alfonso jayson d. ragasa - résumé

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015

Alfonso Jayson D. Ragasa #2954-C F.Y. Manalo Street, Punta, Sta. Ana, Manila, Metro Manila

+63 928 854 3434 [email protected] http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net Skype: jaysonragasa

Facebook: http://fb.me/jayson.ragasa Twitter: http://twitter.com/nullstring

Born: April 1, 1983 Nationality: Filipino Civil Status: Married

Programming History

I started as early as 3rd year high school in programming and we used Turbo BASIC in those days. They taught us

basic 2D graphics programming using lines, points, and circles. We were able to recreate 2D overview of a house

and cartoons. It was not enough for me so I bought a Turbo Basic book and expanded my knowledge. 2 years of

self-teaching, coding and testing, I was able to create my own applications. I created my own HEX Editor, 16 bit

Icon Editor, WAV Graph Loader, animations, 2D games, then moved on to 3D programming and I created my own

3D wireframe shooting game, memory resident viruses, and anti-virus. I did not only concentrated on

programming in Turbo BASIC but I also concentrated on creating some BATCH scripts in MS-DOS to have my own

customized menus every time I boot up in DOS.

Years of productivity in programming, I moved on to Visual Basic 6 so I can create applications for Windows. It was

a very smooth transition moving to other BASIC programming language. I was able to create even more applications

easily, from multimedia Tools and Management, School Applications, Teaching aid, Hotel, Client/Server applications

for Internet Cafe and School Administration, Programming Tools and Code Managements, CD Rental and Book

Library Management. I also learned to create my own Class Libraries, Modules, and User Controls in my projects and

I was way advance in programming class.

I studied even further about programming so I thought myself in HTML, CSS, and VB Script and then studied ASP

with .MDB Database, Flash, and Java Script and created my own web site, hosted in 1asphost. Then I was confident

and capable enough, I started accepting clients to make Web and Desktop applications.

Years of programming in VB6 and ASP, the .NET technology was introduced. I chose Visual Basic .NET so I can easily

adjust to a new programming environment, but it was not easy as I thought but I was still able create applications

such as FTP Downloader with pause and resume capabilities and multi-threaded downloader.

I have finally decided to stop in BASIC and moved on to C#. This is because a company I worked on requires a C#

developer. They trusted on my capabilities and hired me and they allow me to learn C#. It was a very big leap of

knowledge of programming since I get used to BASIC languages. It was a crash-course for me but the experience was

great. I later studied new technologies such as: ASP.NET and then expanded my knowledge in Javascript, SQL Server,

MySQL, SQLite, PHP, Web Services, WCF, WPF, jQuery, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and HTML5.

And for the past years of programming. I have made tons of great free applications, solutions, and tutorials and you

can find some at my website http://jaysonsblog.azurewebsites.net


Work Experiences

Web Developer

March 1, 2006 to October 31, 2006 (7 months)

I worked in Oxford Hotel located in Clark Pampanga

Reason for leaving: Manager wants me to work all around the hotel with no salary increase.

IT Facilitator

November 22, 2006 to September 10, 2007 (9 months)

I worked in National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) Baguio located in Baguio City. Instructor and Head

Software Developer Lessons I taught:

Computer Programming 101

Networking 101

Basic C# Programming

Animation in Flash

Basic Web Programming

Digital Media Arts

Reason for leaving: Contract ended.

Applications Developer

From November 22, 2007 to July 30, 2011 (4+ years)

I worked at Anomalist Design, LLC (http://www.anomalistdesign.com) as a contractual developer and based on

Baguio City, Philippines.

Projects done with the company:

PDF Formula Parser

A batch tool that converts PDF to text and then extracting different sections in the document for

Formulas, Formula Procedures, Notes, and Expirations. Regular Expression (RegEx) was highly used in this

application for parsing these sections.

o Tools used: PdfBox.NET

Formula Importer Another batch tool that extracts WMF files and formulas from RTF file and then saved in AskSam

database. I also wrote my own RTF reader while developing this application.

o Tools used: AskSam Database

SPIDERS (key technical accomplishment) This is my biggest project in this company and highly maintained application. These spiders are running

24/7 and it was carefully monitored by using different monitoring system I wrote. These spiders crawls

through 6 different auction sites and looking for pirated software and pirated products using different

queries provided by companies. Due to contract security for these companies, I am not going to name

them, the auction sites, and their products.

