Experienced ASP.NET C# Developer, Team Lead and Project Manager
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Community Architect at Lamps Plus
- Founder & President at Clever Chaps, Inc
- Founder at ShawThing, LLC
- Past
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- Senior Web Developer at StomperNet
- Developer Lead and Project Manager at Telligent Systems
- Founder & President at Dozing Dogs
- Founder at OurLittleNet, Inc
- Engineering Manager at Trimble / Spectra Precision Software
- Managing Director, Majority Shareholder, Technical lead at Blue Moon Systems Ltd.
- Partner / V.P. R&D at TCS / Resource Group / THMR
- Education
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- University of London
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James Shaw’s Summary
After being a professional developer for over 20 years, from C to C#, I have recently worked as a Project Manager for large website deployments where my development experience gives me an edge with the customers and developers on the team.
I've led development teams for over 10 years, and continue to develop websites using both Community Server and my own customized CMS.
James Shaw’s Specialties:
Since 2001 I have specialized in building and improving content management systems, and have built and sold my own CMS company, then worked for a leader in the Enterprise Community Software market.
I've been a Microsoft MVP three times. My e-commerce sites led me to study SEM and conversion and I am now a moderator on the leading SEM community, StomperNet.
James Shaw’s Experience
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Community Architect
Lamps Plus
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Helping design and implement Lamps Plus community websites, including blogs, forums and media galleries using Telligent Community platform.
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Founder & President
Clever Chaps, Inc
(Retail industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Focused on identifying niche markets and building e-commerce websites to monetize them. Currently we have five websites running in different niche markets and we're continually optimizing them in all aspects of SEM and conversion.
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Founder
ShawThing, LLC
(Online Media industry)
October 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)
Originally formed the company to perform ASP web development contract work and manage www.CoverYourASP.com, a developer community and educational web site.
As CoverYourASP founder, I was invited to become a founding member of ASP Insiders and awarded MVP three times. Visited Microsoft twice to meet with their development teams and offer feedback on early designs of new products under NDA.
Now I concentrate solely on ASP.NET mid and long-term contracts, primarily using Telligent's Community Server and Evolution platforms. -
Senior Web Developer
StomperNet
(Internet industry)
March 2009 — July 2009 (5 months)
Helped design, build and maintain Telligent Community web sites such as my.StomperNet.com and f5.StomperNet.com for the leadng SEM private membership community founded by Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins.
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Developer Lead and Project Manager
Telligent Systems
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — February 2009 (3 years 6 months)
Managed service projects for customers such as Intel, Texas Instruments, Mars and Insurance.com who used Telligent's Evolution intranet platform. My role as project manager was to take the project from SOW to completion, organizing everything from software and hosting requirements to daily standup calls with remote developers.
I earlier worked on the Community Server product team and was the sole developer on Microsoft's silverlight.net web site during its implementation and maintenance phases. I was the Dev Lead for all the MSFT developer-centered websites such as www.asp.net, www.iis.net and windowsclient.net. -
Founder & President
Dozing Dogs
(Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Leveraged the 3 years building the OurLittleNet city network by spending 6 months repackaging the code into a world class Content Management System (CMS). Having served over 50 million page views and registered 3,000+ members it was well proven and had functionality missing from systems costing 100 times more.
Targeting the familiar ASP.NET market and taking advantage of being MVP's and ASP Insiders led to the sale of this company to Telligent Systems. -
Founder
OurLittleNet, Inc
(Online Media industry)
January 2001 — 2005 (4 years )
Built a working business around the concept of providing residents free access to local community web sites. Local businesses paid for their pages, but at rates far lower than other media at the time.
After being tested in three Metro areas, the site was optimized and pushed nationwide with 3,000 sites and reached 1m page views per month in September 2003. -
Engineering Manager
Trimble / Spectra Precision Software
(Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — June 2005 (7 years 6 months)
Spectra Precision relocated family to Atlanta from England in 1998 after purchasing Blue Moon Systems. Received Permanent Resident Alien ("Green Card") status.
Designed and implemented an industry-leading land survey data processing module for Terramodel® Managed a team of 4-8 local and remote developers and coordinated with QA and documentation teams.
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Managing Director, Majority Shareholder, Technical lead
Blue Moon Systems Ltd.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1990 — December 1998 (8 years 3 months)
Led startup of company with a team of 3 developers that wrote a brand new Land Survey application that became the UK industry leader.
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Partner / V.P. R&D
TCS / Resource Group / THMR
(Public Company; TCS; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1984 — October 1990 (6 years 3 months)
The same company passing through numerous merges and acquisitions, I was responsible for developing the land and marine surveying software applications, spending time offshore in the North Sea and Mediterranean working on pipeline surveys.
James Shaw’s Education
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University of London
BSc , Land & Sea Engineering and Surveying , 1982 — 1984
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James Shaw’s Interests:
Family, E-commerce, SEM, Content Management Systems, ASP.NET, Building cars
James Shaw’s Groups:
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Stompernet Members
James Shaw’s Honors:
Founding member of Microsoft ASP Insiders
Three times Microsoft ASP.NET MVP
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