Justin Mason

Anyone who is creative, open-minded, and has common interests. People with ambition and motivation, crazy ideas, and who aren't afraid to be themselves and live their lives.

Programming Experience:

Design Experience:

Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, traditional raster images, vector images and plotting, 3D design & animation (classic 3dFX, Maya and 3DStudio), AutoCAD design, and advanced photo manipulation. My media design has been published worldwide via several different media outlets including both digital and print.

Networking Experience:

Windows Server environments certified systems engineer with nearly a decade's experience in system maintenance and trouble shooting, and design/deployment of advanced telecommunication and networking infrastructures.

My Development Projects:

Web-Based Content Management System (2007-2008) --
After being with my firm for several months, it became apparent that there was need for website content management for our clients. Before my arrival there were several “canned” products utilized by the company, however none of them really suited our clients' needs, and they were a pain to customize in any way. So, in 2007 I set about on developing from the ground up our very own CMS system. Now being used on nearly fifty of our client websites, it's become a staple of the web development team. The application includes multi-accounts with tiered access levels, inline file-management, WYSIWYG content management, multi-templates and skinning, dynamically generated menus, dynamically generated breadcrumbs links, dynamically generated site map, among many other features including inline flash and video integration, as well as photo management. It's a complete package that can handle just about anything thrown at it.

Phishing Tracking Technology (2006-2007) --
Phishing (or identity theft) is a major economical issue world wide. In response to the requests of clients I went about conceptualizing a method of tracking and holding legally liable individuals who engage in this crime. This lead me to create a new and never before utilized technology. Unfortunately I cannot in depth explain how this technology functions, or the clients who utilize it. I can share that the technology has been a resounding success leading to the busting of phishing rings before they can even successfully launch their attack against banks, investment organizations, and payment processing companies halting would have otherwise been substantial monetary losses to the clients. This project has also given me the opportunity to work with the United States FBI and the United States Department of Justice to better hone the technology. I’m very proud to be the creator and developer of this technology, not only for the unique opportunity to be apart of a new technology, but also because I see phishing as the most repulsive and cowardly form of theft. Currently the technology is in the process of copyright and trademark proceedings, but I look forward to seeing it utilized with increasing frequency in the near future.

Transportation Scheduling System (2005-2006) --
My client for this project was the regional transportation coalition. This coalition consisted of over a dozen individual transportation solutions as well as the city-wide transportation. The coalition was formed into a response to a state-funded mandate to better manage local transportation in the regional counties by utilizing not only buses, but taxi services, and van transportation solutions. The need was for a normalized and unified scheduling system so all the separate companies could communicate and work in unison. This solution was an in-depth scheduling system driven by ASP and MySQL. It handled routine trips as well as custom trips, and provided an advance account system where central management could pass down transportation requests to the relevant service. It included dynamic mileage calculation as well as on-screen route maps. The application also prepares and transmits a series of reports required by the state government. This solution has been utilized by regional transportation for going on four years. There have been minimal updates and additions to the software, but essentially the core remains the same as it was on the final production date.

Production Efficiency Monitoring Interface (2004-2005) --
My client for this project was an international production company. They had half a dozen plants worldwide, and over a hundred machines they needed a dependable interface to monitor production efficiency to better increase the validity of their forecasting reports. This project was my solution to their request: a MS SQL driven application that utilized several compatible sensor technologies on the myriad of machines to log the data. A predefined quota for each was defined by management, and utilized to output efficiency reports. These reports were translated into color-coded easy-to-understand display screens which were fed to massive plasma screens hung high from the ceiling near each group of machines. This way the plant workers could monitor their own efficiency, and the management could monitor from anywhere in the world through a VPN-based back-end. It also consisted of an alert system, and would log error codes for the machines to notify the proper engineer/maintenance personnel with the cause of the error the moment that it occurred so said personnel would arrive immediately on scene, with the proper tools, and fully aware of the reason for the machine downtime.

Automated Sales & Inventory Forecasting (2002-2003) --
This project was for a major manufacturing company who required accurate sales forecasting and inventory forecasting for their products. It required advanced integration into the sales systems for many chain stores including Kmart, Walmart, Sears, Kohl's, Dollar General, Target, and JC Penny for over one thousand individual items. The application pulled relevant item data on a daily basis from the many sales/inventory systems and generated relevant weight-able reports that included pre-defined schemas for regional, seasonal and micro-marketing reports. It also integrated these reports into at-a-glance 'plan-o-gram' reports for product placement in the individual stores locations. This application also integrated dynamically with NPD consumer marketing reports to allow for the detection of upcoming trends based on consumer product consumption.

My Web Design/Development Portfolio: