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Mark Edward Jourdan

1055 Stephen Court, Aurora, Illinois 60502 | 630.853.8328 | mjourdan@markjourdan.com

Experience

Programmer Analyst

February 2006 - present | Thatcher Technology Group, LLC | Naperville, IL

  • Write code in the C#.NET and ASP.NET language on a daily basis.
  • Program high level web applications: Order Entry System, Business Barometer System, Web site Management System and more.
  • Analyze and document application modifications.
  • Provide support to customers and assist in an extreme programming environment.

Webmaster

August 2004 - 2006 | Office of Marketing and Communication, Dominican University | River Forest, IL

  • Maintain the entire Dominican University Web site including over 10,000 pages
  • Maintain the University virtual photo album, photo library and photographers
  • Provide technical support for Web and office computer hardware and software issues
  • Daily applications used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Visual Studio.NET, Dreamweaver and WebTrends
  • Collaborate with outside vendors to meet the University photo needs and web freelance projects
  • Provide support to the Office of Marketing and Communication and for other university projects
  • Manage the web student worker and student web projects

Assistant Coordinator of Marketing, Internship

February 2002 - July 2004 | Department of Housing Services, DePaul University | Chicago, IL

  • Redesigned DePaul University departmental Web site. In the process created more than 100 ASP pages and launched it in one month
  • Updated the department Web site weekly
  • Created a PHP forum for nationwide schools to use
  • Designed and implemented a ASP.NET phone log using C# and SQL Server
  • Daily applications used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Forte and Dreamweaver
  • Managed campus movie channel including: selecting movies, scheduling programming and controlling the broadcast equipment
  • Regularly presented to large groups of incoming students
  • Collaborated with outside vendors

Programmer

December 1999 - June 2001 | Delphi Automotive | Downers Grove, IL

  • Programmed a fully functional data tracking web database in one week
  • Scanned and released over 20,000 documents in a three month period
  • Worked on a UNIX and Windows 2000 machine doing many small programming projects for the company

Technical Activity

Languages

C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, JAVA, C++, C, HTML, XML, PHP

Software

Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio, Macromedia Studio ( Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks), Adobe Creative Suite ( Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat), MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Visio, FrontPage, Outlook, Publisher, Producer), MS SQL Server, WebTrends

Tools

LLBLGen, Infragistics, TypeMock, SVN, CVS, Red Ants Profiler, Developer Express (CodeRush, Refactor), nUnit

Systems

Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Red Hat Linux 7.3, UNIX, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9

Databases

SQL (2005, 2000), ORACLE, mySQL, MS Access

Activities and Honors

President

Social Events Committee, Thatcher Technology Group, LLC | 2007 – present

  • Coordinate staff events
  • Oversee the committee

Member

Staff Human Resource Council, Dominican University | 2005 – 2006

  • Represent administrative staff
  • Coordinate staff events
  • Maintain organization Web site and electronic communications

President

DePaul University Residence Hall Council | 2003 - 2004

  • Supervised executive board
  • Oversaw planning of campus wide carnivals and activities
  • Responsible for budget of $45,000

Bacchus Gamma

DePaul University | 2003 - 2004

  • Sat on a committee to turn a residence hall substance free
  • Organized alcohol alternative campus wide programs

President

Illinois Residence Hall Association | 2002 - 2003

  • Managed 20 schools and 7 board members state-wide including frequent travel and 24/7 availability
  • Increased membership by getting three additional schools to join IRHA in my year long term

Marketing Director

Animal Care and Control | 2002 - 2005

  • Modified City of Chicago’s Animal Control database to assist in tracking negligent owners
  • Attended to homeless animals while on weekly visits to shelter

Marketing Director

DePaul University Residence Hall Council | 2002 - 2003

  • Created all marketing and advertising materials to promote events and programs on campus

Judicial Board

DePaul University | 2002 - 2004

  • Served as a regular jury member to allocate sanctions for wrongdoings

Conference Chair

Illinois Residence Hall Association | 2001 - 2002

  • Coordinated statewide conference on DePaul’s campus on behalf of organization
  • Supervised committees and committee leaders
  • Responsible for budget of $30,000

Communications Coordinator

DePaul University Residence Hall Council | 2000 - 2002

  • Handled the Association’s vendor relationships including loft and refrigerator rentals for campus
  • Represented DePaul to 17 schools state wide

National Residence Hall Honorary

2000 - 2004

  • Selected for national award for community and academic achievement

Education

M.S. in Management Information Systems

2004-Present | Dominican University | River Forest, IL

  • Estimated Graduation: May, 2008

B.S. in Computer Science

2000-2004 | DePaul University | Chicago, IL

  • Graduated: June, 2004

References

Available Upon Request