Elliott Bäck

Elliott Bäck

Blog Networks, Programming, Finance, and IT

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • Web Entrepreneur at Elliottback.com (Sole Proprietorship)
Past
  • Associate at Morgan Stanley
  • CS 211 Teaching Assistant at Cornell University
  • SDE Intern at Amazon.com
  • Production Assistant at Cornell University
  • Applications Programmer at Cornell University
  • Database Programmer at Arizona State University
Education
  • Cornell University
  • Tempe Preparatory Academy
Connections
102 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Elliott Bäck’s Summary

Recent college graduate with plenty of coursework, internship experience, and entrepreneurial spirit. Wants to learn more about finance and e-business.

Elliott Bäck’s Specialties:

Web development, web services, Oracle, mySQL and other databases, modelling, systems, client-server software, algorithms, a slew of programming languages, including C, C#, C++, Java, ML, PHP, SQL, XML, and Perl. Also, foreign languages; English, Spanish, Chinese, and Latin.


Elliott Bäck’s Experience

  • Web Entrepreneur

    Elliottback.com (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    June 2004Present (4 years)

    I run the popular blog network found on http://elliottback.com and elsewhere. I'm currently in the middle of developing new profitable properties, while at the same time continuing to add content and new design themes to existing sites. Now with over 10,000,000 visitors served.

  • Associate

    Morgan Stanley

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Banking industry)

    August 2006January 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  • CS 211 Teaching Assistant

    Cornell University

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2003September 2005 (2 years 2 months)

    Instruct object oriented programming (OOP) and Java language fundamentals in section class and office hours. Proctor, write, and grade examinations and assignments. Utilize automated solutions to strictly enforce academic integrity. Actively involved with course administration.

  • SDE Intern

    Amazon.com

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Computer Software industry)

    May 2005August 2005 (4 months)

    Scoped, designed, implemented, and deployed a large metrics project. Modeled high-volume logical and physical Oracle databases. Delivered an ETL demon, the database instance, and a fault-tolerant metrics web service. Created cost-savings reports and perl scripts that demonstrate software efficiency.

  • Production Assistant

    Cornell University

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    May 2004September 2004 (5 months)

    Completed more than a dozen Faculty Innovation Grants projects. Used W3C valid CSS, (X)HTML, and XML with database-driven interfaces in PHP, mySQL, and Zope. Added Flash for spice and flair.

  • Applications Programmer

    Cornell University

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2004September 2004 (5 months)

    Wrote PHP, SQL queries, and regular expressions to synchronize databases, perform intelligent searches, and customize a 30,000 line open-source project. Created a custom web-proxy to the Library gateway.

  • Database Programmer

    Arizona State University

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2003August 2003 (4 months)

    Implemented a modern relational database upgrade by migrating old 16-bit dBase code to the latest version, normalizing database tables, writing queries, and creating an extensive GUI. Optimized run and start times.


Elliott Bäck’s Education

  • Cornell University

    BS, Computer Science, English, 20022006

    Activities and Societies:
    Cornell Engineering AI Hearing Board, Cornell Daily Sun, The Research Paper, Seven Spirits Kung Fu, ACSU, Cornell University Chorus, Independent Research
  • Tempe Preparatory Academy

    HS Diploma, 19982002

    Activities and Societies:
    Arizona Regional Science Bowl, AATM Math Competition, Cantamus

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Elliott Bäck’s Groups:

  •    Cornell University Alumni Network member

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  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
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