User:Maximilianklein/Belfer

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=Objective= Wikipedian in Residence

=Education= University of California Berkeley (GPA 3.53)

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics (2011)


 * Lead and facilitated student-run course Politics of Piracy with Wikipedia editing integration
 * Wikipedia Campus Ambassador (since program's inception)
 * Logic: Incompleteness and Undecidability
 * Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming

Awards and Publications

 * Award - Wikipedia In Education "Innovator Award" (2011)
 * Recognition for the pioneering of "Wikipedia as Learning Management System" producing the highest content/student ratio, and most the lasting, informed new editors.


 * Paper - Wikipedia as a Learning Management System at Wikimania (2011)
 * Presentation of findings and insights into using MediaWiki as a replacement for common computing needs to familiarize users with technical paradigms of Wikipedia.


 * Paper - ''Editing Girl Talk" feministing.com (2011)
 * Nurturing editorship among unlikely editors provides broader, more feminist perspectives on-wiki, and challenges possibly biased community policies.


 * Paper - Killer Features: The Vitality of Piracy Cultures awaiting publication in International Journal of Communications (2011)
 * Motivations in piracy gathered from interviews with prolific and respected media Pirates.

=Experience=

Wikimedia Experience

 * Wikipedia Regional Ambassador (2010-Present)
 * Lectured and interactively elucidated principles and details of Wikipedia to undergraduate and graduate courses at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and Presidio Graduate School.
 * Negotiated adoption of Wikipedia in Education methods with Professors from Harvard, Yale School of Medicine, and MIT, while recruiting and training in-person Campus Ambassadors representatives to support the and catalyze the wiki-fluency of students.


 * Wikipedia Ambassador Steering Committee Member (2011-Present)
 * Invited as consultant to join committee responsible for the strategy and spread of educating new and potential users. Advocated for expansion in ways to address the gender gap.


 * Wikipedia Education Software Beta Tester (2012)
 * Beta tested and aided design of new-editor-friendly user interfaces for the purposes of creating more welcoming, and less intimidating first-time Wikipedia experiences.

Other

 * Technical Consultant - Public Library of Science (2012)
 * Advised and assisted full-time office staff of the PLoS Currents Medical Journals with knowledge management and presentation.


 * Content Manager - Global homehotel (2011-Present)
 * Envisioned and designed UX of around considerations of modularity and scalability.


 * IT Intern - California Independent System Operator (2010)
 * Owned and hunted phantom bugs of executive management communication systems Exchange Server.

=Additional Attributes=
 * Conversational Hebrew
 * Board of Directors (2010-2011) - Berkeley Student Cooperative
 * Volunteer Radio DJ (KALX)
 * Proficiencies in *nix and LISP

=Personal Information= Phone: 707.478.7023 Email: isalix@gmail.com Address: 2227 Ward Street Berkeley, CA 94705