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Vice President for CSGSA - 2009/2010 - Helped organize talks and events for graduate students in computer science
- Helped organize a WISE lunch for interested undergraduate students
- Represented the CS graduate student body at faculty meetings
- Helped plan weekly Friendly-Friday for CS graduate students
Organizer for Flourish! Open Source Conference - 2006/2007/2008 - Web-designer for 2008 conference
- Invited Duncan Murdoch from University of Western Ontario for his talk on the R-project (R Statistical Programming)
- Maintained Budget and Space Reservations for 2007 conference
- Presented proposal to SAFC for student funding and secured $8800
- Speaker liason and conference volunteer for 2006 conference
President - Linux User's Group - 2007-2008
- Introduced speakers including Massimo Di Pierro from Depaul University (gave a presentation on his framework web2py)
- Held successful workshop on how to install pendrive linux on USB sticks
- Held successful workshop on how to build a computer from miscellaneous parts, affectionately known as a "Frankenstein machine"
- Held "Newbies Week" series of classes for introducing students to the basics of using Linux
- Held a successful "Install Fest" every semester - a day long event where we install and tweak our favorite linux distributions
- Fund-raising included an auction of hand-made stuffed penguins
- Responsible for creating the Tux Penguin Costume, commonly worn around campus including a Microsoft event, signaling the birth of the annual Flourish! Conference
Web Designer and Web Master - Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience - installed backend modules for easy updating for the end-user
- implemented design using CSS, Javascript, and html
- currently maintains any required updates
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