Education

Work Experience

Web Programmer Outdoor Adventure Social Club (OASC), LLC, Charlottesville, VA March 2011 - March 2012

Primary member of team in charge of redeveloping and overhauling the establish/renew membership process. Project utilized PHP and MySql 5.0, Javascript, XML, and development work is done within a LAMP environment. Work was done remotely, which required CVS use, a good deal of organization, and discipline. [link]

Research Assistant, Old Dominion University May 2007 – Aug. 2010

Government Funded Contract - Advanced Anti-Terror Technologies: Responsible for maintaining hardware/software requirements for all PCs on all projects. Communicated clearly and efficiently with the software development team to facilitate a Human Factors iterative design approach to software construction. Responsible for designing and writing the user's manual for final product. Selected to represent team/present software at a OneSAF user conference in Orlando.

Government Funded Contract - Mymic LLC: Responsible for capturing and analysing data on the current state of the After Action Review process including discovering and applying relevant theories on learning, cognition, team performance and task feedback. Applied theoretical model building and adjustment, performed data collection and interviews in military environments, survey construction, and coding/consolidation/analysis of all collected data.

Real Estate Agent, Wainwright Real Estate May 2005 – Nov. 2012

Key member of real estate team with responsibilities including: IT specialist, statistical market analysis, client relationship management, accounting and payroll, rental property management, services marketing, strategic contract negotiations, print and web advertising, tax preparation and consulting.

Technical Summary

Current Projects

  • Galactic Council Game/Website - [link to tutorial] An ongoing personal “portfolio” project intended to both showcase and evolve: my website development skills, concept origination aptitude/execution, and business foresight abilities.
  • Dissertation Data Collection Website - [link] Sole programmer and designer for a doctoral student’s dissertation software. Website handles survey and training module presentation, data collection and storage, and participant tracking.
  • Kaggle Research Contest - [link] Participated in the “Stack Overflow Predict Closed Questions” contest. Analysed multiple years’ worth of user data to predict an unfavorable outcome. Constructed and tested several models utilizing appropriate competing statistical techniques to derive a model and assess it's performance.

Relevant Graduate Coursework