 Mike
Wooldridge
http://ischool.berkeley.edu/~mikew
mikew AT ischool.berkeley.edu
Work Experience
Publications
Inventions
Awards/Appearances
Volunteering/Philanthropy
Technical Skills
Other Interests
Education
References
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Mike
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WORK EXPERIENCE
| California Digital Library (CDL) (Oakland, CA) –
Web Archiving Programmer (May
2006-Present) |
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Responsible for the design and implementation of the user interface for CDL's Web Archiving Service. The service allows users to define Web sites of interest, automatically retrieve content from those sites, and organize the content into thematic collections. The UI uses Ruby on Rails, AJAX, and MySQL. |
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More information on the project wiki. |
| BioText Project, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) –
Programmer/UI Designer (Oct.
2006-Present) |
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Responsible for the design and implementation of the user interface for the BioText search engine and image-labeling system. BioText offers researchers innovative ways to browse and interact with the images, tables, and other content in open-access science articles. The system uses PHP, PyLucene, AJAX, and MySQL. |
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Access the public search engine. View project background. |
| Movement Wireless (Washington, DC) –
Consultant (Aug.
2007-Present) |
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Responsible for the technical design and implementation of a Web-based marketing system for non-profit organizations. The system enables organizations to set up mobile-phone storefronts for fundraising. The system uses Ruby on Rails and MySQL. |
| Garage
Cinema Research (Berkeley, CA) –
Developer (Jun.
2005-Aug. 2005) |
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Developed cameraphone- and Web-based
applications for capturing and managing photo metadata at UC Berkeley's
School of Information. |
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Co-authored a research paper describing
PhotoCat,
a photo-management prototype I co-developed. |
| NameSecure
Inc. (Concord, CA) – Director
of Content Development (Mar. 2000-Jun. 2005) |
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Managed the front-end development
of the Web site of NameSecure, a seller of domain names and related
services. |
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Managed end-user testing of the
NameSecure site, and integrated site improvements based on that testing. |
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Created foreign-language versions
of the site, allowing NameSecure to expand its market internationally. |
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Produced promotional newsletters
and designed banner advertisements. |
| V5Mail Inc.
(Manhattan Beach, CA) – Web Developer
(Jun. 2004–March 2005) |
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Formulated business strategy and
designed Web site for innovative Web-based e-mail service that let
users set a price that senders must pay to send them electronic messages.
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| UC
Berkeley Extension (Berkeley, CA) – Instructor
(Sept. 1999–May 2001) |
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Designed curriculum for and taught Web-design
courses in the Professional Sequence in Web Design program. Courses
taught: Designing Graphics for the Web,
HTML I: Creating Web Pages, and HTML II: Structuring Web Pages. |
| Web Rangers
(Berkeley, CA) – Principal Web Developer
(Oct. 1995–Mar. 2000) |
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Wrote content for the Microsoft
Encarta encyclopedia. |
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Wrote a voiceover script for a multimedia training
environment for Cisco Systems. |
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Edited technical documentation for a redesign of the
Sun Microsystems intranet. |
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Developed Web newsletters for the EPRI
energy company consortium. |
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Developed Web sites for 50 real estate agents in the
San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Created educational Web sites about physics
and genetics
for the U.S. Department of Energy. |
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Produced a live Webcast for a Berkeley Internet service
provider. |
| Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA) – Science
Writer (1993–1995) |
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Wrote press releases and feature articles
about new research for the Department of Energy laboratory. |
| Discover
Magazine (Burbank, CA) – Science
Writer Intern (1992) |
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Wrote articles about cutting-edge research
for the magazine’s news section. |
| Microgenics
(Concord, CA) – Chemist (1990–1991) |
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Developed highly sensitive immunoassays
for therapeutic drugs. Co-authored scientific paper on research. |
| Genentech
(South San Francisco, CA) – Research
Intern (1989) |
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Researched techniques to improve the sensitivity
of immunoassays. Co-authored scientific paper on research. |
Publications
| Academic Articles Authored |
| Evidence for Showing Gene/Protein Name Suggestions in Bioscience Literature Search. Anna Divoli, Marti A. Hearst, and Michael A. Wooldridge. (Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2008.) PDF |
| BioText Search Engine: beyond abstract search. Marti A. Hearst, Anna Divoli, Harendra Guturu, Alex Ksikes, Preslav Nakov, Michael A. Wooldridge, and Jerry Ye, (Bioinformatics, 2007.) PDF |
| Exploring the efficacy of caption search for bioscience journal search interfaces. Marti Hearst, Anna Divoli, Michael Wooldridge, and Jerry Ye. (Proceedings of BioNLP, 2007.) PDF |
| Showing Figures and Captions in the Biotext Journal Search Engine (Poster). Marti Hearst, Michael Wooldridge, Jerry Ye, and Anna Divoli. (Proceedings of ISMB/ECCB, 2007.) PDF |
| Magazine Articles Authored
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| Easy Updates with Dreamweaver (Macworld,
2000) |
Low-Fat Graphics for the Web (Macworld,
1999) |
| Push the Boundaries of QTVR (Macworld,
1999) |
Robots Invade the Web (CNET, 1999) |
| Promote Your Web Site (CNET, 1998) |
Build a Great Web Site: Cheap! (CNET,
1997) |
INVENTIONS
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Domain
Bar: A Web-browser add-on that allows users to register
and manage Internet domain names. The patent-pending invention is
assigned to Network Solutions. U.S. patent application #20060059136. |
AWARDS/APPEARANCES
Volunteering/Philanthropy
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Volunteer instructor at Montair Elementary School (Danville, CA). Developed and taught a Web-design class for the school's gifted students (2007). |
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Benefactor of the Wooldridge Award
in Science Writing at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. The award supported science-writing
graduate students interested in digital media (2004-2006). |
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Volunteer editor of the Black
Rock Gazette, the newspaper of Burning
Man (1995-1997). |
Other Interests
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Marathon running, skateboarding, long-distance
swimming, immersive imaging, and competitive eating. |
Education
References
"Mike Wooldridge is one
of those renaissance computer people who has knowledge of the many
platforms, operating systems, and software applications. He has
developed a course based on absolute fundamentals. He is one of
the outstanding instructors at UC Berkeley Extension."
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| From a student evaluation of
Mike's "Designing Graphics for the Web" class |
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