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<title>Shawn Thompson Curriculum Vitae</title>
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<h1>Shawn Thompson</h1>
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<li><a href="./Shawn%20Thompson%20CV%20-%20high%20contrast.docx" class="btn btn-primary btn-block mt-4">Download Microsoft Word document</a></li>
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<h2>Career profile</h2>
<p>Dedicated web developer with experience in leading projects and coaching staff to create accessible websites and application that comply with <a href="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)</a> and <a href="http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ws-nw/index-eng.asp">Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)</a> standards for the web.</p>
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<h2>Personal suitability</h2>
<ul>
<li>Analytical thinking and problem solving</li>
<li>Ability to balance multiple tasks with various and conflicting deadlines</li>
<li>Ability to communicate effectively in writing</li>
<li>Ability to communicate effectively orally</li>
<li>Ability to meet deadlines in a high-volume environment and adhere to established budgets</li>
<li>Ability to work in a team environment</li>
<li>Attentive to detail</li>
<li>Excellent at solving problems rapidly and effectively</li>
<li>Extensive experience in accessing and processing information</li>
<li>Flexibility</li>
<li>Fluently bilingual in both English and French (BBC)</li>
<li>Dependability</li>
<li>Initiative</li>
<li>Interpersonal skills</li>
<li>Judgment</li>
<li>Results oriented</li>
<li>Strong leadership skills</li>
<li>Work well under pressure</li>
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<h2>Post-secondary education</h2>
<ul>
<li>Diploma in Multimedia Design and Production from <a href="http://www.fanshawec.ca/">Fanshawe College</a> 2002-2003</li>
<li>Certificate in Advanced/Digital Photography from <a href="http://www.fanshawec.ca/">Fanshawe College</a> 2001-2002</li>
<li>Diploma in Photography from <a href="http://www.fanshawec.ca/">Fanshawe College</a> 1998-2000</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Work experience</h2>
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<h3>February 2020 - present — Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — Montreal, Que.</h3>
<p>Web Accessibility Technical Advisor CS03 — Innovation, Information and Technology Branch (IITB) — Web Standards Centre of Expertise (WS-CoE)</p>
<ul>
<li>Active member of three interdepartmental working groups:
<ul>
<li>Interdepartmental ICT Accessibility Conformance Reporting Task Force,</li>
<li>Interdepartmental Working Group for the Measurement of Accessible ICT,</li>
<li>Access Working Group.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Developed and maintain the <a href="https://bati-itao.github.io/index-en.html">ESDC / IT Accessibility office</a> public facing website.</li>
<li>Work with developers to include accessible at the early stage in development of an application.</li>
<li>Work with developers to establish an accessibility presence within the DevOps community.</li>
<li>Research accessibility trends.</li>
<li>Coach colleagues on accessibility technologies.</li>
<li>Reply to different inquiries from IT professionals on accessibility matters.</li>
</ul>
</section>
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<h3>February - April 2019 & August - November 2019 — Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — Montreal, Que.</h3>
<p>IM/IT Technical Specialist Technical Advisor CS03 — Innovation, Information and Technology Branch (IITB) — Web Standards Centre of Expertise (WS-CoE)</p>
<ul>
<li>Chair weekly "Accessibility Best Practices" meetings regarding accessibility trends.</li>
<li>Review colleagues’ accessibility assessments.</li>
<li>Create challenges for colleagues to learn new technology.</li>
<li>Work directly with clients to help make applications accessible / inclusive.</li>
<li>Organize WAI-ARIA training for WS-CoE team and included developers within IITB and other GoC Departments.</li>
<li>Member of the Employees with Disabilities Network (EWDN), focusing on hidden disabilities.</li>
<li>Speaker on panel during International Day of Disabled Persons 2019 event in Montreal.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>October 2016 – February 2020 — Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — Montreal, Que.</h3>
<p>IM/IT Programmer Analyst CS02 — Innovation, Information and Technology Branch (IITB) — Web Standards Centre of Expertise (WS-CoE)</p>
<ul>
<li>Lead developer on the Centrally Deployed Templates Solution (CDTS) framework used by more than 300 websites and application within the Government of Canada</li>
