Web Architect Carson Baker

Curriculum Vitae

A PDF version of my c.v. is also available for download (44 KB).

Education

• Trinity University, Graduate
  B.S. Honors in Computer Science & Business Administration
• Lamar High School, Houston, Graduate
  IB Diploma recipient.

Employment

• Kickstarter.com, Developer
  Development, design, and strategy for a Ruby on Rails crowd-funding startup.
• Chimera Energy, Quantitative Analyst
  Development of market model and strategic analysis for private hedge fund. Provided market guidance, system development for traders.
• Trinity University, MAS Research Group, Research Consultant
  Facilitated communications among project leaders, researchers in multi-disciplinary project for social simulation. Performed research, software development.
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Holy Mac!, Publisher
Built a daily news, reviews, and opinions web site to serve the interests of Mac aficionados. Broke several insider stories, garnering substantial advertising and press. Mentioned on Slashdot, CNET, MacWeek, MacCentral, and others.
Trinity University ITS, Residential Computer Consultant
Assisted students with their computers. Filled the most work orders for the 2003-2004 school year.
Texas Children’s Hospital, Database Assistant
Assisted in establishing a database to track biomedical changes in a double-blind study of Rett syndrome. In charge of database maintenance, metrics, and statistics. Reported to study coordinator.
U.S. Farm Ranch Media Company, Developer/Designer
Evaluated and extended the content management system for Cowboys & Indians online magazine. Improved web presence, user interaction, site design, navigation, and usability. Helped plan, build, and test content work flows.

Personal Projects

• Fictionaut, a place for adventurous readers & writers
  Built a Ruby on Rails-based web community for short-form fiction writers, focusing on paradigm of social networking.
• Switcheroo, a taskbar for the Mac
  Developed and promoted a shareware desktop utility to improve the user interface on the Mac. Sold 165 licenses.
• A Utility-Driven BDI Model for Nested Agents
  Thesis project—proposed and formally elucidated a planning model structures around the idea of a hierarchically decomposed multi-agent architecture. Coded a proof-of-concept.
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PIC14 Compiler
Developed a simple C-like language, compiler, and assembler suite for the PIC14 architecture. Recursive descent grammar parsed to turing completeness.
A Perl language extension for the Breve simulation environment
Contributed to the Breve project by building a Perl runtime binding and class set for its frontend language mechanism.
1-axis balancing robot
Engineering project to balance an inverted pendulum with an accelerometer and gyro. Worked with drive systems, PIC/AVR MCUs, and Kalman filters. Embedded programming, circuit design, electrical.

Technical Abilities

• Rails development.
• Modern approach to (X)HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
• Agile & sustainable development processes.
• Languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Java, Flex/ActionScript, Python, Scala, and others.
• Platform development for Mac OS X, Linux, embedded PIC/AVR.
• System administration, web development, design.
• Proficient with other modern web frameworks, OpenGL, Cocoa and Swing interfaces, distributed processing, and simulation techniques.

References

Available upon request.