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Programmers

Brydon Zahn

Brydon Zahn completed his Digital and Interactive Media Design program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 2004 at the age of 18. He has worked for Chinook since the summer of 2004. Brydon is a skilled Flash and Director programmer. He was the lead Flash programmer in the development of cooleCreate and the lead Director programmer for the Chinook Online RPG Engine. Brydon is fluent in HTML, CSS, Javascript, ActionScript, Lingo, and XML. He works in the following software programs: Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Discreet 3D Studio Max, Director, and Plasma. His particular area of expertise is ActionScript programming. Brydon's responsibilities include managing special projects, such as our current development of cooleShow.

Kevin Newcombe

Kevin Newcombe graduated with honors from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Digital and Interactive Media Design program in 2005, including a 3-month stint as a practicum student at Chinook Multimedia. In January 2007, he returned to Chinook as a full–time employee, putting the finishing touches on the the most recent Pearson Education social studies CD-ROM, before heading up the HTML development of two Virtual Museum of Canada Web sites. Kevin frequently develops with HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, Ajax, MySQL, and Actionscript, as well as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Kevin's main areas of expertise are (x)HTML, CSS, php, Javascript, and php.

Ryan Sherrington

Ryan Sherrington joined the Chinook staff in March 2006. Ryan has several years of experience in the software industry and is working on his computing science degree at the University of Alberta. He works in the following development languages: Actionscript / Flash, PHP, SQL, C#, C, bash scripting, Javascript, HTML, XML, Perl, and Java. He is most familiar with MySQL and Apache client/server technologies, RedHat Linux and XP operating systems. Ryan is not only a gifted programmer but extraordinarily hard working and fast. His particular area of expertise is MySQL.