Curriculum Vitae
S. Andrew Sheppard
Minneapolis, MN • USA • +1 763.227.8106
sheppard@umn.edu • https://andrewsheppard.net
Education
| 2017 | Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Advisor: Loren Terveen Thesis: Managing Data Quality in Observational Citizen Science |
| 2010 | M.S., Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (awarded 2017) Related Field: Japanese |
| 2005 | B.S., Information Technology Management, University of Minnesota, Crookston, MN With High Distinction Minor: Business Management |
Experience
| 2018-present | Senior Software Engineer, Houston Engineering, Inc., Maple Grove, MN. Role: Software technical lead and solution architect for agricultural and water quality web applications. |
| 2010-2017 | GIS/Web Developer, Houston Engineering, Inc., Maple Grove, MN. Role: Individual developer on mobile geographic applications for water resource management. |
| 2008-2010 | Research Assistant, GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Role: Part of a research team that implemented and studied the Cyclopath geowiki. |
| 2005-2008 | Information Technology Professional, University of Minnesota RSDP, St. Paul and Crookston, MN. Role: Built websites for water quality citizen science and local food knowledge crowdsourcing. |
Scholarly Research
Sheppard, S. A., Turner, J., Thebault-Spieker, J., Zhu, H., and Terveen, L. Never Too Old, Cold or Dry to Watch the Sky: A Survival Analysis of Citizen Science Volunteerism. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 1, CSCW. December 2017.
Sheppard, S. A., Wiggins, A., and Terveen, L. Capturing Quality: Retaining provenance for curated volunteer monitoring data.
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2014). ACM. February 2014.
Sheppard, S. A. wq: a modular framework for collecting, storing, and utilizing experiential VGI.
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information (GEOCROWD '12). ACM. November 2012.
Sheppard, S. A. and Terveen, L. Quality is a Verb: The operationalization of data quality in a citizen science community. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (Wikisym '11). ACM. October 2011.
Torre, F., Sheppard, S. A., Priedhorsky, R., and Terveen, L. bumpy, caution with merging: an exploration of tagging in a geowiki.
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP '10). ACM. November 2010.
Open Source Software
| 2011-present | wq Framework • https://github.com/wq Integrated Python + JavaScript frameworks for geographic data collection and mobile crowdsourcing. |
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| 2014-present | Django REST Pandas • https://github.com/wq/django-rest-pandas Python tool to create REST APIs for database- or file-backed Pandas DataFrames. |
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| 2017 | TensorFlow Plugin for PhoneGap/Cordova • https://github.com/heigeo/cordova-plugin-tensorflow JavaScript API bridge for TensorFlow inference library (Java & Objective-C) |
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| 2013-2017 | Climata • https://github.com/heigeo/climata Python client to load climate time series data from several national databases. |
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| 2014-2017 | Leaflet WMS Plugin • https://github.com/heigeo/leaflet.wms Enhanced Web Mapping Service support for Leaflet JavaScript library. |
Service
Reviewed papers and notes for IUI, CHI, CSCW, and the Citizen Science Journal.
Student volunteer at MobileHCI 2012 and CSCW 2013.