Janet Riley

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Tech lead and back-end web applications developer with broad experience in sectors like…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Toastmasters International Graphic

    Treasurer, Secretary - Watertown Saturday Toastmasters

    Toastmasters International

    - 5 years

    Treasurer (2019-2021) and Secretary (2016-2017) for the Watertown Saturday Toastmasters (District 31, club 2263055).

    We meet on Saturday mornings, twice a month. You'd think that's a hard time to meet, but it fits surprisingly well into folks' Saturday commitments. Guests are always welcome - join us! http://www.meetup.com/Watertown-Saturday-Toastmasters/

  • Teacher

    Software Carpentry

    - 1 year

    Science and Technology

    Software Carpentry (www.software-carpentry.org) teaches programming tools and techniques to scientists so they can process their findings more efficiently and spend more time doing research. I can teach the source control, Python, and UNIX shell lessons.

  • Co-Organizer and TA

    RailsBridge Boston

    - 2 years 7 months

    Science and Technology

    RailsBridge increases the diversity in tech by offering 2-3 free Ruby on Rails workshops per year to women and their friends. See www.railsbridgeboston.org for upcoming dates.

    I co-chaired 3 workshops in 2013-2014 and continue to TA. I enjoy working with beginners. They bring a fresh perspective and challenge me to distill convoluted facts into straightforward explanations.

  • OpenMRS Graphic

    Technical Contributor

    OpenMRS

    Contributed code and documentation to OpenMRS 1.8 and 1.9. Mentored a Google Summer of Code intern in 2012.

Courses

  • Basics of Computational Linguistics - University of Washington, 2017

    LING-473

  • Centre Culturel Français - Siem Reap, Cambodia - conversational French

    DELF level A2

  • Deep Processing Techniques for NLP - University of Washington, 2018

    LING-571

  • Shallow Processing Techniques for NLP - University of Washington, 2017

    LING-570

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • Watertown Saturday Toastmasters

    Treasurer, Secretary

    - Present

    Member of the Watertown Saturday Toastmasters. CC, CL, ALB.

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