Owner Operator PSM Design, Inc.
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
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- Owner Operator at PSM Design, Inc.
- Creative and Technical Director at International Churches of Christ
- Past
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- Chief Technology Officer at Cook Associates, Inc.
- Education
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- Savannah College of Art and Design
- Altigen
- MicroTrain
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Shaun McNicholas’s Summary
Technology Executive with 20+ years of management experience in technology, sales and marketing. Strong track record of driving growth and profitability through strategic planning and execution, including revitalizing established brands and businesses, developing and launching new product platforms, and identifying, executing, and integrating technology to improve business development and execution. Extensive experience: developing, coaching and mentoring high performance teams.
A fine artist by nature, Shaun specializes in thinking “outside the box” and delivering high-yield and high-performance results from people and technology, often in un-conventional ways. By combining his experience with creative teams, as well as executive management and possessing a thorough knowledge of systems infrastructure technologies and programming languages spanning all available computing environments, Shaun is able to see the big picture and achieve high-yield results from people and technology.
Shaun McNicholas’s Specialties:
adobe (all products), apache webserver, apple, application design, application development, brand management, brochure design, business development, cisco certified, cold fusion, contract management, creative director, crm, customer relations, customer service, database administration, dhtml, dreamweaver, graphic design, javascript, marketing, microsoft exchange server, microsoft windows, mysql, networking, new media, oracle developer 2000, phone systems, php, unix, video, visual design, voip
Shaun McNicholas’s Experience
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Owner Operator
PSM Design, Inc.
(Information Services industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
PSM Design is a Consulting Services Firm specializing in Graphic Design and Illustration, Marketing Programs Design and Implementation, Website Design and Programming, Cold Fusion Installation and Programming, Systems Networking Design and Implementation, Microsoft and Apple Server Design and Installation.
Providing advice and hands on support for services ranging from Networking and Infrastructure Desing to HelpDesk support and implementation. PSM Design can help streamline the design and deployment of a vast range of infrastructure technologies to meet any budget. With over 15 years of management and implementation experience in IT spanning Windows, Unix and Apple environments we can help your company realize a competitive R.O.I. with any sized budget. -
Creative and Technical Director
International Churches of Christ
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1993 — Present (16 years 11 months)
Serving audiences as large as 10,000+ in venues such as Chicago's UIC Pavilion and New York's Jacob Javits Center supervising teams as large as 100+ people; Shaun has been the technical and creative director and teacher for professional live sound engineering, lighting, video and stage design for more than 14 years, and has taught classes in use of technology for worship services in Chicago, Washington D.C. and most recently has been invited to teach at the International Song Leader's Conference
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Chief Technology Officer
Cook Associates, Inc.
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
2002 — 2009 (7 years )
As a key member of the executive management team it was my responsibility to set the overall technology strategy and execution plan for the firm.
Improved telecommunications capabilities and improved efficiency by replacing the disparate communications systems with a fully unified communications system.
Planned, managed and executed $½ Million systems replacement to improve uptime and efficiency with all technological research and development tools in the firm; improving efficiency of all development and execution tools.
Hired and trained an internal support staff and re-negotiated all contracts with vendors to improve relationships with vendors and reduce costs while improving overall systems efficiency and performance.
Re-created the company’s proprietary database system to improve efficiency in all levels of business development and execution reducing the cost of needed staff to deliver the companies core products.
Shaun McNicholas’s Education
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Savannah College of Art and Design
1987 — 1988
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Altigen
a brand of telephone system designed as a highbred system for utilization of IP telephony while maintaining standard analogue telephone handsets. I was trained in order to design and install a nationwide solution for Cook Associates.
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MicroTrain
Adobe MAX 2008 (San Francisco) 2008
Advanced ColdFusion and Adobe development, coding best practices for online application development using Adobe development tools.
FOCUS and AT&T User group (BCR Training) 2007
User Group annual meeting to discuss future technologies and current technology challenges in the telecom industry.
Adobe MAX 2007 (Chicago) 2007
Advanced ColdFusion and Adobe development, coding best practices for online application development using Adobe development tools.
Ascend training (Chicago) 2007
Adobe ColdFusion MX 7: Advanced ColdFusion Development
Macromedia (Adobe) Online University 2006
Certification
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and Cold Fusion - web development, programming and design instructional course.
Additional Information
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Shaun McNicholas’s Interests:
Illustration, Graphic Design, Web Design, Programming, Cold Fusion Programming, Information Technology Services and Consulting, Stage Sound and Lighting Design and Consulting
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Tampa Bay Business Network
Shaun McNicholas’s Honors:
Scholastic Arts 1984 to 1986
Winner Portfolio Honors 1986
1st Place Gold Key Mixed Media 1986
1st Place Gold Key Mixed Media 1985
Honorary Award 1984
Arts on the River – Savannah Georgia
1st Place Mixed Media 1986
Florida State Fair
1st Place Mixed Media 1985
2nd Place Mixed Media 1984
Dade City Art Show
1st Place Mixed Media 1985
New Port Richey Annual Art Show and Competition
1st Place Mixed Media 1985
Hernando County Annual Art Show and Competition
1st Place Mixed Media
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