Mark Swardstrom

Current

• Senior Developer at Entertonement

Past

• Web Developer at Snapvine
• Web Developer at Jobster
• Web Developer at DatStat, Inc

• Web Developer/Program Manager at Nimble Technology
• Design Director/UI Developer at Disney Internet Group

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Education

• University of Washington
• Cornell University

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Industry

Internet

Mark Swardstrom’s Summary

Web application developer, user interface designer, business developer. I enjoy working on mass-market applications.

Mark Swardstrom’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails (1.2.6, 2.0, 2.1), CSS, HTML/XHTML, J2EE/JSP/JSTL, JavaScript.

RoR Web Dev 3rd party tools - eg. JQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Auto Completion, Drag & Drop, Ajax, GeoKit, Paperclip, Will Paginate, ThickBox, TinyMCE, Memchached

UI Design, Information Architecture. Spring Framework. MVC architectures. Content Management systems. Online applications.

Mark Swardstrom’s Experience

• Senior Developer

  Entertonement

  (Internet industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Building a Ruby on Rails web application for sharing, playing, and uploading audio clips.

• Web Developer

  Snapvine

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — August 2007 (7 months)

  Developing web-based applications in Ruby on Rails.

• Web Developer

  Jobster

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 6 months)

  Developing web-based applications for the job seeker and recruiter using Ruby on Rails as well as Java/JSTL/JSP with the Spring Framework. Contributed to Jobster's commerce system and Recruiter tools.

• Web Developer

  DatStat, Inc

  (Internet industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  Built a report and query management system using XSLT, C# and .Net. Responsible for the front-end and business logic (Controller and View) portions of the application.

• Web Developer/Program Manager

  Nimble Technology

  (Internet industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

  Web developer, program manager, and UI designer on a XML-Based data querying tool. The tools used extensive XSLT and JSP on the front end. Built on a Java backend.

• Design Director/UI Developer

  Disney Internet Group

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1995 — 1999 (4 years )

  Designed and developed ESPN.com's web applications and games from 1995 to 1998. First employee on the team - worked on approximately 50 projects over the 4 years at ESPN.

Mark Swardstrom’s Education

• University of Washington

  BS , Computer Science , October 1989 — June 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Newspaper cartoonist.

• Cornell University

  Business September 1985 — June 1988

  Studied Computer Science, Business Administration, and Fine Art/Illustration.

Additional Information

Mark Swardstrom’s Interests:

Ultimate Frisbee, Photography, Alternative energy