Shawn South

Auburn, WA 98092
shawn@codemastershawn.com

Currently enrolled in Internet Application Development degree program at Bellevue Community College. (See EDUCATION section below.)

Web, database and e-commerce development for various third-parties.

Skills Used: E-commerce. 3-tier web application development. Remote server administration. Technical support. Documentation. Web server administration. Database server administration. PHP. Perl. CGI. HTML. CSS. Javascript. DHTML. MySQL. Apache. OOP. Remote account security and maintenance. Direct communication with clients through all phases of development.

Unplugged Northwest, (contracted through Volt Computer Services)
Seattle, WA 98103
Supervisor: Kent Forschmiedt

• Increased productivity and communication between departments by establishing and maintaining an intranet web site for the dissemination of current pricing, sale packages and customer alerts.
• Decreased sales entry errors by providing standardized intranet sales terminal for staff use.
• Improved usability of newly acquired customer account system by writing and distributing user-, administrator- and system administrator-level documentation.
• Increased reliability and security by establishing various backup and fall-back strategies throughout the company.

Skills Used: E-commerce. Server administration (both web & database). IIS 5. Apache. Perl (Linux & Windows). PHP (Linux & Windows). ASP. OOP. MySQL. Network administration (TCP/IP). Firewall configuration. VPN. SSH. HTML. CSS. DHTML. Debugging. Documentation (incl. Man pages). Makefiles. Configuring & maintaining CVS (version control) repositories. Installing & maintaining data center servers. RAID.

Isomedia, Inc.
Redmond, WA 98052
Supervisor: Matthew Bailey

• Improved productivity of sales and support staff by developing and maintaining a web-based front-end for in-house contact management application.
• Reduced project delivery and installation support times by extending and shipping public domain installer.
• Improved internal code reusability by establishing and maintaining a code library of commonly needed classes and components.

Skills Used: Visual Basic. Microsoft SQL Server. ASP. PHP. Visual C++. MFC. COM. ADO. DAO. ODBC. OOP. Visual InterDev. Visual Studio. MSI. IIS. Cold Fusion. Perl. Linux. MySQL. Interbase. HTML. CSS. DHTML. Javascript. VBScript. VBA. Debugging. Windows registry. Documentation. Help files. Version control (VSS). Direct communication with clients through all phases of development.

Humongous Entertainment, Inc. (now Infogrames Kids)
Bothell, WA 98021
Supervisor: Chris Wilson

• Streamlined the management and retrieval of game sound effects by developing, delivering and supporting application to browse sound file repository.
• Reduced system-level bugs and added UI functionality to core game framework code.
• Improved productivity of other programmers by providing code editor configuration enhancements (via plug-ins and macros), support and tips.
• Established and moderated in-house bulletin board where developers could share ideas and advice.

Skills Used: Windows API. Visual Basic. Visual C++. Windows registry. OOP. Debugging. Windows configuration & troubleshooting. In-house script language (SCUMM). Graphics, animation and video manipulation. Sound recording and manipulation.

Practiputing, Inc.
Puyallup, WA 98373
Supervisor: Melody Plett

• Facilitated dissemination of information to clients by establishing and maintaining company website.
• Improved customer support time by researching and delivering remote control support solution.
• Extended product functionality by developing additional applications for interacting with application data.

Skills Used: QuickBasic 4.5. Visual Basic 2.0. OOP. Debugging. HTML. Network installation, configuration & troubleshooting (LANtastic). Serial data communications. Windows configuration & troubleshooting. Hardware installation, troubleshooting & repair. Customer support. On-site support.

Ballard Computer, Tacoma (Out of Business)
Tacoma, WA 98409
Supervisor: J. Jack Stevens (last known to be at Microsoft)

• Installed and configured new computers for sale. Diagnosed and corrected hardware and software problems for customers. Kept demonstration models on the sales floor functioning properly.

Skills Used: Software installation, configuration and troubleshooting. Hardware installation, configuration and troubleshooting. Windows configuration.

HHC, 81st BDE (M)
Washington Army National Guard
Supervisor: SGT Mark Mayhew

• Took ownership of radio communications for Intel Section of the Headquarters.
• Took ownership of computer set up, transport and maintenance for the Section.
• Prepared and participated in briefings given to various high ranking officers and their staff.

Skills Used: Research. Data analysis. Communication. Presentations. Dissemination of information. Training new transferees.

Emphasis on developing web applications, the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, Java, JSP, XML, XSLT, Javascript and graphic design.

• Regularly mentor other students, including the establishment of an additional weekly lecture for those who are struggling.
• Dean's List.

A customizable CD-ROM photo album application. Packaged as a complete authoring kit for businesses to create CD photo albums for their customers. Mature.

A robust, easy to use ToDo List manager. Original design in Visual Basic - currently being rewritten in C#. Under development.

• Blue's Clues: Blue's Birthday Adventure
• Blue's Clues: Blue's 123 Time Activities
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Treasure Hunt (A Learning Adventure)
• Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat, From Your Head To Your Feet
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Reading Time Activities
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Art Time Activities

• http://www.codemastershawn.com