Education
Evergreen State College, Bachelor of Science 2003
Awarded National Science Foundation CSEMS Scholarship for excellence in computer science
Antioch University Seattle, Whole Systems Design
Fall 2004 – March 2006
Client-Side Web Programming Certificate: U of Illinois: 2008
Computer Career Highlights at Evergreen State College
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Streaming Media Server Administration internship on Linux and Mac OS X servers.
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National Science Foundation scholar for excellence in computer science.
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Technical consultant for the Advanced Computing Center.
Volunteer instructor for independent learning contract teaching Linux and networking administration.
Professional Experience
December 2005-May 2008
System Test Engineer, Streambox, Inc., Seattle, WA
Member of hardware development team, involved in all phases of prototyping.
Software testing.
Hardware testing.
Documenting for internal development team and external marketing team.
Unix scripting for Storage Area Network product that receives concurrent 4Mbps live streams, converts and ftp files.
Support liaison for major broadcasting mobile news gathering deployments.
Designer and leader of the Streambox BottomUp Productive Workplace Group. See generalized mission statement here.
February 2005-December 2005
Manufacturing Support Engineer, Streambox, Inc., Seattle, WA
Building single rack space computers by hand.
Custom configuring audio and video features.
Loading, configuring, and testing software on each computer.
Network configuration and client software set-up for each computer. Improvising networks and video streaming for the testing of each system.
May 2004 - December 2004
Web Programmer, Wedgetail Consulting, Inc., Seattle, WA
Various projects required editing HTML, and writing custom PHP to interact with MySQL.
Fast response to a wide array of clients and scenarios describes the fundamental demand of this position.
April 2004 - July 2004
Test Engineer, LioNBridge /Veritest, Bellevue, WA
Contract position to Microsoft MSN Research
Telecommute work environment.
Performed research related to ranking of webpages within search engines, determining if characteristics of an URL were an attempt at inflating it's ranking.
December 2003-March 2004
I.T. Specialist, TVW, Washington State's Public Affairs Network, Olympia, WA
Temporary position in service to the WA legislative session
Encoded live and taped media for distribution on streaming media servers.
Wrote Coldfusion web application used on tvw.org site.
Backup and archiving of streaming media files.
Maintained and updated website content.
Upkeep of database integrity.
Help desk type services to accommodate the office staff in conducting daily computing needs for their job.
Assistance services to the public in regards to tvw.org and its streaming media services.
April 2003-October 2003
Network Administrator, Dispute Resolution Center of Thurston County, Olympia, WA
Managed network system and served as a help desk to eight employees.
Wrote php/mysql applications to facilitate many tasks at the DRC.
Remained on as consultant till July 2004 move to Seattle.
September 2002-June 2003
Technical consultant, Advanced Computing Center at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Tutored CS students.
Assisted the system administrator in troubleshooting various issues.
March 1997 - July 2002.
Successive Positions, Trident Seafoods Corporation, Seattle, WA
Head of Quality Control on vessel Neptune dealing with Ikura sold in Japan.
Bookkeeper at Akutan Alaska facility
Crew Chief Assistant at Ketchikan facility.
Laborer on vessels: Bountiful, Sea Alaska, Independence, Neptune, and Naknek.
Aug 1995- Oct 1996
Janitor, Antarctic Support Associates – McMurdo Station, Antarctica
The experience was almost beyond words.
Passed several physical and mental screenings to qualify to winter-over.
Six months without seeing the sun.
A.S.A. is no more - Raytheon handles the science support. 303-790-8606
