Engineer Manager

JESSE A. JOHNSTON

(Web Resume, July ****)

********@*****.***

www.jesseajohnston.net

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology, University of Michigan (2008)

Master of Science in Information, University of Michigan (2012)

Certificate in Czech Language and Slavic Studies, Masaryk University (2003)

Bachelor of Music Performance, summa cum laude, University of Michigan (2002)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Bowling Green State University (Ohio), Instructor of Ethnomusicology (2009 2010)

Taught undergraduate courses in world cultures, music of Indonesia, and music of Africa.

University of Michigan at Dearborn, Lecturer I in Music History (2008 2009)

Taught undergraduate courses in world music, music appreciation, and jazz history.

Fulbright Fellow, Czech Republic, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ethnology Institute (2005 2006)

Designed and implemented an independent doctoral research program.

Researched history and present activity of cimbalom music and musicians in South Moravia.

University of Michigan, Department of Musicology, Graduate Student Instructor (2003 2005)

Taught discussion sections and graded an undergraduate course in music appreciation.

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES EXPERIENCE

Library Assistant (Audio Digitization), Professor Kelly Askew, Department of Afroamerican and

African Studies, University of Michigan (June 2011 present)

Planned and implemented a digitization plan for a collection of ~500 compact cassettes

collected during fieldwork in Tanzania.

Designed metadata schema and collected metadata for digital audio files and physical tapes.

Created a digital preservation plan, digitization workflows, assessed items for prioritization

in digitization sequence, collected metadata, and coordinated design of a PHP/SQL database.

Intern, MATRIX Center for Humane Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences (spring 2011)

Researched metadata standards for digital video formats and best practices.

Assisted in drafting a digital preservation plan for moving images in the American Black

Journal television digitization project, a public television program from Detroit, MI.

Interlochen Center for the Arts, Music Librarian, High School Symphonic Bands (Summer 2000)

Prepared, distributed, maintained, and collected music weekly for two symphonic bands and

a brass choir.

Provided additional music and scores as needed for conductors, faculty, and observers.

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

University of Michigan Bands, Personnel Manager (1998 2002)

Proactive decision maker and planner for concerts, including staff coordination (stage

managers, crew, and ushers); musician and equipment transportation; printed programs.

Selection and recruiting of ensembles for University Commencement Activities, including

payment and transportation of musicians and staff, distribution of $14,000 budget.

Created and maintained a computer database for all personnel using FileMaker.

University of Michigan School of Music, Coordinator of Printed Programs (2002 2003)

Responsible for proofreading, printing, and delivering the printed programs for over three-

hundred concerts sponsored by the School.

Formatted and processed information using Microsoft Word and PageMaker.

Collected old programs for archiving and filing.

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RADIO

WCBN FM Ann Arbor, Music DJ, Producer, and Engineer (2007 2008)

Co-produced and co-hosted a weekly program of Central and East European music in 2007.

Saved and archived raw audio files for each show as engineer for a weekly talk program.

Answered telephones and entered data for yearly fundraisers.

CONSULTING AND PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Consultant (for course project in SI 501), General Motors User Experience Team (2010)

Member of team conducting an information management assessment.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS*

Unmelted : Tracing Musical Instruments and Assimilation in Czech-American Texas. (Published in

Czech.) N rodopisn revue 21 (2011): 32 41.

Major revision of Ethnic American Music: Czech- and Slovak-American article in the Grove

Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (forthcoming).

The Cimb l (Cimbalom) and Folk Music in Moravian Slovakia and Valachia. Journal of the American

Musical Instrument Society 36 (2010): 78 117.

Local Sounds? Fieldwork, YouTube, and the Romanian Cimbalom in Moravian Slovakia. In Czech

and Slovak Culture in International and Global Context, ed. Miloslav Rech gl et al. ( esk

Bud jovice: University of South Bohemia, 2008), 135 141.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS*

Panelist, Evaluating the Success of Digital Audiovisual Preservation Projects in Libraries. Panel at

QuasiCon 2012: The Future of Libraries, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 2012.

Preserving the American Black Journal at MATRIX: Developing a Long-Term Strategy to Preserve

and Access Online Digital Video. Research poster, Annual Meeting of the Society of

American Archivists, Chicago, Illinois, August 2011.

Ideologies of Music and Postsocialist Possibilities in South Moravia. International Council for

Traditional Music, St. John s, Newfoundland, July 2011. (Panel organizer.)

Performance as Archives in Southeast Asia: An Ethnomusicological Perspective. Association for

Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 2011.

Sound Terrains: Soundscape, Place, and Nature in South Moravia. Meeting of the Society for

Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, California, November 2010.

Radio Brno, the Brn nsk kr ek (Brno Circle) and Folk Creativity in Moravia. Czech and Slovak

Music and Related Arts conference, Grand Valley State University, April 2010.

Instilling True American Spirit ? Music at the Culion Leprosarium [Philippines]. Annual Meeting

of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2009.

The Traditional and the Global: Understanding World Music in Moravia. World Conference of the

International Council for Traditional Music, Durban, South Africa, July 2009.

Prameny / Sources: Making World Music Local in Moravia. Annual Meeting of the Society for

Ethnomusicology, Middletown, Connecticut, October 2008.

People s Music and Modernism: Leo Jan ek and Folkloric Performance. American Association

for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2007.

LANGUAGES COMPUTER FLUENCY

English (native speaker) HTML, CSS, Python, Django

Czech (fluent) jQuery, PHP, SQL, Wordpress, Drupal

German (intermediate, basic speaking) Peak, Audacity

Filipino/Tagalog (intermediate)

Spanish (basic)

REFERENCES

Current reference letters on file at the University of Michigan Career Center.

Names and contact details for references available upon request.

*Complete listings of publications, conference publications, and other scholarly activity is available upon request.

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