Superzanywords.com is a site conceived and produced by Charles Shepherd. Charles is a Multimedia Guru, who in 1995 received his degree in multimedia from San Jose State . During his time at San Jose State he produced an educational CD-ROM for "The Oakland Zoo," which took the viewer on a virtual tour of zoo. Also at the same time Charles worked for the prestigious firm "CKS" in Cupertino, CA; where he worked on in-store demos and sales CD-ROM's for such clients as Apple, HP, and Compaq.

In fall of 1998, Charles went back to school to study both classical and 3D animation from Cogswell College. During his time at Cogswell College , he worked on a freelance job for Color Vu. At Color Vu he produced an exceptional sales CD-ROM that won "a honor of distinction." in The Communicator Award (2000).

In May of 2000, Charles was contracted to work on a sales CD-ROM for the educational company "Zapme!" in San Ramon. While at Zapme, he also worked on various other multimedia projects.

Since 2002, Charles has been working as an Implementation Specialist on interactive sales training CD-ROM’s and sites for Autovod.

Since 2005, Charles has been working in the education field as a Computer Media Specialist for an East Bay School District, providing a variety of instructional support to individuals or small groups of students at an elementary and middle school, teaching the fundamentals of computers and software.

In the past years from working in the multimedia field and education field, Charles found that many of the education websites were too complicated for younger kids to use in a classroom or a home setting. Charles also talked to teachers and studied kids interacting with educational websites and CD-ROM’s. After years of watching kids interact with educational software, Charles decided to build a website (SuperZanyWords.com) that was easy and fun for kids to use, while encouraging them to build vocabulary and a love of reading!