<li>Develop a new version of the CDTS framework which will be open source</li>
<li>Administrator of the CDTS project on GCCode (internal Gitlab service), creating a workflow for others to follow and maintaining reported issues.</li>
<li>Active contributor on the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) open source project.</li>
<li>Audit ESDC websites and application to ensure conformance to the Web Standards of the Government of Canada</li>
<li>Work with clients on how to make their web applications and content more accessible to all users</li>
<li>Host spontaneous learning sessions with colleagues on various current web technologies such as Git, node.js, structured data (also known as microdata) and the Web Experience Toolkit version 4.0.</li>
<li>Member of the WET 5 working group, developing the future framework for all Government of Canada websites and application to use.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>January 2014 – October 2016 — Service Canada — Ottawa, Ont.</h3>
<p>Web Specialist (front end) - Web Channel Office - Usability and Design Team</p>
<ul>
<li>Developed and maintained the <a href="https://github.com/wet-boew/GCWeb">GCWeb theme</a> for the Government of Canada's <a href="https://github.com/wet-boew">Web Experience Toolkit (WET)</a> project on <a href="https://github.com/">Github</a>.</li>
<li>Administrator and contributor on the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) open source project.</li>
<li>Worked with the early adopters of the <a href="https://canada.ca/en/">Canada.ca</a> theme in implementing the theme on their own websites.</li>
<li>Prepared procedures for colleagues to explain how to use git and how to publish to the Canada.ca theme on Github.com.</li>
<li>Chaired weekly "codesprints" at Concordia University to encourage students and staff involvement in the Government of Canada's open source Web Experience Toolkit project.</li>
<li>Host spontaneous learning sessions with colleagues on various current web technologies such as Git, node.js and the Web Experience Toolkit version 4.0.</li>
<li>Create technical web components specification for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) Content and Information Architecture Specifications document based on business needs of the clients.</li>
<li>Worked on the Adobe Experience Manager components for Canada.ca using tools such as Java, Jenkins and Apache Maven</li>
</ul>
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<h3>September 2013 – December 2013 — Service Canada—Ottawa, Ont. (Acting AS-04)</h3>
<p>Web Specialist - Web Channel Office - Design Team</p>
<ul>
<li>Planned, developed, tested for the initial launch of new <a href="http://canada.ca/en/index.html">Canada.ca</a> site in December 2013.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>July 2008 – September 2013 — Service Canada — Ottawa, Ont.</h3>
<p>Web Specialist - Web Channel Office - Web Publishing Team (AS-03)</p>
<ul>
<li>Facilitated learning sessions with clients, colleagues and managers to demonstrate tools such as Dreamweaver, web browser add-ons and other techniques used to develop and maintain Web pages.</li>
<li>Audited webpages that were published to ServiceCanada.gc.ca to ensure compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standards and other Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) web standards.</li>
<li>Maintained and organized Websites using both File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Interwoven Teamsite as a Content Management System (CMS).</li>
<li>Member of the HRSDC Web Standards Subject Matter Expert (SME) group, was responsible for the review of web content and/or web application output for a specific group within the organization.</li>
<li>Developed and maintained different Government of Canada Websites including, canada.gc.ca, <a href="http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/home.shtml">servicecanada.gc.ca</a>, <a href="http://www.pwd-online.gc.ca/[email protected]?lang%3Deng">pwd-online.ca</a>, seniors.gc.ca and <a href="http://news.gc.ca/web/index-eng.do">news.gc.ca</a>.</li>
<li>Built the <a href="http://servicecanada.gc.ca/">servicecanada.gc.ca</a> template using the WET version 3.1.8 framework.</li>
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<h2>Working groups / Committees / User Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Government of Canada Working Groups
<ul>
<li>Access Working Group (AWG)</li>
<li>Web Interoperability working group / HTML Data sub-committee</li>
<li>Search Optimization Working Group (SOWG)</li>
<li>User experience working group</li>
