(It’s not too good, but still, it could be worse.)
When the job search seems to be so slow,
is resume in rhyme the way to go?
I’ve programmed java, python, xsl,
and maybe keywords are the easy sell,
but life is more than punching a keyboard:
I’ve taught, and gardened too, and found reward.
So: competent, at least, I’d hope a “yes”.
Perhaps a little flaky? Take your guess.
A sense of poetry? Quite clearly, “no”.
A work history will follow here below:
The summer ‘23, a tour guide,
providing context for the midnight ride.
A six-month stint with Princeton’s Library:
some Ruby code, but short I will agree.
If you’d prefer stability instead:
‘16 to ‘21 at Harvard Med,
For HuBMAP guided devs and the design,
and kept collaborations all in line.
I mentored masters students, odd intern:
as much as they, I also got to learn!
At ‘GBH, Archives and Library,
delivered code for the AAPB,
and with designers and department staff,
shipped two other sites without a gaff.
‘14, Harvard Herbaria, one year
to get some data management in gear.
‘11 to ‘13, an e-journal
called JoVE, with PHP and SQL.
It took a while, but paid a big tech debt,
and left it better than at the outset.
2010, and yet a season more:
was back at ITA for an encore.
‘09 at Penn I crafted a display,
with xsl beneath to make it play.
At ITA, 2006 to 8,
on two projects did I participate:
The first: screen scraping for semantics, light.
Second, conventional, a travel site.
2005, a Lowell non-profit,
the CSL: I sys-adminned, a bit.
2004, and earlier, a run
of volunteering, internships. Was fun,
but hard to summarize: I’ll make a try
to fit it in, and not to go awry.
At Island Press: wrote up an export script.
(Had been by hand, and out of sync had slipped.)
Two farms, a monastery: floors to sweep,
gardens to weed, and herds of cows and sheep.
At Carter’s presidential library:
scanned papers so the data could be free.
Missoula, U of M: some book repair,
end papers, boxes, bindings, and that fare.
At College Park (a different U of M):
time teaching GIS, and tutoring them.
At NPR, the library’s ref desk:
I cataloged, and hunted down requests.
2005, an MLS from U
of Maryland. In ‘99, a few
years farther back, a math/geology
BA from Carleton was my first degree.
Of acronyms, there always is one more,
but fitting it in meter is the chore.