Resume
Nash Lincoln
San Francisco, CA 94110
OBJECTIVE
I am seeking a job that lets me express my passion for computational linguistics and web technologies and provides me with the satisfaction of building elegant, well-used systems.
EXPERIENCE
AGIS Network Inc., San Ramon, California
Web Developer, July 2006 to Present
- N-Tier Web development for national eldercare and long term care portal - www.agis.com
- Responsible for technical design and implementation of presentation layer
- Assist development of back-end code including Lucene/Solr for taxonomy-based search
- Architect and implement mini-portals and e-marketing materials - C#/.NET, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
- Agile development environment
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Computational Linguistics Research Assistant, August 2005 to May 2006
- Developed stochastic part-of-speech tagger and language model visualizer for use as a debugging tool and teaching aid in understanding the behavior of hidden Markov models using the Viterbi algorithm - Java
- Authored resulting paper published by the ACL and presented at ACL-2005 International Conference - see http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W05/W05-0106.pdf
- Performed research on information extraction, storage and research collaboration system for researchers of biology and medicine - see http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/~sbradsha/Beedance/index.html
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Graduate Teaching Assistant, August 2005 to May 2006
- Instructed 120+ students in a business-oriented computer science course
- Led lab component, assigned and graded projects that required students to gain working knowledge of Internet and database technologies in order to run a business with a retail web presence
- Taught MS Office (Word, Excel, Access & Frontpage)
- Ran after-hours help sessions, held office hours and proctored exams
- Nominated for “Favorite Faculty Member of the Business School”, April 2006
Pearson - Educational Measurement Division, Iowa City, Iowa
Systems Architecture Intern, May 2005 to September 2005
- Team member on project that successfully implemented a national portal tying together interfaces for the testing, grading and reporting of standardized tests for ~50% of Americas public school children.
PUBLICATIONS
- Making Hidden Markov Models More Transparent, Nashira Lincoln and Marc Light;
Proceedings of Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing And Computational Linguistics, June 2005, ACL - http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W05/W05-0106.pdf
EDUCATION
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Bachelors in Linguistics/Computer Science, May 2005
- Emphasis on Computational linguistics
- Roy J. Carver Scholars’ Program Scholarship, 2003 - 2005
- Dewey Stuit Fund Scholarship, 2005, “For undergraduate student travel to disciplinary conferences, workshops, archives, or other sites, either to present their work or to advance their research or creative projects.”
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Masters Coursework in Computer Science
- Emphasis on Computational linguistics
- Performed research on information extraction of bio-medical literature - http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/~sbradsha/Beedance/index.html
MISCELLANEOUS
-JAVA, OOSD, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP/C#.NET, SQL, C/C++, PHP, XML, shell scripting
-Linux, Windows, NetBeans, Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, statistical language models, micro-controllers , home automation, intelligent objects, espresso machine mods
-Member - Association for Computational Linguistics
-Member - Association for Computing Machinery