Shari Roberts is an experienced multimedia and web programmer. After receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics in 1990, she entered the marketing department of a high-tech company (then called MicroSim Corporation, now Cadence Design). There she worked on product demos, tradeshow presentations, online tutorials and marketing communications writing. After four years with MicroSim, Shari moved to Portland, Oregon where she joined a multimedia firm, Planet Productions, in downtown Portland. While at Planet Productions, Shari created several interactive training programs, including a special CD-ROM training program for the Portland Art Museum. It was during this time that she began work in the web environment.

In 1997, Shari left Planet to pursue freelance programming work. In 1999-2000, she ran a Macromedia User’s Group (Portland Oregon Developer’s Group http://www.wildraven.com/paug/) to facilitate group discussion of technical issues. Currently Shari works for a variety of clients producing training CDs, informational websites, interactive web training programs and general marketing multimedia pieces.

Shari is experienced in Macromedia Director, Authorware, Flash, Dreamweaver, Javascript, PHP, Adobe Photoshop.