I’ve been working full time for many years. You can get an idea of my experience by reading my resume.

Sudent History

As a student, I’ve worked on some very rewarding projects. For example, in computer science, a friend and I created a networked OpenGL air hockey game for our final project in our 3D Graphics class that ran in IRIX. In an advanced database class, I created a Flash UI for editing records for a domain name server which use a relational database in the back end to store normalized DNS records. The author of our textbook in that class was visiting and watched our final presentations, and he was very impressed with my project. That was a very memorable experience. For fun, I actually took that 3D Graphics class a second time, and with a different friend, we created a 3D OpenGL game where the player would guess the locations of the enemy’s ships on a grid. We implemented a “binoculars” feature so we could see our missiles heading into the distance while the enemy’s missiles headed towards us. We called it “Harbor Wars”.

While enrolled in my LIS and nonprofit management classes, I was surprised at how much overlap there was. Grant writing was offered in both schools, and in one semester both my LIS class, “Archives & Records Management” and my nonprofit management course, “Social Equity and Justice” were both talking about indigenous people’s equity and representation. In one class we were discussing how an archivist risks introducing bias if they aren’t from the community the artifact belongs to, and in the other class we were learning about how the Navajo Nation’s lands were mined for uranium ore, and how the contamination remains. It helped me understand why these two degrees were paired into a dual-degree option.

Career

I’ve been working at my public library since April 2019, and while my role is that of a developer, I still find the occasional use for my knowledge in networking and UNIX administration.