- Technical Skills
- Languages:
- Python, PHP, Perl, C, Java
- Database:
- SQL, mySQL, PL/SQL, Oracle DBA, ColdFusion
- Web:
- HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Apache, Adobe Creative Suite
- Systems:
- Mac, PC, Unix, Linux, Solaris
- Resume
- Chandra X-ray Center, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- 2009-Present
- IT/Data Specialist
- Conducted statistical research on Chandra proposal trends
- Represented Chandra at biannual astronomical conventions
- Developed and implemented distinct scientific and public outreach programming
- Created, edited and maintained databases, scripts, and webpages relevant to CDO
- Worked on a multi-institution collaboration of Cepheid variable star research
- Edited and designed annual Chandra Newsletter
- Harvard Extension School, Dynamic Web Design
- 2017
- Teaching Assistant
- Led TA sessions and answered student questions
- Helped create and grade weekly quizzes and exams
- Wesleyan University
- 2006-2009
- Research Assistant
- Designed, implemented, and maintained data reduction pipeline
- Created, edited and maintained data analysis scripts
- Conducted public observing and tours of Van Vleck Observatory
- Observed various objects, including galaxies and T Tauri stars
- Education
- Harvard University, School of Continuing Education
- 2010-2016
- M.L.A., Information Management Systems
- Wesleyan University
- 2008-2009
- M.A., Astronomy
- Thesis Title: "CCD Photometry of BM Orionis"
- Wesleyan University
- 2004-2008
- B.A., Astronomy
- Thesis Title: "Observations of the Solar Limb with TRACE and SUMER"
- High Honors
- Evan Tingle
- I'm an astrophysicist/technical assistant working in the Director's Office for the Chandra X-ray Observatory. When I'm not looking at stars, I maintain databases, manage webpages, and research the non-astronomical aspects of X-ray astronomy.
- I live in Somerville with my wife and hound.
- Projects
- I am responsible for Chandra's presence at the biannual American Astronomical Society meetings and develop scientific and public outreach materials. Recently, a colleague and I created an outreach activity called "Catching X-ray Light" to demonstrate grazing incidence in X-ray mirrors.
- For the last several years I have been doing research on Cepheid companion stars. Using Hubble observations of ~70 Cepheids, we are looking for young companion stars to then observe in the X-ray band with Chandra and XMM-Newton. This tells us how these stars are formed, and gives insight into overall stellar formation.
- BeerSimple is a web app created using the Laravel PHP framework to catalog and rank beers. With an exhaustive list of beers compiled using Python's Beautiful Soup library, BeerSimple allows users to rank beers as well as view the site's most popular.
- NASA Headquarters tasked the Chandra Director's Office to determine if gender discrepancy existed in awarded proposal time on the telescope. Compiling the Chandra Gender Statistics entailed the creation of databases, data mining, data entry, statistical analysis, and data visualization.
- katherinelevy.com is my wife's bookbinding portfolio website. It uses a standard responsive Bootstrap template that has been modified to her specifications.
