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Zachary Spector

**** ******** **. **** #**** • Purchase, NY 10577

M: 732-***-**** • E: **************@*****.***

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Determined, inquisitive young professional with demonstrated aptitude in constructing complex queries

and informative reports.

• Programming Languages: Proficient: Python (2.7 and 3.4), SQL (Transact-SQL and DB2 SQL);

Intermediate: JavaScript, VBA; Basic:Java, C

• Operating Systems: Proficient: Kubuntu Linux; Intermediate: Windows 7, IBM z/OS, Debian 7.x

• Software: Intermediate: Access, Outlook, Crystal Reports, Word, Excel

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3 Professional Work Experience

Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

Institutional Research and Planning Coordinator Jan-Jul 2014

• Developed TSQL queries to access data in an Ellucian Colleague installation. Deployed said

queries in Crystal Reports.

Business impact: Enabled advanced analysis of student retention across a wide variety of

variables.

• Developed VBA macros.

Business impact: Sped up the process of summarizing large data sets when reporting them to

other departments.

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5 Internship Experience

DBSystems Corp., White Plains, NY

Tester 2011-2014

• Tested web services meant to estimate financial aid for students. Documented cases where the

web services did not appear to follow the official rules.

Business impact: Accelerated deployment of the service; increased confidence in its reliability.

• Started writing SQL queries to spec shortly after demonstrating success at it.

Portland State University, Portland, OR

Computer Lab Attendant 2011

• Assisted users with computers and printers.

• Trained users with Microsoft Office, Windows XP, and other applications.

• Administered the lab's code of conduct.

Projects

LiSE Life Simulator Engine https://github.com/LogicalDash/LiSE

Rules engine with graph-based world model in a relational database, for revision control.

Simple API to define rules with plain Python functions, for rapid prototyping.

gorm Object Relational Mapper, for Graphs https://github.com/LogicalDash/gorm

Serves objects that greatly resemble the graph objects from networkx, but keep their data in a database,

in records that have revision metadata.

6 Education

Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science; Minor in Spanish, May 2013

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