Employment

Web Developer

Kerry-Edwards Campaign, Washington, DC.

September - November, 2004.

Employer/Contact: Aaron Myers, Chief Web Developer

http://www.johnkerry.com

Responsibilities

• Designed content for the site using XHTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Scripted dynamic content using PHP
• Built XML templates in the content management system for page production
• Produced a Flash movie for the home page
• Ran statistical significance tests to validate experiments with the splash page and mass emails

Job Description

The web development team on the Kerry-Edwards campaign was responsible for all of the content on johnkerry.com, including day-to-day press releases, speeches, and ads, state-specific pages, endorsement information, web forms, and the general site design, as well as the occasional implementation of another department's pet project. We worked with Atomz, a full content management and template system, and Akamai's caching system. I worked sixty hour weeks from Labor Day until the general election in November. The site averaged 1.2 million pageviews per day over that time.

Website Engineer

Swarthmore Parents' Office, Swarthmore PA.

October 2003 - Ongoing.

Employer/Contact: Susan Levin, Director

http://www.swarthmore.edu/parents

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop the Parents' office website
• Design plans for an e-card feature, online registration for Parents' Weekend, and a promotional flash movie.

Website Consultant

Anthrotronix Inc, Silver Spring MD.

January - March, 2004.

Employer: Cori Lathan, CEO. Contact: Ara Hacopian

http://www.anthrotronix.com

Responsibilities

• Redesigned website to conform with web standards (W3C XHTML/CSS and Bobby guidelines)
• Improved the site's readability
• Simplified code to allow it to be viewed in previously unsupported web browsers

Technical Consultant

Expert Choice Inc, Arlington VA.

August 2003 and June - August 2000.

Employer/Contact: Ernest Forman, Founder, Chairman and CTO

Responsibilities

• 2003 - Redesigned development models included in software package
• 2000 - Updated help documentation and tutorials included In software package.

Job Description

Expert Choice is a software company that provides software that allows corporations and individuals to analyze and prioritize their decisions.

Research / Summer Employment

Technical Intern

Haystack Software Project, CSAIL laboratory at MIT, Cambridge MA.

July 19 - August 13 2004.

Contact: Stephen Garland, Professor

Responsibilities

• Developed the implementation of the program's web interface
• Enhanced the layout of the interface

Job Description

Haystack is a tool for end-users meant to relieve reliance upon a dozen independent applications for email, instant messaging, address books, web browsing, reading news feeds, etc., with the ultimate goal of allowing individuals to manage all of their information in whatever way suits their desires in one application. This is an ongoing project with a dozen or more undergrads, graduates, and professors contributing to it.

More information about the project is available at http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu

Website Design / Research Intern

Professor K. David Harrison, Linguistics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA

June 16 -July 9 2004

Contact: K. David Harrison, Professor

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/dharris2

Responsibilities

• Designed David's research website
• Designed the layout for a children's book, the first, and probably only, publication ever written in the endangered Siberian language Chulym
• Enhanced illustrations drawn for book using Adobe Photoshop

Technical Knowledge / Experience

Web languages, tools

HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Flash, Web Services (SOAP/REST), AJAX, Ruby on Rails, Atomz CMS, Apache, Lighttpd

Programming languages

Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Perl, C++, BASIC, Scheme

Production Software

Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Stata, SAS, Flash (can work on both Windows and Linux)

Academic Information (Swarthmore College)

Overview

Graduated Phi Beta Kappa in June, 2007.

Awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors in economics and mathematics.

Relevant Coursework

Economics: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Public Finance, Advanced Macroeconomics, Advanced Econometrics, Economic Development

Mathematics: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus, Probability & Statistics, Real Analysis, Modern Algebra, Advanced Probability