Summary

I'm a web applications programmer in the Boston area. I'm looking for a software engineering job where I can use my programming powers for good. My ideal company has a significant positive impact on its customers and the world -- most likely in the healthcare, education, or renewable energy sectors, most likley a nonprofit or B-corporation.

Travel

I traveled a lot last year.

I volunteered in Cambodia for nine months at Angkor Hospital for Children, which provides free or low-cost health care in Siem Reap. I worked as a web applications programmer on their patient medical record system.

When preparing to go overseas, I went to Meet, Plan, Go, an event that promotes long-term travel. I won a month-long home stay in Lyon, France in the sponsor raffle. My French family were welcoming and gracious hosts. I'm deeply thankful to them for opening their home and giving me a glimpse of everyday life in France.

Tech

I'm a web applications programmer. Put in civilian terms, I make the brains behind websites. In industry terms, I work with PHP, Java EE, Groovy, and MySQL. You can see more about my career at LinkedIn.

Projects

My programming language for 2012 is Javascript, with a side of jQuery, HTML, and CSS. With the proliferation of connected devices, the dream of "write once, run everywhere" is back in style. Web browsers are our device-independent platform. Farewell to the sharp line between front and back end programming.

That Actor In That Movie helps you search for actor names when you can only remember which movies they appeared in. It uses jQuery and AJAX, with a lashing of PHP to preprocess results and protect my API key. The data is courtesy of TMDb.

OpenMRS is the open source medical record software that I used in Cambodia. I've contributed code and documentation.

Interests

I'm a human languages nerd too. My undergraduate degree was in Latin and Ancient Greek. Analyzing archaic syntax provided excellent training for a software career. I learned a bit of Cambodian in Siem Reap, but less than I'd wish. It's not a language to learn from books.

My foreign language for 2012 is French. I've made more progress with French than any other language. My next goals are to pass the DELF Level B1 exam in December, and to read the first Harry Potter book.

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