I am a Student at Iowa State University majoring in Software Engineering graduating next Semester (Spring 2016). I am passionate about business, technology, and making a difference. I'd definitely recommend checking out www.ShaunVanWeelden.com along with the rest of my profile here. I genuinely enjoy programming and immersing myself in the research and technology going on around me. I am always learning new things every single day and I couldn't be happier. I love applying what I learn to the challenging projects I work on at work, while doing consulting, and even just in my own "for fun" projects. I am very passionate about web design and web applications. I have designed and coded every part of www.thebookdump.com, one of the businesses I have co-founded as well as writing almost all the code for www.brickit.co - a web app that allows you to take images you upload and turn them into beautiful LEGO mosaics, fully editable and with a free instruction manual so you can build it later. My personal site www.ShaunVanWeelden.com is another example of my work and contains many more links to other projects. I am currently looking for summer 2016 internship opportunities or if you'd like to hire me full time while I finish up my degree (open to relocation and 40 hr/wk job with this), that would be amazing and I would love to have that discussion with you. Thanks for looking at my profile and feel free to contact me with anything!

Co-Founder, CTO @ SwirlMingle.com's mission is to show the world that love has no color. It's a place for those interested in dating interracially to meet, flirt, and message other like-minded people. We had 5500 users sign up in our first week and I am excited to see it's continued growth. I created the entire website from scratch including all UI work minus the logo. It's a beautiful ASP.net MVC web application that uses the Materialize CSS framework to look great on desktop and even better on mobile. I created an entire API to handle the messaging, flirting, and favoriting of users, as well as retrieving, blocking, and reporting users too. I designed and set up a SQL database to hold all the user information and integrated Amazon S3 to host our user's profile photos. I provide great customer support and have designed several of our email campaigns as well. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) SDE Intern @ Within the Microsoft Business Services (MBS) group, specifically Microsoft Dynamics, I worked on creating an easy to expand back-end framework for E-Commerce sites. The framework allowed us to easily add additional customer flows and do end-to-end testing. We used ASP.net MVC framework and specifically partial views to allow an easy to customize back-end solution.. I also got to do some front end work for the e-commerce sites which was a lot of fun! From May 2015 to August 2015 (4 months) SDE Intern @ Worked with the e-Commerce Solutions Group (eCSG) team to prototype out possible upcoming features to Amazon's mobile app specifically dealing with the ways customers enter and validate addresses. I got a chance to work with Scala, AJAX JS calls to custom server code I wrote, and an HTML Markup language called FreeMarker. From February 2015 to May 2015 (4 months) Co-Founder, Tech Guy @ The BookDump is a textbook return service for students and is the first to offer a "pick-up-at-your-door" service that pays cash for your books with a price guaranteed to beat the bookstore. I created the website, www.thebookdump.com, from scratch by myself. I pitched this business idea at the ISU Business Pitch competition and won "Best New Business Idea" and also pitched the idea at Des Moines "Pitch and Grow Competition" and won 1st place and $1000. The business plan my co-founders and I wrote was a state finalist in the Pappajohn Student Business Plan Competition in 2014. From September 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 5 months) MathWorks Student Ambassador @ Serve as a student representative for MathWorks products on the Iowa State University campus. Through this position, I interact with both faculty and students to enhance not only their product knowledge, but also provide practical examples and solutions to current engineering issues. Practical examples include demos, educational sessions, and peer mentoring. From August 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 5 months) IT Intern @ Worked on Agile team to develop method of integrating image comparison tests into standard JUnit framework. Designed launch configurations and wrote code to automate the writing of tests leading to 250 hours/saved a year writing test cases as well as a sharp reduction in the number of defects that slip through conventional JUnit testing. From May 2014 to August 2014 (4 months) Greater Seattle AreaWeb Applications Intern @ Designed web application using ASP.net MVC framework and C#. Gained exposure to agile team environment and participated in daily scrums. Used Microsoft's Team Foundation Server to commit code and participated in regular code reviews From August 2013 to May 2014 (10 months) MATLAB Freelance Consultant @ Completed over $4,000 worth of work dealing mostly with GUI's and Image Processing, if interested, either contact me directly or check out my online profile at elance.com: https://www.elance.com/s/shaun314 From March 2013 to May 2014 (1 year 3 months) FIRST LEGO League Chair @ - Added innovation to the university’s largest outreach event of the year - Coordinated 12 regional events across Iowa impacting nearly 4,000 kids - Led 15 member planning team and oversaw all operations of the event From August 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 6 months) Toying with Technology Teaching Assistant @ Toying with Technology is a class that teaches Education majors about how to teach the STEM fields to elementary aged children through fun and engaging activities. The class not only focuses on curriculum development, but also with providing students hands-on activities to better prepare them for the real-world. I assist in teaching class subjects as well as grading. I also lend my technical knowledge to make sure the technology utilized is fully functional and to fix bugs or issues as they come up. From August 2013 to December 2013 (5 months) Systems Engineering IT Intern @ From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) MATLAB Graphics Engineering Intern @ - Worked at the MathWorks headquarters in Natick, MA for one semester - Designed test suites to analyze customer and internal code primarily with graphics - Provided usability and functional recommendations for MATLAB updates From January 2013 to May 2013 (5 months) MATLAB Software Developer @ - Designed image processing GUI’s to characterize soot aggregates (stuff that comes out of your car exhaust) - Image Processing included binary thesholding, characterization and line detection - Developed full suite of tools to improve usability inside the MATLAB environment From August 2012 to May 2013 (10 months) MATLAB Tutor / Grader for ME 160 (intro to problem solving with MATLAB) @ - Tutored introductory MATLAB and problem-solving class 10 hours/week - Successfully broke down basic programming concepts to better educate non-programmers - Led review sessions, proctored exams, and graded homework for MATLAB class From February 2012 to December 2012 (11 months)

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering @ Iowa State University From 2011 to 2016 Pella High School Shaun VanWeelden is skilled in: Web Development, JavaScript, HTML, C#, Matlab, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Java, Entrepreneurship, Community Outreach, Public Speaking, Lego, Python, Microsoft Office, GUI development