Seth Viebrock

Current

Associate Software Engineer at Digital River
Volunteer Teacher and Facilitator at Experimental College of the Twin Cities

Past

Programmer and Data Analyst at The Hursk Group
Owner at Vistawave LLC
Co-owner / programmer at Caffeinated Systems

Owner at TimelyTrustworthy
Lab Manager, Data analyst/programmer at University of Minnesota

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Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Macalester College

Connections

41 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

The Hursk Group

Seth Viebrock’s Summary

My website is surely more up-to-date than the content here: http://www.sethviebrock.com

Seth Viebrock’s Specialties:

Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, CGI, XML, XSLT, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MVC frameworks (Perl's Catalyst and Ruby on Rails), web APIs, Apache, regular expressions, git/svn/cvs, visualization and graphing, web design, graphic design, and statistical analysis. Experience running, administering, and developing in Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD, and MacOS.
I speak French (near-native), Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and German, in order of skill.

Seth Viebrock’s Experience

Associate Software Engineer

Digital River

(Public Company; DRIV; Internet industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)

I write lovely e-commerce software in Perl!
Volunteer Teacher and Facilitator

Experimental College of the Twin Cities

(Education Management industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

My current courses that I teach are here:
www.flossclass.com (open source and computer programming)
and
www.biopsychclass.com (biological psychology)
Programmer and Data Analyst

The Hursk Group

(Computer Networking industry)

June 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 8 months)

The Hursk Group, LLC specializes in information security risk management. We partner with your company to give you the tools and data to reduce your risk exposure. The demands of your business require you to harness the value of information technology to stay at the cutting edge and remain competitive. But if you don't control your information technology, it could wind up taking over control of your business. Working with The Hursk Group's proven methodologies, You will control your IT. IT will not control you.
Owner

Vistawave LLC

(Internet industry)

September 1996 — January 2009 (12 years 5 months)

Vistawave LLC was started with my friend Justin Petersen (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/216/253) during the first wave of the dot com boom. The web design and hosting arenas were still largely untapped. As high school students we consulted with local business in the St. Croix Valley of Wisconsin to bring them a presence on the web. Our largest client was Bending Branches, formerly a leading provider of hockey sticks to the NHL. We gained valuable experience in small business, web design, and web server administration. After a break for undergraduate studies, I brought the name back to house my consulting practices.
Co-owner / programmer

Caffeinated Systems

(Wholesale industry)

March 2008 — September 2008 (7 months)

We principally sell IT equipment on eBay and eventually plan to sell from our own site. I use Perl, MySQL, REST, and the eBay API to run our technological backend.
Owner

TimelyTrustworthy

(Warehousing industry)

May 2006 — April 2008 (2 years)

TimelyTrustworthy is a book sales/reselling/buyback business that I started on Amazon.com. I programmed in Perl to interface with Amazon's REST API to forecast prices and automate purchases in the online book market.
Lab Manager, Data analyst/programmer

University of Minnesota

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

April 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Lab manager for an Electroencephalographic (EEG) study in consciousness working under Jon Frederick, Ph.D., assessing subjects' abilities to discriminate changes in power (amplitude) of alpha band brainwaves as dichotomized into high- and low- amplitude states. I had the great opportunity to present our research at the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) at the ISNR annual conference in Atlanta, GA. For purposes of data analysis I wrote Perl programs to extract and make calculations from experiment data housed in text files.

Seth Viebrock’s Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

No degree sought , Neuroscience, Biopsychology , 2004 — 2006

I did not seek a degree, but did learn a new way of thinking, gained a greater understanding of the self and humanity, and learned creative ways to approach productivity and technology. I also took up programming again during this period.

Activities and Societies:

Lab manager for an EEG study in consciousness, minor TA duties for postdoctoral fellow Jon Frederick.
Macalester College

B.A. , Economics , 1999 — 2004

Activities and Societies:

I earned minors in French, Communication Studies, and Music, and also studied Computer Science and Math at Macalester and the University of Minnesota during this period, as well as in 2004-2006 (at the UofMN). I likely had enough coursework to constitute an undergraduate minor but did not actively procure the certificate. I studied Statistics, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, Calculus I-III, and took a Neural Networks course that was largely Linear-Algebra-based.