The entire system was called Beattie.NET Framework. Here are the modules that Beattie.NET has:

SMTP library for emailing any problems in the system.

B+ Tree server implementation for local indexing and crawl history.

Socket programming so crawlers can communicate to B+ tree server indexers.

MySQL library for saving information on the database servers.

Web client library with session aware, proxy support, and user agent customizations.

Local file logging

RegEx library which contains all the expression that spiders needed for extracting data in the auction site


Auction crawler data models

Monitoring tools that shows the crawler process, logging, health, and performance.

Crawler client that uses all the modules above. (Applications Developer continuation)

Domain Monitor Periodically checks listed domains for take downs

o Tools used in this application: GDocLib.NET and OpenSMTP

Reason for leaving: Contract ended

Freelance Developer

I am working as a Freelance Developer since August 2011 to date at oDesk.com

Profile Permalink: https://www.odesk.com/o/profiles/users/_~01726d3a85709e4732/

Some of my latest job were not shown for unknown reason.

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015 And recently at Elance as well.


Consultant/Software Developer From February 26, 2013 January 31, 2014

I worked with a Canadian company named Red Brick Media. This company is also one of clients in oDesk that asked

to Rebrand a Registry Cleaner Application and because of my hard work and fast development progress, they

hired me for a year as a contractor.

Red Brick Media is an innovative software development and advertising company located in Victoria, on the west

coast of Canada.

Projects

Contract is under NDA and I cannot disclose any information related to the projects I have work on for Red Brick

Media Company.

Reference letter from Redbrick Media is at the end of this document.

Awards and Recognition

Multi RDP Client .NET

Prize winner in Competition "Best C# article of March 2009" CodeProject.com

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/33979/Multi-RDP-Client-NET

Recognized Developer at xda-developers http://forum.xdadevelopers.com/member.php?u=1897242

Education

1st 2nd

Education Level Vocational Diploma Undergraduate

Field Computer Science and Information Technology

Computer Science and Information Technology

Course Associate in Computer Science Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

School City Colleges of Urdaneta STI College Baguio

Location Urdaneta City Baguio City

Date June 2000 to June 2002 June 2002 to October 2005

Licenses and Certifications

National Certificate II (license number) (date)

Computer Hardware and Servicing 07-15-07-08-0835 April 29, 2007

NIIT Baguio Employment (check attached certification) September 3, 2007

Training and Seminars

Ajax and PHP

Abraham L. Alfariz

NIIT Baguio

Networking and Fundamentals

Carlito C. Calado

NIIT Baguio

Leadership Training Seminar

Ricardo R. Bondoc

STI College Baguio


Other Skills and Interest

My Word/per Minute (WPM) is 70.61 and 98.03% accuracy in English words.

Airsoft

FPV Pilot & Racer

Photography

MODding Modifying different things I can get my hands on.


Personal Research & Development and Projects Developed

For over 13 years of programming, I have made different kinds of applications from DOS, Desktop, and Mobile

applications using Microsoft technologies.

Turbo BASIC Projects HexEditor

July 28, 2000

A tool that is used to safely edit binary files which can be used to change information in the application. E.g. Title of

the application or a string in the application, numbers in a saved game file e.g. money or health.

Heres an example of edited binary. Turbo BASIC IDE it self

8 Bit Icon Loader

January 1997

Used to load 8 bit icons from Windows 98. Another purpose of this program is to test Turbo BASICs color palette

handling. I also started to clean my codes.


Digital Time Clock

Year 1996

Other than showing a digital clock. The main purpose of this program is to research on trigonometric functions in

Turbo Basic.

