resume

If you have an opportunity that you believe would interest me, please write to brian at polibyte dot com. You can download a nicely-formatted and condensed PDF of my resume here.

Academics

Master of Arts, University of Georgia
Bachelor of Arts, Emory University
BA and MA in Political Science
Minor in Computer Science

Skills

Languages: Bash, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL
Operating Systems: CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, OS X, Ubuntu
Software: Amanda, Apache, Git, Jenkins, KVM/Libvirt, MySQL, Nagios, Nginx, Oracle, Puppet
Storage: Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Solid State

Employment

For technical details of each position, visit LinkedIn
Associate Systems Administrator, EuPathDB Bioinformatics Resource Center, Summer 2009-Present
Systems Administrator/Web Developer, Independent Contractor, Summer 2008-Present
Research Assistant, UGA, Fall 2007-Spring 2009
Assistant Systems Administrator, Emory Libraries, 2006-2007
Teaching Assistant, Emory Math/CS Department, Spring 2007
Field Manager, Fund for Public Interest Research, Summer 2006
Deputy Director of IT, The Emory Wheel, 2005-2006
Summer Conference Manager, Oxford College, Summers 2004 & 2005
Residential Computer Consultant, Oxford College, 2004-2005
Policy Debate Coach, Mt. Pisgah School, 2003-2005

Research

Aurrecoechea C, Barreto A, Brestelli J, Brunk BP, Caler EV, Fischer S, Gajria B, Gao X, Gingle A, Grant G, Harb OS, Heiges M, Iodice J, Kissinger JC, Kraemer ET, Li W, Nayak V, Pennington C, Pinney DF, Pitts B, Roos DS, Srinivasamoorthy G, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Treatman C, Wang H. AmoebaDB and MicrosporidiaDB: functional genomic resources for Amoebozoa and Microsporidia species. Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 39, January 2011, pp 612-619.
Keith Dougherty, Brian Pitts, Justin Moeller, and Robi Ragan. An Experimental Study of the Efficiency of Unanimity Rule and Majority Rule. Forthcoming, Public Choice.
Brian Pitts. Understanding Googlearchy. Master's thesis, defended May 2010.
Audrey Haynes and Brian Pitts. Making an Impression: New Media in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaigns. PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 53-58.
E-mail & Voter Turnout. MPSA Conference 2007.

Presentations

Managing Software on OS X, Lab Meeting 2012
Unix Text Tools, Lab Meeting 2011
Holistic Analysis of System Performance with Atop, CHUGALUG 2010
Building Community-based Technology Centers with Free and Open Source Software (video), presented with Semmy Purewal, SouthEast LinuxFest 2009
Preseeding the Debian Installer, CHUGALUG 2009
It's Alive! Creating a Linux "Live" USB, ALE Pecha Kucha Contest 2008
Man vs 100 Machines, Barcamp Atlanta 2008
Making Ruby on Rails Work for You, Macworld 2008
E-mail and Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment among College Freshmen, MPSA 2007.
The Art of Web Cartography, Barcamp Atlanta 2007
LOCKSS Installation with Kickstart, MetaArchive Distributed Digital Preservation Workshop
Open Source Tools for Podcast Management, Podcamp Atlanta 2007
High Availability Administration & System Design, Macworld 2007
Copyright vs. Creativity, Electronic Frontiers Forum 2006

Professional Development

Software side projects on Github
Contributor to Server Fault

Activities

Staff Volunteer, Free IT Athens, 2007-Present
Board of Directors, Free IT Athens, 2009-2011
Volunteer, US Social Forum Information and Communications Technology, Summer 2007
Emory Scholars, 2003-2007
President, Emory Free Culture, 2005-2007
Vice President, Computer Science Club, 2005
President, Few Debate Society, 2004-2005
Publicist, Rainbow Oxford Student Alliance, 2003-2005
Eagle Scout, 2002