Web Application Developer, Cloud Architect @ Loud3r
Tallahassee, Florida Area
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- Engineer at Loud3r
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- Research Assistant at Florida State University
- Database Programmer at Florida Geological Survey
- Application Developer at Florida State University
- Education
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- Florida State University
- Florida State University
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David Arthur’s Summary
A computing generalist, with particular interest in scientific computing, web applications, and cloud-based architectures (Amazon Web Services).
David Arthur’s Specialties:
Cloud Computing with AWS, Python, PHP, C/C++, Agile development, Extreme Programming (XP), model-view-controller architecture, application development, machine learning, Monte Carlo simulations
David Arthur’s Experience
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Engineer
Loud3r
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
At Loud3r, I am primarily responsible for designing, testing, and implementing a server topology across Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). I have developed a Python script which handles re-instantiating of failed servers, load balancing capabilities, and simple spawning/destroying of our custom instances. My other duties involve general maintenance of the code infrastructure, optimizing old scripts (rewriting php as python), and developing new data mining tools.
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Research Assistant
Florida State University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 10 months)
I provide programming support to Dr. Hugh Nymeyer for his research in Computational Biophysics.
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Database Programmer
Florida Geological Survey
(Research industry)
2006 — 2008 (2 years )
My duties at the Florida Geological Survey ranged from providing the staff with data manipulation support to designing and implementing a large scale database. I was the sole programmer/database person and wore many hats while employed here. A typical work day might include importing new data into the database, tweaking the VBA I developed to interface with the data, and using Python to manipulate a data file for one of the staff scientists. It was a demanding job which helped me learn how to balance many different tasks that ranged across a wide breath of my skills.
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Application Developer
Florida State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 9 months)
I worked for a research entity within Florida State University's Institute of Science and Public Affairs called the Florida Resource and Environmental Analysis Center (FREAC for short). My duties here began with simple website and server maintenance, and developed into a programming job before long.
I worked along side two other developers creating a custom interactive web interface to serve aerial photography and other imagery. The application developed into a rich data-driven interactive web map which was used in many deliverables to government agencies and NGOs.
David Arthur’s Education
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Florida State University
M.S. , Computational Science , 2007 — 2009
Research Assistantship with full funding Fall 2007 - Summer 2008
Teaching Assistantship with full funding Fall 2008 - present. -
Florida State University
B.S. , Physics , 2003 — 2007
Graduated Cum Laude in Physics with a minor in Mathematics. Learned my programming skills at a job I held for most of my undergraduate degree.
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Pi Sigma (physics honor society), University Singers (premier university choir), All Night Yahtzee (acappella group)
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Cloud Computing
David Arthur’s Honors:
Sigma Pi Sigma - Physics Honor Society
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