User:Maximilianklein/Belfer

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Max Klein
Showing surprise after winning an award at the Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit.
Occupation	Wikipedia Regional Ambassador
Known for	The Wikipedia as a Learning Management System

Objective

Wikipedian in Residence

Education

University of California Berkeley (GPA 3.53)

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics (2011)

• Lead and facilitated student-run course Politics of Piracy with Wikipedia editing integration
• Wikipedia Campus Ambassador (since program's inception)
• Logic: Incompleteness and Undecidability
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming

Awards and Publications

Max Klein expounding some results

• Award - Wikipedia In Education "Innovator Award" (2011)
  • Recognition for the pioneering of "Wikipedia as Learning Management System" producing the highest content/student ratio, and most the lasting, informed new editors.

• Paper - Wikipedia as a Learning Management System at Wikimania (2011)
  • Presentation of findings and insights into using MediaWiki as a replacement for common computing needs to familiarize users with technical paradigms of Wikipedia.

• Paper - Editing Girl Talk" feministing.com (2011)
  • Nurturing editorship among unlikely editors provides broader, more feminist perspectives on-wiki, and challenges possibly biased community policies.

• Paper - Killer Features: The Vitality of Piracy Cultures awaiting publication in International Journal of Communications (2011)
  • Motivations in piracy gathered from interviews with prolific and respected media Pirates.

Experience

Wikimedia Experience

Giving a rousing inside view of Wikipedia at Presidio Graduate School

• Wikipedia Regional Ambassador (2010-Present)
  • Lectured and interactively elucidated principles and details of Wikipedia to undergraduate and graduate courses at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and Presidio Graduate School.
  • Negotiated adoption of Wikipedia in Education methods with Professors from Harvard, Yale School of Medicine, and MIT, while recruiting and training in-person Campus Ambassadors representatives to support the and catalyze the wiki-fluency of students.

• Wikipedia Ambassador Steering Committee Member (2011-Present)
  • Invited as consultant to join committee responsible for the strategy and spread of educating new and potential users. Advocated for expansion in ways to address the gender gap.

• Wikipedia Education Software Beta Tester (2012)
  • Beta tested and aided design of new-editor-friendly user interfaces for the purposes of creating more welcoming, and less intimidating first-time Wikipedia experiences.

Other

• Technical Consultant - Public Library of Science (2012)
  • Advised and assisted full-time office staff of the PLoS Currents Medical Journals with knowledge management and presentation.

• Content Manager - Global homehotel (2011-Present)
  • Envisioned and designed UX of [1] around considerations of modularity and scalability.

• IT Intern - California Independent System Operator (2010)
  • Owned and hunted phantom bugs of executive management communication systems Exchange Server.

Additional Attributes

• Conversational Hebrew
• Board of Directors (2010-2011) - Berkeley Student Cooperative
• Volunteer Radio DJ (KALX)
• Proficiencies in *nix and LISP

Personal Information

Phone: 707.478.7023 Email: isalix@gmail.com Address: 2227 Ward Street Berkeley, CA 94705