Shawn Brenneman - Professional Experience
7/2001 - present Radford University, Radford, VA
Special Purpose Faculty

    • Teach undergraduate courses in computer programming and computer literacy.
    • Courses taught include: Programming in Ada, Programming in Visual Basic, Computer Literacy, UNIX.
    • Teach 12 credit hours per semester to 200 students.
    • Plan course and develop lecture materials, websites, and other training/support materials.
    • Work with the other faculty of the college of Information Technologies to make curriculum and policy decisions
7/97 - 7/2001 Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
Academic Technology Consultant

    • Work closely with faculty to provide resources to help incorporate technology into the curriculum.
    • Design and conduct classes, presentations, workshops and consulting for students, faculty, and staff, in supported software packages, network software applications, e-mail, and web site development.
    • Consult individually with faculty by appointment and maintain liaison relationships.
    • Create and develop courseware, technical notes, websites, and other training/support materials.
    • Stay informed on new technologies, communicate with technical staff, assess training offerings.

7/95 - 7/97 Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
Microcomputer Specialist
    • Helped faculty, staff, and students solve computer problems, via phone or in person.
    • Performed troubleshooting, fixed hardware and software problems.
    • Installed new computer hardware and software in labs and on faculty/staff desks.
    • Configured student computers for network hookup in their dorm rooms.
    • Planned, designed and implemented a week long tech training program for student assistants.

8/93 - 6/95 Southwest Virginia Governor's School, Dublin, VA
Computer Science/ Math Instructor
    • Taught Computer Science and Precalculus to gifted and talented high school juniors and seniors.
    • Oversaw operation of the school's computing facilities including: 31 station IBM network, 28 station Macintosh localtalk network, scanners, printers, CD ROM drives, modems.
    • Made hardware and software purchasing decisions. Installed hardware and software.
    • Taught students, faculty, and others to use the school's computing facilities.
    • Administrated school's VA PEN (UNIX based Internet node).

6/91 - 6/93 Management Systems Laboratories, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Programmer Analyst
    • Responsible for analysis and testing of a new graphing system for sponsors.
    • Designed interface for a new improved system which replaced a spreadsheet system.
    • Developed a generic report handler using object oriented design techniques in C++.
    • Worked with sponsor to specify designs for new systems, use current systems, deliver new systems, and help solve computer or system related problems.
    • Supervised a team of student programmers and a student technical writer.

12/89 - 5/91 Optical Publishing, Inc., Fort Collins, CO
Programmer
    • Wrote, maintained, and enhanced a system which sorted and compressed data from tapes to be published on CD ROM, in a C programming environment on an IBM mainframe.
    • Responsible for design of compression algorithms, running the system, and testing.

8/88 - 5/89 Virginia Tech College of Education, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Graduate Assistant/Lab Supervisor, 20 hrs/wk
    • Assisted users of a education department computer lab.
    • Planned and implemented a Macintosh localtalk network,
    • Installed hardware and software, eradicated viruses, and maintained printers.

9/87 - 5/88 Virginia Tech Dept of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 20 hrs/wk.
    • Held office hours to answer students’ questions.
    • Prepared and graded computer science assignments.


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