OASIS (an acronym for Office Accounting Services and Information Systems) is a sister company to cj Advertising, Legal Intake Professionals, and Stuff4Lawyers. We specialize in providing accounting, human resources, information technology and software development services to all three of those companies, and in the future, we plan to provide those same services to other businesses.
The OASIS Software development team is comprised of three developers. We are moving to Agile development, focusing on Test-Driven Development, using iterations as per the Scrum method, and focusing mostly on development in ASP.NET with C#.
Jason Clark
Jason Clark is the Senior Web Developer. He is responsible for not only developing web applications using ASP.NET, but for overseeing the team and their needs. Jason started developing in BASIC and Logo at the tender age of 8, but decided that he enjoyed using other people’s applications more than he did developing.
He attended Brigham Young University, and after one semester as a Computer Science major he decided that he’d rather be sliced with a thousand razors and then bathe in lemon juice and salt water than develop software for a living.
Then the web happened. After falling in love with HTML, Jason realized there was far more to do with the web than just make it look pretty(ish). So he started developing a site for MECA, a car audio sports organization in PHP using MySQL.
Based on that experience, some morons at Dell decided he could do web development in ASP.NET, even though he’d never seen C code, and had never really played with Classic ASP. Brilliant move there! Jason fell in love with ASP.NET, MSSQL and (amazingly) C# and the rest has been history.
He joined cj Advertising as an ASP.NET developer in February of 2005 and redeveloped cj’s main media tracking tool (cjTrack) from a Windows Forms app using a weekly data upload from clients into a web applications with real time data and reporting.
Jason enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, taking the wastegates off of turbos on his cars, playing XBOX360 (gamertag: riceboyler) and watching Top Gear (the real one from the UK).
Dustin Potter
Dustin Potter is a PHP Guru, who is quickly becoming as adept at ASP.NET as he is with PHP. Dustin attended Tulane University where, in the midst of New Orleans (pre-Katrina), he managed to get a degree and learn a little about programming. How could anybody do that in New Orleans? Dustin actually loves Perl. He actually tried to write a Perl program that could harvest pearls. No, not really, but wouldn’t it be so literal if he had?
Prior to joining cj Advertising and OASIS, Dustin worked for Emdeon (aka WebMD) as a code monkey. He suddenly wised up and realized that Health Information Systems is the way to an early grave and decided he wanted to free his mind. Dustin has taken over the web application for Legal Intake Professionals (a 24/7 call center) and rewritten much of it to make it do far more than anyone ever imagined. In the next year, he’ll be leading a project to entirely rewrite this expansive call center application in ASP.NET to make for better scalability and maintainability.
Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson is the baby of the bunch, but he has taken to C# like Bill Gates takes to money. Ryan attended the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, where in between blizzards and watching his beloved Sabres play, he picked up a thing or two about computers and prior to coming to OASIS was a System Administrator for SASI, an adult services company. (Get your mind out of the gutter, not THAT kind of Adult services.) While there he developed the company’s web-site in ASP.NET and realized that his true calling was in development, not the messy business of infrastructure.
Ryan’s first project at cj was to redevelop a yellow page tracking tool originally mashed together by Jason using spaghetti, chorizo and sushi (it was a veritable multicultural nightmare). Ryan learned about AJAX, the AJAX Control Toolkit, MSSQL and just how interesting yellow pages can be while he redeveloped the application from a mess into an exemplary enterprise application that has allowed the Yellow Pages management team at cj to become 200 times more effective than they used to be. OK, maybe more like 10 times more effective, but it rocks.
Ryan’s passion in coding is for the deep dark back-end code and he loves code beautification. Going forward, he’ll be the real coder making all of the stuff that people use but never see. Seems great, doesn’t it Ryan?