BETHANY M. SOULE

Master of SCIENCE

aboyfv@r.postjobfree.com

734-***-****

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

PERSONAL PROJECTS:

Beeminder.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.

Numbered IMs (NIMS)

An Adium plugin that implements a simple protocol to verify message

receipt.

Objective C.

Babynamer

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:

Javascript, PHP, Ruby (on Rails), Java, C++, C, XHTML, CSS, Scheme,

OS X/Unix/Linux, MySQL, WordPress, Perl, Python, Subversion, Git, Bzr

EXPERIENCE:

Beeminder.com

Co-founder and CTO

Nov 2010 - Present

Bethany is the resident Rails guru and does everything from the MongoDB

backend to Jquery in the front. She deploys daily.

FireDogLake.com

WordPress developer, freelance

April 2010 - Nov 2010

Single handedly launched my.firedoglake.com from implementing the theme, to

writing custom wordpress plugins, customization of the BuddyPress plugin, large

scale migration of user accounts and existing data for ~30K users into the new

site, and addressing database scaling issues.

Soar Technology, Ann Arbor MI

Student Intern

May - August 2006

Learned the Soar programming language and contributed code to a large existing

code-base for a military simulation project.

Literacy*AmeriCorps, Seattle WA

Technology educator

2004 - 2005

Managed the computer literacy program (Wired For Learning) at the Seattle

Public Library, including: developing curriculum and course materials; teaching

basic computer skills classes to low literacy level and non-native English

speaking adults; and the management and training of approximately 25

volunteers.

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!

I'm also a little quantification obsessed. Check out this talk I gave at the NYC Quantified Self meetup in August - http://quantifiedself.com/2010/10/bethany-soule-and-daniel-reeve/

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