As a postdoctoral researcher for CARMA I have conducted observations of high and low mass star forming regions, Herbig-Haro objects, and comets. I have also been the on-site observer at the array many times and I am the local friend of the telescope at the University of Illinois. Additionally, my duties have also involved programming some of the array systems. My primary responsibility was to create the project database. This database is used to track and schedule all observations conducted by the array. It holds all observational information from every track. It is written in C++ and uses Berkeley DBXML as the main database engine. The database has a python user interface that connects to the database through a CORBA interface. My current project is working on the automated data reduction pipeline.
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