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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MS:

LIS, December 2007

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BA:

English, 2005Current Position

E-Learning Librarian,

Washington University

Saint Louis, Missouri 2011-present

Lead collaborative efforts to explore, identify, assess, implement and provide training for emerging technologies. Manage the space and staff at the Arc: Technology Center at Olin Library. Previous Positions

Librarian for Literary Studies

and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, New York University

New York, New York 2008-2011

Subject specialist for the departments of English and Comparative Literature. Collection development in English and Comparative Literature. Reference and instruction for the Social Sciences and Humanities Reference Center. Consultant for integration of emerging software into humanities research and instruction.

Research Assistant, ECHO DEPository/NDIIPP

Urbana-Champaign, IL 2007

Maintained digital depository software in a GNU/Linux environment, supporting research in semantic archiving. Projects included the testing of a

service that makes inferences from metadata stored in Fedora Commons, through an extension of the NCSA project, .

Graduate Assistant, UIUC Main Library

Urbana-Champaign, IL 2006-2007

Supervised staff and student assistants at Central Circulation; monitored work flow and assigned tasks; trained new employees; assisted patrons.Presentations Digital Humanities: Libraries and Repositories,

University at Buffalo, March 26, 2010 Over The Fence: Overcoming Resistance to Digital Humanities American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Part of ACRL: LES panel discussion, Open Access Digital Initiatives in the Humanities: Creation, Dissemination, Preservation, July 11, 2009 Professional Affiliations and Service

ALA: ACRL - LES section 2008-2011: Ex-Officio Member of Executive Committee. Co-chair of Reference Discussion Group. Member of Virtual Participation Task Force.

Association for Computers and the Humanities 2008-2011: Member

ALA: ACRL - Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 2009-2011: Member

ALA: ACRL - LITA 2008-2009:

Member

ALA Student Chapter, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2006: Member of Fundraising CommitteeSkills

Operating Systems: Mac OS X, GNU/Linux (Debian/Fedora), Windows 7

Formal Languages: XML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL, UML, Python and familiarity with Java, Perl, Prolog.

Applications: Drupal, OmniPlan, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Microsoft Office, Vim, jEdit, and familiarity with Emacs

Natural Languages: Reading comprehension in Spanish. Completion of 19 credits towards MA in English from New York University.Portfolio

Python: XML extractor

A semester project which addresses "the theory, practice, and adoption of the ODF standard, and an exploration of what OpenOffice.org Writer does when saving a word processing document. OpenDocument 1.1 will be examined as an step toward the preservation of intended meaning and formatting of documents. Included is a comparison of recent efforts by Microsoft and Apple to implement XML in their file formats. ODF file formats will be assessed as a solution to a potential problem of data conversion and preservation."

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Python: Password Generator

A small Python program that creates a secure password with a bit of humor.

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Web Development: Citation Parser

One obstacle for wide adoption of UIUC's institutional repository, IDEALS, is the submission process. Currently, the user is responsible for entering required submission information. One step in addressing the amount of work assigned to the submitter is the development of a modular citation parser for IDEALS. The main deliverable is a documented module that eases the workload of the user. The module uses the JavaScript library, Prototype, and a Perl module, Biblio-Citation-Parser-1.10 to perform AJAX auto-fill functions.

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Technical Writing: Semantic Archiving

Overview and documentation of semantic archiving

research performed by David Dubin at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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