Skills

• Python
• Django
• PHP
• Drupal
• MySQL
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• HTML
• CSS
• Solr
• MongoDB
• Linux server administration

Experience

Editorial Support Engineer

Sunlight Foundation, Washington, D.C.

July 2010 - Present

News Database Developer

The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.

September 2008 - June 2010

Responsibilities included:

• Working with newsroom staff members and independently to create and maintain data projects for the newspaper's web site.
• Writing programs to extract data from other web sites.
• Working with local government agencies to get access to data.
• Performing general web-development tasks. (These have included writing a Drupal module for using Amazon S3 for file storage; increasing our sites' use of memcached; and implementing a new analytics system.)

Database Editor

Daily Press, Newport News, Va.

July 2007 - September 2008

Responsibilities included:

• Developing and maintaining data projects for the newspaper's web site.
• Writing programs to extract data from other web sites.
• Maintaining the server that houses the projects.
• Working with local government agencies to get access to data.

Webmaster

Believe Wireless, Baltimore, Md.

November 2006 - July 2007

Responsibilities included:

• Creating and maintaining internal and external web sites and databases for the company (a wireless Internet service provider), including a customer database and trouble-ticket system, a service-outage map and a timecard application.
• Troubleshooting customer issues with Internet service.
• Helping administer several Linux servers.

Copy editor/wire editor/designer

Daily Press, Newport News, Va.

July 2004 - November 2006

Responsibilities included:

• Editing news stories for accuracy, fairness, style, grammar and spelling.
• Writing and editing headlines and photo captions.
• Selecting national and international stories for use in the newspaper.
• Designing news pages.
• Posting stories to the newspaper's web site.

Deputy design chief; copy editor/designer

Joplin Globe, Joplin, Mo.

June 2002 - July 2004

Responsibilities included:

• Helping supervise a six-person copy/design desk.
• Working with other editors to decide on story selection and placement.
• Editing news and features stories and designing pages.
• Updating the newspaper's web site each night.

Projects

• Lobbying Tracker
• Follow the Unlimited Money
• Dodd-Frank Meeting Logs
• Mortgage fraud interactive
• Virginian-Pilot crime databases:
  • Norfolk
  • Chesapeake
  • Virginia Beach
  • Portsmouth
• Daily Press crime databases:
  • Virginia Beach
• Hampton Roads Crime API
• Virginia election results (2009)
• Virginia election results (2008)
• Virginia fishing citations
• Names on the Virginia War Memorial
• Hampton Roads property transfers
• django-liveblog
• Python wrapper for Yahoo Placemaker API

Education

I received a bachelor of arts degree from Temple University in May 2002. My major was journalism and my minor was political science.