James Harper
Faculty Fellow at American Journal Experts
Nederland, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJames Harper is a faculty fellow and teaching professor who blends 11 years of engineering practice with applied research to improve infrastructure and public health in low-resource communities. He specializes in human-centered design and civil systems engineering, evaluating how rural households make decisions about water, sanitation, housing, energy, nutrition, and menstrual health across South Asia and West Africa. James directs research and engineering projects that translate contextual evidence into actionable international development programs and has led fieldwork delivering clean water and housing solutions to thousands. His background spans mechanical design for aerospace and defense to hands-on program management with Engineers Without Borders, giving him uncommon breadth from prototype to policy. Outside academia he volunteers as a mountain firefighter and rescue operator, a detail that informs his pragmatic, safety-focused approach to engineering in austere environments. He also edits academic manuscripts for global researchers, sharpening cross-cultural scientific communication.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoCivil Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering, Civil Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
raspberry-pi6
hostapd6
python-interface6
debian6
microsoft-word6
python4
graphviz4
editing4
graph-visualization3
phylogenetic-trees3
graph3
bioinformatics3
drawing3
microsoft2
graph-drawing2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamespharper/autoedit
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 1 year
changesmicrosoft-wordmicrosofteditingtrack-changes
jamespharper/analyze_survey_responses
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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