OCMR 0039
Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio 44074
Email: David.Adamson@oberlin.edu
Phone: 440-775-6514
URL: http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/
To make thought manifest, in executable form.
Programming and Modeling Languages
Development Concepts and Environments
Platforms
Applications
Teaching Experience
Cooking
Graphic Design
Course Instructor
in association with the Oberlin
Experimental College (Oberlin, Ohio)
February 2003-May 2003
Designed and will teach a semester-long introduction to Objective C and the OpenStep API, targeted at college students with previous programming experience.
Course materials are available at http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/classes/ObjexCo/.
Grader and Tutor of Introductory Computer Science
Professor John Donaldson, Oberlin College Computer Science Program (Oberlin, Ohio)
September 2002-Present
Provide tutoring, grading, and in-lab assistance for an introductory course in Java, object-oriented programming, and data structures. I also have a hand in the fine-tuning of the lab assignments as the professor develops them.
Bookseller
Half Price Books and Music (Cincinnati, Ohio)
June 2001-August 2002
Sorted, priced, shelved, and sold used and new books, in the two summers of the indicated period.
Reorganized and repriced the bookstore's software section (2002). Software sales doubled from the previous summer.
Course Instructor
sponsored by Professor John Donaldson (Oberlin, Ohio)
January 2002
Designed and taught month-long introductory course in object oriented programming and design patterns, in Java.
Course materials are available at http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/classes/Objects!/.
Head Cook
Harkness Cooperative, Oberlin Student Cooperative Association (Oberlin, Ohio)
January 2002-December 2002
Ordered, planned, and cooked food weekly (always vegetarian, usually vegan) for the coop's 100 members, directing a team of 5 in the meal's preparation.
Membership Coordinator
Harkness Cooperative, Oberlin Student Cooperative Association (Oberlin, Ohio)
August 2000-December 2001
Ensured that all our members had jobs to do, and that the jobs that needed doing had people to do them. Designed and utilized a spreadsheet-based workchart management system.
Day Camp Assistant
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History (Cincinnati, Ohio)
June 1996-August 1999
Coordinated volunteer staff activity, prepared classroom materials, assisted instructors in delivering lessons, and maintained and operated the classrom computer.
DragonDrop is a free desktop utility for Mac OS X. Since its release, it has been included (on CD and in print) in the October 2002 issue of the Japanese magazine MacPeople, and in the Jaguar edition of the book Mac OS X Unleashed.
ACM Midwestern Regional Programming Competition.
Graduated with Honors, and with a Special Award For Excellence
Available upon request.