katherine elliott · résumé

email: radiantradon at gmail
updated nov 2007
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EDUCATION

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering – Needham, MA (June 2006 – May 2010)

  • General engineering major with a concentration in Bioengineering
    Recipient of Franklin W. Olin Scholarship, valued at $130,000

EXPERIENCE

Olin College – Needham, MA

  • Worked in the Admission office, organizing credentials sent in by prospective students and giving campus tours. Designed an informational pamphlet for campus visitors (October 2006 – Present)
  • Worked with Prof. Yevgeniya Zastavker on a biophysics research project to study the properties of helical structures in gall bladder bile (January 2007 – May 2007)
  • Designed the cover of the 2007-08 Parent Handbook in Adobe Photoshop (Summer 2007)

Science Adventures – Westborough, MA

  • Instructor in a science-themed children's day camp. Taught children ages 5 to 10 about rocketry, electricity, zoology and archaeology (Summer 2007)

Blue Man Group – Boston, MA

  • Member of the Blue Man Group street team, focusing on advertising and impromptu street performances (Summer 2007)

Wellesley Summer Theatre – Wellesley, MA

  • Operated the light board, set up stage lights and worked on set construction for a professional theater (Summer 2007)

Kernodle Clinic – Burlington, NC

  • Re-organized chart-based medical records system, cut company costs by over $10,000 (Summer 2006)
  • Managed charts, lab reports, x-ray reports, and other critical paperwork for a Gastroenterology office in a multi-practice clinic (Summer 2005)

Walter M. Williams High School – Burlington, NC

  • Tutored high school and middle school students in Calculus, Chemistry, Spanish, Basic algebra, Intermediate algebra, computer skills and writing (August 2005 – June 2006)

SKILLS

  • Knowledge of conversational Spanish
  • Software: Adobe Photoshop CS, Microsoft Office suite, MATLAB/Simulink, Solidworks, and COMSOLMultiphysics. Comfortable working in Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux. Knowledge of HTML/CSS.
  • Equipment: HPLC, confocal microscope, microbalance