alexaalto
alexaalto has posted 73 messages, been awarded 17 achievements and has accumulated 2,270 karma points since joining the community on Dec 14, 2010.

Alex Aalto

In the past 25 years I have witnessed the rise of the internet age, during which time I have been involved in the creation of a lot of web sites. From the very beginning where I cut my teeth working on large sites for the Canucks, Mountain Equipment Coop and Snapple to award winning sites for Tourism Vancouver and Kraft Dinner to our current work at Aalto Interactive, I have seen or used almost every technology out there. Whether I was the senior programmer at Columbus Group Communications, a systems architect at Telus, or running my own business, I have prided myself on delivering cost effective and high quality solutions. More importantly my experience has given me a sense of best practices and an appreciation for how to ethically develop good software. At the heart of this is the firm belief that any solution we develop must make life simplier and better for our clients and end users.
Information
Past Experience

Aalto Interactive
February 2010 - Present
Technical Director, Co-Founder

Telus
January 2000 - January 2010
Senior Software Engineer & Systems Engineer.
Mobile Work Solutions: Senior Architect.

Columbus Group Communications
September 1996 - January 2000
Senior Programmer.

Associations

None Entered

Contact

201-1845 Robson St.
Vancouver British Columbia V6G1E4
Canada

604.809.2585
Current Specialties

Strategic Consulting
Information Architecture
Graphic Design
HTML & CSS
PHP Developer
SEO & SEM
Traditional Marketing
JavaScript

Education

2006 - Microsoft SQL Server Training, Microsoft, Vancouver, BC

2005 - Wireless and Mobile Applications Development, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, B.C.

2005 - IBM Websphere Portal, IBM, Burnaby, B.C.

2003 - Sun Java Programming Language, CDI College, Vancouver, B.C.

2002 - Java Programming, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, B.C.

2000 - Programming XML Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.


1998 - LDAP Directory Services: Analysis & Planning, Netscape, Vancouver, B.C.

1995 - Certified Novell Administrator, Dalhousie University/Henson's College, Halifax, N.S.

1994 - C Programming and Introduction to L.A.N. & Computer Security, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.

1991 - Bachelor of Arts with a dual in Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S.

Certifications
None Entered
Achievements
First Post
First Reply
Has created a helpful post
Has provided the best reply
50 Posts
1st Anniversary
2nd Anniversary
3rd Anniversary
4th Anniversary
5th Anniversary
6th Anniversary
7th Anniversary
8th Anniversary
9th Anniversary
10th Anniversary
1K Karma
Marketplace Customer - Has purchased an add-on/theme in the concrete5 marketplace.