About Me

 

Mini Resume

Education, Skills, Experience, and Cute Icons
Education:
University of Oregon
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Minor in Architecture)
Graduated 1999, GPA 3.3
Skills:
Professional Web Development and Programming: ASP.NET MVC using C#, ASP Classic using JScript, Visual Studio using C++, Delphi using Pascal, JavaScript/AJAX including but not limited to jQuery, HTML, XML, CSS
Professional Design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks
Other: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, FileMaker Pro, and a variety of custom database solutions
Portfolio and Code Samples Here
Experience:
Wall Street On Demand (2006 - present)
Senior Web Developer
Duties: Web development / maintenance in ASP Classic, ASP.NET, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS; led and guided team members; organized and headed up meetings, created presentations, wrote documentation, talked with clients on a technical level
JET Programme (2003-2005)
Assistant English Teacher
Duties: Created lesson plans and activities, both as a team and on my own, for teaching English to Elementary school students, Jr. High school students, and adults in Japan; wrote a monthly newsletter and column
University of Colorado Foundation (2002-2003)
Duties: Performed data interpretation and clean-up, using SQL queries
Riverrun Designs (2002)
Duties: Designed and developed riverrun.us in its entirety
Just Screen It, Inc. (2001-2002)
Duties: Software development in Pascal; web development for original Just Screen It website in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Technical Marketing Research, Inc. (1999-2000)
Duties: Updated and debugged Windows printer driver GUIs (C / C++); debugged and helped develop a Sharp portable device plug-in (Visual C++ / MFC); wrote and programmed help files for Windows printer drivers (Tokyo, Japan)

