Computer Systems Analyst seeking employment (preferably, finance-related employment) within North America. Willing to travel regularly.

I'm currently a Programmer Analyst, and have been working for a consulting company in Toronto that has clients worldwide. I resigned from my position last week, effective later this month, and I am now looking for new employment. Here's my resume in a nutshell:

Objective:

To function as part of a team of highly skilled problem solvers, who find new and innovative ways to use information technology to give their company a competitive advantage

Experience:

~ 2.5 years working as a Programmer Analyst with my current employer, who hired me directly out of university
~ 2 years of working real computer programming jobs during university, through my university's co-op program
~ Lead programmer analyst in charge of developing the quality control subsystem within a large-scale Manufacturing Execution System
~ Gathering requirements from our clients and documenting them
~ Designing a SQL Server 2000 database
~ Class design
~ Implementing statistical process control software
~ Coding in Microsoft Visual Basic .Net and C++
~ Participating in User Acceptance Testing
~ Disseminating business knowledge to junior resources
~ Testing collision avoidance software on a French oil rig
~ Writing library code to enable client/server RF communications on PDAs
~ Large scale data migration
~ Report writing

Education:

2002. Bachelor of Mathematics in Honours Co-op Computer Science, Minor in Economics (Graduated with distinction)

Academic Awards:

I held three different scholarships throughout university, including the Nortel Networks Undergraduate Scholarship.

Citizenship:

Canadian. However, for the past 2.5 years, I have held TN (Trade NAFTA) status in the USA, which I required in order to work in the USA as a computer systems analyst for an American client of my company. In order to continue working legally in the USA as a computer systems analyst, I simply need a one page letter on company letterhead requesting my services as a computer systems analyst, and $50. The "application" is made strictly at the port of entry, and the last time I made one, it took all of 15 minutes to process it. It is extremely painless and has never proved a problem for me to take care of in the past.

Other notes:

To date, my career has focused on manufacturing software. Throughout university, I tried to incorporate as many business/accounting/economics courses as I could. I have successfully completed upper-year university courses in international trade, international finance, money and banking, and futures and derivatives. I am really looking to put the Economics side of my university degree to use, preferably within the financial industry (or doing financial related work).

If you have something that might interest me, please PM me or email me at [email protected]. I'd be happy to forward my resume.

Thanks,
Notam