JOYCE TIPPING

505.948.7838
joyce@joycetipping.com


WORK EXPERIENCE

  FORAKER LABS, Ruby on Rails Apprentice
  (February 2011 ~ July 2011)
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  * Delivered new features on time in a fast-paced environment.
  * Maintained codebases written in many versions of Rails 2.3.x and 3.x.
  * Deployed fixes to live production applications while on the operations team.
  * Worked with a variety of supporting technologies, including PostgreSQL, Coldfusion, and IText.

  SOCIALMEDIA, Front-end Developer
  (October 2010 ~ January 2011)
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  * Created interactive advertisements in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
  * Wrote a smooth transition library that utilized variable frame rate animation and mathematical interpolation.
  * Interfaced with a large HaXe codebase and cross-browser tested in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE 6, 7, and 8.
  * Pioneered a slideshow ad template that increased user engagement.

  VERISCAPE, Technical Writer
  (September ~ December 2009)
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  * Developed scripts in an imperative, lexically-scoped domain specific language.
  * Used Perl-style regular expressions to extract content from dynamically-retrieved HTML documents.

  MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM, Statistician
  (Spring & Summer 2008)
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  * Collaborated with three biologists, a mathematician, and a computer scientist to model HIV genetic evolution.
  * Used R to construct visual models of and compute statistics for the simulation data.


PROJECTS

  THE SKEW-NORMAL APPROXIMATION OF THE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
  (Senior Capstone)
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  * Developed formal mathematical proofs for key properties of the skew-normal distribution.
  * Derived the skew-normal approximation of the binomial using the method of moments.
  * Used Python, R, and jQuery.flot to generate data sets and graphs demonstrating improved accuracy.
  * http://github.com/joycetipping/skew-normal-capstone


MISC

  * Vim enthusiast
  * Fluent in Mandarin Chinese
  * Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Truman State University, 3.96/4.00 GPA


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