Computer Systems and Software Engineer
1998-2000: Computer Software and Systems Engineer/Programmer, Nesda Technologies Ltd., 57 Cannifton Rd., Belleville, Ontario.
1996-1997: Postdoctoral research, Ergonomics in Telerobotics and Control Laboratory, Deptartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto.
1989-1995: Member of the Applied Computersystems Group, Dept. Computer Science and Systems; Dr. W.F.S. (Skip) Poehlman, Principal Investigator. Research involves development of an artificial intelligence-based performance enhancement and real-time control system for a particle accelerator; funded by the Dept. of National Defence.
5/1991-Present: Design and development of a patient database and analysis system, Palliative Care Team, Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals, Hamilton, Ontario. Presentation of system at the Ninth International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill, Montréal, Québec, October 31, 1992; Presentation at the First National Workshop for the Establishment of a Nation-wide Palliative Care Database, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 22, 1993.
5/1987-12/1987: Member of the Reactor Safety Group, Dept. of Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Ontario Hydro (Dr. C. Young, supervisor). Responsibilities included: (i) developing, implementing and modifying a computerized work management and scheduling system (WMS) using dBASE III+; (ii) development of a user-friendly interface to WMS for a department of 100 people.
9/1987-1995: Marking and tutoring for undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science and electrical engineering (data structures, compiler design, software engineering, scientific computing, assembly language programming, processor design), McMaster University.
5/1985-12/1987: Compilation of a 1981 Canadian Census database and design of a support program to be used in business site location optimization; supervised by Dr. R. Turner, School of Business, Queen’s University.
6/1984-8/1986: Development of computerized tutorial programs for the Dept. of Nursing Science and Faculty of Medicine, Queen’s University, and a nutritional analysis program for use in local hospitals and health centers; supervised by Dr. T. Spencer, Dept. of Biochemistry, Queen’s University.
9/1983-5/1987: Marking and tutoring for first and second year computer courses, Queen’s University.
5/1983: Simulation analysis and research under Dr. N.C. Lind, Risk Research Institute, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo.
9/1981-6/1983: Installation and programming of a small
micro-computer system for the Dept. of Biology for tutoring and testing
of students; Design and implementation of support software for annual
rowing regatta; Development of a student records file management system
for the Office of the Registrar. Shawnigan Lake School, Shawnigan Lake,
B.C.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Application of Fuzzy Logic to Control of a Van de Graaff Particle Accelerator”, submitted for review for publication, IEEE Special Proceedings on Fuzzy Systems, 1995. [Submitted: May 4, 1994]
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Fuzzy Control of a Particle Accelerator’s Analyzing Magnet”, Abstract accepted for publication in upcoming Proc. Fifth Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May, 1994.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., Stark, J.W., “The KN-3000 Particle Accelerator Control Expert System (PACES)”, IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, vol. 40, no. 6, December, 1993.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Fuzzy Logic for Particle Accelerator Control”, Proc. Fifth Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November, 1993.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., Stark, J.W., and Cousins, T., “Knowledge Engineering for PACES: The KN-3000 Particle Accelerator Control Expert System”, Proc. Fourth Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, April 27-28, 1992, p. 133.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Design of an Expert-System-based Real-Time Control System for a Van de Graaff Particle Accelerator,” Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, eds. D.E. Grierson, G. Rzevski, and R.A. Adey, Elsevier Applied Science, NY, 1992.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., Stark, J.W., “Implementation Considerations for PACES: the Particle Accelerator Control Expert System”, Proc. Third Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Royal Military College, Kingston, ON., May 2-3, 1991, p. 17.
Lind, P.C., Solntseff, N.S., “A Debugging Environment for FORTH”, Accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied FORTH, September 1992.
Turner, R., Lind, P., “Locating the Demand for Church Facilities”, ASAC Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6, Part 1, 1986.
Turner, R., Lind, P., “Factors for Evaluating Branch Bank
Locations”, Internal publication, Toronto Dominion Bank, 1987.
1988-1994: Departmental Scholarship, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
1988: Departmental Scholarship, Computer Science and Systems.