Experience
Web Designer, Self Employed Ashland, OR/Chicago, IL 2007-current
Designed websites for businesses and organizations, including The Point Magazine, The ACLUofC, Salisbury House, the Ashland Chautauqua foundation, and The Ashland High School Theatre arts department.
Graphic Artist, Self Employed Ashland, OR/Chicago, IL 2007-current
Designed posters, logos, graphics for various organizations and events, including UChicago's CES, The ACLUofC, John Stromberg for Ashland City Mayor, AHS Debate Night, and The Ashland Chautauqua Foundation.
Software Engineer, Tree Star Inc. Ashland, OR 2009
Engineered 3D Flow Cytometry display system as part of industry-standard FlowJo software package for visualization of 9+ dimensional scientific data. Created and updated documentation for FlowJo flow cytometry data analysis program. Created lesson plans for the Seattle School District to allow high school teachers to use FlowJo when teaching molecular biology and immunology.
Grizznet Student Coordinator, Ashland High School Ashland, OR 2008-2009
Acted as student representative in the design of an online course management system for Ashland High School, based on the Moodle Content Management System; which is now in widespread usage within AHS. Once the system was designed, I acted as a tutor to the pilot program's teachers, and helped guide them through the introductory year. Acted as the second in charge of the system, and was the designated assistant if students had trouble using the system.
Intern, Open Door Networks, Inc. Ashland, OR 2007-2009
Over consecutive summers, I performed general network maintenance, created a computer loaning program, initialized computers and ran processing tests. Also, programmed a custom server application that monitored network usage, performed house-calls as a member of the technical support team, beta tested pre- release computer security software (including stress-testing), created a wireless tracking utility to transmit the location of a parade float to a website, and helped create several iPhone applications, including the iTunes top-ten rated “iEnvision”.
Education
University of Chicago, Chicago IL — Potential Computer Science BS, Biology BA, 2010—ongoing
Ashland High School, Ashland, OR — High School Diploma, 2009
Skills
Outstanding written and spoken English, conversational spoken and written Spanish.
Typing 89 WPM
Expert level user of Macintosh OS 8 - 10.6
Expert level user of all MS Office applications
Expert Visual BASIC, C#, C++, JAVA programmer.
Proficient in C, Objective-C, Shell Scripting, Applescript, awk, sed, bison, Python, Haskell, Matlab, Mathematica
Experience with embedded microcontroller design (hardware and software)
Database design (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Web Design-- HTML, CSS, Javascript (AJAX, JQuery, Mootools), PHP, ASP, Tomcat
Additional Proficiency: networking, video production (digital and analogue systems), robotic systems (pneumatics, electrical engineering, embedded system programming).
