Johnny Snelgrove
Education
- Cumulative GPA: ~3.7
- Relevant Coursework:
- Artificial Intelligence, Building Modern Web Apps, Computational Cognition, Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithms & Data Structures, Web Design, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Management of Industrial and Non-Profit Organizations
- Cumulative GPA: ~3.7
- Relevant Coursework:
- Symbolic Logic,
Sensation & Perception,
Psychology,
- Recipient of the Promising Musician Grant (2011)
Work Experience
- Wrote a Drupal module for interfacing with Brown’s Google Analytics account and visualizing site-specific data
- Wrote an extensible, customizable, and scalable Drupal module for displaying a weekly hours schedule
- Learned PHP quickly and worked directly with mySQL database and Drupal nodes
- Heavily modified a flow-based visual programming web-app written in Coffeescript to be used as an image processing interface
- Allowed users to construct and visualize different stages of neural processing in the human visual system
- Project received a National Science Foundation grant
- developed/designed frontend for small businesses
- used Wordpress as cms, or Bootstrap for static sites
- worked closely with clients to make sure they were pleased with the site
- worked with a graphic designer to finish design for a culinary arts book
- edited content of Ingorda's quarterly magazine and wrote several articles
- developed a working understanding of Italian in a short amount of time
Projects
- Created a Google Glass app in Android(SDK), which took input in the form of a photo and audio to associate a name with the face of a new acquaintance.
- Input sent to a server to be saved to a database and processed using a facial recognition API, allowing the user to take a photo at a later time for comparison to return an acquaintance's name
- Built a web app to generate phonetic transcriptions given a set of phonological rules
- conceptualized and built a Snapchat-eque texting webapp with just a designer and myself
- developed the backend using the Facebook Graph API, node.js, express, mongoDB, and socket.io
- coded the frontend using javascript/jquery
- produced, wrote, recorded, and performed all tracks on the album
- the Snail Song was a big hit
- available on iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, etc
Skills
- CSS/HTML5/JavaScript
- Node.js
- Python
- Java
- PHP
- fast learner
Interests
- Avant-garde jazz
- neural networks
- cognition
- psychology
- building and designing things
- learning
- emerging technology
- sustainability
