• Baked up to hundreds of bagels per hour, and scaled numbers based on anticipated store business
• Cleaned workstation daily, and maintained oven, kettle, and seeds — including developing protocols to rotate and clean seed containers to avoid contamination and control quality
• Prepared ingredients in back-of-house — e.g., sliced meats, prepared salads, and made dough
• Took customer orders and answered questions while maintaining a consistently positive attitude
• Made sandwiches to order as part of a flexible assembly line

• Designed and implemented projects at multiple scales, from small classroom experiments to multiyear breeding designs
• Analyzed data using regression-based statistics, including combinations of continuous and categorical variables, interaction terms, mixtures of fixed and random effects, and nonnormal error distributions (e.g., logistic regression for survivorship data)
• Planted and cared for several thousand plants, and intermated them according to a partial diallel mating design
• Mentored undergraduate students, including helping them design experiments, teaching them to read scientific literature, meeting regularly, and helping them interpret and communicate their results
• Taught numerous classes as a graduate teaching assistant. Led class-wide and small-group discussions, lectured in classroom settings, graded and edited short- and long-form writing assignments. See my teaching resumé for more details.
• Wrote ImageJ and MATLAB scripts to collect morphological data from flower photos, and individual-based simulations in C++ to model population genetics. See biology for details and code.

• Used edge detection and morphological operations to detect speech bubbles for user-aided outlining
• Wrote Octave and C++ programs to automatically detect text size using Gabor filters
• Created a system to match images using bag-of-words techniques on SURF keypoints
• Wrote PHP scripts to align and merge images that had been manipulated and split over multiple pages

• Wrote code to take photos at regular intervals using the Canon SDK
• Found moving objects using background subtraction and image averaging
• Set up a simple Linux server for the lab to share files and run simulations

Met weekly with three sets of thirty students, divided into groups of 3–4. Groups worked together to solve genetics problems, while I offered help, mediated disputes, and graded their responses. Topics included the molecular mechanisms of replication and transcription, as well as probabilistic models of trait inheritance.

Helped students set up and maintain cultures of various bacteria, and interpret their growth results.

Used small experiments and observations of organisms to teach students about major branches in the tree of life and how natural selection can shape populations.

Taught students how to set up and interpret simple experiments in a lab setting.

Met weekly with three sets of 24 students to discuss disease ecology. I was responsible for guiding the discussion and organizing side projects. Topics included the natural history of several types of disease, as well as mathematical models of disease transmission.

Helped students dissect vertebrate specimens and identify organs each week, wrote and graded quizzes each week testing their ability to synthesize what they saw and place it in a broader context.