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About
Welcome to Addy Cameron-Huff's web development portfolio site. Contact Info
Past Jobs2009: Metranome Inc I developed a user recommendation system for videos that implemented collaborative filtering algorithms in SQL. This was a Waterloo, ON startup created by early RIM employees. I also did iOS development and Facebook app work.
2008: Nader for President I worked in the Washington, D.C. office for Ralph Nader's 2008 Presidential campaign. I created a fundraising platform that was credited with tripling online donations. I also made a map that showed in near real-time the signature counts of the campaign's petition drives [See Project]. Other work I did there includes Twitter API app development, CMS work, IT, designing T-shirts and the dozens of small things that running a national campaign requires. |
Hackathons WonI've won four programming competitions that required building a web service from scratch in 24 hours:
2010: PayPal X Innovate Conference
2010: TechCrunch Disrupt NYC
2009: Yahoo! HackU, International Finals
2008: Yahoo! HackU, Waterloo Regional
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Businesses Started
2014-2015: Congresser.com
2012-2015: OntarioMonitor.ca
2013-2015: FlatLaw.ca
2013-2015: FederalMonitor.ca
2013-2015: AlbertaMonitor.ca
2009: CampaignPhone.com
2005: ParentInterview.com
Side Projects
2013: VoiceLinked.com
2012: ItWillGetCheaper.com
2010: TweetDonate.org
2008: Noter.ca
2006: GreenAdNetwork.com
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Contract WorkTypical tools: PHP, MySQL, JS, mapping, social media/RSS & Wordpress.
2014-2015: CVCA.ca
2013-2015: NACOCanada.com
2010-2014: Loblaws Marketing Portal I maintained the across-Canada online customer satisfaction data portal for a major Canadian grocery store chain.
2009-2012: FreeAndEqual.org
2012: ArthurCockfield.com
2012: TaxPayersUnited.org I made a tool for US lobbyists for the public to browse state pension data. (offline)
2008-2012: CorporateKnights.ca
2010: GreatGreenDirectory.ca
2010: Storeyy.com
2008-2010: UrbanFluteProject.com
2008: Nader for President [See the Project] I made a tool for the campaign website that showed the location and signature counts of petitioners. Petitioners sent in their information via text message.
2008: OrderDesq.com
2006-2010: CSRWire.ca
2006-2008: HuffStrategy.com/MediaManager
2009: District-by-District I created a social networking site for US political campaigns for a group formed out of Nader's Presidential campaign. 2005-2010: Many small business sites
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Near real-time keyword-based alerts for US Congress and Whitehouse. Paid subscription service.
Like Google News but for the Government of Ontario. Paid subscription service.
A marketplace for legal services provided at flat rate prices.
A CRTC release monitoring service. Currently in alpha testing phase.
Keyword-based monitoring of the Government of Alberta.
An iPhone app for political campaigns. Signed up candidates for California Secretary of State and Toronto Mayor. (defunct)
An online parent-teacher interview scheduling service started in high school. Now used by 20,000+ parents per year. Built with a partner. (I'm no longer actively involved)
A voice recognition system for phoning your LinkedIn contacts. Built with a partner.
A price watching program that allows users to get an alert when an online store reduces a good's price. Built with a partner.
I was a finalist in the PayPal X Innovate developer challenge with this Twitter donation platform.
An ad network for environment-oriented websites. Technology built but never got off the ground.
I created the membership system, e-commerce payment system and developed a Wordpress-based platform for the Canadian Venture Capital Association. This was a complete overhaul of their online systems.
I've maintained and built features for the National Angel Capital Organization's website.
I made the website for an American political lobby group.
Site for my former law professor at Queen's University.
I did development and maintenance work for the world's largest sustainable business magazine.
I built an online directory/map of Ontario's green businesses and service providers.
I built a demo version of a Toronto architecture/history site.
I created the website for Toronto musician/artist Jamie Thompson.
I built a beta version of a construction order bidding system.
I created this and approximately 25 other syndicated wire services for Environmental Communication Options.
I developed a press release management system and connected it to Google News.
Selected Projects
Sale Alerts | AngelHack Toronto | 2012
The Problem
Sometimes people don't need a product immediately and would rather buy it when it gets cheaper.
The Solution
Together with John Piasetzki, we created a website that monitors the prices of products. Users enter a URL for a product page with any online retailer and the program determines where the price is on the page and then monitors that for a decrease. When there's a decrease in the price the user gets an email.
This service was developed in 24 hours for AngelHack Toronto.
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Donation Platform | PayPal Developer Challenge | 2010
Features:
- Sending money by PayPal via Twitter
- Donations prompt account creation
- Twitter search monitoring application for "TweetDonate" keyword
- Choice of currency
- YQL for parsing Twitter search results
- Automatic interaction with users (who aren't followers)
Won PayPal X Innovate Conference Hack-a-Thon | 2010 (San Francisco)
This was a modified version of the TweetDonate engine that was changed to work with PayPal's API documentation.
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Geocoding/Demographics | TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day | 2010 (NYC)
Features:
- Searching all of Twitter's geocoded tweets using novel method
- One of three winners, and presented at conference to thousands (live and streamed)
- Distributes processing load across multiple servers
- Converts lat/long into aggregate statistical information
- US Census Bureau, Zillow and other data sources
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Mapping Application | Environmental/Business | 2010
Features:
- Businesses, organizations and government
- Product search
- Cookie-based "data sheet" for user's to print out
- Maps generated on the fly for previewing location
- User voting
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Web Application | Yahoo! Programming Competitions | 2008 (Waterloo) and 2009 (NYC)
InsiderTrades.org - 2009 Winner of the North American Yahoo! Open Hack NYC 2009:
- Built parser for SEC data
- Real-time (<10 secs) alerts for SEC insider trading forms
- YQL open tables
- Email alerts
- 1st Place
HackDemocracy - 2008 Winner of Yahoo! HackU Waterloo 2008:
- Database of all speeches made in Parliament orgranized by MP and party
- Search for words spoken in Parliament
- Search for words spoken by your MP
- Built parser for Hansard record
- 1st Place
Googledocs to Google Map | US Presidential Campaign | 2008 (Washington, D.C.)
The Problem
The campaign maintained a series of large spreadsheets updated by teams of people around the US. The spreadsheets had a variety of different people, offices and coordinators with contact information for each. The campaign wanted to let the public find out who to contact in a way that could be maintained despite rapid changes.
The Solution
I developed a program to automatically download the data from the spreadsheets using the Google Docs API, check appropriate values and then convert the data to a map. The map is a Google Maps map that has javascript filters and clicking on the items results in more information about that person.
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Press Release Platform | PR and Media Strategy | 2006-2008 (Toronto)
Features:
- Google news listing
- Postings listed in <15 minutes
- Sophisticated statistics
- Can monitor when government offices visit
- 2.8 million page views annually
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SMS/Google Maps | Political Campaign | 2008 (Washington, D.C.)
Features:
- Field staff text message in signature counts and location
- No need for laptops with Aircards or internet cafes
- Supporters can monitor progress in real-time
- Twitter and Google Maps are free to use
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Note-taking and Collaboration Application | Student Tools | 2008 (Waterloo)
Features:
- Autosaves notes via AJAX - no data loss
- Automatic tagging and organizing using Yahoo
- RSS feed of notes for users and classes
- Class note sets
- 6000+ courses availables