Maxwell Forsyth

Current

• Community Organizer at Clean Water Action

Past

• Database Analyst at PJM Interconnection
• Consultant at Yoh
• Web/App Developer at PJM Interconnection

• Internet Multimedia Co-op at Unisys Corporation

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Education

• Drexel University
• Cocalico High School

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Maxwell Forsyth’s Summary

Software engineering major at Drexel University. Experience in large company IT integration. Aiming to focus on environmental issues and social networking. Also interested in transportation and social news/site aggregation.

Maxwell Forsyth’s Specialties:

Social Networking, Object-Oriented Programming, Database Administration, Content Management, Web Development, Change Management

Maxwell Forsyth’s Experience

• Community Organizer

  Clean Water Action

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  November 2009 — Present (1 month)

  Organizing and fundraising to promote political action on environmental issues

• Database Analyst

  PJM Interconnection

  (Non-Profit; Utilities industry)

  March 2009 — August 2009 (6 months)

  As the DBA co-op in the Business Intelligence group, my duties came from both the DBA group and Business Intelligence group. Each day I completed DBA On Duty tasks including adding, modifying and troubleshooting Oracle accounts during regular business hours. Other daily tasks included monitoring a SAS environment for stalled sessions and processes, documenting SAS jobs and common errors, developing context diagrams for SAS processes and copying SAS programs from development and test environments to production. In my time as the DBA co-op, I also set up our departmental Sharepoint portal, participated in ITS "People Development" team meetings, and trained and assisted my fellow Business Intelligence co-op. Currently, I am promoting social networking at PJM and trying to get involved in meetings with the intranet team among others to discuss adopting a modern social networking solution.

• Consultant

  Yoh

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  September 2008 — March 2009 (7 months)

  Consulted Corporate Applications at PJM Interconnection with web development and maintenance.

• Web/App Developer

  PJM Interconnection

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)

  April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

  As a co-op in the Corporate Applications department, my tasks included, but weren't limited to, the following: add functionality to corporate event registration application, maintain departmental pages on corporate intranet, declare and assign roles in Sitecore CMS, manage content through Sitecore CMS and Collage CMS, attend corporate website redesign meetings, convert forms from JSP to ASP.NET for site redesign, miscellaneous support for all-hands meetings, document procedures for future co-op

• Internet Multimedia Co-op

  Unisys Corporation

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — September 2007 (6 months)

  · Worked with supervisor to determine required website changes and ensured correct edits in a timely
  fashion.
  · Created additional web documents which were added to live website when needed (case studies, sales
  bulletins, webcasts) using Microsoft Commerce Server.
  · Met weekly with Internet Communications Team to discuss progress and develop future action steps.
  · Trained future co-op in most aspects of position.

Maxwell Forsyth’s Education

• Drexel University

  BS , Software Engineering , 2005 — 2010 (expected)

  Dean's Scholarship (2005-present)

  Activities and Societies:

  Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Pennoni Honors College,
  Drexel Freethought Society

• Cocalico High School

  HS , 2001 — 2005

  Bowling team regional champions, 2002
  Bowling team state champions, 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  National Honors Society, Future Business Leaders of America, varsity bowling, varsity volleyball

Additional Information

Maxwell Forsyth’s Interests:

Music, gadgets, biking, bowling, digital photography, humanism, road trips, social networking, cosmology

Maxwell Forsyth’s Groups:

Young American Bowling Alliance

•    Drexel Freethought Society

Maxwell Forsyth’s Honors:

300 game - 2002

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