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, FreeBSD, Red Hat, OS X, Ubuntu
- Software: Apache, Lighttpd, Mapserver, MySQL, Postfix, Subversion, VMware
Employment
- For technical details of each position, visit LinkedIn
- Associate System Administrator, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, 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
