Shawn Thompson

February 2020 - present — Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — Montreal, Que.

Web Accessibility Technical Advisor CS03 — Innovation, Information and Technology Branch (IITB) — Web Standards Centre of Expertise (WS-CoE)

• Active member of three interdepartmental working groups:
  • Interdepartmental ICT Accessibility Conformance Reporting Task Force,
  • Interdepartmental Working Group for the Measurement of Accessible ICT,
  • Access Working Group.
• Developed and maintain the ESDC / IT Accessibility office public facing website.
• Work with developers to include accessible at the early stage in development of an application.
• Work with developers to establish an accessibility presence within the DevOps community.
• Research accessibility trends.
• Coach colleagues on accessibility technologies.
• Reply to different inquiries from IT professionals on accessibility matters.

February - April 2019 & August - November 2019 — Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — Montreal, Que.

IM/IT Technical Specialist Technical Advisor CS03 — Innovation, Information and Technology Branch (IITB) — Web Standards Centre of Expertise (WS-CoE)

• Chair weekly "Accessibility Best Practices" meetings regarding accessibility trends.
• Review colleagues’ accessibility assessments.
• Create challenges for colleagues to learn new technology.
• Work directly with clients to help make applications accessible / inclusive.
• Organize WAI-ARIA training for WS-CoE team and included developers within IITB and other GoC Departments.
• Member of the Employees with Disabilities Network (EWDN), focusing on hidden disabilities.
• Speaker on panel during International Day of Disabled Persons 2019 event in Montreal.

October 2016 – February 2020 — Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — Montreal, Que.

IM/IT Programmer Analyst CS02 — Innovation, Information and Technology Branch (IITB) — Web Standards Centre of Expertise (WS-CoE)

• Lead developer on the Centrally Deployed Templates Solution (CDTS) framework used by more than 300 websites and application within the Government of Canada
• Develop a new version of the CDTS framework which will be open source
• Administrator of the CDTS project on GCCode (internal Gitlab service), creating a workflow for others to follow and maintaining reported issues.
• Active contributor on the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) open source project.
• Audit ESDC websites and application to ensure conformance to the Web Standards of the Government of Canada
• Work with clients on how to make their web applications and content more accessible to all users
• Host spontaneous learning sessions with colleagues on various current web technologies such as Git, node.js, structured data (also known as microdata) and the Web Experience Toolkit version 4.0.
• Member of the WET 5 working group, developing the future framework for all Government of Canada websites and application to use.

January 2014 – October 2016 — Service Canada — Ottawa, Ont.

Web Specialist (front end) - Web Channel Office - Usability and Design Team

• Developed and maintained the GCWeb theme for the Government of Canada's Web Experience Toolkit (WET) project on Github.
• Administrator and contributor on the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) open source project.
• Worked with the early adopters of the Canada.ca theme in implementing the theme on their own websites.
• Prepared procedures for colleagues to explain how to use git and how to publish to the Canada.ca theme on Github.com.
• Chaired weekly "codesprints" at Concordia University to encourage students and staff involvement in the Government of Canada's open source Web Experience Toolkit project.
• Host spontaneous learning sessions with colleagues on various current web technologies such as Git, node.js and the Web Experience Toolkit version 4.0.
• Create technical web components specification for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) Content and Information Architecture Specifications document based on business needs of the clients.
• Worked on the Adobe Experience Manager components for Canada.ca using tools such as Java, Jenkins and Apache Maven

September 2013 – December 2013 — Service Canada—Ottawa, Ont. (Acting AS-04)

Web Specialist - Web Channel Office - Design Team

• Planned, developed, tested for the initial launch of new Canada.ca site in December 2013.

July 2008 – September 2013 — Service Canada — Ottawa, Ont.

Web Specialist - Web Channel Office - Web Publishing Team (AS-03)

• Facilitated learning sessions with clients, colleagues and managers to demonstrate tools such as Dreamweaver, web browser add-ons and other techniques used to develop and maintain Web pages.
• Audited webpages that were published to ServiceCanada.gc.ca to ensure compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standards and other Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) web standards.
• Maintained and organized Websites using both File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Interwoven Teamsite as a Content Management System (CMS).
• Member of the HRSDC Web Standards Subject Matter Expert (SME) group, was responsible for the review of web content and/or web application output for a specific group within the organization.
• Developed and maintained different Government of Canada Websites including, canada.gc.ca, servicecanada.gc.ca, pwd-online.ca, seniors.gc.ca and news.gc.ca.
• Built the servicecanada.gc.ca template using the WET version 3.1.8 framework.

Computer software:

• Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Flash, Acrobat X, Lightroom 5
• Adobe Experience Manager Development
• Git and Microsoft Visual SafeSource
• Microsoft VS Code
• Content Management Systems: Interwoven's Teamsite, RedDot, Adobe Experience Manager, Wordpress

Computer languages:

• XHTML, HTML 4.0 and HTML5
• Cascading Style Sheet (CSS2 and CSS3, LESS and SASS)
• JavaScript
  • jQuery, assembleJS, vueJS
  • JSON
  • js, npm, nvm
  • grunt, gulp, webPack
• Ajax
• PHP
• .Net
• XML

Certificates from Eliquo in the following:

• Testing Websites and Documents with Screen Reading Technologies (SRTs) on Mobile for iOS and Android
• WCAG 2.0: Understanding the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Overview of WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Adobe Acrobat Pro: Accessible PDFs with WCAG 2.0
• WET: Implementing the Standard on Web Interoperability
• Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Migrating to WET and the Usability Theme
• Web Experience Toolkit (WET) for Designers and Developers
• JavaScript: Advanced Scripting
• jQuery
• PHP: An Introduction
• PHP: Advanced Scripting
• Learning HTML5
• CSS: Advanced Layout Techniques Including CSS

Certificates from Lynda.com in the following:

• Administering Google Apps
• Web Workflows with Grunt.js
• Up and Running with AngularJS 1
• Foundations of Photography: Flash
• js First Look
• CSS: Flexbox First Look
• JavaScript Templating
• Web Semantics
• Protecting Yourself from the Heartbleed Bug
• Foundations of UX: Usability Testing (2013)
• Web Technology Fundamentals
• Start with a Theme: Creative Portfolios in WordPress
• Start with a Theme: Twenty Fourteen
• WordPress Essential Training (2014)
• JavaScript and AJAX
• Up and Running with Bootstrap 3
• CSS with LESS and Sass
• Mobile Web Design & Development Fundamentals
• Dreamweaver CS6 New Features
• jQuery Mobile Essential Training
• Dreamweaver CS5.5 New Features
• Setting Up MySQL 5 for PHP in Windows
• Setting Up PHP 5 for Windows with Apache or IIS
• Windows 7 Essential Training

Other training sessions

• The 'Web Accessibility Standard for the Government of Canada' course (3 days – Canada School of the Public Service (CSPS)
• WCAG 2.0 Assessment Methodology (ESDC in-house training)
• An overview of Assistive Technologies (AT) and how they are used (ESDC in-house training)