3D Shooter

Year 1999

A simple 3D wireframe plane shooting game that can control with Left and Right arrow keys. The main purpose of

the game was to research on trigonometric functions and keyboard inputs. The source code of the program was

lost due to hard disk crash after researching on NT systems.


Visual Basic 6 Here are some of my developed application using Visual Basic 6. Most of my applications has implemented Class

Modules, Custom Controls, PInvokes, ActiveX DLL, Scripting Objects, and DAO for Access Database.

Application Locker

August 2002

A security application that blocks an application from running.

This application accesses the Windows Registry to be able to block an application. It register itself in classes root

for .EXE files and also uses the Windows Registry to save the allowed to run lists. It was originally written for

viruses to block them from automatically running.

Custom Button Control

August 2002

A custom button user control I made for Application Locker. This expands the look of an old boring button and

adds a different effects. The user control codes contains a lot of GDI and User32 Pinvokes for custom drawing.

Polaris College Enrollment and Maintenance System (Thesis)

September 2002,

A simple enrollment management application used by Palaris College. It is also capable of managing student

records and subjects. This application uses Access Database and Excel application for reporting.


CodeBank

May 2003

A management application that you can use to save your favorite source codes. Its a very user friendly application.

It has different kinds of programming language category, colorized editor, code type, code exporting, and search.

Application uses Access database to save the source codes and categories.

Collapsing Panel

November 2003

An Windows XP like collapsing panel user control. It can be used to other application and have their own custom

contents in each panel.


VB6 Fav

December 2003

A simple VB6 project management application that stores your commonly developed application. It can open

project files, open the project in Visual Basic 6 IDE, run the project, or compile the project in EXE.

Multi Character Recognition

March 2004

Submitted for STI - IT Competition. It was discontinued due to lack of letter training.

Gradient Header User Control

April 2004

A custom user control for creating a header with custom gradient effect that can be used in other application to

have their desktop application designs more appealing.


X-KeyLogger

November 2004

A tool that hooks on the keyboard inputs and monitor all textbox control for changes then logs the input and

changes in a textfile. Made for educational purpose only.

AJs Pension House - (mini thesis)

March 2004

A hotel accommodation and reservation application made for my mini thesis in STI. This application manages

rooms, guests, extra services, check in-check out a guest, cancel reservation, monitor current room status, it can

generate report using HTML.


Got Hub Internet Caf Client and Server Application (Thesis)

March 2005

An Internet Caf application that has a capability of sending remote commands to return a list of running

applications from the client PC, it can remotely terminate these applications, it can shutdown, reboot, log off the

client PC, and the best feature of this application was it was able to monitor the clients PC and remotely control

the client PC mouse.

Acid House Internet Caf - Client and Server

May 2005

This Client and Server application is used to monitor the workstation usage duration and compute the amount plus

the additional services like printing, scanning, etc.

Client side application can block the entire window and keep the application always on top, blocks all access of the

application except the registered apps such Internet Explorer, some games, office application, and multimedia

application.


Random Wallpaper

July 2005

A simple desktop wallpaper changer application. It can save the file location in the database, it can automatically

change the wallpaper, and it can also overlay a calendar on the wallpaper. This uses PInvoke for image resizing and

overlapping the calendar.

Computer Aided Learning & Test Administration San Nicolas Learning Academy - Thesis

April 2007

Used to automate the student tests. Instructors can manage questions, date and time when the exam will take,

students to take the exam, and student scores.


RPG Simulation with Client and Server

December 2005

This is another Client and Server research where a player can connect to a server. It can walks on the screen, send

its location, where it was facing, current status to the server. The server then broadcasts the status of the player to

the other connected players. The simulated player can detect obstacles and other players and can decide to bump

or change its route. The client has a lot of trigo and physics computation as well.

KuluBOT

April 2006

Is a mIRC bot application that integrates Elizas basic AI An AI psychiatrist that automatically responds to people

who talk to the BOT.

