Collin Cusce was born on March 1st, 1982 in Hampton, Va. Showing an interest in computers at an early age, he began an interest in programming at age 12. Learning HTML at age 15, by the age of 16 he landed an internship at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va. working for the Electronic Media group. There Collin learned the basics of database administration, Perl CGI, and (then) Allaire’s Coldfusion software. His responsibilities included: content creation, CMS creation, Rapid Application Development, project presentation and proposal creation, basic photo editing, and information organization and design.
During this time, Collin graduated from Grafton High School in Yorktown and began to pursue his Associates in Computer Science at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Va. By the end of his 3 years at Jefferson Labs, Collin had assumed many responsibilities that were above and beyond a typical intern. Nearing completion of his Associates, it was time to move on. Leaving Jefferson Labs, Collin took a small break from programming in 2003 to pursue his B.S. in Computer Science.
Collin worked in the Computer Labs as a technical advisor and lab monitor in 2004. In 2005, a small start up called Mentics, Inc. hired Collin as a contract programmer specializing in AJAX. In the summer of 2006, Collin was hired as a summer intern at AOL under their Core Services department. At AOL, Collin was responsible for creating reporting tools that aided in Systems Administration and Management. These tools used the iterative properties of AJAX to poll information from a large system in chunks manageable by the server.
Since this time, Collin has been working on small contract work for Drupal CMS at the George Mason Research I building. Collin has been continuing to educate himself and stay as up-to-date as possible on all relevant areas of technology. He is excited by the recent changes made to Actionscript and plans to release games in his spare time that take full advantage of the speed increase. Collin obtained an internship at SAP handling documentation and quality assurance as training for C# and Java programming for their procurement software where he worked for six months. Now Collin is a Senior Web Developer developing a custom CMS for Wireless Media Consulting.
