{"id":11133,"date":"2017-02-03T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/?p=11133"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:50:49","slug":"will-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/2017\/02\/03\/will-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Wright, Software Engineer II, App Development &amp; Informatics (LITS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11233\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/files\/2017\/02\/new-william.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11233\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/files\/2017\/02\/new-william.png\" alt=\"Photo of new employee\" width=\"360\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I\u2019m definitely enjoying myself at Emory.&#8221; &#8211; Will Wright<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Will Wright<\/strong> comes to Emory as a\u00a0Software Engineer II, App Development &amp; Informatics (LITS). He previously spent two years as a software engineer in the global services division of\u00a0Atmospheric &amp; Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) in Lexington, MA.<\/p>\n<p>Will is\u00a0from Georgetown, SC, which he described as &#8220;a small \u2018low-country\u2019 town, home of a paper mill, steel mill, and great people.&#8221; Will\u00a0earned bachelor&#8217;s degrees\u00a0in physics and computer science from Francis Marion University, a master&#8217;s in computer science and a Ph.D. in energy and environmental systems from North Carolina A&amp;T State University. Will also\u00a0recently received a Data Science certification from Coursera.<\/p>\n<p>For fun, Will enjoys spending time with &#8220;my wonderful wife and hilarious daughter.&#8221; He\u00a0also likes\u00a0exploring Atlanta and improving his programming skills with side projects and meetups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m definitely enjoying myself at Emory,&#8221; said Will. &#8220;Everyone has been extremely nice and has made it so easy to adjust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can reach Will at\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:secureDecryptAndNavigate('xzCSw9EmYtILj5MtjHLTsfxhAdqnL+QHMeNXefQDCCvE7r5aAn\/tAKsqbtsIKgVS9ewcKOY6fP0eZCyH\/ed46UQzKYGYPGnIO5FMJNVNlA==', 'f06ce84dc9f38960737bc21900f48c093bed7fe35b4c8a11db8d44734d12ad54')\">william [dot] wright [at] emory [dot] edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Wright comes to Emory as a\u00a0Software Engineer II, App Development &amp; Informatics (LITS). He previously spent two years as a software engineer in the global services division of\u00a0Atmospheric &amp; Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) in Lexington, MA. Will is\u00a0from Georgetown, SC, which he described as &#8220;a small \u2018low-country\u2019 town, home of a paper mill, steel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":11233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[262,307],"class_list":["post-11133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-new-employees","tag-informatics","tag-university-it-services-and-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11133"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11246,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions\/11246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}