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Resumé — Justin Brown

(Printed from http://evilgen.us/resume.html)

Contact

Email: justin@evilgen.us
Phone: available upon request
Snail Mail: whois evilgen.us

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science
B.S. Computer Science, May 2010

Work Experience

B4UGO.com

Developer
Summer 2009

  • Develop a Sinatra app for use as a survey before launch
  • Develop a Rails application from scratch to create an online service
  • Convert applications from Prototype/Scriptaculous to JQuery/JQuery-UI

Spock.com

Developer
Summer 2008

  • Denormalize data into a huge database table; build models and scripts to handle it efficiently
  • Design and implement a search API from scratch (in PHP) using that table
  • Design and develop an asynchronous search widget with pagination in Rails and JavaScript
  • Refactor large portions of a Ruby on Rails application

North American Computational Linguistics Olympics

Web Designer/Developer
2007-2008

  • Design and maintain a website and database for the 2008 NACLO competition
  • Develop a custom registration system that will handle over one thousand registrations
  • Act as technical support for hundreds of teachers and students across the country

NACLO (Language Technologies Institute)

Undergraduate Research Assistant
2006-2007

  • Create linguistics problems, grade exams
  • Work on the beginnings of computer-based problems for future competitions

The U.S. Navy (MMH team at Manned Flight Simulator)

Computer Science Intern
Summer 2006

  • Work on flight simulators for training pilots
  • Get servers to communicate and report to a single controller application

Activities and Leadership

Thistle Yearbook

Editor-in-Chief
Fall 2008

  • Oversee the production of the yearbook
  • Represent the organization

Thistle Yearbook

Managing Editor/Systems Manager
2007-2008

  • Assist the Editor-in-Chief, manage the editors and their staffs
  • Administer systems (file server, website/server, production computers)

The Tartan

Photo Editor
2007

  • Oversee the photography aspects of the newspaper and maintain a photo staff
  • Create new, more efficient photo production flow

Skills

Programming Languages

Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, C/++

Web Design/Development

PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, SVN/Git

Selected Courses

Natural Language Processing (11-411), Artificial Intelligence (15-381), Graph Theory (21-484)

Interests

Computational linguistics, graph theory, physics (especially quantum theory and computational physics), agile development, abstraction, unsupervised learning, data mining

references available upon request