James R. Gerland Jr.
Experienced Internet Developer
e-mail: jay@theblackdog.org
Buffalo, NY

Objective

 

Skills Summary

 

Employment History

Programmer/Analyst

November 1999 ~ Present
Synacor, Inc.  
Buffalo, NY 14203  

Currently positioned as a GUI Programmer Level II, I am responsible for creating front-end interfaces for web-based, database driven Internet systems for the provisioning of e-communication products such as portals, email and calendaring. I came to Synacor (formerly Chek.com) as their first official Webmaster in charge of developing and maintaining their online presence. This included their corporate site as well as their intranet and marketing/promotion sites. As time went on, the focus of the company changed several times and the websites took a back seat to the products and I was moved into a programmer’s position working with PHP and MySQL to help develop their current product line.

Webmaster

June 1997 ~ November 1999
Canisius College

 
Buffalo, NY 14208

 

Employed as the very first Webmaster for Canisius College, I was responsible for organizing a very large site that encompassed every department of the school. It was my charge to take over the entire website from several different employees and departments to bring together a cohesive site that was rich in up-to-date information as well as improving the Admissions and Alumni sections which were very important to the college. I also performed extensive Internet training in either one-on-one to entire department situations as well as taught classes in HTML design each semester. I sat as co-chair of the college’s Academic Computing Advisory Committee as well as created the first online newsletter for the staff of Canisius College called the NetGazette.

Systems Administrator/Web Page Author

July 1995 ~ June 1997
Edge Marketing, Inc.                                       
Buffalo, NY 14203  

My primary duties included the design and maintenance of more that 80 award winning Internet Web Sites as well as teaching computer and Internet introductory courses around Western New York. My other duties included the upkeep and maintenance of more than 30 PC’s, 1 NT 3.51 Server, 2 NT 4.0 Servers and 2 Web Servers. This included all of the necessary hardware and software as well as the office phone systems and maintenance of the LAN and WAN Networks. I was involved in purchasing decisions as well as the overall network strategy and implementation. Edge Marketing was purchased by Choice One Communications out of Rochester, NY and renamed Choice One Online.

Technical Support Desk

August 1995 ~ December 1996
University at Buffalo  
Amherst Campus, Amherst NY  

My responsibilities included the support and maintenance of 17 Lecture Rooms including 5 ETEC Consoles that housed a Macintosh 7500, a Pentium 166 PC, a Sun Workstation and a Wolf Visualizer. Other responsibilities included network maintenance, software installation and instruction while being on-call to support both University locations during school hours.

Technical Support Specialist

September 1995 ~ August 1996
Soft Bank Services  
Buffalo, NY 14203  

My duties included Technical Support for the Internet Division of Intuit’s Quicken version 5, QuickBooks, and Turbo Tax 95, which came with Internet access. My responsibilities included troubleshooting computer-related problems and fixing it in a timely fashion over the phone. This would include anything from configuring Web Browsers to setting up Modems and PC Cards with IRQ conflicts. 

Sales Associate

January 1995 ~ September 1995
Computer City                                 
Tonawanda, NY 14150  

I assisted customers with the purchase and maintenance of personal computers. These included both PC and Apple computers as well as software and peripherals. During my employment, I worked several positions such as warehouse, cashier, customer service, phone support and sales.

 

Education

University At Buffalo

September 1995 ~  June 1997
Buffalo, NY 14214

 

Studies include the entire general curriculum, while my primary course of study is Computer Science.
Canisius College

September 1997 ~ June 1999
Buffalo, NY 14214

 

I studied JAVA and Visual Basic while I was employed at Canisius College.

 

Professional Memberships

·         The HTML Writers Guild

·         About.com Certified HTML Technicians

 

Partial Portfolio

 

 References and salary history available upon request.