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, managing teams that develop intuitive tools to organize information, and being part of an organization that makes a difference.
Experience
Engineering Manager.
Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA. 2010 - Present.
Manage a team of people who oversee the compilation, integration, archiving, and distribution of Apple's software projects. Drive improvements in the tool sets used to automate this work. Coordinate with engineering, marketing, and AppleCare to plan and implement releases.
Engineering Project Manager.
Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA. 2008 - 2010.
Manage the planning, development, testing, and release of software updates for Mac OS X and Windows. Oversee the technical aspects of building and packaging our updates. Implement tools and processes to improve our team's speed, reliability, and communications with other groups. Train teams throughout the company in the details of building successful software updates.
Systems Administrator and Web Applications Developer.
Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA. 2006 - 2008.
Worked with labs throughout the school to identify and deploy technologies that allowed them to store and analyze huge amounts of data. Wrote web applications for the labs to automate work intensive tasks. Provided programming, hardware, and system administration expertise to support new areas of research. Replaced many, many independent authentication systems with a unified single sign-on mechanism. Provided training sessions for researches and staff interested in creating their own lab websites.
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, helped to isolate of a group of proteins deeply implicated in human cancer.
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, Celery, RabbitMQ, 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.