Annika Tostengard

Skills

Communication

Effectively identifies audience, conveys information clearly and concisely in both written and verbal form. Also exhibits excellent listening skills.

Time Management

Never misses deadlines, works effectively alone or with a team, with strong problem-solving skills. Organized, with excessive list-writing habits.

Technical Ability

Over a year's experience each with Ruby, Java, C++, and HTML/CSS/JS. Multiple years of experience with version control via Git.

Adaptive

Learns quickly and adjusts easily to new topics, working environments, teams, projects, and programming languages.

Technical Editor - American Journal Experts

July 2020 - Present

+Help international researchers eliminate language barriers and get their work published

+Provide editing, revisions, and proofreading in the fields of computer science, bioinformatics, and earth science

+Strengthen writing by improving clarity, word choice, and style

+Consistently deliver high-quality edits on-time from home

Research Assistant - University of Montana

September 2017 - January 2021

+Quickly adapted to an unfamiliar field to conduct quantitative evaluations of data analysis techniques in mass spectrometry resulting in publication

+Wrote a high volume of high-performance code in Ruby, R, and Python to process and manipulate files multiple gigabytes in size

+Designed high quality posters and graphs to demonstrate research findings at scientific conferences and in print

+Exceeded job description by assisting with editing and proofreading publications

Math Tutor - University of Montana

September 2016 - December 2017

+Adeptly assessed students to provide personalized tutoring to struggling students to help them overcome academic obstacles

+Successfully individualized tutoring process accoridng to specific students' needs

+Helped students feel comfortable in order to create an environment conducive to asking questions and starting discussions

Freelance Writer - Self-Employed

January 2015 - September 2016

+Rapidly learned about a variety of fields to effectively communicate research for scientists from around the world

+Provided outstanding service by completing assignments on time that meticulously adhered to client specifications

+Don’t take my word for it! Here’s what some of my clients have said:
“Always great working with Annika - very reliable, knowledgeable, hard-working and efficient.” -Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie-Mellon University
"Great experience working with Annika. She was extremely pleasant, punctual and efficient. I would highly recommend to work with her and looking forward to working with again myself." -Nick Powers, Knowledge Translation Media

Wellsite Geologist - RPM Geologic

February 2013 - December 2014

+Effectively managed on-site geology team

+Provided excellent support to well site manager to avoid potential problems and complete projects on time

+Facilitated quality communication between off-site engineers and on-site rig managers by acting as liaison

Publications

A Review and Evaluation of Techniques for Improved Feature Detection in Mass Spectrometry Data

Annika Tostengard, Rob Smith. 2020.

Quantitative Evaluation of Ion Chromatogram Extraction Algorithms

Annika Tostengard, Rob Smith. J. Proteome Res. 2020, 19, 5, 1953-1964

A Quantitative Evaluation of Ion Chromatogram Extraction Algorithms,

Poster Presentation at the American Society of Mass Spectrometry Annual Conference, 2018 & 2019.

A Peptide-Level Fully Annotated Data Set for Quantitative Evaluation of Precursor-Aware Mass Spectrometry Data Processing Algorithms

Jessica Henning, Annika Tostengard, Rob Smith. J. Proteome Res. 2019, 18, 1, 392-398

WearWrite: Orchestrating the Crowd to Complete Complex Tasks from Wearables (We Wrote This Paper on a Watch)

Michael Nebeling, Anhong Guo, Kyle I. Murray, Annika Tostengard, Angelos Giannopoulos, Martin Mihajlov, Steven Dow, Jaime Teevan, Jeffrey P. Bigham. CoRR abs/1508.02982. 2015.