Drew McDermott
Employment
3M | M*Modal [Feb 2017 - Current]
Software Engineer Developer on the Fluency Direct team
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh [May 2014 - Feb 2017]
Software Engineer Worked as a developer for the IT department, was on their special projects team the Studio
Highmark [Summer of 2011 & 2013]
Software Engineer Intern Through Bender Consulting
Developer on tools for the Fraud and Audit Reporting departments.
University of Pittsburgh - University Library System (ULS) [June 2009 - April 2014]
IT Associate Student worker while I attended the University of Pittsburgh
Maintained library computers and handled Help Desk calls
Projects
Source control
M*Modal Fluency Direct [2017 - Current]
Speach to text application focusing on medical applications, my team works on the user facing application
C#, JavaScript
Awards:
Siriusware E-Commerce [2016 - 2017]
For Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
E-commerce system built to use the on-site point of sale system Siriusware using their API
Includes a CMS which allows other employees to manage the name and visibility of items
Laravel (PHP)
Light Clock [2016 - 2017]
Designed by The Studio in collaboration with Carnegie Museum of Art
A physical clock with two 180° cameras which would capture an image every 5 minutes
My contribution was code which would download the images from the camera and stich them into a single 360° image. Additionally an application to pull daily weather data which was used for matching images in a visualization
Python, C++
Press
Oakland Guide [2016]
For Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
An application designed to guide users aroung the Carnegie Museums Oakland Campus using tours and a catalog of select objects
Included a central content management system (CMS) with an API that served an iOS and web applications.
My contributions were to upgrade an existing CMS and create the web based application optimized form mobile devices.
Ruby on Rails (CMS), Django Python (Web app)
GitHubs: CMS Web app
Digital Metric Dashboard [2015]
For Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
A user friendly exploration of key digital metrics including data from Google Analytics, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
PHP, JavaScript
GitHub
Education
University of Pittsburgh [2008 - 2014]
B.S. in Computer Science
Focus in non-deterministic computation
B.A. in History of Art and Architecture
Focus on art in the Middle Ages, specifically rock crystal as a medium
Extracurricular
Glassblowing / Flameworking
Photography