Employment
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
Information Technology Specialist
Software Engineering, Design and Development, Office of the CIO October 2018 – Present
Repository Development, Research and Development, Office of the CIO October 2017 – October 2018
Web Services, Research and Development, Office of the CIO April 2016 – October 2017
Web application software developer on loc.gov, the loc.gov API, and other Library of Congress applications
- Developing web applications
- ETL for web archiving applications
- Backend work on loc.gov and other properties
- DevOps processes for loc.gov
Tools used include Python, Django, JavaScript, CSS, LESS, Subversion, Git, MySQL, Jenkins, SOLR, Elasticsearch, Varnish, AWS EC2/RDS, Fabric, CloudFlare, RedHat, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, TRAC
Information Technology Specialist
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Office of Strategic Initiatives July 2014 – April 2016
Developer on Viewshare (viewshare.org).
Tools used include Python, Django, JavaScript, CSS, Git, MySQL, Ubuntu, AWS EC2/RDS, Fabric.
SAIC
Alexandria, VA
Leidos
Alexandria, VA
from August 2013
Web Application Developer
October 2012 – July 2014
Mission Support
Lead developer on a web-based data reporting system onsite for a Leidos government customer, reimplementing an Access-based system.
- Domain-driven design project, performing data modeling, writing ETL scripts, writing interfaces and classes in C#, writing data queries in T-SQL and LINQ, user interface in ASP.NET, Ext.NET, ExtJS, JavaScript, and CSS. Tools used include ERWin, SQL Server 2008, VisualStudio 2010, Resharper, Mercurial, JSLint, OpenXML.
- Also assisted other developers with their development and ETL projects and provide support for older version of system to data analysts.
Physical Sciences Inc.
Andover, MA
Senior Programmer
September 2003 – October 2012
Primary developer for business process and HRIS web applications, extending functionality and creating new applications. Performed data modeling, ETL, wrote interfaces and classes in VB.NET and C#, data queries in T-SQL, user interface in ASP.NET, CrystalReports, and Excel 2008.
Tools used included SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, Crystal Reports 2008, Excel Interop.
- Wrote ad hoc queries for business intelligence reporting.
- Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), overseeing audit systems and compliance for secure Linux-based information systems (from 2004 to 2012).
- Managed Juniper SRX and Cisco ASA routers for headquarters and subsidiary networks; planned and implemented ActiveDirectory forest and /20 and /24 private IP networks and /24 wireless network.
- Provided support for use of PGP, PKI, web server SSL/TLS, and full-disk encryption technologies.
- System administrator for multiple Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2008 servers and SQL Server 2000 server.
- Occasional database programming and scripting support of research projects (tools including Python).
Senior Help Desk Coordinator / Webmaster
July 2002 – September 2003
- Application and desktop support at contract research organization. Web development (XHTML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP).
Senior Technical Typist / Webmaster
October 2000 – July 2002
- Production editing of scientific reports and papers for contract research organization in accordance with standard style requirements.
- Web development (XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript)
Senior Technical Typist
August 1997 – October 2000
- Production editing of scientific reports and papers for contract research organization in accordance with standard style requirements.
Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics
Boston University, Boston, MA
Senior Production Assistant
October 1989 – September 1994
- Assisted the editorial staff in the production of a scholarly journal. Production editing (e.g., proofreading of typeset ancient Greek), research assistance (research of authors, fact checking), some editorial assistance (e.g., slush pile). Developed a manuscript tracking database (Paradox).
Education
Boston Unversity
Boston, MA
Master of Science, Computer Science
2011
Bachelor of Arts, Classical Civilizations and English Literature
1992