Elissa Thomas Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Support web applications that power internal and public-facing tools for a large public health institution.Develop and maintain high-quality documentation for technical projects.Served as Technical Lead for migration of Institute website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9.

Supported Drupal 7, 8, and 9 sites for nonprofit and government clients.

Providence, Rhode Island, Us

• Managed and delivered large-scale Drupal solutions for major corporate and nonprofit clients.• Conducted technical audits for new clients and contributed to RFPs for prospective clients.• Developed custom modules for Drupal 8 sites, leveraging Drupal architecture and APIs.• Implemented site integrations with third-party APIs.

Berkeley, California, Us

• Built and maintained web applications for internal staff utilizing Ruby on Rails and a test-driven development process.• Administered library Drupal websites, managing code deployments both on virtual machines and in Pantheon environments.• Created scripts in Ruby and Python to routinely provide data from campus sites to external vendors.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Utilized the Drupal framework to build custom modules, update theme templates, and perform UI customizations.• Maintained a Python API and built on additional features to serve Institute data for use in both public-facing and IHME-only tools.• Collaborated with front-end and back-end team members using Git repositories and sub-modules to integrate HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and PHP modules and libraries.• Utilized Jenkins, Docker, and Rancher for application deployment.• Created bash scripts using Linux and Drush commands to perform routine tasks on sites.• Prepared for migration of websites to Drupal 8.• Worked closely with project managers, product owners, and other members of the IT team to collect requirements, estimate work, and ensure that projects are delivered according to schedule.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Provided research support for IHME project teams, covering demographics, epidemiology, and health surveillance.• Created and managed content for the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), a public online catalog of health and demographic datasets.• Performed indexing and cataloging of a large number of datasets in a variety of formats, including censuses, surveys, facility records, and administrative data.• Conducted training workshops for colleagues on use of SQL queries, Microsoft Excel, and Stata.

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Guided new computer users with basic word processing and Internet navigation.• Created and published original content for branch blog.• Trained other staff members in use of Ektron web content management system.• Served on national web design task force for the Association for Library Service to Children.• Performed additional librarian duties of reference assistance, readers' advisory, public programming, and collection maintenance.

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Processed interlibrary loans and handled basic circulation desk duties.• Performed librarian duties of reference assistance, readers' advisory, computer training, public programming, and collection maintenance.

B.A., Writing/English, Minor In Computer Science

M.L.S., Library & Information Science