Jesse Rodgers

Current

• Consultant at Semacode
• Special Projects at University of Waterloo

Past

• Manager, Web Communications at University of Waterloo
• Web consultant at Community Development

Education

• University of Liverpool
• University of Waterloo

Recommended

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Connections

76 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Jesse Rodgers’s Summary

Currently I am responsible for user experience within the Special Projects Group as we build a new co-op system at UW. I lead a team of co-op students and a recent grad working on AJAX, usability, user advocacy, and accessibility. For fun I instigate local BarCamp's and brought the first StartupCamp to Waterloo.

I was manager of web communications at UW. I went through two re-developments of the universities public web space and learned a lot in the process. Using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Perl, etc. Part of my job was also to foster a community.

Jesse Rodgers’s Specialties:

Project Management, CSS, XHTML, Web production, strategic planning

Jesse Rodgers’s Experience

• Consultant

  Semacode

  (Online Media industry)

  January 2008 — Present (11 months)

• Special Projects

  University of Waterloo

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Work on a team that tackles the development of important web apps at the University of Waterloo.

• Manager, Web Communications

  University of Waterloo

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)

  June 2001 — August 2007 (6 years 3 months)

  Focus on improving how the University of Waterloo Communicates online.

• Web consultant

  Community Development

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 2000 — September 2000 (9 months)

  I took GIS data and put it online.

Jesse Rodgers’s Education

• University of Liverpool

  MSc, Internet Computing, 2005 — 2008

  Completed my dissertation on the Application of Microformats in the Higher Education Web Space in April 2008. This involved researching 10 higher education home pages and assessing whether they would be good candidates or not for Microformats. An example page was created to demonstrate how they could work. Hopefully it will be available soon.

• University of Waterloo

  BA, Geography, 1997 — 2001

Additional Information

Jesse Rodgers’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Jesse Rodgers’s Interests:

snowboarding, skiing, mountain biking, dodge ball

Jesse Rodgers’s Groups:

Web Standards Project - Dreamweaver Task Force Member, BarCampWaterloo, uwebd, StartupCamp

•    DemoCamp

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