Sarah Frisk

TL;DR:

Web Developer. Occasionally obsessive RPG gamer. Huge Star Wars Nerd. Let's talk.

Character Profile

a RL picture of me

Basic Facts

Name: Sarah Frisk
Class: Cross Class Programmer/Writer
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Level: 24
Gender: Female
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Currently Unknown

Bio

Hailing from Maine, Sarah is used to long months filled with snow, ice, and non-people friendly weather conditions. As a result, computers and books became two of Sarah's primary passions, which have the advantage of being non-climate dependent activities. In her spare time she enjoys geeking out about Star Wars, singing loudly to musicals in her car, occasionally binging on video games, and working on various silly web-related projects of a geeky nature. (However, ask her about them at your own risk).

Education

Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and English
Graduated May 2010

Skills Ranks

  • Decipher Script
    • Ruby/Rails 6
    • Python 4
    • C/C++ 6
    • Java 5
    • HTML, HTML5 8
    • CSS, CSS3 8
    • Javascript, Jquery 8
    • PHP 7
    • SQL 7
    • IDL 3
  • Use Magic Device
    • Adobe Photoshop7
    • Adobe Illustrator5
    • Wordpress 7
    • CMS Made Simple 7
    • Commonspot 5
    • phpbb 5

Current Quest

iBec Creative

Role: Web Developer
Duration of Quest: October 2010 - Present
Log: Part of a growing team of web and social media experts in the Portland, Maine area. Duties include marking up Photoshop designs and integrating code with CMS Made Simple that can include both responsive and mobile designs, enhancing user interaction with javascript (emphasis on jQuery), and Twitter and Facebook application integration with client's sites.

Previous Quests

Web

Postcards from the Great War

Duration of Quest: Spring 2010
Role: Programer/Designer/Writer
Log: This website boasts a collection of World War One postcards, part of the Pestana World War One Collection in Colby College's Special Collections. This online collection comprises of 200+ postcards that I scanned, and then tagged with keywords to help make the collection search friendly than its hard copy counterpart. The website was designed by me with a Wordpress backend.

Software

Tux4Kids

Duration of Quest:Summer 2009
Role: Junior Developer & Google Summer of Code Participant
Log: Competed in the highly competitive Open Source initiative program, Google Summer of Code, programming a wordlist editor for the TuxType game that addresses the different needs of educators and students.

Design

While programing tends to be my gig, occasionally I will foray into the more artistic side of things. When not doodling on Deviant Art, my work has also been seen in various corners of the interwebs:

Many Icebergs Lots of Fun

Duration of Quest: January 2009
Role: Artist (also acted as programer)
Log: Collaborated closely with a small team to develop a 2D game using the Torque Game Engine during an intensive month long game development course. All artwork for the game was created by me using Photoshop and a wacom tablet. The game is no longer online, but my artwork for the game can be found here.

Railscamp New England Tshirt

Log: Rails Camp is a non-conference for Ruby on Rails programers, who get together for a weekend of programing at a remote location. I’ve participated in three Rails Camps and designed their official New England logo.

College Work Study

Duration of Quest: Fall 2006 - Spring 2010

Colby Bookstore

Log: Designed dynamic book displays, wrote reviews for the bookstore’s newsletter, Booknotes, kept up-to-date with current bestselling novels and book trends, and maintained the bookstore’s book inventory database.

English Department

Log: Updated and added content to the English Department’s website to better serve the needs of the faculty, students, and perspective English majors.

Computer Science Department

Log: Aided professors with grading weekly python programing assignments.

References are available upon request.