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Mon nom est trés long, mais en général on m'appelle Innocent Watat. Je suis originaire du Cameroun, un pays d'Afrique centrale, et je suis ingénieur informatique. J'ai commencé ma carriére professionnelle en travaillant pendant environ six ans pour Soft-Tech International, une compagnie établie à Washington, et j'ai voyagé dans le monde entier.
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I have a very long name, but I usually go by Innocent Watat. I am originally from Cameroon, which is a country in central Africa, and I am a computer science engineer. I started my professional career working for a Washington-based company called Soft-Tech International for about six years, travelling the world. And then I came to Canada for two missions in Vancouver, particularly working for a Vancouver based company called Prologic and that after that long stay in Vancouver I decided to settle in Canada and in Toronto. I actually own a master's degree in computer science engineering. I have a daughter, I am not married yet but I am planning to get married soon. I work as a senior research engineer for a leading bank in Canada. And previously I worked as an engineer also for a leading telecommunications company in Canada. I have been in Canada for a little bit more than 10 years now, exactly since the 1st of September 1999. I first consulted, getting a job which I did, I worked for two years before I decided to apply for my licence. I quickly realised that as a computer science engineer the Professional Engineers of Ontario didn't like us very much, us computer science engineers. I filed for my papers and they told me that in order to move forward, I needed to have an interview, which was fine. The interviewer in the panel wasn't from my field. There were electrical engineers and others, so we were talking two different languages. When I was talking about computer stuff they were looking at it in a different perspective. So it didn't go quite well. And quite frankly I just put it on hold and I don't even want to think about it, because I have quickly realised that as a computer science engineer you really do not need that licence. I have been working for 10 years, and I don't need that licence, and I have never been asked to have that licence, so I wondered even why I was struggling to have that licence.
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