User:Mvolz

Intro
I'm Marielle Volz, and I've and recently to London, England, U.K from Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. I'm applying to the FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8 and my project proposal is on improving URL citations on WikiMedia. As a former academic and a heavy user of Wikipedia, incomplete citations are a frequent frustration of mine and improving the process of citing works on Wikipedia is, in my mind, extremely important- I'm so excited to see the work that's already been done by the VisualEditor team!

Education

 * B.A. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University
 * M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Experience
Some coursework in both undergraduate and graduate school (Intro C.S. in Java, data structures and algorithms, databases in Oracle, and various bio classes using MatLab)

For the past two years I worked as a Django web dev on a CDC funded project called ExFlu at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and wrote and ran a custom chain referral recruitment and survey app for them.

I've done some front end work in Wordpress as well but most my experience is backend.

Contacts

 * Email: marielle.volz@gmail.com
 * Github: https://github.com/mvolz
 * IRC: mvolz