Alan Judson
Hi, I'm Alan Judson. Welcome to my profile!
Alan Judson is always learning something new. Right now he's jumping head first into web programming. Alan is a data analyst by day, and a professional musician by night. He loves playing bluegrass with the boys and making people laugh.
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Alan Judson's Background
Alan Judson's Experience
Accountant Clerk at Sanimax
June 2009 - May 2011
*Route management, accounting, database management.
Teacher at Stanfard English Academy
September 2008 - April 2009
oTaught eight classes daily in private school with over 1200 teaching hours in total
oDeveloped communication and organizational abilities through implementing original curriculum, helping students improve language skills drastically
Database Management at Sanimax
May 2008 - August 2008
oAttentive to details through high-volume database synchronization, checking for correctness, and coding data
oDrastically improved efficiency of transportation routes to over 10,000 locations through retrieving data by accessing database for information to respond to internal inquiries
Field Coordinator - Team Leader at One Change - Project Porchlight
October 2007 - December 2007
oCo-managed Project Porchlight's largest social marketing campaign in Golden Horseshoe under strict deadline
oBuilt ability to be team player by coordinating over fifteen employees and sharing management responsibilities to share the workload and support team members to achieve organizational goals
Graduate Student at McMaster University
September 2006 - September 2007
I studied public policy and comparative politics. The part I liked the best was doing research. I used primary sources as much as possible, because I loved the feeling of discovery. I was a teacher's assistant for statistics, and specialized in research methods.
Teacher's Assistant at McMaster University
September 2006 - April 2007
* Developed leadership experience through conducting two, weekly tutorials for fifty students, ensuring that they understood course material and how to use and interpret SPSS (statistics software) in the context of political research
* Taught students how to include a proper analysis of economics, theory and statistics in their major papers
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Research/Archival Assistant at Bertrand Russell Research Centre
September 2005 - April 2006
* Formed an intimate understanding of how academics organize their research and how I could, in turn, use my own experiences in researching to complete tasks
* Used critical thinking to locate obscure information to supplement annotations of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
* Transcribed Russell's private correspondence to Heads of State, British Parliamentarians, friends, and academics (including Albert Einstein) giving me a keen eye for detail and gathering diverse data
* Maintained and enhanced database of Russell's correspondence
Data Analysis at Sanimax
May 2011
*Creating metrics for continuous growth.
*Finding opportunities for business growth, and forecasting financial scenarios.
*Optimizing operational efficiency through analyzing GPS, labour and invoice data.
Alan Judson's Education
Hacker You
2013 – 2013
Intro to Ruby on Rails & Rails Application Development
Activities: > Launched my own website, www.hammerinthenews.com, learning to use Ruby on Rails, Github, heroku, CSS, HTML and Javascript
McMaster University
2005 – 2007
M.A.
Concentration: Political Science (Public Policy)
McMaster University
2002 – 2007
B.A. (hon)
Concentration: History and Political Science
York University
2006 – 2006
N/A
Concentration: French Course - Explore Program (FSL)
Alan Judson's Interests & Activities
Satire, Hamilton, Computer Programming, Music, Bluegrass.
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