Curriculum vitae Available as a PDF.
Undergraduate student of Philosophy
Appalachian State University
kylie@somas.is / mcclainkj@appstate.edu
Education
- B.A. (prospective)
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Philosophy, minoring in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. (2024)
Capstone: “Beyond Plunderphonics: A prolegomena to any future revolutionary music.” (advised by Dr. Rick Elmore)
Appalachian State University (Boone, NC)
Conference presentations
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“Whatever’s Left of Woman: Porn, Trans Identity, and Gender Expansivity.” 23rd Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina at Asheville, February 11, 2023.
Service, awards, and miscellaneous
Academic honors and awards
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First place prize, “Whatever’s Left of Woman: Porn, Trans Identity, and Gender Expansivity.” 23rd Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina at Asheville, February 11, 2023.
Academic memberships
- 2021 — present: Co-president, Appalachian State Philosophical Society
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Faculty advisor: Dr. Rick Elmore
Foreign language competencies
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Spanish (reading)
Professional experience
- 2018 — present: Student IT Technician, Appalachian State Technology Support Services
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Repairing computers: virus removal, data backup, hardware diagnostics, ticket management via Atlassian Jira.
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Customer service: explaining repair steps taken to customers upon them picking up their computers in an understandable way.
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Non-academic service
Contributor, Nixpkgs (2022-present)
- Developer, Exherbo Linux (2014-2017)
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Added support for new platforms such as musl libc, and ARMv7.
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Wrote bootstrapping documentation for new processor architectures.
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Wrote documentation for complex code previously written by others.
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