Curriculum Vitae
Aly W.
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Education
Placeholder Community College. 2013–2017
Associate of Arts in Psychology. 4.0 GPA.
University of Placeholder. 2017–2019
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. 4.0 GPA. Some pre-professional science coursework (mathematics, chemistry, biology). One year of research methods and statistics in the discipline.
Experience
Open Reference Encyclopedia. 2008–present
Editor in pharmacology and medicine. Primarily but not exclusively psychopharmacology and endocrine pharmacology. Across accounts, more than 150,000 edits and 3,000 pages created. One of the most prolific pharmacology and medicine editors for the encyclopedia. Created more chemical compound pages than any other contributor. Additionally developed a couple of public editing tools (reference and infobox generators).
Cognitive science research labs at a major research university. Spring 2019–Winter 2019
Volunteer junior research specialist. Work in a Learning and Decision Making Neuroscience Lab and a Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. Work included programming and running computer-based behavioral experiments as part of cognitive science research.
Specialty Medical Center. Late 2019/early 2020 and then first half 2022
A specialty hormone therapy medical clinic led by a physician researcher and with some association with a nearby research university. Volunteer work on clinical research projects (e.g., retrospective chart reviews).
Computer programming and web development. Since 2007
Long history of mostly but not exclusively hobbyist experience in these areas. Dabbled in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, MATLAB, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Somewhere between beginner and intermediate programming experience, though closer to former. Since early 2026, have additionally started working with agentic (AI-assisted) coding.
Projects
Informational Science Resource. 2020–present
Informational website with in-depth literature review-style articles and some original analyses on a specialized medical topic. Major and widely used resource in this area, including being cited and recognized a number of times in the scientific literature.
Pharmacokinetic Simulator and Meta-Analysis. 2021
An interactive web-based simulator and comprehensive informal meta-analysis of injectable medication pharmacokinetic time–concentration curves for informing clinical use. Led to subsequent re-evaluation and reform of dosing practices in the relevant medical community (see Author et al., 2024a and Author et al., 2024b, who corresponded with the developer and cited the work in their landmark reviews in this area).
Custom Markdown Editor. 2021–2022
Developed for private and personal use. A basic web-based VS Code- and Typora-inspired markdown WYSIWYG editor and IDE for writing articles and other projects.
Expertise
Pharmacology: Deep though informal knowledge of pharmacology, primarily psychopharmacology and endocrine pharmacology, through long-standing personal research and contributions to major reference works. Some adjacent knowledge in other areas such as medicine and chemistry as well.
Personal
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References
Josie Kins. Available upon request
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Jane Smith. Available upon request
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