Dan Cohn
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
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Areas Of Strength:
Analytical Problem Solver
Intuitive, Creative Programmer
Strong Communication Skills
Highly Motivated
Experience turning creativity into results
Works well in collaborative, team based
environments
Quickly learns new technologies
Technical Skills:
Strong Object Oriented Programming
Expert python programmer with over 2 years experience
Google Appengine/Webapp Framework
2 Years with MATLAB scripting language
Basic Java
Plone/Zope development and administration
Nginx/Ha-Proxy/Varnish
SCRUM/Agile methodologies
JQuery
xHtml/Zope-TAL/Django Templating
Basic XML, CSS
Subversion
Redmine/Remedy project management/ticketing systems
Experience developing in Linux/OS-X environments
Buildout/Virtualenv/Paster
Selenium/Windmill testing frameworks
Education:
B.S. Mathematics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
Work History:
UNC Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services (OASIS) Feb 2009 - Current
Applications Developer
Developed custom products for Plone (Python CMS)
Author of Loadtester, a python load testing tool that replays server access logs
Member of three man team in charge of building and maintaining over 30 Plone
sites for UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences
Developed JQuery based GUI to handle monetary donations to the university
Used Fedora Linux and OS-X
Built automated image processor using Python and PIL
SCRUM
Created buildouts to install and configure Nginx/Ha-Proxy/Varnish stack
Quality control and automated testing with windmill and selenium
UNC Neurodevelopmental Disorder Research Center (NDRC) Aug 2008 - Jan 2009
Jr. Database Administrator
Designed and implemented Issue Tracker -- a PHP driven, technical assistance
tracking and management tool.
Lead designer of a demographics database for a team of 20 users, utilizing
automatic form generation to interact with a MySQL database
In charge of design and implementation strategies
UNC Psychology Dept., Gordon Labs Nov 2007 - June 2008
Research Assistant
Lead MATLAB programmer - in charge of design and development
Developed GUI for acoustic pre-testing which supports multiple experimental
setups for hardware signal generation and data capture
Designed cross-platform MATLAB based GUI to automate fMRI image data
analysis
Side Projects:
Building Facebook social networking app using Python and Google Appengine
Learning Django and deepening Webapp skills
Open sourcing Loadtester