| EDUCATION: |
| 9/92 - 6/96 | Stanford University,
Stanford, CA. BS in Computer
Science, with Distinction. Related coursework in artificial intelligence,
operating systems, and object-oriented software design. Other coursework
included economics, law, French, mathematics, and physics. |
| EXPERIENCE: |
| 7/98 - Present | Internet Engineer, The Seattle Times. Seattle, Washington.
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| 3/97 - 3/98 | Senior Associate, Center
for Public Integrity. Washington, DC. Created and analyzed several original,
large-scale, research databases from public records that served as the
backbone for the Center's four 'Congress and the People' studies and a
related book. Managed interns and dealt with third-party service providers
during development process. Also performed reporting tasks and managed the Center's fact-checking
operation. |
| 9/96 - 2/97 | Assistant to the Executive Director, Center
for Public Integrity. Washington, DC. Worked closely with organization's executive
director. Maintained contacts, researched articles, assisted with proposals,
and developed a 7,000 record database of DC-based reporters that vastly
expanded the organization's outreach capabilities. |
| 6/96 - 8/96 | Intern, National Organization for Women (NOW). Washington, DC. Helped to maintain
and expand organization's Internet site, lobbied elected officials, aided
policy committee, and performed research relevant to NOW. |
| 6/95 - 10/95 | Contractor, Adobe Systems Inc. Mountain View, CA. Developed the Weblink and AutoIndex plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat
on the UNIX Platform. "Weblink" allowed
users to link Acrobat documents to the World Wide Web. Software was written
in C using Motif 1.2. |
| 4/95 - 6/96 | Developer, Zippity Zap
Project, Stanford University. Created educational software for beginning
and intermediate language students in conjunction with university language
departments. Software allowed teachers and students to both create and
complete language exercises that incorporated text, sound, and graphics.
Written in C++ using the Macintosh TCL. |
| 9/94 - 2/96 | Section Leader, CS
106: Programming Methodology and Abstractions, Stanford University. Taught
weekly section for introductory C programming course. Explained essential
concepts as well as graded student programs. Course focused on developing
good programming style and introduced fundamental data structures (e.g.,
stacks, queues, binary trees), recursion, and complexity analysis. |
| 5/94 - 12/94 | Technical Support, Residential Computing, Stanford University.
Was responsible for the repair and maintenance of dorm-based computer clusters
containing over 300 Apple Macintosh machines and approximately thirty NEXT
machines. |