Daniel Dickinson

Background

About Daniel Dickinson

Daniel Dickinson has been using and exploring computer and electronic technologies for over four decades while continuing to learn and update his skills. This has included recently obtaining his CompTIA A+ • ce Certification, cross-skilling on Microsoft’s Power Platform, re-learning Yocto (Linux), maintaining websites built using Hugo, getting up to speed with current OpenWrt, and working as the IT Manager / Integration Analyst at Ambient Activity. Daniel also maintained the Node.js package perfectionist-dfd on NPM and ensured his proficiency with modern Windows as well as various flavours of Linux (for desktop, server, and embedded systems). This is all layered on top of Daniel’s Bachelor of Computing from the University of Guelph. Computer code Daniel has written and other technical work is present in various open source and proprietar3 projects. He has also has many of his own repositories on GitHub under the username danielfdickinson as well as on Gitlab, also with the username danielfdickinson. Daniel also enjoys sharing his knowledge with others. This included being a critical member of a team of volunteers that created and implemented a successful robotics programme for kids 8-12 (eight to twelve) called Bots and Bytes (offsite PDF) at the Midland Public Library. In the same vein, Daniel volunteers with the Gateway Centre for Learning in Midland, Ontario. Daniel has also been serving as a board member for the Midland Public Library since appointed for this term of (Town of Midland) council. On a completely different note, Daniel occasionally volunteers at the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre for special events where he greets and processes admissions for guests. He hopes to be a Trail Ambassador at the Wye Marsh, but so has had too many other commitments to do so, to date. He believes it would be good for him, enjoyable, and be a service to the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre and its guests.