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Work Experience
Elementary English Teacher/Assistant Language Teacher
Shibushi City Board of Education, Shibushi, Japan August 2006 through August 2007- Taught English at 3 public junior high schools and 6 elementary schools in the Ariake district of Shibushi City.
- Taught Adult and Youth English conversation classes for the Ariake Education Division as part of Shibushi City's Lifelong Learning Program.
- Helped to organize and participate in city events for the promotion of international exchange
Web Developer & Database Architect
The Post, Athens, Ohio April 2005 through July 2006- Co-designed and implemented Fourdrinier, an in-house CMS, as part of a small team of developers, resulting in a dramatic increase in the functionality, stability, compatibility and usability of The Post Online, a public website serving thousands of users.
- Designed Fourdrinier's PostgreSQL database and converted and regularized years of historical data to an internally consistent format, greatly increasing the efficiency of data insertion and retrieval as well as expanding the utility of existing data.
- Contributed to the layout and graphical design of The Post Online, including the creation of custom graphics.
Assistant Lon-CAPA Manager
Ohio University Physics Department, Athens, Ohio September 2005 through March 2006- Assisted with the maintenance of the Linux servers for the Lon-CAPA online course delivery system at Ohio University.
- Created an automated backup solution using Perl and rsync for the servers supporting Lon-CAPA, an online course delivery system, at Ohio University, increasing the frequency and longevity of backups while decreasing storage requirements.
Technical Coordinator
America Coming Together, Mahoning County Office, Liberty, Ohio June 2004 through September 2004- Coordinated data processing efforts and managed local technical operations at the Youngstown, Ohio branch office.
- Automated high-volume, labor-intensive data entry processes as Technical Coordinator at a branch office of America Coming Together, a voter education group, resulting in a more than ten-fold productivity increase and significant cost savings.
- Assisted with other duties such as troubleshooting, canvassing and voter registration.