HGC System Home Guaranty Application Realty System - Thesis

June 2006

A complete reality system written from ground-up. The purpose is to improve the current manual information and

billing system of Home Guaranty Corporation by means of a Computerized Information and Billing System. The

system provides reliability and it also aims to minimize the time and effort being consumed in generating and

providing accurate and reliable reports.

The application consists of 9 ActiveX DLL, 11 ActiveX EXE, and the main application.

Features: Amortization Calculator, Mortgage Calculator, Administration Security, Database Archiving,

EventLoggers, Custom InfoTip control, 2D Mapping, Flash support for 3D house preview, Payer Assessment, Payer

Management, Reservation, Reporting using generated HTML to have more flexible formatting, Main Desktop stays

on the bottom of every window to act as the OS main shell, Help


ASP Classic Research & Development Here are the websites I made for this technology as well as ADO (Access Database Object) and Javascript

Chat

September 2005

A research about javascripts XMLHttpRequest. XMLHttpRequest is used to load a certain section of a website

without refreshing the entire page. In this research, the Chat page can dynamically load the chat panel and

connected users without refreshing the entire page to load the new chat or show a new connected user. AJAX was

introduced later that year.

ShoutBox

October 2005

Its a feedback or comment box service I made, more like Disqus but before leaving a comment or feedback was

even popular. It was originally made for my personal use but I thought of making it as a service and expanded the

feature like having a custom look by uploading a custom CSS or directly edit the CSS file on site. Its also has a

security feature to filter SQL queries and HTML tags.


Windows Mobile Research and Development I have started developing Windows Mobile applications back in 2011 starting from version 6 to 6.5.3 but most of

my applications are written for 6.5.3. Windows Mobile applications uses .NET Compact framework and codes are

written in C# using Visual Studio 2008. Here are some of my applications I made for this technology and mostly are

for customization. I also have code blogs about .NET Compact Framework

JSPA Program Manager

August 2009

Having too many installed applications can sometimes lead to a mess with all the application shortcuts are stored

in one folder. JSPA Program Manager helps you to organize the shortcuts and lets you create folder, move, copy,

delete, rename, add new shortcut, and finger friendly. Made for WM6, 6.1, and 6.5

Published in: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547618 and many other WM download site.

NETCFOpenFileDialog

August 2009

While developing the JSPA Program Manager, I also developed this reusable control to navigate in

folders and select files. This is a desktop equivalent of Open File Dialog shown on the 2nd picture.

NETCFFolderDialog

August 2009

Heres another control I wrote for JSPA Program Manager which is used to select folder. This is a

desktop equivalent of Folder Dialog component.

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015 IMAGE to Date

September 2009

A simple application with a useful feature. It renames all the JPG files selected with a user custom formatting. Date

and Time are based on EXIF data in the JPG file.

Published here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555607

JWMD Icon Changer

October 2009

One of my successful application and one of the most downloaded Windows Mobile application. This application

was specifically made for Windows Mobile 6.5 and what it mainly does is it can change the icon of the shortcut

link. It was a very popular application that almost all Windows Mobile users has it. Users can also save, load, and

share their theme, change animated bootup screen, sorting program lists, and register shortcuts.


JWMD Stuick A Windows Mobile 6.5 Start Menu Replacement.

May 2010

The start of Windows Phone era, this is a start menu replacement inspired from Windows Phone program list. It

features a quick jump on application name through dragging on a letter slider or tapping on a letter that will

bring up the Letter Pad. This application also uses alpha blending to draw a custom shape icon and kinetic

scrolling.


Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmqKJh5nccQ

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015 Neko for Windows Mobile 6.5

June 2010

Neko was originally developed for Macintosh then later ported in Windows 3.1 and with many other platforms.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_%28computer_program%29

This demonstrates PInvokes such as LayaredWindow and Cursor in Windows Mobile 6.5 to have a custom shape

form and detect touch locations. You can also customize animation, size, and change the character by importing a

custom sprite.


