James Turk

Current

• Developer at Sunlight Foundation

Past

• Freelance Developer at Various Organizations
• Software Engineer Co-op at Harris RF
• Student Lab Instructor at Rochester Institute of Technology

• National Tech Intern at Project Vote Smart

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Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

James Turk’s Summary

Recent college graduate with software development experience on personal and open source projects, previous co-ops, and freelance consulting work. Prefer work with a positive social impact and/or that involves developing open source software. Currently employed as a developer with Sunlight Labs.

James Turk’s Specialties:

Linux preferred, several years of experience in Windows and Solaris environments as well.

Written large projects in Python, C++, Java, PHP, JSP, Javascript, C, and Lisp.

Significant experience with other technologies such as Django, HTML/XHTML, CSS, OpenGL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SVN, and CVS.

James Turk’s Experience

• Developer

  Sunlight Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Political Organization industry)

  May 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Came to labs as an intern, became a consultant at end of internship, became a full time employee upon graduation. Work focuses on political data, including authoring web applications and assisting with API development. Primarily using Python and Django in day-to-day work.

• Freelance Developer

  Various Organizations

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Freelance development work paid as a consultant on an hourly basis for a variety of organizations and individuals, clients include Get-Involved.org and voo2do.com. Work ranged from technical user support to custom web application development.

• Software Engineer Co-op

  Harris RF

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HRS; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)

  Software position with emphasis on maintenance of automatic test suite for radio communications products.

• Student Lab Instructor

  Rochester Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  Instructor for several undergraduate Java and C++ labs. Responsible for helping students learn material, assisting students with the languages and tools used, and grading submitted work.

• National Tech Intern

  Project Vote Smart

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Political Organization industry)

  June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

  10-week internship, responsible for making improvements to internally developed database application as well as public website. Included debugging and development in a combination of Java Server Pages, JavaScript, PHP and SQL.
  
  http://vote-smart.org

James Turk’s Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  BS, Computer Science, 2004 — 2008

  Graduated with Highest Honors (GPA: 3.95)
  Minor in Political Science | Minor in Public Policy

  Activities and Societies:

  President, RIT College Democrats (2005-2007)

Additional Information

James Turk’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

James Turk’s Groups:

•    Python Community
•    Project Vote Smart Alumni
•    RIT Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff
•    PyCon 2008

James Turk’s Contact Settings

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