User:Skamansam

Education
Samuel C. Tyler is a undergraduate student at the [wiki:University of North Carolina at Greensboro], majoring in Computer Science.

Work
Sam has been a web developer for the largest school at UNCG - the school of Arts and Sciences, which is comprised of over 30 departments - since 2007. This position is a student worker position, so is not full-time. However, since his hiring, the normal IT for AAS do not typically handle web requests, instead specializing in BlackBoard support and online course design.

Sam has held many jobs in the restaurant industry, specializing in the preparation and cooking of food items for public consumption. His positions held range from line cook and kitchen manager to serving and service management.

Cooking
Sam started cooking in 1984, at 5 years old. He believes cooking is not a luxury, but a necessary survival skill, and as such, believes everyont should know how to prepare edibles for consumption.

Technology
Sam has always been interested in computers, ever since his mother bought an Amiga 500 in 1986. In 1994, Sam got his first personal computer, a Macintosh SE (original - not a "classic"). In 1995, he took up web design and programming, teaching himself HTML and JavaScript. He was given a more powerful computer in 1996, a Macintosh Performa 6200. On this new computer, he learned REALbasic and C. He was forced to learn 68000/PowerPC assembly when MacOS 8.1 was introduced, as this new computer was not supported by the newer operating system. In 1999, he was introduced to Linux by a friend, and has taken up Open Source software development, learning server-side web technologies like PHP, Perl, JSP, Ruby (rails), then expanding to other languages such as C/C++, Java, COBOL, SPARC Assembly, and Intel Assembly.

He is currently studying parallel computing, as he intends to create a Beowulf cluster for his senior project.

Projects
To learn more about his projects, go to http://rbe.homeip.net.

Website
Sam has been designing websites since 1995, has seen many revisions to web standards, and has tried to keep up with all of the emerging technologies for the WWW. He specializes in Accessibility and WWW standards conformance. You can find his web site at http://rbe.homeip.net.