Steven Vachon

Current

Web Developer at ByDomino
Web Developer at Liquid Graphics
Freelance / Contract at Self-employed

Creative Director at Canadianweb Solutions

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Past

Software Engineer at Dragonfly.com
Graphic Designer at The Studio Upstairs

Education

self taught

Recommended

4 people have recommended Steven

Connections

25 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Steven Vachon

Steven Vachon’s Summary

Software Engineer, Senior Flash Programmer, Web Developer, Graphics Designer with 10+ years experience specializing in building web applications that are not only functional… but cool!

- OOP (Object Oriented Programming)
- Problem solving
- Debugging and quality testing
- Optimization— code and graphics
- Expert design and animation— timeline and programmatic
- Good understanding of audio/video compression
- High level understanding of server development concepts
- Expert understanding of HTML, CSS, JS

Steven Vachon’s Specialties:

- ActionScript 1,2,3
- CSS 1,2,3 for screen, print, handheld
- JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery
- HTML 4,5, XHTML
- SEO, semantics, microformats
- Adobe Dreamweaver (code view)
- Adobe Flash 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
- Adobe Flex SDK 3, MXML
- Adobe Illustrator 9,10,11,12,13
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5,6,7,8,9,10,11
- MDM Zinc 3
- PHP 4,5
- XML, DTD, JSON
- XSLT 1,2

...allowing for the creation of:

- Websites
- Games
- Microsites
- RIAs, RDAs
- Web 2.0 apps

Steven Vachon’s Experience

Web Developer

ByDomino

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

Working remotely with the staff accomplishing various programming, design and animation tasks involving HTML & CSS, AJAX and Flash. Work requests continue on an as-needed basis.
Web Developer

Liquid Graphics

(Online Media industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )

Working remotely with the staff accomplishing various programming, design and animation tasks involving HTML & CSS, AJAX and Flash. Work requests continue on an as-needed basis.
Freelance / Contract

Self-employed

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

Work ranges from some of the most simple online projects to working with Hollywood celebrities on their endeavours.
Creative Director

Canadianweb Solutions

(Online Media industry)

October 1999 — Present (10 years 2 months)

Working remotely with the staff accomplishing various programming, design and animation tasks involving HTML & CSS, AJAX, Flash and some PHP. Work requests continue on an as-needed basis.
Software Engineer

Dragonfly.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

March 2005 — February 2007 (2 years )

Working remotely with a NYC team of programmers, designers and marketing professionals, I was responsible for the creation of a large-scale managed media platform utilizing ActionScript technology. LimeLight streaming servers fed external images, audio, video, games, animations and documents to an intuitive front-end. To sustain a seamless experience, all data streams were optimized to ensure that content delivery was immediate.
Graphic Designer

The Studio Upstairs

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

January 2001 — June 2001 (6 months)

Working on-site in downtown Toronto, I was responsible for various design projects and the production of composited art pieces for the Global [TV] News broadcast elements.