Shawn Mervin

Equipment rentals, stucco, and construction — Edmonton, AB

• Built and operate the open-source ERP the business runs on end to end: assets, billing, employees, jobs, maintenance, and payroll.
• Currently modernising it in place — legacy CodeIgniter application, a React web app, and a React Native field app running the same operations in parallel with no maintenance window.
• Retrofitted explicit tenant separation, role-based access control, and white-label branding so the system can be resold to other rental yards.
• Built and shipped Lend Pilot, a multi-tenant SaaS for private mortgage lenders, solo — Node, Express, PostgreSQL, React, Docker Compose on EC2 (loans.supersonicrentals.ca).
• Integrated Claude into Lend Pilot for structured extraction from borrower documents, deliberately keeping all qualification arithmetic in deterministic code.
• Created an IoT solution for tracking rented equipment.
• AWS setup, configuration, and maintenance for two WordPress sites, three applications, and email systems across both companies.

Heavy machinery parts and sales

• Designed and oversaw delivery of an end-to-end ERP on a LAMP stack with SuiteCRM and Twilio, driving inbound sales funnels and IVR.
• Used Twilio Autopilot to unify customer experience across applications, email, SMS, web, and voice.
• Managed the team delivering the ERP, website, I/T infrastructure, and security systems.
• Designed, documented, and built an annual inventory system and a warehouse bin-location system.
• Built a customer-facing solution for tracking customer assets, and Cordova apps published to Google Play and the App Store.
• Scraped machine make, model, and type data worldwide to seed the parts catalogue.
• Maintained and extended the company intranet toolset in JavaScript, HTML, PHP, and MySQL.
• Designed and documented the I/T build-out for a building expansion and directed the trades delivering it.

Gold, silver, and copper mining

• Built an object-oriented Flex, PHP, and MySQL CRM tracking investors, investment activity, and user statistics, including tax issuance and shareholder communication.
• Built the AGM shareholder mailing system — merged, addressed, and printed 1,800 letters for each of Eagle Peak, Metal Mountain, and Rich Rock ahead of the annual general meetings.
• Designed, documented, and delivered custom applications against company requirements.
• Managed the team delivering ERP, website, infrastructure, and security work.
• Network administration, design, documentation, maintenance, and support.
• Content, design, and delivery for print, presentation, web, and CD/DVD.

Self-employed

• Delivered several hundred websites across thirty years and a wide range of technologies.
• Produced hundreds of one-off multimedia pieces — 3D turnarounds, interactive CD-ROMs, and presentations — plus print production for many clients.
• Built customer-tailored solutions in ActionScript, AJAX, Flex, Corona, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, and PHP.
• Completed London Drugs contracts upgrading point-of-sale systems, and rolled out end-to-end POS solutions including Starbucks across British Columbia.
• Built the public website for the Zero Cut Tax Disability Society pro bono — twelve pages, no framework, no third-party requests.
• Built and deployed railandsailmh.ca for Rail & Sail Montessori House, Richmond — eight pages in Next.js, statically exported to S3, CloudFront, and Route 53.

Full detail at mervinc.com/history

• B3 Communications Inc. (May 2007 — May 2008) — luxury real estate marketing. Built the interactive "Experience Engines" running in sales showrooms, including Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Kulalani, and Chateau Heavenly Village.
• Marsh Canada Ltd. (Apr 2006 — Apr 2007) — insurance brokerage. Built a PHP and MySQL content management system for underwriting documents; document and CD-ROM production.
• NexInnovations (July 2001 — Apr 2003) — scripted IBM's Tivoli Network Management suite in Java; third-level support desk, dispatch, and service-call reporting for BC Hydro.
• IBM Canada (Jan 1996 — July 2001) — planned, documented, and tracked small teams across multiple customer environments, delivering projects from hardware installations to complex internet e-business solutions, with risk, cost, and milestone reporting to enterprise clients.

Art Institute of Vancouver — Burnaby, BC

• Two years across the full game production pipeline: character design, storyboarding, and traditional animation through to Maya, Motion Builder, Photoshop, Flash, and Unreal Editor.
• Programming for games in ActionScript alongside the art curriculum.

IBM Canada

• Internet technologies, web application design, e-business solutions, and e-business security.