Sydney Ryan

SR

*** ******** *** **, ***** Rapids MI 49503

T: 952-***-****

E: acoujp@r.postjobfree.com

To obtain a job working with technology to help achieve organizational goals and

Objective

improve peoples’ lives

Grinnell College

Education

Grinnell, IA May 2014

BA in Mathematics

Study Abroad

Budapest, Hungary Spring 2013

Budapest Semester in Mathematics, 12 credits

Software Developer Apprentice, Mutually Human

Work/Teaching

Grand Rapids, MI June 2014 Mar 2015

Experience

● Hired as a full time developer apprentice after completing a 3 month

summer internship

● Developed mobile apps for iOS and Android

● Experience working in Objective C, Javascript/Coffeescript, Python, Ruby

on Rails, and AngularJS

Technology Consultant Coordinator, Grinnell College

Grinnell, IA Aug 2011 May 2014

● Oversaw mentoring of new Helpdesk hires and administered

end of semester oral certifications to ensure that they knew how to solve

common problems, problem solve efficiently, and follow protocol.

● Helped individually mentor and shadow new hires for their training

semester.

● Revised and reviewed mentoring schedule and lesson plans for the

Helpdesk as necessary

Computer Science Mentor, Grinnell College

Grinnell, IA Spring, Fall 2012

● Mentored for CSC 151: Functional Problem Solving for two semesters.

● Attended all class sessions, assisted during lab, and held mentor sessions

outside of class and before tests and quizzes.

LaTeX Typesetting Class

Grinnell, IA Spring 2012

● Taught a 10 week student led class through Grinnell’s Experimental

College program.

● Wrote lesson plans and lab style exercises for students to complete during

class sessions.

Technology Consultant, Grinnell College

Grinnell, IA Aug 2010 May 2011

● Worked in Grinnell’s computer helpdesk, troubleshooting issues on a

variety of platforms.

● Experience solving problems on Mac OSX, PCs, laptops and desktops for

faculty and students.

● Emphasis on virus removal, hardware troubleshooting, network connectivity

issues.

● Promoted after a year to become the student manager (Technology

Consultant Coordinator) of the Helpdesk

Estimating Formant Targets, Oregon Health and Science University

Research Experience

Portland, OR Summer 2013

● Worked on an algorithm for estimating phoneme formant targets and

coarticulation functions in both clear and conversational speech

● Explored different data display techniques like MatPlotLib in Python.

Graph Nim, Clemson University

Clemson, SC Summer 2012

● Explored tools used in combinatorial game theory to analyze a variation of

the game Nim. Examined a property called the Sprague Grundy number.

● Summarized our results in a paper, which was accepted for publication by

Congressus Numernatium in Oct 2013

MediaScripting, Grinnell College

Grinnell, IA Summer 2011

● Explored image manipulation as a tool for teaching and motivating students

and novice programmers.

● Developed MediaPython, a plug in to the GIMP that allows a user to

manipulate images by scripting in Python.

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