💁 About me

Production engineer, writer, scientist. Really vibing with close-up moss photography right now. 👩🏻‍🔬 • 🏳️‍🌈 • ♿️ • 🥾✌🏻🤙🏻🏔

• Boring standard resume (PDF): Katherine Geerling’s Resume ‘21
• Writing samples: Documentation
• Email: kgeerling@protonmail.com
• LinkedIn: Katherine Geerling
• GitHub: @punnypenguins

⭐ Current projects

🧬 Project Delve

Project Delve is a database that helps people find every currently-active distributed computing, citizen science, volunteer archivist, volunteer humanities research project you can do on the internet OR remotely.

• Website
• GitHub repository

🎓 Education

Science, B.S. (2015 - 2019)

• School: Maryville University of St. Louis
• GPA: 3.76

Degree overview

My general Science degree consisted of:

• Bascom Honors Program Core (replaced standard gen ed core)
• General sciences foundation (Bio, Chem, and Physics core requirements + labs)
• Physics minor
• App Development minor
• Computational modeling/mathematics concentration.

Honors and awards:

• Bascom Honors Program graduate
• Dean’s List:
  • Fall 2015
  • Fall 2016
  • Fall 2017
  • Spring 2018
  • Fall 2018
  • Spring 2019
• Alpha Lambda Delta honor society
• National Merit Scholar Finalist (2015)

💻 Experience (chronological)

Technical Writer (February 2022 - Present)

• Employer: Aquent, LLC

  Technical writing for Microsoft Docs.

Production Engineer (September 2020 - Present)

• Employer: Midwestern Mac, LLC

  Research, data analysis, down-stream project development, open source contributions, customer management, communication, organization, troubleshooting, site maintenance, account maintenance, subtitling, and videography.

Private Nanny (October 2019 - August 2020)

• Employer: Private

  Infant care and basic household maintenance.

IT Helpdesk Student Assistant (August 2015 - May 2019)

• Employer: Maryville University of St. Louis

  Troubleshooting, printer fixing, user instruction, device setup, large-scale iPad deployment, software installation, research, solution proposals, and task delegation.

IT Helpdesk Assistant (May 2018 - August 2018)

• Employer: Maryville University of St. Louis

  Troubleshooting, user instruction, equipment installation, device setup, software installation, software setup, account management, hardware replacement, device reimaging, and use of Jamf Pro.

Swim Coach (May 2016 - July 2019)

• Employer: City of Florissant

  Coaching, event planning, child instruction, and organization of records + information.

Editor (March 2014 - July 2015)

• Employer: Jeff Geerling (author)

  Proofreading and editing for Ansible for DevOps.

☑️ Skills

• Adaptability
• Research (scientific and general)
• Writing
• Explanation + instruction
• Documentation
• Computational modeling
• Troubleshooting
• Data organization

Languages:

• Python
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Swift
• C (basic familiarity)
• Ruby (learning)
• R (learning)
• TOML (dabble)
• YAML (dabble)

Tools:

• Command line
• Discord
• Docker
• GitHub
• Hugo
• Jamf
• Jekyll
• LaTeX
• MySQL
• Mendeley
• Microsoft Office (especially Excel)
• Notion
• SciLab
• SciPy
• Slack
• Trello
• VS Code

🤸🏻‍♀️ Hobbies

• Aerial dance
• Video Games
• Bead loom weaving
• Hiking
• Photography
• Reading (especially nonfiction and poetry)
• Writing fanfiction
• Art

🤝 Volunteer Work

See LinkedIn profile.