<li>Migration and onboarding working group</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Adobe AEM/CQ User Group - Montreal Chapter</li>
<li>HTML5 Montréal</li>
<li>a11yMTL - Montreal Web Accessibility (organizer)</li>
<li>Employees With Disabilities Network (EWDN)</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Technical knowledge</h2>
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<h3>Computer software:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Flash, Acrobat X, Lightroom 5</li>
<li>Adobe Experience Manager Development</li>
<li>Git and Microsoft Visual SafeSource</li>
<li>Microsoft VS Code</li>
<li>Content Management Systems: Interwoven's Teamsite, RedDot, Adobe Experience Manager, Wordpress</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Computer languages:</h3>
<ul>
<li>XHTML, HTML 4.0 and HTML5</li>
<li>Cascading Style Sheet (CSS2 and CSS3, LESS and SASS)</li>
<li>JavaScript
<ul>
<li>jQuery, assembleJS, vueJS</li>
<li>JSON</li>
<li>js, npm, nvm</li>
<li>grunt, gulp, webPack</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ajax</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>.Net</li>
<li>XML</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Certificates from <a href="https://eliquotraining.com">Eliquo</a> in the following:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Testing Websites and Documents with Screen Reading Technologies (SRTs) on Mobile for iOS and Android</li>
<li>WCAG 2.0: Understanding the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines</li>
<li>Overview of WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines</li>
<li>Adobe Acrobat Pro: Accessible PDFs with WCAG 2.0</li>
<li>WET: Implementing the Standard on Web Interoperability</li>
<li>Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Migrating to WET and the Usability Theme</li>
<li>Web Experience Toolkit (WET) for Designers and Developers</li>
<li>JavaScript: Advanced Scripting</li>
<li>jQuery</li>
<li>PHP: An Introduction</li>
<li>PHP: Advanced Scripting</li>
<li>Learning HTML5</li>
<li>CSS: Advanced Layout Techniques Including CSS</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Certificates from <a href="https://www.lynda.com">Lynda.com</a> in the following:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Administering Google Apps</li>
<li>Web Workflows with Grunt.js</li>
<li>Up and Running with AngularJS 1</li>
<li>Foundations of Photography: Flash</li>
<li>js First Look</li>
<li>CSS: Flexbox First Look</li>
<li>JavaScript Templating</li>
<li>Web Semantics</li>
<li>Protecting Yourself from the Heartbleed Bug</li>
<li>Foundations of UX: Usability Testing (2013)</li>
<li>Web Technology Fundamentals</li>
<li>Start with a Theme: Creative Portfolios in WordPress</li>
<li>Start with a Theme: Twenty Fourteen</li>
<li>WordPress Essential Training (2014)</li>
<li>JavaScript and AJAX</li>
<li>Up and Running with Bootstrap 3</li>
<li>CSS with LESS and Sass</li>
<li>Mobile Web Design & Development Fundamentals</li>
<li>Dreamweaver CS6 New Features</li>
<li>jQuery Mobile Essential Training</li>
<li>Dreamweaver CS5.5 New Features</li>
<li>Setting Up MySQL 5 for PHP in Windows</li>
<li>Setting Up PHP 5 for Windows with Apache or IIS</li>
<li>Windows 7 Essential Training</li>
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<h3>Other training sessions</h3>
<ul>
<li>The 'Web Accessibility Standard for the Government of Canada' course (3 days – Canada School of the Public Service (CSPS)</li>
<li>WCAG 2.0 Assessment Methodology (ESDC in-house training)</li>
<li>An overview of Assistive Technologies (AT) and how they are used (ESDC in-house training)</li>
</ul>
</section>
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<h2>Additional professional activities</h2>
<ul>
<li>Assisted in organizing the a11yMTL 2014 Unconference - November 2014</li>
<li>Presented at the a11yMTL 2014 Unconference on the subject of using semantic HTML elements to mark up a web page for accessibility - November 2014</li>
<li>Animated a learning session about Jekyll and Github pages at CodeFest 3 - August 2014</li>
<li>Animated a learning sessions about <em>gh-pages on Github.com</em> and <em>Sublime Text 3</em> at CodeFest 4 - February 2016</li>
<li>Participate in monthly HTML5, JavaScript and Montreal Developers user group functions to discuss advancements in each related topic - Ongoing</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Volunteer experience</h2>
<p>Create and maintain websites for various organizations</p>
<ul>
<li>Employees with Disabilities Network</li>
<li>Anti-Racism Ambassadors Network</li>
<li>Slack Accessibility channel</li>
</ul>
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<p>Available Upon Request</p>
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