Jack W. Ward III
Carrboro, NC **510
*****@*******.***
http://www.ibiblio.org/yugen
School of Information and Library Science -- UNC Chapel Hill
EDUCATION
MS Information Science - Expected May 2006
Currently Enrolled
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Mathematics - May 2000
Applications Designer
WORK
www.ibiblio.org (August 2004 - Present)
EXPERIENCE
Design and implementation of web applications.
Provide contributor support and basic systems administration.
Audio/Video editing, encoding, and streaming.
Research, development, and execution of new technologies and applications including RSS, Podcasting, Blogging
software and Bittorrent.
Web Developer
Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (September 2002 - August 2004)
Development and support of internet applications for library staff and public using PHP, MySQL, PERL, JavaScript,
XML and HTML.
Investigation and application of new technologies.
Beginning html, css, php instruction for library staff.
Documentation of library web architecture for library staff.
Library Assistant
Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (December 2000 - September 2002)
Development and support of web and database applications including HTML, XML, MySQL and PHP for Nonprint
Materials Collection and The FilmFinder.
Supervision of Nonprint operations and development of student projects.
Catalogue acquisitions and maintenance of Nonprint media collection.
Workflow analysis and streamlining.
Events Programmer
FREELANCE
Signal: Southeast Electronic Music Festival (October 2005 - Present)
EXPERIENCE
Booking of venues and performers.
Management of events.
Co-founder of SignalFest & parent company Ctrl+Alt+Del LLC
Consultant
Red Eye Distrobutions/Yep Roc Records (October 2004 - March 2005)
Development of RSS feed generator (http://www.yeproc.com/rss/yep_roc_feed.xml).
Contractor
Isoph (June 2005 - December 2005)
Flash development including action scripting.
Digital image creation and manipulation with Adobe Photoshop.
Osprey Document Management and Distribution System (Interaction programming, User Interface Design,
SITE
User Facing Functionality)
PORTFOLIO [http://torrent.ibiblio.org]
NASA's Center for Distance Learning (Dynamic Content, Database Interface)
[http://nasa.ibiblio.org]
Media Resources Center LinguaSearch
[http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/lingua_search/]
Media Resources Center FilmFinder
[http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/films/film_search.php]
UNC Library Intranet(Screen Shot)
[http://www.ibiblio.org/yugen/career/lib-intranet.png]
Roger McGuinn's Folkden (Wordpress Installation, maintenance and support)
[http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/]
Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Design, Systems Analysis, Information Retrieval, Programming for the
COURSE
World Wide Web (PERL, java), Web Database Applications (ASP, Cold Fusion, PHP, SQL)
WORK
PHP, Javascript, PERL, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML, XML, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe ImageReady,
SKILLS
Java, Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Office.
User based design, user needs analysis, specifications development, interviewing, conducting research, analytical and
interpretive thinking, problem solving.
Available upon request.
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