Reid Spencer Consulting

Education

Formal Education

In 1982 I completed two years in a Bachelor of Science Program at the University of British Columbia, majoring in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. I have also completed several formal training courses during my employment, as listed in the table below.

Year	Course	Description
1986	Dale Carnegie Course	Human Relations & Public Speaking
1989	Data Communications I & II	1 week intense course on Data Communications
1990	OO Methodology	Object-Oriented Analysis & Design from Parc Place Systems
1991	Expert Hiring Teams	An intensive short course on hiring and interviewing.
1992	Versant OODBMS	Vendor supplied training of the Versant OODBMS
1992	ObjectStore Advanced	Vendor supplied advanced training of ObjectStore.
1993	Objectivity	Vendor supplied training of the Objectivity OODBMS
1993	Pro Kappa	Vendor supplied training of an expert system shell.
1994	ObjectStore Performance	Vendor supplied performance tuning training for ObjectStore
1995	ISIS & X/Shell	Vendor supplied introductory training to these products.
1999	Management Training	PSW Training on meetings, hiring, policies, etc.

Informal Education

I continually keep myself educated by reading and learning as I undertake new projects or as subjects interest me. My self-studies have led to the development of both skills and knowledge in the following areas:

extensible programming
meta programming
domain engineering
project management
business process re-engineering
distributed transaction processing
distributed object-oriented technology
network management and ISO standards
Internet technology and standards
compiler and language design
operating system theory
discrete mathematics
software engineering techniques
software quality assurance
technical documentation
algorithmic design
artificial intelligence
multimedia

I have also taught myself through both reading and hands-on use, the following technologies:

SGML,HTML,XML,XSLT,PHP,JSP,Apache
C++,C,Java,Objective-C