Sean Jackson's Resume

Sean Jackson
Oakville, Ontario L6H5Z1 Canada

OBJECTIVE

To develop cutting edge applications, design new user experiences and create scalable solutions at an organization that allows me to explore new ideas, innovate and be creative.

SKILLS

I am a highly motivated and experienced web developer, layout/graphic designer and problem solver who loves to create unique, exciting user experiences, explore new ideas and build them to excellence. I have many years of formal experience in software development from desktop applications to large-scale web applications. I am also skilled at designing user interfaces and can build any and all aspects of a great product from start to finish. My passion and goals always revolve around learning new technology and building leading edge products.

Currently Specializing in XHTML, CSS, JavaScript including jQuery, Django/Python, Objective-C (CocoaTouch for iPhone Applications), Ruby on Rails, Photoshop and Illustrator. Past experience includes PHP, ASP, C# and Visual C++.

WORK EXPERIENCE
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April 2010 - Present Senior Web Developer / Designer	HiiDef Inc.	Aventura, FL - Telecommute
Responsible for mid to front-end design and development, scalability and maintenance of flavors.me in Python (Django), Javascript (jQuery, Raphael), HTML, CSS Lead development in social shopping site goodsie.com, a complete re-write of the codebase from php to python/django Involved in all aspects of scoping and technical design incubation for new product ideas Involved in creation of iPhone OS / iPad applications using Cocoa/Objective-C -
January, 2007 - April 2010 Senior Web Developer / Designer	Mahalo.com Inc.	Santa Monica, CA - Telecommute
One of the founding employees and senior software developer of this fast-paced human-curated search engine and knowledge exchange backed by Sequoia, Elon Musk (Paypal), Newscorp, CBS, Burda Media, Mark Cuban and headed by serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis Involved in all aspects of front-end design and implementation, MySql database, middleware and site optimizations for Mahalo.com, Mahalo Answers and Mahalo Social. Working extensively with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, LAMP, Squid, Memcached, Mediawiki (PHP), and Python (Django) With the team, achieved and implemented a scalable design ready for high traffic growth, building up the site to 15 million unique visitors per month -
June 1996 - January 2007 Lead UI Designer/Developer	Genesys Conferencing Inc.	Mississauga, Ontario
Conceptualized, developed and maintained a large-scale web conferencing application and conference scheduling/management site for a web and teleconferencing leader. Working extensively with XHTML, CSS, ASP, JavaScript, J2EE/Java/Struts. Managed and developed an 18 month project to convert a Java based conferencing moderation applet into Ajax solution for clients Also headed the professional services team involved in the implementation of customer feature requests and branding customizations for large clients -
December 1994 - June 1996 Software Developer	Gold Disk Inc. / Astound Inc.	Mississauga, Ontario
Part of the team that brought the world Video Director, a video editing software suite that won two Top 10 software of the year awards from PC Magazine in 1995 and 1996. I was also a developer of Astound Presentation, a multimedia presentation package and competitor to Microsoft Powerpoint. Worked extensively in Visual C++/MFC with some work in Visual Basic. Played a large part in transitioning the company to internet technologies, creating the commercial website, corporate intranet and one of the first push technology products called Astound Enterprise. -
March 2006 - April 2007 Co-Founder / Lead Designer and Developer	Popcurrent.com
Co-founded this social media website for rating popular online music, books and videos which became popular amongst musicians in the Los Angeles area Conceptualized, developed and maintained the Ruby on Rails web application, including all site design, XHTML, CSS, graphics design, JavaScript and mySQL database integration -
March 2005 - January 2006 Software Developer	Thunderstone Media LLC
Contracted to create iPodderX for Windows, the first popular shareware podcatcher application for Podcasts, using a common framework written in Python and C# for the windows application and user interface -

EDUCATION
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1989 - 1992	The Toronto School of Business	Toronto, Ontario
Honours Diploma Systems Analysis and Computer Programming -
1988 - 1989	Trebas Institute of Recording	Toronto, Ontario
Certicifcation Sound Engineering -