Alexander D. Yule
Phone 617-875-4091 • E-mail •
942 Beacon St. NewtonCentre, MA02459
EducationMiddleburyCollege, class of 2009, B.A.: Geography, cum laudeMiddlebury, VT
Coursework in Geography, GIS/Cartography, Creative Writing, Computer Science, History
Completed advanced research in Historical Geography/GIS and spatiotemporal visualization
Produced animated maps of Einsatzgruppenactivity (presentedat The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.) and U.S. Black Metropolitan Population Change (
School for International Training: Mongolia: Culture & DevelopmentUlaanbaatar, Mongolia
Semester abroad in Mongolia with independent field research, Fall 2007
Studied Mongolian language, geography, culture, politics, economy and history
Planned, implemented, presented month-long independent field research project: Changers—from Steppe to Market, and Beyond: Connecting the Mongolian Pastoral Economy of Livestock By-products
PhillipsExeterAcademy, class of 2004Exeter, NH
PAPERS
Animating the Jäger Aktions: Einsatzkommando-3 in Lithuania, 1941AAG Annual Meeting, 2009
Presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 2009
1st Place: Cartography Specialty Group Student Honors Paper Competition
experience
2/2009-presentMiddlebury College Dept. of GeographyMiddlebury, VT
Research Assistant with Professor Anne Kelley Knowles, Geographies of the Holocaust Project
Design and construct a spatiotemporal database of 1000+ concentration camps
Georeference and analyze historical maps
2008-presentDigital ExplorationsWeybridge, VT
DigEx Fellow, Webmaster
Designed a model for a proposed Center for Community Digital Exploration in Middlebury
Developed a dynamic web presence for an innovative non-profit (PHP/JS/XHTML/CSS)
Summer 2009Orton Family FoundationMiddlebury, VT
Intern
Created 3D SketchUp models of key buildings in town (for community planning with the Orton CommunityViz extensions to ArcGIS)
2008-2009Middlebury College English and Film DepartmentsMiddlebury, VT
Writing Tutor: Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Film
Met individually with students five times per semester, led weekly class writing workshops
Summer 2008LightPole, Inc. (Mobile Mapping Software)San Francisco, CA
Product Development Intern
Developed embeddable, dynamic, cross-domain web mapping widgets with client/server-side JavaScript, and Flash/PHP; integrated both with Rails/Erlang back-end in China
Worked with developer in Germany to test and debug iPhone client software
Summer 2007Applied Geographics, Inc.Boston, MA
GIS Intern
Edited and updated tax parcel geodatabases from hard-copy maps for several Massachusetts municipalities using AutoCAD and ArcGIS (COGO and topologies)
Summer 200680108 Media (go2 Media) (Mobile media/content)Boston, MA
Marketing Associate
Designed custom niche music mobile content channel, (used as model for other channels).Identified 13 major markets and recruited regional editors from each to generate local content.
2006-2009Mondegreen Music MagazineMiddlebury, VT
Staff Writer, Heavy Metal Correspondent
Wrote feature articles, album and show reviews for campus music magazine
2005-2007Middlebury College MiDDialogue, OrientationMiddlebury, VT
Club Co-Founder and Co-Head, Forum Moderator, Deliberative Dialogue Trainer
Co-founded student club to design and host structured monthly dialogues on important issues
2002-presentWRMC, 91.1 FM / WPEA, 90.5 FMMiddlebury, VT / Exeter, NH
DJ, Loud Rock Manager, General Board Member
Manage genre radio shows, co-host Melting Point Radio, a weekly heavy metal radio program
Summer 2005C-STPS (Center for Science and Technology Policy Studies) Waltham, MA
Research Intern, Webmaster
Background research and data analysis (bibliographic citation data analysis, text processing)
Fall 2004Global Routes: Costa RicaSanta Cruz, Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica
Teaching Intern, 3month home-stay in small mountain village.
Taught English in local primary school, organized evening classes for adults, renovated school
Winter 2004, Summer 2003Abt Associates, Inc.Cambridge, MA
Research Intern, Science and Technology Policy Division
Analyzed citation data for the NIH AIDS International Training and Research Program review and the NSF Science and TechnologyCenters annual report
Skills
Computing / Very adept with Windows, OSX, and some Linux. Strong ability to adapt to new environments
GIS: geospatial data modeling/analysis in ArcInfo 9.3, Access, SQL Server
Cartography: Adobe Illustrator andFlash CS4 for static and animated mapping
Stats/Data Analysis: geostatistical data analysis using SPSS 16, Geoda, GWR 3.0
Computer Science: Experience coding data structures in Java
Web development: Cross-domain Flash (AS3) and JavaScript (ajax), XHTML/CSS
Multimedia: Adobe Photoshop CS3, photography (digital & 35mm, portfolio: layout/typography/design, video editing
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