Sydney Ryan
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*** ******** *** **, ***** Rapids MI 49503
T: 952-***-****
E: **@***********.***
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.