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Education:

• Iowa State University, Ames, IA
  Major: German
  Bachelor of Arts, Fall 2005
  
• Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
  2002-2003, Study abroad through the International Student Exchange Program

Technical Skills:

• Languages: Extensive knowledge of HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP, SQL, ASP, Visual Basic, and Delphi; comfortable with JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, Ruby, and XSLT.
• Hardware: Computer building and maintenance. Wired/wireless networking and intranet setup. Printing.
• Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Google Android, Windows (3.1, 9x, XP), MacOS X, and DOS.

Volunteer
The Personal Telco Project, Portland, OR. 2011 - ongoing

• On the Nonprofit's Board of Advisors
• Rewrote homepage
• Extensively updated and enhanced the group's knowledge base, becoming masterfully adept at wiki/documentation maintenance.

Programmer/Analyst
PlantGDB.org, Ames, IA. March 2009 - Sept 2010

• Made vast improvements in website availability, reliability, predictability, search engine friendliness, security, accessibility, documentation, page load speed, and reduction of broken links across hundreds of web pages
• Improved functionality and work flow for a complicated section of the website, enabling researchers and students to do what they do best, and reducing necessary maintenance time
• Engaged in knowledge sharing with colleagues of different backgrounds: they taught me about genetics as I helped them improve mastery of website technology

Business Operator
Cycles Recycling. Ames, IA. April 2007 - June 2008

• Involved in all aspects of running a fully bicycle-powered curbside recycling company: intense physical labor, customer service, billing, purchases, route planning, and hardware maintenance.
• Managed a total of four employees: hiring, training, payroll, schedules, etc.
• Created a database and web-based interface to keep track of customers, routes, schedules, and billing.
• Created a website for the company.

Webmaster and Chief Technologist
Fallon for Governor Campaign. Des Moines, IA. Nov. 2004 - May 2005.

• Redesigned campaign website in time for the gubernatorial announcement rally, making it accessible and much more useful.
• Set up email and internet/intranet, ensured data security and proper operation of campaign computers.

Conversion Analyst
RuffaloCODY. Ames, IA. May 2004 - Feb. 2005.

• Worked with data transformations using Oracle. Wrote and maintained documentation.

C# Developer and Web Developer
Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center
Ames, IA. Oct. 2003 - April 2004.

• Using C#, co-developed a trust-based file sharing and searching application.

Visual Basic Intern and Intranet Development Intern
MemberWorks (now called Vertrue). Omaha, NE. Summer 2002.

• Used Visual Basic to successfully rebuild a system monitoring program for monitoring server response times across the company network from Montreal, Houston and Omaha and send notifications when necessary.
• Designed and implemented a program which used census data to associate a gender with first names. This data was used to support the company's marketing division.
• Created an intranet site to simplify filing reports, using HTML, ASP and JavaScript.

Assistant to System Support Specialist
Iowa State University Department of Physics and Astronomy. Ames, IA. Spring 2002.

• Administered web pages and gained exposure to Java Server Pages.
• Researched and evaluated software programs to determine suitability of use.