Stuff You Didn't Want To Know

Silly, Self-Indulgent List of Facts About Me
  • I can do a cartwheel
  • I can drive a stick shift
  • I can touch my tongue to my nose
  • I can make macaroni and cheese without looking at the back of the box
  • I know the lyrics to One Week (by the Barenaked Ladies) and White and Nerdy (by Weird Al) by heart
  • I've jumped off a bridge (Geronimo!)
  • I've driven on the left side of the road (with a stick shift)
  • I can type 80 words per minute (in a world where I make up the rules of spelling, 60 in the real world)
  • I've eaten frog legs, octopus, sea urchin, and wild boar (not all in one sitting)
  • I've lived with 10 people in the same house (generally not recommended)
  • I own Jesus Christ Superstar in Japanese (a doubly odd phenomenon)
  • I've won over 50 kinds of solitaire (yes, I have a life)
  • I can change a tire (the lighter the car the better)
  • I can bake damn good chocolate chip cookies
  • I've seen the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo
  • I can play pinochole
  • I can write backwards and upside down
  • I've seen the rings of Saturn (okay, little wings from the big white circle in the telescope, but...)
  • I've snowboarded in jeans (don't do this)
  • I've been the only girl in one of my classes (A software class of 18. Still surprises me)
  • I could do a standing backflip before puberty (afterwards... not so much.)
  • I've been up the Eiffel Tower and the Tokyo Tower
  • I've seen Patrick Stewart's forehead live and in person (and what a fine forehead it is)
  • I've been parasailing (500 feet above the Atlantic - woo hoo! Was more scared by the bumpy boat ride.)
  • I've had braces (twice)
  • I've walked atop the Great Wall of China
  • I can recite the first scene of Return of the Jedi word for word ('Lord Vader, this is an unexpected pleasure...')
  • I've witnessed the birth of a baby (um, not my own)
  • I've been to the southern hemisphere (the toilets flushed no differently, but the new constellations were cool)
  • I once had the first movement of Beethoven's Pathetique memorized on the piano (I even impress myself sometimes)
  • I've sung karaoke ... sober! (and I am a microphone hog)
  • I've been skydiving! (tandem, so I didn't have to be the one to actually jump out of the plane)
  • I've done a home video reenactment of the movie Clue using the board game pieces (life, what life?)
  • I've seen a volcano smoke (from an above airplane)
  • I know who Moxy Fruvous is!
  • I've won $100 at blackjack in one sitting
  • I've lost $100 at blackjack in one sitting
  • I've played blackjack at casinos in three different countries (Macau, US, NZ)
  • I wrote a blackjack game in javascript
  • But I'm not sure I really like gambling...
  • Though I did play Pachinko once
  • I've played the shamisen and the koto harp (not well or anything)
  • I've been up the Seattle Space Needle and the Stratosphere
  • I've been the Maid of Honor (and did a speech)
  • I've received a dozen roses (lucky me!)
  • I've been river rafting
  • I've stayed up all night writing
  • I've been to a Wawa! (as everyone in New Jersey goes 'well, duh')
  • I've played until I had two 'Juniors' in Ms Pac Man (at an arcade, not a console)
  • I've seen a lego-reproduction of the Sydney Opera House from a boat
  • I've seen the actual Sydney Opera House from a boat
  • I can count to ten in a New Zealand accent (you laugh, but I really can)
  • I can spell my name in sign language (at least I can until I forget, then I go look it up again)
  • I can french braid my own hair
  • I've taught a tribal war chant to fourth graders
  • I can see stereograms (also called Magic-Eye and 3-D pictures) It's not a conspiracy.
  • I've hailed a taxi (in a non-english speaking country, too)
  • I've spent the majority of the day on the roof of a house
  • I've driven over 14 hours in one sitting
  • I've played netball (as everyone in Australia goes 'well, duh')
  • I can play Magic (badly)
  • I can play 9-ball (badly)
  • I've been on a hovercraft (though I couldn't tell from inside)
  • I've played goalie
  • I have 20 inches of my hair in a paper bag
  • I've spent the night at LAX (not recommended to do freezing air conditioning, announcements that run loudly every five minutes and couches specifically designed not to lay on)
  • I've been to a concert at Red Rocks (just like the U2 video... sort of)
  • I've been on the Petronas Towers skybridge (though made my friend wake up early to wait in line for tickets)
  • I've swam in the coean (but can't seem to successfully boogie board no matter how many times I try.)
  • I've been in an earthquake (well, a little one anyway)
  • I've been to an actual Shakespeare play at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England (Shakespeare's birthplace)
  • I've been to an actual McDonalds in Stratford-upon-Avon
    BUT...
  • I've never been to Canada Now I have, finally! (Only took me 3 decades.)
  • I've never flown first class (though I have managed, by some streak of luck, to get into business class twice)
  • I've never scuba dived
  • I've never cooked a turkey
  • I've never been to New Orleans :(
  • I can't bend my pinky finger without my ring finger bending too
  • I've never been in a hurricane or tornado
  • I've never broken an arm or a leg (though did fracture a thumb)
  • I've never driven a motorcycle No longer! And not only have I now driven a motorcycle, I've also fallen off one!
  • I've never been to the Statue of Liberty
  • I've never ridden a camel or an elephant
  • I've never been to a fraternity or sorority party
  • I've never been backpacking (i.e. overnight in the wilderness without a car nearby)
  • I've never grown my own food
  • I've never played Final Fantasy, Diablo 2, or World of Warcraft
  • I've never dialed 911
  • I've never been sailing
  • I don't have any tattoos
  • I've never hitchhiked (though have gotten a couple rides from 'illegal taxis')
  • I've never ridden in a helicopter
  • I've never vomited or blacked out due to drunkenness (in fact, it's a toss up whether I've ever really been drunk.)
  • I can't do a proper crawl stroke
  • I've never held a running chainsaw
  • I've never hiked the Grand Canyon
  • I can't play the guitar, the flute, or the trumpet (among other things)
  • I can't jog more than two miles without stopping (...out ...of ...shape)
  • I've failed to climb above 14,000 feet (not for lack of trying)
  • I've never owned a Cabbage Patch Kid
  • I've never successfully popped a champagne cork (not for lack of trying)
  • I've never met a celebrity

Favorites

My Top 5 of Various Stuff