Team Profile
Matt Shanker (Team Lead) | Eric Harris (webmaster) | David McArthur
Jim Clark (sponsor) | Dr. James Palmer (advisor)
Matt Shanker
Classes Taken
•Undergraduate Research, Information Visualization
•Computer Security
•Data Mining
•Compilers
•Principles of Languages
•Virtual Worlds
•Computer Graphics
•Software Engineering
•Algorithms
•Automata Theory
•Introduction to Linear Algebra
Work Experience
•IT Technicitan, 6 years
•IT Specialst for the USGS
•Network ans server administration
•2D & 3D virtual simulation environments
•Currently workon on undergraduate research in the area of information visualization technology.
Eric Harris
Classes Taken
•Computer Networks
•Automata THeory
•Principles of Languages
•Compilers
•Ethics in Compuer Science
•Algorithms
•Advanced User Interfaces
•Software Engineering
Work Experience
•Web Developer - NAU Campus Recreation Services
•IBM Co-op for L2 DFSMS Support
Other Special Skills
•Website Design: experiencew with HTML, ASP, DHTML, CSS & JAVA Applets
•Software Development: Familiar with multiple developing strategies including Scrum, Agile Development & Waterfall Model
•Business experience: Holds a B.S.B.A in Computer information systems
•Customer Interaction: experience with communication with customers/clients do develop features or troubleshoot issues
David McArthur
Classes Taken
•Automata Theory
•Software Engineering
•Principles of Languages
•Operating Systems
•Computer Security
•Algorithms
•Advanced User Interfaces
•Distributed Systems
Work Experience
•Developed web applications using Java Servlet technology for the Academic Computing department at Northern Arizona University. Applications were developed on the Struts and Stripes frameworks using Hibernate as a Java Persistence Architecture provider.
•Experience using HTML, CSS, JSP for web page creation.
•Created utilities for Unix-based machines for the Unix team at Northern Arizona University. Utilities were written in Perl with regular expressions and shell commands.