Louise Penberthy Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA

Cancer Tracking TeamTechnical contributions supporting the reduction of the burden of cancer* Write code in Python and R as part of our data-formatting pipeline.* Pull data from our shared databases to create tables and figures for publications.* Project-manage publications.Other activities* Decolonizing Global Health group* Making Coding Better at IHME.

• Pandemics, April 2020 - October 2021
• Supported the effort to save lives and reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, by writing and maintaining code in R to aggregate observations of virus variations from GISAID data for use in our modelling efforts. My code ran.
• Accurately and reliably extracted data from Covid-19 epidemiological bulletins in a wide variety of formats.
• Wrote code in R to extract location time-series data, cfr-age data, hosp-age data.
• Trained new team members on methods and standards.
• Continuously improved code and documentation.

• Selected Accomplishments
• Increased security at our primary location by writing SQL queries in our security-system software, to identify lost cards for deletion, create a list of all 483 access cards for an all-staff card exchange, and.
• Ensured continuous access to our primary location without security breaches by planning and executing the all-staff access-card exchange. Identified and prepared for nine use cases, planned the work of labeling 409 new.
• Increased usefulness of the Staff Directory by writing a Python program to check it for consistency with seating data from Personnel Pipeline. Ran and maintained code for 15 months.
• When Costco made it impossible for us to view our ordering data, wrote code in Ruby to extract the data from Costco’s web site. Extracted three and half years’ worth of data, both historical and ongoing. Ran and.
• Wrote Python program to create graphs of our coffee-ordering history, using the matplotlib package, to smooth out ordering levels.

Greater Seattle Area

I pay attention to what people need and want. I write articles and give talks on patterns I’ve noticed in my clients’ behavior, with strategies for avoiding the problems they've faced. I make the strategies and recommendations useful to anyone: business people, solopreneurs, members of service organizations, business groups, and people in their daily.

• I facilitated conversations with over 1,400 individuals in 600+ mediations to communicate effectively, create actionable plans to resolve their conflicts, and strengthen relationships.
• Successful with people of different organizational levels, cultures, communication styles, ethnicities, and skill sets.
• Assigned to more-complex cases, including those with cross-cultural communication.
• Co-mediated with trainee and new mediators, provided feedback.

• Selected accomplishments
• Guided a two-year-old Scrum team from good to even better, by helping them create their first-ever Definition of Done; trained team on story pointing; used JIRA to track metrics including sprint burned-down, velocity.
• Increased enrollment and student satisfaction at a Seattle theater festival by designing and implementing a registration database in Access; created reports to generate class lists, student schedules, enrollment.
• Helped Seattle-area arts organizations attract students, entice patrons, and make their websites easy to use, by programming web-based applications and website-maintenance tools in Perl; tracked and analyzed user.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Managed company-wide projects; liaised with up to 9 stakeholders, including CEO, COO, CFO and four VPs/division heads; managed teams including programmers, graphic designers, technical leads, and database designers; was user-interface designer and information architect.

Greater Atlanta Area

Taught Organizational Behavior courses for majors, and introductory programming and information systems courses for majors and non-majors; developed and taught special-topics upper-level course in Hypermedia; advised CS/IS majors; member of faculty team designing new master’s degree program in New Media.

Atlanta, GA

Managed web-based application project to automate and streamline sales-tracking system used by 1,200 mid-market sales people, their managers, up to the VP level; hired team members; managed programmers, database designer and programmer, and testers; coordinated with creative director and graphic artist; programmed in PL/SQL; ten-month project with initial.

Ms, Information Design And Technology

Activities and Societies: Drama Tech

M.S., Computer Science -- Artificial Intelligence

Business Development, Graphic Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science/Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Cross-country team. Friday Society. Minor in English Literature.

Education record