Amar Jasarbasic

Amar Jasarbasic

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Experience

  • Clasp Graphic

    Clasp

    New York, United States

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    New York, United States

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    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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    Vancouver, Canada Area

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    Ottawa, Canada Area

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    Montreal, Canada Area

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    Ottawa, Canada Area

Education

  • University of Ottawa Graphic

    University of Ottawa

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    Teaching Assistant - ITI1520, SEG2900 (2019, 2020)

    University of Ottawa Men's Waterpolo Team

    IEEE Executive and organizer of the uOttaHack hackathon.

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Licenses & Certifications

  • PADI Advanced Open Water Certification (Scuba Diving) Graphic

    PADI Advanced Open Water Certification (Scuba Diving)

    PADI

    Issued

Volunteer Experience

  • University of Ottawa Graphic

    Chair of the Engineering Endowment Fund

    University of Ottawa

    - 1 year 1 month

    Managed a $110,000 fund for student entrepreneurship initiatives, design competitions, and student conferences. I review student proposals and pitches throughout the year to determine funding allocation.

    More information about applying for funding can be found here: https://engineering.uottawa.ca/entrepreneurship/funding

  • uOttaHack Graphic

    Director of Finance

    uOttaHack

    - Present 5 years 2 months

  • uOttaHack Graphic

    Director of Sponsorship

    uOttaHack

    - 2 years 1 month

    Founding member of uOttaHack.

  • IEEE University of Ottawa Student Branch Graphic

    Vice Chair

    IEEE University of Ottawa Student Branch

    - Present 7 years

    Science and Technology

    Re-elected for a second term.

  • Ottawa Robotics Competition | Compétition de robotique d'Ottawa Graphic

    Head of Lego Robotics Division

    Ottawa Robotics Competition | Compétition de robotique d'Ottawa

    - Present 7 years 10 months

    Science and Technology

    -Supervised six volunteers and determined the team's tasks for this
    year's upcoming competition
    -Coordinated and led team meetings
    -Communicated in a professional manner by email with supervisors,
    volunteers, and participants

  • IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition | Compétition de robotique d'Ottawa d'IEEE Graphic

    R&D Team and Jugde

    IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition | Compétition de robotique d'Ottawa d'IEEE

    - 1 year

    Science and Technology

    Monitored and graded the design, execution and written reports of Lego NXT
    robot teams.

  • IEEE Communications Society Graphic

    Volunteer at IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC)

    IEEE Communications Society

    - 3 months

    Science and Technology

    Youngest volunteer at IEEE International Conference on Communication.

Projects

  • Talentboard

    - Present

    Talentboard is an applicant tracking tool for HR and hiring managers. Talentboard's simple drag & drop interface introduces a unique visual approach to managing applicants throughout the hiring process.

    See project

  • Kaptur

    - Present

    Kaptur uses machine learning to identify logos present in social media images

    I trained a convolution neural network on a data set with 27 different logo classes.

    I Applied data augmentation techniques (flips, random crops, color jittering and lighting noise) in order to turn a 810 image data set into 200,000 training images.

    See project

  • Graph-Cut

    - Present

    GraphCut extracts the foreground of an image using graph theory.

    I implemented Boykov-Kolmogorov's Min-Cut/Max-Flow algorithm in order to segment foreground pixels from background pixels in an image.

    See project

  • Uzer

    - Present

    Uzer allows home and business owners to participate in today's global shared economy by selling and maximizing the utility of their Wi-Fi. Becoming a Uzer provider is easy. Simply click “Unlock my network” and the Uzer app transforms your home Wi-Fi into a virtual hotspot.

    Other creators
    See project

  • Firesell.ca

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    See project

Honors & Awards

  • 1st Place Startup Weekend uOttawa 2018

    Techstars and the University of Ottawa

    Our team won first place for our startup idea Standup that brings scrum style stand-up meetings to mental healthcare professionals and their clients.

  • 1st Place at University of Ottawa Software Engineering Startup Pitch Competition

    University of Ottawa

    Uzer app (www.uzer.ca) was judged by a panel of three startup CEOs from the L-SPARK accelerator program (www.l-spark.com).

  • Deloitte Changemaker Scholarship (Value $3000)

    Deloitte Canada

    This scholarship is awarded to students who have demonstrated consistent and outstanding dedication to citizenship, solving community problems and involvement in the local community through volunteering. Seven one time scholarships, valued at $3,000 each, are given out across Canada.

  • Academic Awards

    Lisgar Collegiate Institute

    Honour Roll (2013, 2014, 2015)
    Ontario Scholar Award (2016)

  • University of Ottawa admission scholarship (annual value of $3000)

    University of Ottawa

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

  • Bosnian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

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