Shawn Baerwald

2 Westglen Cres
Spruce Grove, Alta
T7X 1W4, CA
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Employment Experience:

Quick-draw Inc	Web Programmer	04/2008 – Present	Edmonton, Alta.
	Classic ASP VBScript, JavaScript, HTML coding
	SQL 2005 development, programming
	Flash 5/8 AS2 coding

Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Corp	VB Migration programmer		10/2007 –
01/2008	Regina, Sask.	
	Migration of n-tier (3) application (SDE) from VB6 to VB 2005
	Use of NUnit for testing and NCover GUI to prove conceptual migration
and integrity. 
	Documentation (xml based) and testing vs original Proof of Concept
requirements

Government of Alberta – CHR	Contract Program Analyst	05/2007 – 07/2007
	Edmonton, AB.	
	Development of improved job search web interface using cfm, JavaScript
and css in a pseudo-AJAX interface. Designed to reduce server load and increase
search functionality.  http://www.chr.alberta.ca/jobs/Jobsearch.htm 
	Maintenance and enhancement of cfm, Access db’s and Delphi systems over
an eight week contract.
	Provided technical assistance and advice as requested.

Government of Saskatchewan	Web Application Developer / Program Analyst	03/2003 –
12/2006 	Regina, Sk	
	Development, maintenance and design of multiple government websites
within the gov.sk.ca domain using .NET 1.0/1.1/2.0, VB, C#, HTML, JavaScript,
Java, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Form Designer,  Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.
	Lead the design, development, implementation, maintenance and
integration of multiple MS SQL and Access databases for Windows applications and
web-based use.
	Cold Fusion site conversion to .net via BlueDragon; CFM coding.
	End user and internal staff technical web and application support and
problem analysis.
	Office application expert usage and integration – MS Office suite and
various other applications integration. 
	Procedure and instruction documentation 

Baer Designs	Website Design Consultant / Technical Consultant	3/1997 – Present
	Regina, Sk.	
	Design, redesign and/or maintenance of a variety of contracted website 
 incorporating streaming video, Flash and DHTML graphical effects,  database
interactivity, etc where appropriate, using whichever technology is appropriate
and required (asp, .net, ms sql, MySQL, JavaScript, etc.).
	Provision of training and manuals for self-maintenance of websites and
database interfaces where required.
	On-site Software/Hardware diagnostic and troubleshooting, Internet
Set-up, Troubleshooting and Training, System Clean-up and  performance tweaking,
Network Set Up and Troubleshooting

Education:
University of Regina	1995-1999
Bachelor Degree Program	Regina, Sk

Polar Bear Corporate Training	2004	SQL Server and ASP.NET certification	Regina,
Sk 
M2072 - Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database 
M2073 - Programming a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database
M2415 - Programming the Microsoft .NET Framework with Visual Basic .NET

Skills & Knowledge (relevent)
HTML 	13+ years
JavaScript (DHTML and AJAX included)	8+ years
CSS (cascading style sheets)
ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, VB	5+ years
ASP classic, Visual Basic (ver 6)
SQL 	5+ years
ColdFusion (.cfml)
XML	2+ years
Perl / CGI	2+ years
COM, COM+, DCOM	2+ year
MS SQL Server 2000 / 2005	4+ years
Oracle	1 year
Other (Progress, DB2, MySQL)	2 years

About Me
I started programming for the web in the late 1990’s and have extensive exposure
to most web technologies as they have developed and come into mainstream use. I
have always preferred text editors rather than WYSIWYG editors but am comfortable
creating designs for use with such editors as part of my consultation
(Dreamweaver and Visual Studio most prominently). 

As web technologies have developed, I have explored their individual
capabilities to achieve the desired results of my clients. My programming
knowledge is, with the exception of MS SQL Server programming and administration,
completely self instructed and I find I have a knack for rapidly picking up and
adapting to new logic structures and languages. 

I am very comfortable leading, or participating in, the entire development cycle
– from initial concept consultation to production release, documentation and
support.