“Tim was an awesome guy to work with. He had a great attitude and integrated into the team easily. I especially appreciated that he was super knowledgeable about a multitude of technologies that were available and how they could help solve our problems and improve our products. He was also really good at suggesting new ideas and thinking about how we could get better with our process. I really got the impression he cared about his work, the team, and the success of the company and that is always a positive thing to have in an employee.”
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Confidence in colleges and universities slipped to 38% this year after last year's modest rebound, putting higher ed back near its recent low…
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I used to make $200K a year as an aerospace executive. I don’t anymore - now maybe a quarter of that. But I have something much more valuable. The…
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A gateway content filter stops the honest user and annoys the attacker. Perimeter controls have an asymmetry baked in. They impose a fixed, reliable…
A gateway content filter stops the honest user and annoys the attacker. Perimeter controls have an asymmetry baked in. They impose a fixed, reliable…
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Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures: Programming Mobile Services for Android Handheld Systems
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Creative, Serious and Playful Science of Android Apps
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An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
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Web Master
Aldea Spiritual Community (Church)
- Present 12 years 3 months
Social Services
Helped maintain wordpress Church website and troubleshoot problems related to updating and deploying content.
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Feedreader Testing
See projectEnsured maintainability of web application by writing comprehensive tests to ensure current and future features worked.
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Neighborhood Map Project
See projectCreated a web application for searching local business (with their yelp rankings) and navigating to them using google maps.
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Frogger Clone
See projectRecreated classic game Frogger with new graphics and point systems in html 5 using canvas and javascript.
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Optimization of Mobile Webpage
See projectTook a slow mobile website and made it receive google pagespeed ranking of 96.
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An exploration of a medieval Islamic philosopher's (Al-Farabi) answer to the question of government, virtue and statesmanship synthesizing the three traditions of his day (jurisprudence, theology, and philosophy).
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Phi Beta Kappa
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