Profile
Very interested in many areas of science, technology, and the impacts they have on people’s lives. Have had the amazing opportunity to explore my interests with previous employers and gain a broad range of skills. Extremely excited by the prospect of continuing to learn new technologies, developing intuitive tools to organize information, and being part of an organization that makes a difference.
Experience
Engineering Project Manager/Web Applications Developer.
Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA. 2008 - Present.
Project manager in the Mac OS X Software Updates Program Office. Work with engineering teams and management to define the content of updates. Oversee the technical aspects of building and packaging updates. Also responsible for the creation and maintenance of web-based tools for managing the update process.
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer.
Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA. 2006 - 2008.
Deployed LDAP authentication in two departments to replace NIS and local authentication. Managed the departmental file servers, clusters, directory servers, database servers, email servers, web servers, and backup servers. Provided training for lab and administrative users for various web applications. Developed and maintained nine web applications used by researchers and departmental administration. Integrated all web resources with the centralized authentication, storage, and backup infrastructure. Provided training for researchers and administrative users for various web applications.
Research Assistant.
Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA. 2004 - 2006.
Performed and analyzed MRI scans to detect neuroanatomical differences in people suffering from schizophrenia. In a separate research project, assisted the principle investigator with the isolation of a group of proteins involved in the “hedgehog” pathway.
Web Applications Developer.
Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH. 2001 - 2004.
Developed a set of internal web applications for the Office of Career Services to allow them to maintain information about students who sought career advice.
Education
Oberlin College.
Oberlin, OH — Bachelor of Arts, 2004.
Major: Neuroscience, Highest Honors
Minor: Computer Science
Harvard Extension School.
Cambridge, MA. 2005 - 2006
Unix Systems Programming and Perl Programming courses.
Advanced MySQL Performance Tuning.
Boston, MA. November 2007.
Skills
Languages:
Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, SQL, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Bash. Some Java, C, C++, and Objective-C
Operating Systems:
Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Windows
Databases:
MySQL, PostreSQL, SQLite, Oracle
Other:
Apache, Django, Drupal, CVS, Subversion, OpenSSL, Samba, OpenLDAP, NIS, DNS
Coursework
Database Systems, Compilers, Secure Computing Systems, Unix/Linux Systems Programming, Computer Organization, Java Networking and Multi-threading, Objective-C and Cocoa Programming, Algorithms, Data Structures & Abstractions, Advanced MySQL Performance Tuning, Perl Programming.