Stephen Brokaw 481 Bartlett St | San Francisco, CA 94110 | 3127204151 | brokaw.stephen@gmail.com http://stephenbrokaw.me | http://github.com/brokejaw | http://linkedin.com/in/brokawstephen/ Recent Projects Dodat: Singlepage Backbone taskmanagement application, consuming REST Rails JSON API. Advanced BackboneonRails patterns such as overriding Model#parse to achieve Railslike associations between cards and lists. A board view is a composite of lists and cards, keeping code organized and avoiding entire page rerendering. Custombuilt authentication stores passwords securely. Overrides ActiveRecord’s metaprogrammed password= method to insert BCrypt hashing. (Rails + Backbone) http://dodat.in | Github Snake: The arcade classic. CSS styling with dynamic divs, jQuery for DOM interaction. (Javascript) Snake | Github Rails Redux: Rebuilt Rails router, view, and controller functionality, including dynamic route generation through regex parsing, template rendering, sessionstoring, and more. (Ruby) Github Active Record Redux: Clone of Rails objectrelational mapping system. (Ruby) Github Skills Employment History Research Technologist I to III, Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine (Fall 2009Spring 2014) Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Backbone.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS, TDD, RSpec, Capybara Education ● Sequenced genomes on the SOLiD platform to digitize genetic material. Acted as lab’s internal expert for all nextgeneration sequencing technologies. ● Ran data analyses to reveal patterns using various numbercrunching solutions. ● Managed MySQL databases over SSH. Setup data integrity protocols. Moved terabytes of data across labs using FTP. ● Many research projects led to publication in peerreviewed scientific journals. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL M.S., Predictive Analytics, 2012present ● 3.9 GPA ● 9/11 classes completed, final two to be completed remotely as evening classes. ● Coursework: datamodeling, databasedesign, statisticalanalysis, textanalytics, datamining, and datawarehousing. Oakland University, Rochester, MI B.A., Philosophy, Biology minor, 20032007 ● 3.8 GPA ● Graduated cum laude, with honors.