About James Shimada

I became interested in the Web while working for WatchGuard Technologies after graduating from New York University with a Bachelor's of Music in 1998. Besides WatchGuard, I've worked as a Staff Consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation. While I was with CSC, my time was dedicated to their client, Amazon.com, working as a User Interface Engineer for the Promotions team. My areas of expertise as a software developer include:

Advanced Web technologies - My career has been focused on Web-based systems, working on projects such as building centralized software licensing services for WatchGuard firewall products to designing feature-rich Web applications in the Amazon environment. I'm the author and maintainer of Speller Pages, a DHTML spell-checking interface, and my publication DHTML, Standards and Browser Compatibility describes some considerations for building dynamic, standards-based Web client applications.

Internationalization - I'm interested in the problems involved with writing globalized software and the processes and tools that support localization. At Amazon, my efforts led to the internationalization of the Promotions Manager, which was the first globalized merchant applicaiton on the Seller Central platform. At WatchGuard, I worked with content creators to design a Web publishing process for multilingual content and developed Unicode-based publishing tools.

Project Management - My experience includes working as a Senior Developer/Project Manager for WatchGuard. Although my direction is more on the technology side, I've found that a background and experience in Project Management is very useful in staying focused as an engineer and student.

My résumé is available for download (PDF).