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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Gridium makes software to assist analysis and management of energy use in large urban buildings.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Turning good-for-government ideas into good-for-people solutions.At 10x, we crowdsource ideas from federal employees and turn them into real products that improve the public’s experience with the federal government.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Assisting the U.S. public sector in improving access, availability, and user experience for a wide array of digital resources.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Design next-generation metadata tools for demographic research using Python, Pandas, and Jupyter. Develop, enhance, and optimize existing legacy code. Collaborate with researchers to identify data work-flow needs of the center. Evaluate new software technologies for meeting future performance and maintainability goals. Collaborate with IT core staff on.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Design and develop user interface for new employee self-service web application products using Javascript, jQuery, CSS and SASS. Work closely with business analysts on one end to define and enhance the user experience, and software engineers on the other to define, develop, and mature the communication with the server. Continuously integrate new user.

Built web-based automated load and performance testing for cloud services.

As a software developer for Logitech, I have been involved in delivering the next generation in the line of Squeezebox network music players. I am involved in user-interface development on the players as well as the communication API between server and client in this ecosystem.I began this work as an open-source community developer and product enthusiast.

Software test automation including digital line length simulation for qualifying DSL modems.Engineering services support, including automated software build responsibilities, bug database design/maintenance/administration, and source code repository integration and custom web tools.Built product quality tracking database to analyze RMAs and target problem.

Wrote CGI applications to assist earth system scientists to extract subsets of AVHRR satellite data. Built repeatable visual workflows to achieve this goal.

Santa Barbara, California Area

Wrote and carried out test cases and plans for system quality assurance on ACC's line of routers and access gear. Designed automation scripts in Perl for rapid execution of test cases. Authored test plans, compiled and presented results, worked hands-on with software engineering team to address issues.

M.S., Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Master's degree in Ecology studying the effects of subterranean herbivore disturbance (pocket gopher mounds) on above-ground vole.

B.S., Zoology

B.S. Zoology

Education record