Lindsey Kuper

Current

• Computer Science Ph.D. Student at Indiana University Bloomington

Past

• Software Developer at Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group
• Web Designer/Developer at IBCTV
• Instructor, Digital Music Editing at iD Tech Camps

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Education

• Indiana University Bloomington
• Grinnell College

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Lindsey Kuper’s Summary

"The four-color-map theorem must have been a mistranslated demonstration that no pop song ever requires more than four tracks to record."
-- glenn mcdonald, The War Against Silence #213

Lindsey Kuper’s Specialties:

Being a generalist

Lindsey Kuper’s Experience

• Computer Science Ph.D. Student

  Indiana University Bloomington

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  I'm a computer science Ph.D. student in my second year of graduate study at Indiana University. My research interests include programming languages and compilers. During summer 2009, I researched improvements to miniKanren, a logic programming system implemented in Scheme, under the direction of Daniel P. Friedman.
  
  Graduate Women in Science Fellowship recipient, 2008-present. Associate Instructor, Programming Languages. GPA to date: 3.795.

• Software Developer

  Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  July 2006 — June 2008 (2 years )

  At BFW I began as a contractor and was promoted to a staff position within six months. I worked with a small team to design, implement, and maintain a build system and set of tools (in object-oriented Perl using the Class::Std object system) for automatically generating online books and course materials that had previously been built by hand, including reverse-engineering and generating a proprietary target file format. Aside from developing the build system itself, I built roughly 20 projects using the system, most of which eventually launched to paying users; wrote the documentation for the build system (20,000 words in wiki format); trained the rest of the development team in the use of the build system; and led the migration of the build system source code to Subversion.

• Web Designer/Developer

  IBCTV

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  August 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 11 months)

  At IBCTV, a web video startup, I was half of a two-person team working on a custom MVC framework for web applications implemented in PHP and MySQL. Using this framework, I designed and developed portions of the company's hosted website analytics application. In 2005, I led the user experience analysis and web-standards-compliant overhaul of the application, including writing all of the CSS for the project. The resulting design remained in use for three years. As the company's CSS and web interoperability specialist, I prototyped, implemented and tested 40+ standards-based XHTML/CSS website templates, including two major redesigns for the company's corporate website.

• Instructor, Digital Music Editing

  iD Tech Camps

  (Privately Held; Education Management industry)

  June 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 3 months)

  I was the first instructor to teach the Digital Music Editing course at iD Tech, a technology summer camp program held at universities nationwide. I designed customized weekly curricula for students spanning a variety of ages and skill levels, from 10 to 17 and beginner to advanced. I diagnosed and solved troubleshooting issues with digital audio and MIDI hardware and software, earned top teaching evaluations for two years running, and had several repeat students. In 2003, I earned special commendation from the company's VP of Camp Operations for assisting other Digital Music Editing instructors on the company's national mailing list.

Lindsey Kuper’s Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2008 — 2013 (expected)

  Graduate Women in Science Fellowship recipient, 2008-present. Associate Instructor, Programming Languages. GPA: 3.795 to date.

  Activities and Societies:

  University Chorale (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music), 2008-2009. Contemporary Vocal Ensemble (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music), 2009-present.

• Grinnell College

  B.A. , double major in Computer Science and Music (with honors) , 2000 — 2004

  GPA: 3.52. Dean's List, 2001.

  Activities and Societies:

  Grinnell Singers, 2000-2004.

Additional Information

Lindsey Kuper’s Interests:

* Finishing participant, ING Georgia Marathon, 2008; San Juan Island Marathon, 2006; Chicago Lakeshore Marathon, 2004 and 2005. * ICFP Programming Contest participant, 2008 and 2009. * A variety of GPL'd programming projects, 2008 - present. (http://narorumo.googlecode.com)

Lindsey Kuper’s Groups:

* Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2009 - present.

* University Chorale, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2008.

* Grinnell Singers, Grinnell College Department of Music, 2000-2004.

•    Code 'n' Splode
•    Grinnell College Alumni
•    IU School of Informatics and Computing
•    OSCON 09 - Open Source Convention

Lindsey Kuper’s Honors:

* Invited participant, CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop, March 2009.
* Invited participant, Google Workshop for Women Engineers, January 2009.
* Graduate Women in Science Fellowship recipient, Indiana University, 2008-present.
* Grinnell College Dean's List, 2001.
* National Merit Scholar, 2000.

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