Change the world, possibly using computers. Specifically, to obtain an information architecture or software design position that involves the organization, persistence and accessibility of information.
Graduate Assistant -
August 2004 - May 2005
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
- Urbana, IL
Assisted with graduate level courses in electronic publishing and document modeling. Created programs to assess DTDs and XML documents. Conducted tutorial sessions on creation and editing of XML documents and DTDs using Emacs on Linux. Enhanced schema documentation toolkit.
Web Architect -
August 2003 - December 2003
Linn-Mathes Inc.
- Chicago, IL
Designed and implemented corporate web site. Collaborated with management team in the development of goals and information architecture. Designed and implemented a database of projects, clients, and media assets. Produced a publishing and content management system for both HTML and PDF output.
Intranet Developer -
June 2001 - August 2001
KnowNow
- Mountain View, CA
Independent contractor that designed, implemented, and deployed company-wide intranet, knowledge and content management systems. Customized and adapted a content management system I wrote and had previously licensed to the company. Integrated KnowNow's technology into the system to enable streaming updates to any web browser in real time. Practical experience guiding a project from design to deployment.
Senior Production Engineer -
June 2000 - August 2000
deepleap
- Austin, TX
Worked in a small startup environment on the development of a critically acclaimed web browser assistant. Assessed and integrated new technologies into the web-based application including XSLT for better separation of content from presentation, as well as XML for output and syndication. Developed and extended existing perl codebase; optimized code and database. Contributed to overall software architecture and product design.
Systems Administrator -
March 1999 - June 1999
Department
of Anthropological Sciences
- Stanford, CA
Deployed and administrated a small Linux computer lab for software development and genetic research.
Intern -
June 1998 - August 1998
ingenious multimedia inc.
- Chicago, IL
Designed and implemented web applications using HTML, SQL, VBScript, JavaScript, Microsoft Active Server Pages.
Document Modeling: including the design and implementation of SGML/XML DTDs, and Relax NG schemas.
Electronic Publishing and Content Management: development and design of work-flow, text transformations, CMS for personal publishing and corporate intranets.
Information Architecture: strong background in library and information science foundations that apply to the organization and management of information, including metadata standards, classification schemes, knowledge representation, ontologies.
Web Applications: extensive experience designing and developing web-based database backed applications on Unix systems using Apache, mod_perl, and MySQL.
W3C Standards: knowledge of and practical ability to select and deploy technologies like XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, RDF, and others as they emerge.
Programming: Perl, Python, Java, C, C++, Lisp, and Pascal.
Databases: Understanding of SQL and database design, developing entity-relationship diagrams and specifications.
System Administration: basic system administration tasks in Unix and Windows environments.
Desktop Publishing: experience producing paper publications using Adobe Pagemaker and Indesign for page layout and Photoshop for digital image manipulation and enhancement.
Web Design: competence producing standards-compliant, clean, HTML and XHTML pages that leverage CSS for design.
Other Technologies: additional experience working with RSS, Flash Actionscript, XML-RPC, SOAP.