Sample vide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Poqqd5yVM

JWMD Wiba UI

March 2011

WibaUI is a custom user interface I made for Windows Mobile 6.5. The user interface was Windows Phone inspired

where you can have a start menu tiles which I call a Widget that can have a custom behavior depends on how it

was written., and a short cut tile for launching an application which shows a static image of the application icon.

You can also drag and drop the tiles on the screen, resize, or remove. You can install a widget plugin. I put

everything I know in Windows Mobile 6.5 in this custom user interface like alpha blending, IImagingFactory in

WindowsMobile 6.5, Registry, kinetic scrolling, activating a DLL in runtime, PInvokes in coredll.dll, and SQLite.

Project discontinued and moved on to Windows Phone.

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015 Gambit Surface ROM for HTC Fuze

December 2011

After much learning in Windows Mobile 6.5.x, My last research & development was to create my own custom ROM

for Windows Mobile. ROM Is the term used for the operating system in mobile devices. Based on Windows Mobile

6.5.1, my custom ROM has many interface customization, from boot up, to HTC Sense. It has a custom Weather UI,

Icons, Start Menu column, keyboard interface, and most of my application built for Windows Mobile are integrated

as well.


I also blog about Windows Mobile .NET Compact Framework development and codes

Link: http://jaysonsblog.azurewebsites.net/category/Windows-Mobile-Development


ASP.NET Research & Development projects Here are some of my ASP.NET Research & Development projects.

More projects are published in my blog site: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/category/Web-Development

Pilipinas Traffic Update

July 2012

With my own effort of understanding MMDA Traffic Metro Base data with bunch of numbers only without

documentation, I was able to crack and made a simplified and mobile version of their MMDA Traffic Navigator

http://mmdatraffic.interaksyon.com/system-view.php

Article link: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/Pilipinas-Traffic-Update

Working site: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/Applications/Pilipinastrafficupdate/index.html

Liit! A simple URL shortening service

January 2012

A small web application that shortens a URL.

Article link: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/So-Short!-is-now-known-as-Liit!

Working site: down

Spider Guard

July 2011

Is an online security that prevents your website from being crawled by unwanted spider/crawler/screen scrapper

(PARASITES!) that just eat your bandwidth and useless for your website ranks. Much more like the

projecthoneypot.org now

Article link: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/Spider-Guard

Working site: down


Windows Forms Applications and Research & Development Here are some of the Windows Forms applications I made in my free time as I am already working as full time

developer. Main programming language used is C#.

http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/category/Windows-Desktop-Development?page=1

EasyUpdater for .NET 4.0 and higher

August 2012

EasyUpdater is an application for .NET developers that allows their ,NET projects to have an auto update

functionality. Most of our application deployed requires to be updated whenever there are bugs, fixes, and new

features. EasyUpdater is a great way to help and easy to implement on your .NET projects.

Article link: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/EasyUpdaterforNET4

Codeline Counter

May 2012

This is another code line counter .net application which counts the lines of codes in the selected folder. It can

count the Total Lines, the actual line with codes, comments, and empty lines.

Article link: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/Code-Line-Counter

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015 Exposing class members from .NET to Visual Basic 6

May 2012

A freelancing project requires an application to be written in Visual Basic 6 implementing Picasa. It can be easily

done in .NET so what I did instead is wrote a class library in .NET then implemented it in VB6. But before I made

that happen, I made some tests on how to implement COM interface.

Article link: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/Exposing-class-members-from-NET-to-Visual-Basic-6

HAPTestbed

December 2011

Is a small tool used for testing XPath for HTML Agility Pack. I made this application when I was developing a spider

a multi spider that crawls on different online stores.

Multi RDP Client .NET

March 2009

This actually won the Best C# Article of the Month March 2009 at CodeProject.com. The application was initially

published at Codeplex.com and then CodeProject.com and instantly won.

Multi RDP Client .NET (formerly known as Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET) comes on handy when managing

your RDP connections. A simple and friendly user interface for you to work and navigate easily through tabbed RDP

remote window. Allows you to Import/Export .RDP files, disconnect all connection at one click and connect all your

servers at one click as well. You can also change the resolution while working, set the window into fullscreen

mode, and as well as enable window stretching and a lot more features!

