Aaron Brick


	aaron@lithic.org www.lithic.org	+1 415 902 7209 San Francisco, California United States
Experience
	2008: Chief Technical Officer at iJigg	• Drove development of second-generation music site to better serve Asian users • Continual strategizing to maintain working plans for the company’s trajectory • Developed new crosslingual annotation system with translations from Wikipedia • Put together an automated monitoring, archival, and visualization infrastructure • Imported 20M events, 600K users, 200K songs from existing homebrew system

	2007: Software Engineer at AdBrite	• Built regulator to actively modulate $2M per month of advertising spending • Created vocabulary controller to semantically converge 14M unique keywords • Arranged the acquisition and processing of keywords describing 3.6M URLs • Selected metrics and implemented queries for quantitative dashboard view • Wrote software specifications to document our systems and design decisions

	2001 – 2003: Programmer / Analyst at the University of California, San Francisco	• Led team in fixing and updating free genomic research system NOMAD • Designed and implemented an attractive, unified view and query interface • Introduced collborative structure and deployed open development tools • Analyzed workflow to demonstrate software’s role in laboratory procedures

	2000 – 2001: Research & Test Engineer at Eazel	• Designed and developed test suite to process thousands of software packages • Served on the Linux Standard Base’s Packaging & Install Taskforce • Collaborated on business analysis and design of a major software archive
Engagements
	since 2009: City College of San Francisco	Instructor of Computer Science, teaching courses as of the spring semester of 2009
	since 2008: Marakana	Lecturing to and counseling professional programmers in laboratory sessions
	2005 – 2006: iSchool, UC Berkeley	Coordinated CMS testing and selection for school website at 4.5M hits per month
	2003 – 2005: UC Berkeley	Taught, advised, supervised, and graded students in six programming courses
	2003: Jarvis Architects	Produced achitectural portfolio website and custom font-rendering system
	1998: The Santa Cruz Operation	Administrated training laboratory hardware and operating system installations
	1997 – 1998: Tapestry.Net	Developed mailing list management program and office network architecture
Education
	2003 – 2005: Master of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley	• Focus on best practices for organizational processes and systems • Research in sound at CNMAT, open source strategy, media annotation • Earned Management of Technology certificate for studies of business • Served on Academic Senate’s Computing and Communications Committee

	1996 – 2000: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University	• Double major, twice philosophical society president, Dean’s List in 1997 • Study emphases on databases, information retrieval, irrational numbers • Independent study project to add networking functionality to a datebook

	University studies of and in Latin America	• One year’s academic residence in Engineering at the University of Chile • Completed degree requirements for Bachelor of Arts in L.A.S. at J.H.U. • Completed half of degree program for Master of Arts in L.A.S. at Berkeley • History and arts curriculum supporting trips across Cuba and Brazil
Expertise
	Computer programming:	AJAX, bash, C & C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, R, SQL, XML, XSLT
	Data mining / analysis:	Machine learning, semantic relations, investigative querying, visualization
	Engineering process:	Interviews and user testing, requirements gathering, use cases, prototyping
	Information architecture:	Faceted taxonomy, usability, graph and information theories, RDF ontologies
	Open source software:	Collaborative infrastructure and incentives, assemble free components vs. buy
	Professional methods:	User-centered design, requirements and specifications, cost / benefit analysis
	Software development:	Benchmarking, unit testing, refactoring; CVS / SVN, QA, UNIX / Linux, XP

	Natural languages:	Native English, fluent Spanish, advanced Portuguese, rudimentary French
	Pastimes:	Calligraphy, disc sports, electronics, gastronomy, photography, restoration