Jen Garner ♀

About

Friendly and enthusiastic programmer with experience developing software for financial and scientific applications. Looking to work as a team in a software development environment on web and mobile applications. I enjoy problem solving and designing robust software.

I'm not a robot

I am learning guitar and occasionally bass. I also like to play board games and video games and hunt for funny memes on the internet. Recently I soldered by own keyboard.

Skills

Here are some of the skills I have worked on in past positions.

Work Experience

• Software Developer

  Apr, 2021 - July, 2023 SocïVolta
  • Write Python code to extract, transform, and load data into AWS S3 buckets and MySQL database.
  • Automate submission to energy markets.
  • Develop, package, test, and document AWS Lambda functions.
  • Connect AWS Lambda functions to AWS API Gateway and monitor cloudwatch logs.
  • Refactor old code libraries to add features and improve testing coverage/metrics.
  • Manage MySQL databases, including creating and modifying tables and writing views.

• Technical Support Specialist

  Sep, 2019 - Apr, 2021 Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs)
  • Help customers to configure and use ACD/Labs software, including server and client side setup.
  • Troubleshoot installation/connection issues, gather feedback for new feature requests, and write bug reports.
  • Write documentation and provide training sessions.
  • Make software macros to automate processing workflows.

• Master's Student & Teaching Assistant

  Sep, 2017 - Sep, 2019 McMaster University
  • Write Python program for finding optimal chemical geometries.
  • Participate in Cybernetic Orchestra, using code to make music.
  • Supervise, grade, and demonstrate laboratory experiments for general chemistry, organic chemistry, and thermodynamics.

• Research Assistant

  Sep, 2016 - Aug, 2017 University of Guelph
  • Visualise fluorescence data using Python and Matplotlib.
  • Conduct molecular dynamics simulations of proteins using high performance computing (Compute Canada).
  • Automate and process jobs using Python and Bash scripts.

Education

• M.Sc. Chemistry

  Sep, 2017 - Sep, 2019 McMaster University

  Thesis work: Conformer Searching using an Evolutionary Algorithm

• B.Sc. Chemistry, Mathematics Minor, Coop

  Sep, 2012 - Dec, 2016 University of Guelph

  Math research project: Hierarchical Clustering and Data Correlation for Chemical Compounds

  Chemistry research project: Using Iodine as a dopant for metal-radical materials to investigate possible charge-transfer salts

Cooperative Education (Chemistry)

• Cooperative Education Student

  May, 2016 - Aug, 2016 Concordia University

  Montréal, QC

• Cooperative Education Student

  May, 2015 - Dec, 2015 Xerox Research Centre of Canada

  Mississauga, ON

• Cooperative Education Student

  Jan, 2014 - Apr, 2014 SNOLAB

  Sudbury, ON

Academic

• D.E. Culham, D. Marom, R. Boutin, J. Garner, T.N. Ozturk, N. Sahtout, L. Tempelhagen, G. Lamoureux and J.M. Wood. (2018) Dual role of the C-terminal domain in osmosensing by bacterial osmolyte transporter ProP. Biophys J 115:2152-2166, DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.10.023
• T. Romantsov, K. Gonzalez, N. Sahtout, D.E. Culham, C. Coumoundouros, J. Garner, C.H. Kerr, L. Chang, R.J. Turner, J.M. Wood. (2018) Cardiolipin synthase A colocalizes with cardiolipin and osmosensing transporter ProP at the poles of Escherichia coli cells. Mol Microbiol 107:623-638, DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13904
• T. Romantsov, D.E. Culham, T. Caplan, J. Garner, R.S. Hodges and J.M. Wood (2016) ProP-ProP and ProP-phospholipid interactions determine the subcellular distribution of osmosensing transporter ProP in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 103:469-482, DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13569
• D. Ashlock, S. Gillis, J. Garner and G. Fogel, (2015) Evolving DNA classifiers with extinction based ring optimization. 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) 1-8, DOI: 10.1109/CIBCB.2015.7300312
• J. Garner and D. Ashlock (2015) Evolution of 2D apoptotic cellular automata. 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2160-2167, DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2015.7257151