Professional Experience

Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University (2007 – present)

Data analysis and data explorer design for a variety of Marine-focused initiatives, including Global Oceans Biodiversity Initiative, a United Nations project to identify areas of ecological concern outside of national waters and the Sargasso Sea Alliance, a group seeking to define and protect the North Atlantic ecosystem.

  • Interface design, network infrastructure planning, and web development for geospatial-focused environmental science.
  • Integration of Geographic Information Systems and the web.
  • Server virtualization, cloud computing infrastructure development, and project management

Mapping and Visualization for the Census of Marine Life, a global scientific effort to assess the state of ocean life.

  • Information graphics, cartography and writing in collaboration with National Geographic Society Maps.
  • Worked with Google to develop “Google Oceans” layer within the Google Earth product
  • Cloud infrastructure and interface development for iOBIS, the international data repository of marine animal data
  • Organized visualization workshops for Census of Marine Life scientists

Senior System Administrator – Duke University – Nicholas School of the Environment (2001-2007)

  • Oversaw the systems side of building an IT department from scratch.
  • Consolidated Local Area Network resources from several small workgroups (NT4, Active Directory, NIS+, Novell) to a unified Samba 3.0/NIS domain with offsite SSH/SFTP access. Documented Windows to Linux migration in page-ranked blog.
  • Designed multi-instance Content Management System, allowing research groups to share and control data with non-Duke collaborators. Customized individual portals for specific research needs. Also, refined CMS system as back end for blogging and RSS.
  • Administration of high-traffic website, www.nicholas.duke.edu. Advised Communications department on issues of accessibility and conversion from tables to CSS layout. Created strategy for migrating from a flat to database-driven website.
  • Ramped up storage capacity to accommodate a growing GIS/Geospatial Analysis course track. Tailored Open Source technologies to accommodate for load and backup, logging and monitoring.

Computer Consultant/SysAdmin – University of North Carolina – School of Medicine (1998-2000)

  • 2000-2001. LAN Admin for School of Medicine NT domain, overseeing application, Exchange and file servers, ArcServ backup, ColdFusion/IIS web servers.
  • Developed Perl scripts for NT Administration.
  • 1998-1999 Tech support for Office of Information Systems, troubleshooting desktop, NIS+, NT 4, and IMAP mail systems in mixed Windows/Mac/Unix environment. Tech Writing, HTML and CGI for website. Developed software distribution packages with InstallShield.

Software Trainer and Consultant – Catapult Software Training (1997-1998)

Consulting and in-house training for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Worked Closely with C-text Inc, developing training course for the Post-Gazette’s migration from a mainframe system to a client-server network integrating MS Word, QuarkXpress and the news wires. Software instruction for both general users (MS Office, Windows, Lotus Notes) and for desktop publishing and design (Quark, Freehand, Photoshop)

Journalist/Designer – The Pepperell Advocate (1991-1993)

Editing and Composition/Pagination at a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts. Took part in every aspect of the desktop publishing process- page and advertising design, information graphics, proofing and editing copy. As a staff reporter, covered local government, penned interviews and feature stories. Nearly 100 articles published.