Bryce Baril
Seattle, WA
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What advice do you have for someone who wants a job like yours?
You don't need to study computer science in school, a great deal of the most successful people I know in this field have degrees in another area that allowed them to transition into programming with a built-in specialty, and something to distinguish them from the herd.
Network and be assertive. People in technology aren't typically outgoing, but are willing and even relieved when you introduce yourself to them. Show them you are interested, and find out if they are hiring, which most likely they are. Networking like this will more often than not score you an interview. Scoring an interview without having to have your resume screened first is a huge head-start.... 
Posted @ 06:12AM, June 15, 2007
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Work history
Senior Software Engineer I
tags:
perl
• postgresql
How would you describe your time at WhitePages.com?
I am on the Search and Content team at Whitepages.com, INC, a leader in the online people-search industry. My responsibilities as a member of that team include maintaining and extending the search engine and database storage system that drives the entire company. The engine is comprised of tens of thousands of lines of advanced Object-Oriented Perl, and uses a variety of database engines for content storage and delivery....
Contract Programmer
tags:
perl
• artificial intelligence
How would you describe your time at Forrest Pruzan Creative?
Worked with a partner to create an automated play-testing system for the collectible game Zypods. We created a web-based system that would pit various AI opponents against each other with different components and store batch history in a MySQL database. I was primarily responsible for the AI and statistics engines, written in Object-Oriented Perl....
Systems Analyst/Programmer
tags:
postgresql
• perl
Research Technician
tags:
flow cytometry
• perl
• biochemistry and molecular bi...
How would you describe your time at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Rese...?
The Heimfeld Research Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center focuses on supplying hematapoietic stem cells to researchers nationwide. This enabled me to become very knowledgeable in various immunology procedures such as Flow Cytometry and Magnetic Cell Separation. We were one of, if not the highest throughput lab for cell separation in the Nation, and thus became experts at it.
As the position progressed, I was able to apply more of my programming skills to the lab to build tools to enable us to more efficiently server our purpose. These included Perl systems to aid in analysis and cataloging of flow cytometry specimens, databases to store the information to provide to other researchers, and machine interfaces to automatically download and parse information from blood analyzers....
Education
Biochemistry
How would you describe your time at University of Oregon?
Graduated Cum Laude in Biochemistry, finishing what is commonly a five year program in four years.
In addition to my studies in the biochemical field, I focused on classes in computer science, taking courses in the C, Java, Javascript, and Perl languages.
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