Patrick Mcguire
Past President, Alumni Association
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPatrick McGuire is an experienced scholar-practitioner and academic leader with over three decades of service across secondary, post-secondary, and graduate education, currently serving as Past President of the Teachers College Alumni Association. He blends hands-on instructional design and mentoring with administrative leadership, having led academic programs, advised on graduate admissions and career development, and pioneered service-learning initiatives. Active in civic and volunteer roles in New York, he serves on patient and family advisory councils, mentors through StreetWise Partners, and completed the FBI Citizens Academy in 2024 as a community ambassador. Uncommonly for an education leader, he also contributes to open-source technical work—enhancing the BirdNET-Pi real-time acoustic bird classification project as a full‑stack developer—illustrating a rare mix of pedagogical depth, ethical focus, and practical software skills.
6 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Saint Andrew Avellino SchoolEdD, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, EdD, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration at Columbia University in the City of New YorkCertificate - FBI Citizens Academy program - Class of 2024, Ambassador for the Bureau - Community Leader -, Certificate - FBI Citizens Academy program - Class of 2024, Ambassador for the Bureau - Community Leader - at Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field OfficeMA, Religious Education, MA, Religious Education at Fordham UniversityTraining Certificate, National Catholic Risk Retention Group, Inc., Training Certificate, National Catholic Risk Retention Group, Inc. at VIRTUS Child Training - Protecting God's Children - Diocese of BrooklynManagement Development Program Certificate, Higher Education Administration, Management Development Program Certificate, Higher Education Administration at Harvard UniversityBA, English Literature, BA, English Literature at Saint John's UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Scanlan High School
Github Skills (9)
php10
web-development10
python10
database-design10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
sqlite9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 20 reviews, 1640 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the "BirdNET-Pi" project, a real-time acoustic bird classification system. They made changes to the installation process and implemented a configuration wizard. The commits show significant work on the web interface and data management. In addition, they modified the server-side code for database interaction.
realtimeraspberry-pibirdsong-spectrogrampythonraspberry
mcguirepr89/BirdNET-system
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
BirdNET as a systemd service with other features.
Contributions:600 commits, 32 PRs, 545 pushes in 5 months
golangsnmprouterosesxinetwork-automation
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