About Me

My name is John Schilling.   I am a web developer and programmer in the Las Vegas, NV area.  I work mostly in Microsoft .NET technologies such as C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Web Services, Silverlight and .NET application programming.  I am also very familiar with JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, IIS 5/6/7 and AJAX.

My passion for programming computers started when I was about 12 years old. My parents owned an Apple computer which was very primitive compared to the computers we have today (it used a tape deck for data storage). The computer had a programming language called BASIC and I began to use it to write very simple programs. Later, in high school, I took a programming class and learned QBasic which was installed on older Windows operating systems. I also started to write Windows programs using Visual Basic 2.0. It was around this time when the internet started to become popular.

After seeing websites on the internet, I wanted to learn how to create web pages and discovered that websites are built using pages written HTML. I attended LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, UT where I earned an Associate’s degree in Web Development. I excelled in my studies and learned more advanced topics on my own. The staff quickly realized my level of knowledge and the college hired me to be their part-time computer tutor.

During my time in college, I joined the US Army Reserves in 2001. I spent 8 years in military service and spent a year deployed in Kuwait. I was honorably discharged in 2009 after completion of my 8 year contract.

I enjoy computers, hiking, football and spending time with my wife and three children.