
Rock Star in Training
Bloomington, Indiana Area

Rock Star in Training
Bloomington, Indiana Area
"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
Being a generalist
(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. I'm also the associate instructor for two programming languages courses under the direction of Daniel P. Friedman.
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
July 2006 — June 2008 (2 years )
Began as a contractor and was promoted to a staff position within six months. With a small team, designed, implemented, and maintained a build system and set of tools for generating online books from heterogeneous XML sources (in object-oriented Perl using the Class::Std system). Wrote the documentation for the build system (20,000 words in wiki format), trained the rest of the development team in its use, and migrated the code to Subversion.
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
August 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 11 months)
Designed and developed portions of a hosted website analytics application built on a custom MVC framework implemented in PHP and MySQL. Led the web-standards-compliant overhaul of the application, including writing all CSS. Prototyped, implemented and tested 40+ standards-compliant XHTML/CSS websites for clients and two major redesigns for the company's corporate website.
(Privately Held; Education Management industry)
June 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 3 months)
The first instructor to teach the Digital Music Editing course at iD Tech, a technology summer camp program held at universities nationwide. Designed and taught customized weekly curricula on digital audio production. Diagnosed and solved troubleshooting issues with digital audio and MIDI hardware and software. Received special commendation from the company's VP of Camp Operations for frequently assisting other instructors on the internal mailing list.
Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2008 — 2013 (expected)
Graduate Women in Science Fellowship recipient, 2008-present. Associate Instructor, Programming Languages. GPA: 3.823 to date.
B.A. , double major in Computer Science and Music (with honors) , 2000 — 2004
GPA: 3.52. Dean's List, 2001.
* Finishing participant, Indianapolis Monumental Marathon, 2009; 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)
* 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.