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    <header>
        <name>
            <firstname>David</firstname>
            <surname>Adamson</surname>
        </name>
        <address>
            <street>OCMR 0039</street>
            <street>Oberlin College</street>
            <city>Oberlin</city>
            <state>Ohio</state>
            <zip>44074</zip>
        </address>
        <birth>
            <date>
                <dayOfMonth>8</dayOfMonth>
                <month>April</month>
                <year>1982</year>
            </date>
        </birth>
        <contact>
            <email>David.Adamson@oberlin.edu</email>
            <phone>440-775-6514</phone>
            <url>http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/</url>
        </contact>
    </header>
    <objective>
        <para>To make thought manifest, in executable form.</para>
    </objective>
    <skillarea>
        <title>Skills</title>
        <skillset targets="Computer.Science">
            <title>Programming and Modeling Languages</title>
            <skill level="2 years">Objective-C</skill>
            <skill level="3 years">Java</skill>
            <skill level="3 years">UML</skill>
            <skill level="3 years">C</skill>
            <skill>C++</skill>
            <skill>Scheme</skill>
            <skill>XML/XSL</skill>
        </skillset>
        <skillset targets="Computer.Science">
            <title>Development Concepts and Environments</title>
            <skill>Cocoa/OpenStep</skill>
            <skill>Java (and Swing)</skill>
            <skill>Design Patterns</skill>
            <skill>Object Oriented Programming and Analysis</skill>
            <skill>Software Publication and Application Support </skill>
        </skillset>
        <skillset>
            <title>Platforms</title>
            <skill>Classic Mac OS</skill>
            <skill>Mac OS X</skill>
            <skill>Linux (various flavors)</skill>
            <skill>UNIX (various)</skill>
            <skill>Windows (various)</skill>
        </skillset>
        <skillset>
            <title>Applications</title>
            <skill targets="Computer.Science">Apple ProjectBuilder</skill>
            <skill targets="Computer.Science">Borland JBuilder</skill>
            <skill targets="Computer.Science">Gnu Emacs</skill>
            <skill>Corel Draw</skill>
            <skill>Corel PhotoPaint</skill>
            <skill>Adobe InDesign</skill>
            <skill>Word Processors</skill>
            <skill>Spreadsheet Applications</skill>
        </skillset>
        <skillset>
            <title>Teaching Experience</title>
            <skill>Elementary Prehistoric Life</skill>
            <skill>Elementary Mathematics</skill>
            <skill>Introductory Computer Science (Java, Object Oriented Programming)</skill>
        </skillset>
        <skillset>
            <title>Cooking</title>
            <skill>Vegetarian</skill>
            <skill>Vegan</skill>
            <skill>for as many as 100 people</skill>
        </skillset>
        <skillset>
            <title>Graphic Design</title>
            <skill>
                <link href="http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/art/">T-Shirt/Logo Design</link>
            </skill>
            <skill>Page Layout</skill>
            <skill>Vector Graphics</skill>
            <skill>Digital Image Editing</skill>
        </skillset>
    </skillarea>
    <history>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Course Instructor</jobtitle>
            <employer>in association with the <link href="http://www.oberlin.edu/~exco">Oberlin
                    Experimental College</link>
            </employer>
            <location>
                <city>Oberlin</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>February</month>
                        <year>2003</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>May</month>
                        <year>2003</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>Designed and will teach a semester-long introduction to Objective C and the
                    OpenStep API, targeted at college students with previous programming experience.</para>
                <para>Course materials are available at <url>http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/classes/ObjexCo/</url>.</para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Grader and Tutor of Introductory Computer Science</jobtitle>
            <employer>Professor John Donaldson, Oberlin College Computer Science Program</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Oberlin</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>September</month>
                        <year>2002</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <present/>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>Provide tutoring, grading, and in-lab assistance for an <link
                        href="http://cs.oberlin.edu/faculty/jdonalds/160">introductory course</link>
                    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.</para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Bookseller</jobtitle>
            <employer>Half Price Books and Music</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Cincinnati</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>June</month>
                        <year>2001</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>August</month>
                        <year>2002</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>Sorted, priced, shelved, and sold used and new books, in the two summers of
                    the indicated period.</para>
                <para>Reorganized and repriced the bookstore's software section (2002).
