Stephen Hird

Past

• Applications Architect at Cisco Learning Institute
• Project Manager at Cisco Learning Institute
• Whipping Boy at Insight

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Education

• University of Advancing Technology
• Chandler Gilbert Community College

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Stephen Hird’s Summary

Innovative application strategist with over ten years of experience in emerging technologies. Consistently seeks out new technologies and researches new methods for application development to better the current standards and improve application usability. Working with others in teams, and ability to work independently, identifies new areas for development and improvement in a technological agnostic view. Technically proficient in multiple languages, and familiar with Microsoft products as well as Apple products and UNIX flavors.

Stephen Hird’s Specialties:

Desktop Application Development – Visual Basic (6.x and .NET 1.1), C# .NET 1.1 and 2.x, COM integration and modular development, database integration, Java
Web Application Development – PHP4/5, HTML, XHTML, JavaScript and AJAX libraries (Scriptaculous and JQuery), ASP and ASP .NET, Java

Stephen Hird’s Experience

• Applications Architect

  Cisco Learning Institute

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

  April 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 1 month)

• Project Manager

  Cisco Learning Institute

  (Non-Profit; E-Learning industry)

  April 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 4 months)

• Whipping Boy

  Insight

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSIT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2005 (5 years)

Stephen Hird’s Education

• University of Advancing Technology

  Bachelors , Computer Science , 2005 — 2008

  Graduated Summa Cum Laude, 4.0 GPA, emphasis on Software Engineering and Web Applications

  Activities and Societies:

  Alpha Phi Omega

• Chandler Gilbert Community College

  AAS , Application Development , 2000 — 2004

  Graduated with High Honors, and had an emphasis on distributed applications in multiple languages.