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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead team development and maintenance of product/data integration platforms and transactional messaging product.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead team development and maintenance of product/data integration platforms and transactional messaging product.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Since joining GovDelivery (now Granicus), I have been an engineering member of teams responsible for GovDelivery's TMS (transactional email & SMS), Interactive Text/Textizen (SMS based polling), and Connect (CRM contact integration).60% part time until March 2017, full time since

St. Paul, Mn

MNCOGI provides public education on government transparency, government information policy, and related issues.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As Technology Coordinator, I'm primarily responsible for maintenance and development of E-Democracy's technology platform. I've served as a one-person software development team performing duties across product management, project management, and software engineering.Most of my software development work related to E-Democracy can be found at https://github.com/e-democracyAccomplishments:Defined software development processes; created developer documentation, and facilitated communications between organization staff, international open source platform developers, and local technology contractors;Performed two significant modernization projects on GroupServer, the Zope 2 & Python based communications platform used by E-Democracy: an HTML topics digest email and a web frontend redesign.Created a new, in-person group enrollment process, and supporting software based on Google App Engine and the Google Drive API, which successfully handled ~1700 in-person group signups.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Participating as a researcher, analyst, and author on a project that is modernizing the facilities, processes, and practices of work. In the past I have also researched the state of broadband deployment in MN.Accomplishments:Co-authored a 60 page report describing the current use of IT within the company and the industry and suggesting next steps;Assisted in the research and content creation for intracompany wiki on business collaboration software and IT;Balanced part-time work with my responsibilities as an RA, a member of student government, a student, and a thesis author.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As co-founder I have worked with my partner to define the services that FriendlyToS hopes to deliver to users. As co-developer, I have assisted in designing and implementing the software needed to provide our services: tracking and explaining of website terms of services. In addition, I have been the lead contributor to the project's blog.Accomplishments:Early implementation of HTML to Markdown translator and early implementation of a webpage text scraper;Created content concerning Internet regulation news & concepts accessible to a general audience;Learned Python while actively developing with it.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Research Assistant in the Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy (CSTPP) and the Center for Sustainable Polymers (CSP) I worked to engage the public in bio-based plastics science & development. This work included maintaining CSP's website & expanding its online presence, contributing content to CSTPP's Policy Catalyst blog, assisting science graduate students in communicating their research to the general public, and investigating the current policy environment and potential policy alternatives related to sustainable polymers.Accomplishments:Assisted in planning, logistics, and content creation for CSP's State Fair exhibit;Balanced RA work with my responsibilities as a part-time Thomson Reuters employee, a member of student government, a student, and a thesis author.

Greater Boston Area

Was provided the opportunity to design and implement a webservice that monitors the terms of services of other websites and alters users to their changes. Early into the internship, the EFF released TosBack.org, and my internship evolved into building upon TosBack.org and expanding its functionality.Accomplishments:Implemented TosBack.org in symfony;Improved the open source Body Text Extraction algorithm from 0(n 3) to O(n 2);Developed a Perl-based website text scrapper;Developed a Javascript frontend that allows users to contribute websites of their own to the webservice;Learned Perl while actively developing with it.

New Paltz, Ny

As a personal project, a friend and I started CelebrityBarFight.com, a game/humor site that presented celebrities in hypothetical fights and asked users to select the celebrity they felt would win the fight.While developing the website I created a model-view-controller site framework based on Propel and Flexy. In addition, I implemented the application logic of the website, a web-based frontend for users, a web-based admin panel for management of content and users, and an ad rotation and display system with corresponding admin interface.

New Paltz, Ny

Contributed to Geeklog's AptitudeCMS, an open source content management system, by designing and implementing a social networking plugin for the project.Accomplishments:Created design documentation for a social networking extension to an evolving model-view-controller platform;Implemented proof of concept of the above design while the platform's code base evolved quickly.

Poughkeepsie, Ny

Was the developer of a web application that provided for the creation, editing, and viewing of mathematical models of reliability for company products.Accomplishments:Successfully argued for a new development plan based on analysis of existing code and the business needs of the application;Created new development design and implementation;Balanced part-time work with student responsibilities.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Researched the state of the art of computing applications in the field of medicine. Developed a design and proof-of-concept for a distributed search and statistical analysis program to recommend medical procedures based on diagnoses and aggregate patient histories.

Ms, Science, Technology, And Enviromental Policy

Activities and Societies: Technology Officer of Public Affairs Student Association, Member of Student Advisory Board of Office.

B.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, ACM, Pi Mu EpsilonMinor in Mathematics. Completed Research concentration, including the writing.