About

Scott Rohde

Software Engineer

Phone
(217) 344-0444 x21

Scott left his beautiful home state of Oregon to study mathematics at the University of Illinois. Here's how he describes his path to becoming a programmer:

"My interest in computers dates from as early as age eleven, when, as a gift, I received my first computer. (It went by the name of 'Digicomp', had three bits of memory, and was programmed by inserting short plastic tubes onto plastic pegs.)"

Scott has programmed Java, Perl, Python, and XML for the McGraw-Hill project for which OJC has produced over 15 version of 7 different online economics textbook supplements over the course of 7 years. He wrote and maintained XML source files and their DTDs, maintained Makefile and Python scripts that transformed XML, and used the DiscoverEcon Java API to create and modify Java applets that are used as exercises, animations, and quizzes.

For the Stats Inc. project, Scott wrote XSLT transforms to efficiently pull sports statistics data from large XML files and present it in HTML fragments. Stats Inc. now applies these XSLT transformations to their up-to-date XML data in order to create HTML-rendered statistics which are provided to major sports media producers.

Most recently, Scott has been programming in PHP in conjunction with a vast array of Drupal projects that OJC Technologies is working on.