Fred Walter is an expert software developer with extensive experience in developing and maintaining portable software for Windows and Linux/UNIX/POSIX. With expertise in using Agile development methodology and SCRUM, Fred has developed and released commercial software products and worked on integration/migration products, both client-side and server-side. Fred has a superb attention to detail, works well under pressure, and is an excellent creative problem solver. Fred is committed to software quality and performance, and a firm believer in automated testing.

Fred has additional experience in Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, ant, Swing, PowerShell, Bash/Kornshell, SQL, Awk, Perl, python, sockets, PDF, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSD, ESB, JDBC, JBI, InstallAnywhere, web services, version control systems, user interface design, MATLAB, Sparx EA, Ubuntu+Red Hat Linux, Unicode, the GNU toolchain (ar, as, gcc/cc, ld, make, nm, strings, strip, etc).

Fred holds a MMath in Applied Math (Scientific Computation) and a BMath in Joint Honours Applied Math and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

Fred has worked as a Software Development Engineer at McAfee, Consultant - C++ Software Developer at 2390088 ONTARIO INC., Senior Software Developer at Walter Farm, and Senior Software Development Engineer, Technical Fellow at PTC Inc, formerly MKS Inc, formerly Mortice Kern Systems Inc. Fred has also worked as a Part-time Software Developer at the University of Waterloo and a Co-op Software Developer at the Canadian Federal Government.