Education - Library Experience - Other Work Experience - Publications - Professional Activities - Other Activities

Education:

Masters Degree: MS in Instructional Design
From: East Carolina University
Started: 8/2009

Masters Degree: MS in Library and Information Science
From: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
GPA: 3.75
Received: 5/2005

Web Services Librarian
Head of Web Development Team
East Carolina University in Greenville, NC
2/2009-present

* Provide vision and leadership in designing, developing and supporting the Library's virtual presence, including an increasing number of web-based services

* Lead, supervise, and direct the Web Development Team

* Collaborate effectively with librarians and staff to design and offer innovative digital library services to our community

* Coordinate the creation of web resources through effective interface design, sound information architecture, usability and accessibility assessment techniques, and implementation of best practices and standards

* Investigate, incorporate and deploy innovative technologies in library services

* Participate in research and service in accordance to the University's policy for tenure and promotion

Assistant University Librarian

Coordinator of Assessment and Planning

Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL

2/2006-2/2009

* Redesigned the websites for the: communications department, digital library and its special collections, and a large portion of the reference department (HTML)

* Social Tools: Researched, created a proposal, and implemented the addition of 3 tools to improve communication and public services at the library: Meebo, subject guide wiki, and blog

* Trained as the 'back up' manager for the Digital Library

* Chair of the Strategic Plan Task Force. Conducted educational workshops, advised committee members to rewrite the Mission, Vision, and Values Statements for the Libraries and the new Strategic Plan

* Adviser of all assessment studies. Co-chaired 2 Web Usability studies which influenced the redesign of public services web pages and the addition of portals (in progress), chaired the LibQUAL+ user satisfaction study

* Collection development liaison to the Science departments for one year (50,000 budget)

* Participated in reference desk and online reference (email and chat) duties

* Created research guides and class specific web pages HTML)

* Instructor of bibliographic sessions, workshops, and classes to students and library staff

Graduate Assistant

Chemistry Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1/2004-8/2005

Responsibilities:  I complied statistics for the library’s electronic journals, researched for Illinois Interlibrary Loan usage, revised the Sci-finder and e-EROS tutorials, scanned and uploaded class electronic reserves, supervised 1-2 students during each shift, checked in new journals, provided reference assistance.

Graduate Assistant

Geology Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1/2004-8/2005

Responsibilities:  I evaluated the collection to select books to be moved to the new remote storage facility, created the layout for a “Proceedings” compiled and edited by the head librarian, complied usage statistics on e-journals, created a bibliography titled “Water in the West” for a geology field trip, created a study on the image quality of PDF documents from Elsevier electronic journals, provided reference assistance.

Other Work Experience:
 

Book Seller

Pages for all Ages, Savoy, Il

11/2005-1/2006:

Responsibilities: Providing quality customer service as a cashier at a locally owned bookstore. 

Researcher and Framer

International Galleries, Urbana, IL

3/2003-1/2004:

Responsibilities:  Researched different cultural and religious items and created educational flyers and information cards about the cultural significance of the merchandise, learned about conservation framing.  Provided quality customer service, ordered merchandise, inventoried new items, answered phones, ran cash register. 

Producer’s Assistant/Intern

Ventana Production, Washington, D.C.

8/2002-11/2002:

Responsibilities:  Set-up shoots, stood-in for talent, logged tape, ran errands, script supervision worked on shows for MTV, Discovery, and other TV spots/stand-ups.

Video Documentation Intern

Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C.

6/2002-7/2002:    

Responsibilities:  Shot video prior to and during the festival, ran sound, took notes for logging, logged tape, and helped in editing video.

Professional Activities:
 

Service

Associations:

• ACM Special interest group on computer human interaction, 2009-now, International
• Usability Professional's Association, 2009-now, International
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2007-now, International
• Library and Information Technology Association, 2007-now, National
• American Library Association, 2006-now, National
• Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2006-2009, International (Inactive)
• Visual Resources Association, 2005-2009, International (Inactive)

Blogging:

Technolust and Loathing Blog (Dec 2008-present)

--Discovery Tool Task Force (2010-present)

--Staff Development Committee (2010-present)

--AD of Technology and Digital Intiatives Candidate Search (2010-present)

--Library Website Liaisons Group (2009-present)

--Directors Council (2009-present)

--Library Assembly (2009-present)

--Digital Preservation Task Force (2009-2010)

--Science Reference Librarian Candidate Search (2009-2010)

--Symphony Task Force (2009-2010)

Library Committee Involvement at FAU, 2006-2009:

--Emerging Technologies Interest Group (through LITA) Vice Chair July 2009-June 2010

--NMRT Professional Development Grant (through ALA)

• Editor and writer for the column the “Digital Scene and Heard” (6 issues a year) for 3 years
  

• Organized 2007 session called “From Fair Use to Fair Trading: Creating a Digital matchmaking Commons”
  

• Organized 2008 special interest’s group as a follow up to Digital Matchmaking Commons session
  

• Created and monitored a new listserv concerning the possibility of an image matchmaking commons
  

• Coordinator of a multi-discipline, multi-organizational collaboration group that is exploring the possibility of an image commons
  

• This group have developed the scope of the project from 2007-2008, will research how to create such a project 2008-2009 and will create a proposal for grants in 2009

Volunteer Work:

--United Way representative, 2 campaigns at FAU

--AHA representative, 1 yr at FAU

--Mentor for “Women in Leadership Living/Learning Community Mentor Program”, 1 yr at FAU

Other Activities:

• Accepted into the Global Alliance of Artists http://www.globalallianceartist.org, a non-profit organization that believes you can use creativity to promote awareness of social issues


• Created two informative CD-ROMs. One for the Spurlock World Heritage Museum in Urbana, Illinois which teaches children different cultures by exploring games that comes from that culture.  The other is a piece documenting the Capital Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) from Washington, D.C.


• Monitor emerging technologies in order to test, evaluate and present the technologies to the library for possible usage