering and Computer Science at the Warsaw University of Technology in 2007. In the same year, Marek decided to move permanently to Halifax to continue his studies. In 2012, he completed his PhD in Computer Science at Dalhousie University and joined our Oris4 team as a part of his fellowship program with Mitacs Elevate. As a Researcher for our team Marek is dedicated to solving problems related to text mining and information extraction. When asked why he enjoys working at Oris4, he simply smiled and stated that his work is “pure fun”. 

Marek has recently been accepted to speak at the upcoming Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Regina, Saskatchewan. The topic of his presentation will be on selective retrieval: extracting information from the web in an efficient way by predicting which links are most likely to give the user useful information. 

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Meet Vinod Ramachandra, QA Analyst

Vinod is from Bangalore, located on southern India. Although Vinod did not have much interest in computer science at an early age, his love of games led him to pursue an education in computer coding. In 2006, Vinod graduated from Amrita Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and in 2007, he made the decision to move to Halifax to complete his Master’s. Vinod graduated from Dalhousie University in 2011 with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. 

Vinod is fairly new to our company, having recently joined our quality assurance team in February. As a Quality Assurance Analyst, Vinod spends what seems like too much time with team lead, Mustafa, focusing on product quality and testing. He says that he very much enjoys working in this industry as it allows him to stay creative and create cool things out of nothing. Vinod is an avid cricket player (to many of us here in Canada, that is the sport that seems like baseball but that we can’t quite understand). Vinod greatly enjoys music, playing the banjo and loves the local music scene here in Halifax. Vinod would also like to take this opportunity to advise that if you are from a scorching hot city like Bangalore, do not move to Canada during the peak of winter.