Sawyer Newman
Data Manager
Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSawyer Newman is a data manager who blends anthropology, archival practice, and information science to make complex oceanographic and health-science datasets discoverable and reusable. With nine years of experience across WHOI, Yale, and Harvard Medical School, Sawyer excels at metadata curation, data workflow design, and translating researcher needs into user-centered data systems like BCO-DMO and OOI. Their work pairs hands-on Python data cleaning with cross-disciplinary collaboration among scientists, developers, and librarians to improve research impact and usability. Based in Falmouth, MA, they also pursue side projects that explore community, culture, and technology—bringing a curiosity about how environmental and cultural systems shape data practices that isn’t obvious from job titles alone.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Anthropology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Anthropology at Michigan Technological UniversityMaster of Library and Information Science, Information Science and Technology, Master of Library and Information Science, Information Science and Technology at Simmons CollegeInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at SSIS | Suzhou Singapore International School
Chinese
Github Skills (23)
laravel10
management9
asset-management8
jekyll-theme5
jekyll5
responsive4
lorem-ipsum3
expressions3
openrefine3
regex3
data-management2
classes2
stable2
health2
data-analysis2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JoshuaDull/APIs-for-Libraries
May 2019 - Jun 2019
OpenRefine for Librarians
Contributions:55 commits, 55 pushes in 20 days
openrefinelibrarians
RDAP-Association/rdap-web-committee-guide
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Simple and responsive Jekyll theme for help center.
Contributions:111 commits, 109 pushes in 4 months
centerhelp-centerresponsive-jekyll-themejekylljekyll-theme
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