Zakaria Ferr

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant

York University

• Performed all required teaching assistant duties in EECS 2030 Advanced Object Oriented Programming.
• Taught 30-minute lessons during the beginning of the weekly session previewing the lab.
• Graded weekly labs and provided regular feedback during 1.5 hours of lab time per week.
• Graded 40+ assignments and tests per grading period to aid the professor.
• Independently supervised labs of 30 to 40 students.

Camp Animator

Centre Francophone de Toronto

• Prepared various activities for youth ages 6 to 17.
• Prepared arts and crafts activities, sports matches, and educational activities.
• All activities were conducted in French.

Sales Representative and Driveway Sealer

Candian Property Stars

• Worked as a door-to-door salesman, selling driveway sealing.
• Responsible for sealing the driveways for the closed deals.
• Took payment, customer information, and their reviews of the service.

PROJECTS

Multiple-processor CPU Scheduling Simulation

• Programmed simulations of three CPU scheduling algorithms for a multi-core computing system consisting of four homogeneous CPUs.
• The purpose of these simulations is to compare the efficiency of different scheduling algorithms.
• The algorithms used were FCFS (First-Come-First-Served), RR (Round Robin), and pre-emptive three-level feedback queue (FBQ).
• Utilized C in a Linux environment.

Country Statistics App

• Developed an app that fetches data from the World Bank Repositories for many different countries.
• The app is then able to conduct different forms of analyses on the data.
• It illustrates its analyses by displaying it in charts depending on the country and specific datasets selected.
• Utilized Java and JSON.

"Kryptonote" App

• Developed an Android app on Android Studio.
• The app allows the user to create encrypted notes and save them on the device or optionally send them as text messages or emails.
• Caesar’s shift cipher method was used to encrypt the notes.
• Utilized Java.