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Lincoln, Ne, Us

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

For over twenty years RRCHNM has been creating award-winning websites and open-source digital tools to preserve and present the past, transform scholarship across the humanities, advance history education and historical understanding, and encourage popular participation in the practice of history.• Full-stack web developer handling multiple ongoing new and legacy projects.• Member of the Senior Staff of RRCHNM to aid big picture efforts on grants, hiring, projects, and initiatives Center-wide.• Core member of the center's DevOps team responsible for various elements of project deployment, server monitoring, and systems administration.• Designing and building interactive web applications for historical research, public history, and education.• Creating and managing project portfolios using multiple technology and data management platforms (database administration, web programming languages, data analytics, etc.).• Developing and teaching several workshops for faculty, students, and staff to equip them with technical skills and best practices. Topics included data visualization, data analysis with R, web cartography, digital humanities tools and methods, and computer programming.

Department of History and Art History

Founding member and open project lead for Endangered Data Week, a yearly event to raise awareness to threats to publicly available data. • Help coordinate 50+ host sites across the United States and Canada through advertising, event planning, and curriculum development that ensure consistent participation. • Developed new open workshops for data visualization, data manipulation, web scraping, and reproducible research• Identified contribution pathways for new contributors and drafted user personas to understand contributor needs• Meet monthly with the remote four-person project leadership team to address issues, plan features, and brainstorm future events

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

• Designed and built interactive web applications for various data types, needs, and approaches depending on domain of research.• Strengthened and improved relationships between diverse departments within the library and across campus to optimize technology use, resulting in successful digital projects that yielded positive impacts for the organization and the university.• Created and managed project portfolios using multiple technology and data management platforms (database administration, project documentation using wiki platforms, data analytics, etc.).• Developed and taught several new workshops for faculty, students, and staff to equip them with technical skills and best practices. Topics include data visualization, data analysis with R, web cartography, digital humanities tools and methods, research design, computer programming, and data literacy. • Consulted with faculty and students on research design and appropriate digital humanities tools.• Created or maintained relationships with community partners to develop new digital projects or iterate existing ones.• Directly manage three student staff on digital projects, including oversight on metadata, archival digital objects, training on technology infrastructure, regular check-ins, and mentorship.• Wrote and managed grant applications for digital projects, including budget oversight, project management, scheduling, and documentation.• Promoted open access, open data, and open educational resources to campus audiences.• Project Director for the Mobile Community Archives project, fostering community partnerships to digitize local archives.

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

• Manage daily operation of the institutional repository (IR), including adding, editing, and maintaining appropriate content from across the university with a focus on high-priority collections • Communicate with stakeholders from across the university. • Ensure digital objects and metadata are of high quality according to relevant digital library and archival best practices. • Collect and report IR usage data. • Serve as library representative in consortium IR activities and work with counterparts at other libraries. • Supervise library staff working on IR. • Coordinate and provide training and workshops for faculty, departments, research units, and students on the IR, open access, scholarly communications, copyright, and related topics. • Serve as a library resource on copyright, fair use, and open access issues. • Collaborate with library subject specialists who serve as department liaisons to promote and market the repository and open access.

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

• Provided direction to a three-person team on developing library capacity to support research data services and management. • Developed Qualtrics surveys and focus groups to assess faculty and staff research needs for the campus and proactively captured feedback.• Established key roadmap themes and which features to include in the roadmap.• Documented resources, decisions, meetings, and other relevant content.• Worked with internal teams and stakeholders to generate ideas.• Identified ideas that aligned with library and campus strategic plans.• Created and taught new workshops and bootcamps on using R for data analysis and visualization.

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

• Lead research and instruction needs for faculty and students in History.• Coordinated assessment of patron needs for digital history support, the feasibility of existing software solutions, and capability of infrastructure to support solutions. • Worked with faculty to develop pathways for digital humanities to become a regular part of their courses, including recommending technology platforms, assessment of digital work, and regular training on various digital platforms. • Developed and facilitated workshops for students, faculty, and staff on technical skills necessary for creating digital humanities projects. • Collaborated with library staff to create and develop services that further technology use within the library and for patron research, while leveraging existing infrastructure. • Assessed new book publications and recommended book and database purchases to our library collections coordinator.• Developed and taught a regular digital history methods course for undergraduate students, which increased engagement with methods, tools, and frameworks as well as helped utilize existing (or identify new) library resources.

Stanford, Ca, Us

• Collaborated with faculty and graduate students in the History Department at Stanford University, developing and deploying innovative technological solutions in support of research, pedagogy, and publication.• Built relationships between the History Department and Stanford University Libraries, coordinated, developed, and managed digital humanities projects, ran workshops and taught classes in digital humanities• Worked with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) in areas of spatial history, GIS, databases, and digital publishingMy role also cut across various units at the university:• As a member of the History Department, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), and the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR), I helped connect people and resources together in order to achieve success in a variety of projects. • I also helped faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students gain new skills, teaching a variety of workshops and courses that included network analysis, spatial history, data preparation and analysis, text analysis, data mining, and research design.

Stanford, Ca, Us

I was a member of the Research Staff at CESTA, where I collaborated with faculty and graduate students on interactive data visualization, spatial history, crowdsourcing, data collection and analysis, project preservation, project strategy and management, served as a liaison to the Stanford University Libraries, and participated in the Center's strategic planning.

Lincoln, Ne, Us

I was tasked with managing the workflow, milestones and deadlines, and facilitating communication among our collaborators for the William F. Cody Digital Archive. I maintained our project management software and our project wiki. I also supervised undergraduate student employees and graduate student interns. My work also included outreach and evangelism to public audiences of the digital archive.

Lincoln, Ne, Us

I was tasked with providing classroom aid, prepared my own lectures, led student review sessions and discussions, communicated with students, maintained office hours to meet with students, prepared examinations, and graded assignments.

Lincoln, Ne, Us

As part of the Papers of William F. Cody project at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, I conducted original research regarding Cody's Wild West at archives. I digitized primary source material for display on the Internet through current web and encoding standards.

Lincoln, Ne, Us

I provided research and technical assistance for The Digital History Project (http://digitalhistory.unl.edu) and Railroads and the Making of Modern America (http://railroads.unl.edu). My work focused on HTML and CSS encoding, MySQL and PHP programming, XML encoding, edited essays for online posting, proofed essays, edited and maintained the Doing Digital History blog, communicated with digital scholars, video editing, and maintained the general quality of information on the site. I served as the lead database programmer for The Digital History Project in creating a directory of digital humanists.

My work included freelance web design and development with an emphasis on branding, web design, usability, and CSS / HTML / PHP development for clients including James Valley Nursery, South Dakota Nursery and Landscape Association, and POND: Participating Online In-Depth: A Digital History Lab.

I served as a landscape and irrigation laborer on crews working on residential and commercial projects. Between 2004 and 2006 I was an irrigation technician, where I independently engaged in troubleshooting and repair of sprinkler systems. I served as the irrigation foreman between 2006 and 2008 where I led a three-person crew and oversaw their training and work, taught them best practices, and maintained equipment and supplies.

Brookings, South Dakota, Us

I was tasked with providing aid with new exhibits, the storage and retrieval of exhibit items, created displays, conducted inventories, and generally completed tasks that contributed to the quality and success of the museum.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, History

Master Of Arts - Ma, History

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History