Hello there!
The chief threads running through my career as a web developer are intellectual curiosity, agility, leadership (combined with a capacity for effective teamwork), professionalism and innovative flair.
From the beginning, it was clear where my vocation lay. While still in high school I won the ACTE (Alabama Council for Technology in Education) programming competition in 2001 and placed first in the Alabama State University (ASU) Computer Olympiad programming competition in 2002.
Since then, I have enjoyed a varied career, greatly expanding my technical and leadership skills along the way. I have successfully developed a wide range of web applications for numerous clients, including government agencies, private organizations and companies, throughout the country, as well as being involved in a large number of freelance and non-commercial projects.
In 2002, I created two new types of Ajax: one that can run in almost any browser, including WebTV and even Netscape 3.0 Gold (quite a feat), as well as another which uses Flash as a bridge to maintain a constant connection, eliminating polling that is usually associated with Ajax and providing instant communication between the client and server.
During my time at Advanced Computer Technologies (January 2004 – July 2006), I was involved in a number of professionally rewarding projects. I was the lead in creating a large site for The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, a web application that collected client data by either parsing it from a text file (supplied by the parent organization) or from manual entry into web forms.
For Alabama State law enforcement, I re-wrote an online database, The Law Enforcement Tactical System. I implemented an advanced real time natural language search engine, you could type "I am looking for a white male, dob: 8/4/83" and it would fully parse it using client and server regular expressions, and query all of the relevant State's DMV and criminal databases via SOAP web services.
This resulted in an integrated justice information system that unified the state of Alabama's vast data resources.
LETS was the subject of a Microsoft case study.
Last year was an especially busy one for me. I was project leader in the development of a shopping mall site for Hawaiian Miles cardholders, as well as the lead developer for complex loyalty web applications for Kroger/Fred Myers and for the CITI Rewards (Thank You Network) loyalty website. In addition, I assisted with the front-end development for Piedmont, Alabama’s municipal court website, which is case-based and helps keep track of traffic tickets, warrants, etc. I also developed a probate document search engine for the State of Maine called MaineProbate.net. This enables users to search wedding licenses and other documents using a flash interface; one can fully view the document in the lightweight PNG format, which is dynamically converted from the large, high-quality archival TIFF format.
My work has garnered increasing recognition in recent years. For example, I was called upon to judge the ACTE programming and ASU Computer Olympiad programming competitions, in 2005 and 2006, respectively. I am proud of the professional respect I have received and I look forward to fresh challenges. My goal is to continue providing innovative web applications and technologies for both private and public sector entities everywhere.
Please feel free to contact me at James@JamesWilson.name.
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Won first place in ACTE (Alabama Council for Technology in Education) programming competition, 2001.
Judged ACTE programming competition, 2005.
