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Charlie Younghusband

Looks like you've had the luck to trip over my online presence.

I'm currently working at a place called Xiphos Technologies in Montreal. Very, very cool stuff. I love it. I work on networking technologies for interesting problems involving networks and space technologies. I'm leading work and commercialization of a technololgy called XipLink.

I'm a graduate of electrical engineering at Carleton University. I did a minor in business.

I like living both in urban and nature. This leads me to live in downtown Montreal but make it to the cottage as often as I can.

I enjoy a variety of sports, and am generally midly competent at any sport found in North America. Mostly I stick to hockey, skiing, tennis and swimming.

Then there is the travel. I like to travel. Africa and South America are still on the list.

About me

I'm not a morning person. I do enjoy late night movies. I'm sure there is no connection. My friend Andy behaves similarily. He once described it as 'activity momentum'. I think that's probably really accurate. Once I get on a roll, working, sleeping, whatever, I just keep going.

I like all kinds of music, except most country.

In the summer, the saying 'I thought I wanted a career,
turns out all I wanted was the paychecks' is too true.

I have a lot of opinions, all of them the exactly the right ones. Just ask me.

I enjoy my work. I think I'd be really bad at any job that I don't like. A favorite quote
of mine is by Abraham Lincoln; "Whatever you are, be a good one."

Taxes in Quebec really really bite.

"Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Bright minds discuss ideas." That's not a rule,
but I find it interesting to think about. Conversations about ideas leave you with the most at the end of it.

I dislike advanced calculus. Strongly. I thought I was pretty good at math
until I got to eletrical engineering calculus and I learned otherwise.

I love networks. I play with TCP/IP a lot.

From my employment past:

I was the director of Virtual Ventures Summer Camp at Carleton University. A very cool summer camp for high school students, with loads of very interesting topics, such as cyberspace, VR, Multimedia & robotics. It is quite satisfying now to look back at what Virtual Ventures has grown to -- it's just huge now, and having aa real impact on a lot of people and the future.That's a shot of Bill Gates, myself and John Manley, Minister of Industry.My 5 minutes of fame. Heh.
I used to maintain the IEEE Student Branch of Carleton University's Web Site.
I was also a First Aid Ski Patrol at Camp Fortune, in Chelsea, Quebec for five years. I got paid to ski. Can't beat it. Just no one get hurt.
I worked OmniMark Technologies for a summer. Since swallowed up.
I also worked at a department of DND called CALS.
Other past flings were an outdoor rink attendant, gas jockey (er, liquid petroleum transfer engineer) for 2 years, a Quickie, a lifeguard and way back when I was 14 or so I worked at a hockey arena snack bar.

ERTW.

Check out my fourth year project, in pdf or Word.

My views on religions.

One of the best all time hacks.

B-Bye!

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This page was last dealt with on June 1st, 2004
Wanna be critical? Try me. I can also be found on MSN most of the time at charliewy@hotmail.com.