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 Initiative

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 on our high-performance cluster, processing a file of 6,000,000+ observations for each variant of concern as well as other variants of interest.• 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.• Contributed nine sets of data about Covid tests to https://github.com/beoutbreakprepared/nCoV2019/Evaluations, September 2019 - April 2020Selected accomplishments• Helped IHME fulfill its mission of making its data freely available, by preparing four sets of primary survey data for GHDx publication. With four different survey designs, little documentation, and no one on those teams left at IHME to consult with, assessed the data for consistency and completeness. Wrote robust and reliable R code to rectify problems, anonymize the data, and create code books.• Supported project to decrease time of search for care in caregivers of children under five in Yucatan, Mexico, by working with the evaluations specialist to clean and analyze incoming survey data, and improve data collection. Helped communicate to the PI and other team members the patterns and accuracy of data by plotting response types of uncompleted household interviewers by interviewer; solved a problem that had eluded both of us: adding desegregated percentages to age x gender plots.• Regularly attended the Spanish Lunch Table, an informal gathering of Spanish speakers and Spanish learners.

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 deactivate unreturned cards.• 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 cards so it was easy to do accurately, designed and created clear documentation so the building's parking and cleaning services could update their records, and designed and user tested systems to support the card-exchange party.• 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 maintained code for 18 months.• Wrote Python program to create graphs of our coffee-ordering history, using the matplotlib package, to smooth out ordering levels.• Worked effectively and courteously with people from a wide variety of cultures and countries of origin.

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 lives.I'm a white woman with significant experience in a community of color, and I understand the special considerations of cross-cultural and cross-racial conversations and dispute resolution.If you're in a conflict with a team member or coworker, learn about the three ways people put barriers in their way of resolving conflict. Get my free ebook on how to Clear Your Path to Resolving Conflicts, at http://humaninterop.com/clear-your-path-ebook/.

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, and escaped bugs vs. releases.• 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 summaries, fees paid, and balances due. Maintained the database for three years.• 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 traffic.

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 development and several revision cycles; managed budget of $200,000.

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.

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