                            Software sales doubled from the previous summer.</para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Course Instructor</jobtitle>
            <employer>sponsored by Professor John Donaldson</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Oberlin</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </location>
            <date>
                <month>January</month>
                <year>2002</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>Designed and taught month-long introductory course in object oriented
                    programming and design patterns, in Java.</para>
                <para>Course materials are available at <url>http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/classes/Objects!/</url>.</para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job targets="food">
            <jobtitle>Head Cook</jobtitle>
            <employer>Harkness Cooperative, Oberlin Student Cooperative Association</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Oberlin</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>January</month>
                        <year>2002</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>December</month>
                        <year>2002</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>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.</para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Membership Coordinator</jobtitle>
            <employer>Harkness Cooperative, Oberlin Student Cooperative Association</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Oberlin</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>August</month>
                        <year>2000</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>December</month>
                        <year>2001</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>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.</para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Day Camp Assistant</jobtitle>
            <employer>Cincinnati Museum of Natural History</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Cincinnati</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>June</month>
                        <year>1996</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>August</month>
                        <year>1999</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para> Coordinated volunteer staff activity, prepared classroom materials, assisted
                    instructors in delivering lessons, and maintained and operated the classrom computer.</para>
            </description>
        </job>
    </history>
    <academics>
        <degrees>
            <degree>
                <level>Bachelor of Arts</level>
                <major>Computer Science</major>
                <minor>Mathematics, and a concentration in Linguistics</minor>
                <date>
                    <month>May</month>
                    <year>2004</year>
                </date>
                <institution>Oberlin College</institution>
            </degree>
        </degrees>
    </academics>
      <pubs>
        <pub>
            <para>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
                <citation>MacPeople</citation>, and in the Jaguar edition of the book <citation>Mac
                    OS X Unleashed</citation>.</para>
            <bookTitle>DragonDrop</bookTitle>
            <date>
                <month>July</month>
                <year>2002</year>
            </date>
            <url>http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/DragonDrop/</url>
        </pub>
    </pubs>
    <awards>
        <award targets="Computer.Science">
            <title>38th place (out of 131)</title>
            <organization>Association for Computing Machinery</organization>
            <date>
                <month>November</month>
                <year>2002</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>ACM Midwestern Regional Programming Competition.</para>
            </description>
        </award>
        <award>
            <title>Salutatorian</title>
            <organization>Winton Woods High School</organization>
            <date>
                <year>2000</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>Graduated with Honors, and with a Special Award For Excellence</para>
            </description>
        </award>
        <award>
            <title>National Merit Scholar</title>
            <date>
                <year>2000</year>
            </date>
        </award>
    </awards>
    <interests>
        <interest>
            <title>Storytelling</title>
            <description>
                <para>I've organized a weekly Story Time at Oberlin College since the winter of 2000.</para>
            </description>
        </interest>
        <interest>
            <title>Long Distance Running</title>
        </interest>
        <interest>
            <title>Choral Singing</title>
        </interest>
        <interest>
            <title>Cooking</title>
        </interest>
    </interests>
    <referees>
        <referee>
            <name>
                <firstname>John</firstname>
                <surname>Donaldson</surname>
            </name>
            <title>Professor of Computer Science</title>
            <organization>Oberlin College Computer Science</organization>
            <contact>
                <email>jdonalds@cs.oberlin.edu</email>
            </contact>
        </referee>
        <referee>
            <name>
                <title>Dr.</title>
                <firstname>Stephen</firstname>
                <surname>Wong</surname>
            </name>
            <title>Professor of Computer Science</title>
            <organization>Rice University Computer Science (formerly of Oberlin College)</organization>
            <contact>
                <email>swong@cs.rice.edu</email>
                <phone>713-348-5930</phone>
            </contact>
        </referee>
        <referee>
            <name>
                <firstname>Jane</firstname>
                <surname>Bensen</surname>
            </name>
            <title>Manager</title>
            <organization>Half Price Books and Music</organization>
            <address>
                <city>Cincinnati</city>
                <state>Ohio</state>
            </address>
        </referee>
        <referee>
            <name>
                <firstname>Thelma</firstname>
                <surname>Roush</surname>
            </name>
            <title>Help Desk Supervisor</title>
            <organization>Oberlin College Center For Information Technology</organization>
            <contact>
                <email>thelma.roush@oberlin.edu</email>
            </contact>
        </referee>
    </referees>
    <copyright>
        <year>2002</year>
        <name>
            <firstname>David</firstname>
            <surname>Adamson</surname>
        </name>
    </copyright>
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