About » Sean Voisen: Curriculum Vitae
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Education
University of California, Irvine (UCI): 2008 — Present
Matriculating towards an M.S. in Computer Science and Information Systems as part of the Arts Computation Engineering (ACE) program.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): 1999 — 2003
B.S. in Computer Science.
Teaching
Art Institute of California, San Diego: Teacher in Interactive Media Design, Aug 2007 — Present
Taught courses in web and interactive media design, including Intermediate Authoring (WDM3302), Multi-user Authoring (WDM3322), Streaming Media (WDM3313) and Interactive Design for Entertainment (WDM3301).
Consulting Projects
Userplane (AOL): Oct 2006 — Present
Co-developed real-time communications (instant messaging/chat) software using Adobe Flex and Flash Media Server. Products released to the public include Userplane Userlist and Webmessenger.
PayPal and Adobe Systems: Sep — Oct 2007
Prototyped and developed PayPal Desktop, a desktop-based sales analytics (data visualization) application for PayPal using the Adobe AIR platform. The software was demonstrated during the keynote presentation at Adobe MAX 2007.
Ujogo: Jul — Sep 2007
Consulted on the development of an online poker system using Adobe Flex.
System Minds Studio: Aug — Oct 2006
Developed an Actionscript 3 API to interface with an XML-enabled SIP engine for a European-based internet telephone (VoIP) initiative.
Full-time Positions
Compassionate Communications: Director of Technology, Dec, 2007 — Present
Designed and served as lead developer for an innovative “healing card” website for recently diagnosed cancer patients in partnership with Hallmark Cards, Inc and numerous health-related charitable organizations.
eLuminate, Inc.: Co-founder, Aug, 2004 — Dec 2007
Served as lead product designer and user interface developer of a web-based e-learning system called “Digital Seed.” Before transforming eLuminate into a learning software company, I served as a management consultant, facilitating management training and learning programs in leadership and personal growth.
Taliant Software, LLP: J2EE Flash Developer, Oct 2003 — Jul 2004
Worked as user interface developer of enterprise-level insurance management system built using Adobe Flash and Java remoting.
Media Insites, Inc.: Co-founder, Sep 2001 — Dec 2004
Co-founded website and web application development company, focusing on Flash and PHP technologies.
UCLA: Lab Assistant, Sep 2000 — Jun 2001
Assisted students in Program in Computing with projects in Java, C and C++.
Open Source Projects
XIFF (XMPP Implementation for Flash)
Created the first open-source XMPP (Jabber) API for Flash and Actionscript under an LGPL license, now a part of Jive Software’s open-source offerings.
Public Speaking
FITC Design and Technology Fesitval, Toronto: Apr 2008
Delivered presentation on developing Internet-enabled desktop applications using Adobe AIR.
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, San Antonio: Oct 2006
Delivered presentation on mindfulness and meditation practice for busy corporate executives.
California State University, San Marcos: Mar 2006
Ibid.
Technical Abilities
Programming/Markup Languages
Actionscript, Javascript, Flex/MXML, Ruby (Ruby on Rails), SQL, PHP, Java, Processing, C/C++, Perl, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XSLT