Article link: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/33979/Multi-RDP-Client-NET


WPF Applications These are some of my applications I made for WPF while on my free time as I am already working as a full time

developer. Main programming language used here is C#.

To check some more of my WPF applications. Please visit my blog site

http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/category/WPF-Development

Windows 7 Logon Wallpaper Changer + Desktop Wallpaper Changer + Bing Images

October 2912

Background images are provided by Bing API.

Article link:

http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/Windows7LogonWallpaperChangerDesktopWallpaperChanger

Windows 8 System Power Shortcuts

June 2012

Windows 8 was released and the new Metro look was missing an important piece. An easier way to have an

access to Shutdown, Restart, Log-off. The System Power Shortcuts was made to look like a Metro application and

you can close the application by dragging the entire window from top to bottom of the screen. This application

was downloaded over 10,000 times (last checked Nov 2012) all around the world and it is still being downloaded

up to this date.

Article link: http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/post/Windows-8-System-Power-Shortcuts


Windows Phone Projects You can check my other projects related to Windows Phone development here

http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/category/Windows-Phone-Development

My published Windows Phone applications can be found here

https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/search?q=PinoyTouchtech

MultiWii Mobile Control

April 2015

Its primary use is for tuning the PID settings of the MultiWii Flight Controller for multicopter. It can as well control

the multicopter with its virtual joystick. The application is communicating to the MultiWii flight controller using

MSP (MultiWii Serial Protocol) through Bluetooth.

Published here: Unpublished and under development

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tptUuW6d01U

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015 LBC Track & Trace

May 2015

An unofficial Windows Phone application for the LBC forwarding service in the Philippines. This application lets

you track your package or remittance status with easy to use and minimalistic user interface.

Published here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/lbc-track-trace/9nblgggzjdd7

Then & Now

February 2014

Then & Now is an application that will help you make an image of a modern day scene overlapped by an old

photograph like the one you see on the screenshots.

Published here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/then-now/9nblggh07scc

PasswordRabbit

May 2013

PasswordRabbit provide you with a safe and secure place to keep all your confidential information. This application

typically stores all your information in a database, which can then only be opened if you know the master

password. PasswordRabbit can also create an encrypted file backup in your Skydrive account so whenever you lost

your phone, reset, or baught a new one, you always restore your accounts. The encrypted backup is using 256bit

AES encryption and re-encrypted again and again to make it harder to crack.

Published here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/passwordrabbit/9nblggh0k02n

Rsum Update: July 23, 2015 Strobe Light Art

August 2013

Strobe Light Art is an application for Windows Phone that you can use along with your DSLR or any camera that is

capable of setting the Exposure Time. The term Light Art is a form of visual art where main media of expression is

light. We have seen LED used to make an artistic way of displaying light art, and sometimes used with those

motorized spin board that displays some analog clock or messages. Along with those cool electronics stuff, I

present to you an application that can do the same.

Published here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/strobe-light-art/9nblggh07scb

Cam & Weather

August 2013

The application shows weather information in your area and you can choose the information layout by swiping,

left or right. You can as well draw while taking a picture to add more details and share the photo to your friends

and families.

Published here: https://dev.windows.com/dashboard/Apps/9NBLGGH07QTQ/


Windows Store App Projects You can check my other projects related to Windows Phone development here

http://jaysonragasa.azurewebsites.net/category/Windows-Metro-Development

Super Password Generator

May 2013

This generator uses Cryptographic Random Number Generator to make sure the password generated with the

given characters are unique and never gets duplicated. It can also generate QR code so you can scan it with any

device that supports QR Code decoding such as Windows Phone.

Published here: ms-windows-store:PDP?PFN=1167b422-5eae-4bdf-b8fc-c23a26316c13

Cam & Weather

A Windows Store App version of the Cam & Weather Windows Phone application.

Published here: Unpublished


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