resume

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

Academics

Master of Arts, University of Georgia, expected graduation spring 2010
Thesis on hyperlink structure of political information online
Bachelor of Arts, Emory University, 2007
Major in Political Science
Minor in Computer Science

Skills

Languages: Bash, C, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Perl, PHP Python, Ruby, SQL, XML
Operating Systems: CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, OS X, Ubuntu
Software: Apache, Lighttpd, Mapserver, MySQL, Puppet, Subversion, VMware

Employment

For technical details of each position, visit LinkedIn
Associate System Administrator, EuPathDB Bioinformatics Resource Center, Summer 2009-Present
System Administrator/Web Developer, Independent Contractor, Summer 2008-Present
Research Assistant, UGA, Fall 2007-Spring 2009
Assistant System 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

Papers

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.
Keith Dougherty, Brian Pitts, Justin Moeller, and Robi Ragan. An Experimental Study of the Efficiency of Unanimity Rule and Majority Rule. Presented at MPSA 2009.
Brian Pitts. E-mail and Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment among College Freshmen. Presented at MPSA 2007.

Presentations

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
The Art of Web Cartography, Barcamp Atlanta 2007
LOCKSS Installation with Kickstart, MetaArchive Distributed Digital Preservation Workshop
E-mail & Voter Turnout, MPSA Conference 2007
Open Source Tools for Podcast Management, Podcamp Atlanta 2007
High Availability Administration & System Design, Macworld 2007
Copyright vs. Creativity, Electronic Frontiers Forum 2006

Activities

Board of Directors, Free IT Athens, 2009-Present
Staff Volunteer, Free IT Athens, 2007-Present
Volunteer, Obama Campaign, Summer 2008
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