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Bethany M. Soule

Master of SCIENCE

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bms2126@columbia.edu

734.904.0953

I want to build things that people use. I want a programming position that gives me the chance to get really good at something, to master some domain. I want to dream of electric sheep.

Education

M.S. Computer Science, May 2009

Columbia University, New York NY — 3.0 GPA

 

B.A. Russian, May 2004

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Minor in Painting — 3.6 GPA

Skills

Programming

A programmer's programmer who codes for fun and profit.

Gumption

Makes things happen. Makes other people make things happen.

Web Design

A background in the visual arts makes for solid aesthetics and good design choices.

Projects

Kibotzer.com

  • Automatically graph progress towards a goal such as weight loss, number of pushups, or hours worked. Bugs you regularly for a number and updates your graph.
  • PHP, CSS, Perl.

Timepie

  • Tracks how you spend your time by randomly sampling from you over the course of the day.
  • Java, Android SDK, SQLite.

NIMS (Numbered IMs)

  • An Adium plugin that implements a simple protocol to verify message receipt.
  • Objective C.

Babynamer (babynamer.soule-reeves.com)

  • A poll/voting website, in Reddit style. People add items and vote up/down.
  • Ruby on Rails.

Taskbot

  • An instant message bot that acts as a group task manager.
  • Java, jYMSG API.

Technical

  • XHTML, CSS
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Javascript, PHP
  • Java, C++, C
  • Scheme
  • Perl
  • OS X
  • Unix/Linux
  • Subversion, Git

Experience

FireDogLake.com

WordPress developer

April 2010 - Present

Customized and deployed a buddypress installation at my.firedoglake.com.

Soar Technology, Ann Arbor MI

Student Intern

May - August 2006

Developed Soar rules within a large existing code-base for a military simulation project.

Literacy*AmeriCorps, Seattle WA

Technology educator

2004 - 2005

Taught basic computer skills classes to low literacy level and non-native English speaking adults.

About Bee

I think of biking a century as a fun Saturday activity and tied the age-group record of 178 miles in 12 hours at Ohio's Calvin's Challenge bicycle race in 2006. I've also been known to climb stairs competitively and hold a PR of 15:38s at Chicago's annual Hustle Up the Hancock — that's 104.4 stairs per minute, baby!

Bethany M. Soule — bms2126@columbia.edu — 734.904.0953