A Scientist and Technologist who enjoys Managing People
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Manager, Software Development at OCLC
- Past
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- Manager, Computer Operations at OCLC
- Manager, Computer Operations at RLG, Inc
- Special Projects Manager, Software Development Manager at RLG, Inc
- Technology Innovator at The Internet Archive
- Systems Administrator at The Franklin Institute
- Partner at Grey Cat Productions
- Education
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- Foothill College
- University of Pennsylvania
- North Carolina State University
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Judith Bush’s Summary
My training is in physics, my experience is in technology, but what I and my employer have discovered is that I manage people well. I enjoy creating a team and working with then to analyze problems, troubleshoot, or design new systems. I've broad experience in web application design, database design, and data center management. I'm excited about GIS and GPS technologies: the data, metadata, analysis, and distribution. I'm also passionate about our creative culture, the creative commons we share, and the balance of protecting the commons as well as creators.
Judith Bush’s Specialties:
data analysis, web application architecture, GIS, internet archiving, digital archives, digital libraries, metadata management, web crawling, web spiders, neogeography, mashups, herding cats, copyright, orphaned works,
Judith Bush’s Experience
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Manager, Software Development
OCLC
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
I'm a project manager and one of several team leaders in the Mountain View Development Team. My current project is focused on copyright issues.
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Manager, Computer Operations
OCLC
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year)
As the Manager of Computer Operations at the Mountain View, CA office of OCLC, I will be coordinating the ongoing support of RLG services and assisting in the integration of those services at OCLC Dublin, OH facility.
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Manager, Computer Operations
RLG, Inc
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Managed the team responsible for server administration and systems programming, disk storage administration and backup, and production/development system networking. Our environment included roughly forty Solaris 8 and 9 servers including a Sunfire 15k, and over thirty terabytes of data storage. A significant fraction of that storage was for a single eleven node partitioned DB2 database representing the 120 million bibliographic records.
In this role, I led the change from accepting "organic" management of the servers, which had been added ad hoc over the previous ten years, to systematic maintenance. We also addressed the "organic" problem resolution with proactive analysis and documentation of response procedures. -
Special Projects Manager, Software Development Manager
RLG, Inc
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2001 — February 2005 (3 years 11 months)
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Technology Innovator
The Internet Archive
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Cultivated crawling and retrieval projects in a Unix environment. Analyzed elements required to ensure proper provenance of web document collection. Image collection project: Refined HTML document parsing methods in order to optimize retrieval of all visual elements of the web experience with perl scripts. Managed proprietary crawlers at acquisition rates of 10 Mbps.
Election 2000 with Library of Congress: Designed mySQL database with perl
interface for managing, logging, and automating e-mail contacts with web masters. Managed COMPAQ crawler and curated the collection process. -
Systems Administrator
The Franklin Institute
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
System administrator and web master for popular science education web site with over 100,000 hits per day. Answered "Ask the Expert" science questions. Participated with museum floor exhibit design.
March 2000 Re-launch of Web Site: Developed the CSS style templates for easy development of new content. Streamlined site conversion with scripts to change thousands of static pages over to the new style. Selected, installed, and configured the Ultraseek search engine on a separate Linux server.
Teacher Outreach Projects: Specified and purchased new Linux server to support NSF funded project. Provided technical support and custom perl cgi scripts for elementary and middle school teachers.
Floor Exhibits: Developed an Ultraseek-based science news server to deliver the most recent science news to visitors. Specified and purchased the hardware, configured the network interface and client-server systems of a web kiosk intranet. -
Partner
Grey Cat Productions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 1996 — March 2000 (3 years 8 months)
Founded web development and Internet consulting partnership with Christine Newton Bush. Consulted with a broad range of clients regarding emerging technological trends. Currently (2008) only involved with server management issues.
Judith Bush’s Education
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Foothill College
Certificate , GIS , 2006 — 2007
I received a certificate of achievement in GIS. I learned how my experience in data analysis in physics and data management at RLG and OCLC provide me with a solid body of experience that can be applied in GIS environments. The grounding in traditional geographic practices has also prepared me to understand the nuances of neogeography and mapping mashups, place-aware web services, and geosearch.
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University of Pennsylvania
MS , Physics , 1990 — 1998
Research assistant in nuclear physics, studying the structure of halo nuclei 6He and 11Be. Thesis advisor: David P. Balamuth. Honors: Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship (1990-1991).
Responsible for IRIX 5.x system administration in a distributed environment. Extensive programming experience includes developing numerical models and data manipulation programs in C and FORTRAN, as well as scripting languages like perl and gawk. Teaching background includes laboratory instruction of Honors level undergraduate students and one-on-one tutoring of undergraduates and master's candidates.
Board member of The CA (1994-2000), an ecumenical organization: advised on hardware management, hired the database developer. Department representative and then the Secretary of the Graduate Student Activities Council. Contributor to the Graduate newspaper. Contributor to student literary publications. Participated in community driven science outreach programs.- Activities and Societies:
- GSAC
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North Carolina State University
BS , Physics , 1986 — 1990
Graduated Summa cum Laude. Honors: Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award (spring 1990), Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (autumn 1988), First place, Phi Kappa Phi chapter essay contest (autumn 1987), NCSU Merit Awards Scholarship (1986-1987).
Society of Physics Students (1987-1990: President 1989-1990), Treasurer, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Council (autumn 1988), University Scholars Program (1986-1988), Super Collider Citizens' Action Committee (1987-1988), Student Union Art committee.
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Summer 1989 and Summer 1990
Wrote analysis software in both XSYS and FORTRAN for parity and time-reversal experiments. Set up the analog logic electronics for nuclear experiments.
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory - Summer 1988
NSF Undergraduate Fellow Applied and modified existing FORTRAN codes for "few nucleon system" calculations. Set up the analog logic electronics for nuclear experiments.- Activities and Societies:
- Society of Physics Students, Phi Kappa Phi
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Judith Bush’s Interests:
JCDL2008 (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries),
Judith Bush’s Groups:
Stevens and Permanente Creek Watershed Council, ACM, WhereCamp 2007, JCDL 2007, Edward Tufte: Presenting Data and Information 2006
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