Michael Warkentin

I'm a web developer in Toronto.

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List of Wikileaks Mirrors: Please Reblog

Bridal Party (Taken with instagram)

52baddudes:

Okay guys, final post before I put some new artwork up I swear. Just wanted to let you know that the first edition of Fight Club posters did sell out, so the second edition has gone up.

This is what I originally wanted to do, but didn’t have the juevos to go through with it.

Stark to the left, vibrant to the right.

Hope you like it.

Oooh.. great performances of some of the songs from The National’s new album, High Violet.

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2154-the-national/1

Javascript cheat sheet for @anywhere.

No-bullshit file uploads.

Shot_1270828186_teaser

Wow.. love the stuff people are doing with projection these days!

PIXELS (via DocteurPipi)

Love it love it love it!

Wow.. incredible what you can do with web tech these days.

Recently on Quora, my friend Brit posted a question:

Since the Quora community found my response helpful, I’m posting it here for everyone:

  • The Product. Maybe we didn’t have a high viral coefficient but we had a great net promoter score. People loved Mint, it solved a real…

Holy crap this is incredible!

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Front End Developer at Wave Accounting
Information Technology and Services | Toronto, Canada Area, CA

Experience

  • Sept 2011 - Present
    Front End Developer / Wave Accounting
  • Sept 2008 - Present
    Owner / Come Together
    Full design and development of the Come Together video service in Django.

    Ongoing development of application and technical assistance with video services.
  • Feb 2010 - Aug 2011
    UI Developer / Arcestra
    Initiated, prototyped, designed and developed the user interface for a major redesign of the Arcestra web app.

    Managed multiple projects including feature development, external website updates and blog posts.

    Set up Google Analytics event tracking to measure feature usage by customers.

    Designed landing pages for Google AdWords campaign in support of the marketing team.

    Suggested and set up lunch-and-learn demos, a chat room, and an idea management tool to improve company-wide communication.

    Implemented JS and CSS minimization and concatenation using JAWR to reduce page-load time by approximately 50%.
  • Aug 2009 - Feb 2010
    Software Design Expert / Amdocs
    Led design and front-end development for a scrum team building a new customer portal for Rogers as part of a project to unify all of Rogers' systems.

    Interviewed and hired the designers for two scrum teams in conjunction with the technical lead.

    Involved with setting up version control, bug tracking and project management software at the beginning of the project.
  • Nov 2005 - Aug 2009
    Software Developer, UI / Casero Inc.
    Led design and front-end development of the Casero Media Sharing portal.

    Led development of white-label solutions for major telecoms including Bell, BT, Comcast, Eircom and Sky.
  • 2002 - 2004
    Owner / Sharp Spoon Media
    A small web design firm.

Education

  • 2000 - 2004
    Ryerson University
    Computer Science

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Software Development, User Interface Design

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