Shawn Charles Lander's Resume

SHAWN CHARLES LANDER
3930 N.W. 35th Place * Gainesville, FL 32606 * Work: (352) 392-9217 * Home: (352) 377-0482
E-Mail: shawn@eng.ufl.edu * Home Page: http://www.eng.ufl.edu/~shawn/shawn.html

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences (Dec., 1994)
Highlights: GPA 3.3/3.3. Minor in Criminal Justice. Golden Key National Honor Society. Worked between 15 and 20 hours per week while attending as a full-time student.
RABAT AMERICAN SCHOOL
High School Diploma (May 1989)
Highlights: Valedictorian. Varsity Basketball Team (1987-88, 1988-89), Co-Captain (1988-89). National Honor Society.

WORK EXPERIENCE

MERIDIAN GRAPHICS
WWW Consultant, August 1995--Present
Designed and created various World-Wide-Web homepages.
M I S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Systems/Computer Programmer/Analyst, June 1995--Present
Aided in the day to day operations of computer facilities of the University of Florida's College of Engineering. Aided in the administration of the College of Engineering network. Responsible for upgrades and maintenance of computer systems. Developed the College of Engineering WWW home page. Developed database applications for the use of the College of Engineering administration and MIS.
CENTER FOR INSTRUCTIONAL AND RESEARCH COMPUTING ACTIVITIES
World-Wide Web and Gopher Assistant Administrator, June 1994--June 1995
Created and maintained the CIRCA and Computing and Networking at UF home pages for the World-Wide Web. Maintained the CIRCA Gopher hole. Added and updated information on both information systems as needed.

Student Consultant, Oct. 1989--June 1995
Aided students, faculty and staff of the University of Florida in solving a variety of computer-related problems. Established relationships with computer hardware and software vendors to acquire purchasing information for the University. Maintained computer hardware and software products for demonstration.

SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows (Win 3.1, WFW, Win95, Win NT), Novell Netware, UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, Linux, AIX), VAX/VMS, OS/2, CMS, Macintosh System Software, NeXTStep.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C, C++, PERL, HTML, Pascal, Basic, Visual Basic, COBOL, DOS Batch, Java, CGI

PROBLEM SOLVING: Worked for five years as a Student Consultant at the University of Florida Computing Help Desk solving computer related problems for clients about a variety of subjects, including: programming, disk/file recovery, Internet, dial-up, network accounts, software and hardware configuration, operating systems, etc.

THE INTERNET Familiar with the use and administration of various Internet and On-Line computing services. Including, but not limited to: e-mail, FTP, HTTP, gopher, usenet, listservs.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: Lived in Saudi Arabia for three years and Morocco for two years. Traveled the European, African, and Middle Eastern countries, experiencing their language and culture.

PROFICIENT IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: Passed the Florida Registry for Interpreters for the Deaf (FRID) written test and will take the performance test in the future to obtain FRID QA certification. Have been interpreting for the Rock Church of Gainesville for two years

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Deaf Ministry Interpreter at The Rock Church of Gainesville, Florida (1994--Present).
Golden Key National Honor Society (1989--Present).
High School Valedictorian (1989).
Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouts of America (1989).
President of Explorer Chapter of Rabat Morocco (1988-1989).
REFERENCES

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