Miriam Grigsby

Miriam Grigsby

Denver, Colorado, United States
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Tenacious developer with experience in Python, Full-Stack Javascript, and Golang…

Articles by Miriam

  • Dead in The Water: Async Behavior
    Jan 28, 2020

    Dead in The Water: Async Behavior

    During the 15 week program at the Flatiron School Software Engineering bootcamp, students are expected to produce five…

  • Reject SQL Injection
    Jan 6, 2020

    Reject SQL Injection

    What is SQL injection? SQL injection is an attack that allows the attacker to bypass authentication, spoof identity…

  • Basic Alias Commands for Your Basic Programmer
    Dec 10, 2019

    Basic Alias Commands for Your Basic Programmer

    Whether you are dabbling in programming or a pro who is looking for ways to make your life easier, basic alias commands…

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Experience

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    ProcessUnity

    Denver, Colorado, United States

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    Denver, Colorado, United States

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    Denver, Colorado, United States

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    Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

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    remote

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    Rochester, New York Area

Education

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    University of Rochester

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    Activities and Societies: President of USGO- the Geology Club at the University of Rochester President of the Rock Climbing Club UR Foot Climbing Trip Leader Fall 2015 and 2016

Volunteer Experience

  • Docent

    Space Foundation Visitors Center

    - 1 year 5 months

    Science and Technology

    The Visitors center is also known as the Space Foundation Discovery Center. It is a museum dedicated to sharing space awareness with school groups and people of all ages. I lead student tours, and wrote data sets for Science on a Sphere lessons that were presented to the student groups.

  • Volunteer Student Leader

    Space Symposium- Space Foundation

    - Present 12 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

    The Space Symposium is the largest convention for Space Companies located in Colorado Springs, CO. I volunteered with the Space Foundation to lead student groups around to different companies to learn more about the Space and Defense Industries. The companies range from Boeing and Lockheed Martin to SpaceX.

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    Subaru Ambassador

    Subaru of America

    - Present 7 years 9 months

    Environment

    Work as a part of an exclusive group of energetic individuals that volunteer our passion and enthusiasm to spread the word about Subaru and help shape the future of the brand

    Partner directly with Subaru to be an extension of the brand and a face for the public to connect and engage with

    Volunteer at Subaru sponsored events such as Subaru Winterfest at Copper and Eldora Mountain where we guide parking, provide directions, man booths, dispense swag, and notify Subaru owners about…

    Work as a part of an exclusive group of energetic individuals that volunteer our passion and enthusiasm to spread the word about Subaru and help shape the future of the brand

    Partner directly with Subaru to be an extension of the brand and a face for the public to connect and engage with

    Volunteer at Subaru sponsored events such as Subaru Winterfest at Copper and Eldora Mountain where we guide parking, provide directions, man booths, dispense swag, and notify Subaru owners about ongoing safety recalls

    Support common causes such as environmental conservation and protection of animals

Publications

Courses

  • Calculus 1-3

    MATH 151/152

  • Electricity and Magnetism

    PHYS122

  • Linear Algebra

    MATH 3400

  • Mechanics

    PHYS121

  • Ordinary Differential Equations

    MATH 3430

  • Petrology

    EES206

  • Principles of Engineering

    MAE1502

  • Python

    CSC 161

  • Seminar in Paleomagnetism

    EES259

  • Solid Earth Geophysics

    EES205

Projects

  • Covid-See10

    - Present

    Covid-19 Global Hackathon Official Submission, a mobile application with python/django backend to create a fitness application that brings athletes of all types together in a fun, challenging, and interactive way during the Covid-19 lockdown.

    See project

  • Women in Climbing

    Organized and participated in a short film to inspire and bring light to equality and discrimination issues in the climbing community. The idea was to start a conversation about the potentially toxic environment for women climbers at the gym and the crag.

    See project

  • Subaru XV Crosstrek Camper Build

    Planned and executed the conversion of a Subaru Crosstrek into a camper. Removed rear seats and built a functioning set of 2 cubbies, two long drawers, a full-size bed, and extended table.

  • Pinch Me: Golang Robot

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    Robotic arm controlled by a serial connection to a Golang program with a React Native phone application

    3-D printed and constructed a robotic arm using an arduino mega, DuPont wires, and a breadboard for testing

    Connected arduino to Golang with serial connection which implemented gobot library and the standard firmata protocol to send actions for the robot to complete

    Designed a remote for the robot using React Native to increase robot control by giving the user the option…

    Robotic arm controlled by a serial connection to a Golang program with a React Native phone application

    3-D printed and constructed a robotic arm using an arduino mega, DuPont wires, and a breadboard for testing

    Connected arduino to Golang with serial connection which implemented gobot library and the standard firmata protocol to send actions for the robot to complete

    Designed a remote for the robot using React Native to increase robot control by giving the user the option to choose their own actions, choose from a set of defaults, or create and save their own

    See project

  • Collision Conjecture

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    Virtual Rendering of Satellite Trajectories in 3-D and Real Time

    Displays 3-D globe and satellite trajectories in real time using React.js in tandem with Cesium/Resium packages

    Implements database management using Ruby on Rails with ActiveRecord and SQLite3

    Embedded small NASA website with the homepage based on chosen planet

    Visualized space debris with random color-coded spots to bring attention to human’s impact on space and the potential reality of Kessler…

    Virtual Rendering of Satellite Trajectories in 3-D and Real Time

    Displays 3-D globe and satellite trajectories in real time using React.js in tandem with Cesium/Resium packages

    Implements database management using Ruby on Rails with ActiveRecord and SQLite3

    Embedded small NASA website with the homepage based on chosen planet

    Visualized space debris with random color-coded spots to bring attention to human’s impact on space and the potential reality of Kessler Syndrome

    Containerized project using Docker

    See project

  • Type Your Shark

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    A simple typing game meant to increase accuracy and speed over 3 levels and difficulties

    Animated creatures with CSS and handled asynchronous behavior with vanilla JavaScript to create a life-like visual gaming experience

    Managed database with PostgreSQL for deployment to Heroku with front end deployed to Firebase

    Utilized JWT ruby gem for JSON Web Tokens and local storage to encrypt users information client-side to provide fully functioning authentication

    See project

Languages

  • French

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  • German

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  • Italian

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Organizations

  • Undergraduate Society of Geologic Studies

    President

    - Present

  • UR Foot

    Student Leader

    - Present

    Leading a group of incoming freshman on a variety of outdoor trips including caving, climbing, canoeing, and biking.

  • Meridian Society

    Tour Guide

    - Present

  • Outing Club

    Member

    - Present

  • Rock Climbing Club

    President

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