Donchaknow.com? - Technical skills, CV.

CV-ish stuff

I do freelance web development/design stuff in Minneapolis, Minnesota and live in Tromsø, Norway. If you want an actual (that is, PDF) copy of my résumé/CV, just email me. Hvis du vil helst, du kan skrive på norsk, også. Sjøl om æ ikke snakke flytende, æ kan skrive godt (noen ganga). Tykkään myös puhua/kirjoittaa suomeksi, siis jos voit lukea tätä, kirjoita ihmeessä suomeksi! ;)

Education

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Bachelors in Linguistics; Minor in Finnish (Completed: June, 2007)

Coursework:
Phonology, Phonetics, Speech Sciences, Linguistic Typology, Field Methods in Linguistics, Topics in Finnish Studies, Teaching English as a Second Language, Old Norse Language and Literature, Asian-American Literature, Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Italian, Coptic

Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki), Helsinki, Finland

Exchange program (Attended: Sept. 2005 — May 2006)

Coursework:
Northern Sámi, Finnish Church History, Finnish Syntax, Finnish Morphology and Phonetics, Finnish Phonology, Karelian, Syntax, Queer Theories

Universitetet i Tromsø (University of Tromsø), Tromsø, Norway

Masters in Theoretical Linguistics (In progress: Sept. 2009 - 2011)

Coursework:
Syntax, Phonology, Northern Sámi, Field linguistics, more to come ...

Technical skills

Programming and Markup Languages: HTML/XHTML, CSS (2, 3), Python (2.5 - 3), JavaScript (jQuery, Prototype.js), SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle SQL), PHP, XML, XSLT/XPath, Perl, Haskell, TI-Basic, Bash
Web Development Frameworks: Django, Pylons, Web.py, Zend Framework
Server Software: Lighttpd, Apache, nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
Web Development Concepts and Protocols: Ajax, Semantic Code, MicroFormats, Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY), Usability, Security, Accessibility, Search Engine Optimization, ‘Web 2.0’, HTTP/HTTPS, XMPP/Jabber, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL+PostGIS, SQLite), BOSH, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Page-load optimization, Version control (SVN, Mercurial/Hg)

Never ask a linguist what they speak (We don't know how to answer.)

“Fluent”: English, Finnish
Semi-Functional to Functional: Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Northern Sámi, Swedish
Other*: Somali, Guaraní (field methods course during B.A.), Hungarian, Basque, Middle English, Old Norse, Karelian, Estonian, French, Italian, Coptic, Quenya, Russian (4 years!), Japanese (4 years!), probably forgetting some...

* These are languages I've spent time learning, or have only pored over grammars of, in order of recentness of exposure/study. It may be I know some phrases, or if you give me a few intensive weeks I could be useful, or maybe I just have detailed grammatical knowledge.

Misc...

Total Eclipse of the World: A collection of covers of Total Eclipse of the Heart from across the world, with a nod to the erm, beautiful 90s web-design aesthetic.
Pangram Assistant: I made this to more easily create pangrams, or sentences like “Flygande bäckasiner söka strax hwila på mjuka tuvor” and “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” where there's at least one of each letter. The tool supports using your own alphabet, or selecting from a small list of already existing ones.
Linguaphiles: A pretty awesome LiveJournal community