Director of operations and research The Ada Initiative Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Public Policy industry February 2011 – Present (1 year 4 m...
Director of operations and researchThe Ada Initiative
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Public Policy industry
February 2011 – Present (1 year 4 months)
Co-founded a non-profit to promote women in open technology and culture.
Synopsis
Mary Gardiner is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her main research interest is computational linguistics.
Mary has experience as a senior level programmer, particularly of web systems and related business logic. Her primary programming language is Python. Mary is not seeking full time employment but may be available for short term ad-hoc contracts.
Education
- Studies towards Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (current)
- Bachelor of Science (Honours) in computing and mathematics
- Bachelor of Arts in linguistics, philosophy and semiotics
See academic résumé for full details.
Skills
- Programming languages
- Python; Java; C; exposure to Perl, C++ and Prolog.
- Programming specialities
- Natural language processing — information extraction and question answering); text processing; and web programming (CGI scripting with Python and Perl, Nevow, some PHP and JSP).
- Markup languages
- HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 with Cascading Stylesheets (CSS); LaTeX; and Docbook SGML and XML.
- Systems administration
- Linux, especially Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu; Apache webserver; BIND nameserver; and Postfix mail transfer agent.
Experience
- Analyst/developer and senior analyst/developer, CommSecure Pty Ltd, December 2004–March 2006
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