Joe Eckert Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Program management, student advising, event planning, curricular scheduling & development, orientation and onboarding, admissions, technology liason and support for iSchool student services.
• Developing a weekly webinar series to offer orientation in a "flipped classroom" format to account for COVID-19 restrictions.
• Directing a team of 12 colleagues and 10 student volunteers in planning and execution of annual departmental graduation for 1,600 students and guests. This includes reimagining Convocation in an online format to.
• Cultivating an community of online and residential students through technological innovations including the use of Microsoft Teams as both a social and academic support.
• Co-developing the Student Data Privacy guidelines for UW Advisors through work with the Online Advising Working Group
• Leading a team of 1 faculty and 6 students in writing and developing a 40-page chapter in a 250-page long accreditation document submitted to the American Libraries Association.

Seattle, WA

• Academic Advisor for the Master of Library and Information Science program at the University of Washington, Seattle.
• Providing advising to 350 students across their time in the program, including orientation, degree planning, capstone, internships, professional development, tracking academics to future career goals and graduation.
• Leading the orientation and on-boarding of 150 students annually over a 3 day event, including faculty and student panels, student receptions,
• Directing a team of 12 colleagues and 10 student volunteers in planning and execution of annual departmental graduation for 1,500 students and guests.
• Developed a series of six "pre-orientation" live webinars to 150 incoming students in a flipped classroom format, preemptively reducing prospective student inquiries.
• Working as a member of the Graduate & Professional Academic Advisors' Executive Board to contribute to shaping University policy for graduate students.

Seattle, WA

• Managed a caseload of 565 students undecided in their major, including recently admitted transfer students.
• Multi-modal engagement with students: "drop in" 10 minute sessions, 30 minute long one-on-one sessions, individual and list-based e-mail messaging, phone conversations, and via online chat application.
• Using EARS, DARS, and the SDB for information retrieval as well as interactive course-planning and decision-making tools during live advising sessions
• Led students through Admissions & Orientation activities and advising sessions.
• Presented a case study workshop to 15 Undergraduate Academic Advising staff to evaluate and exchange methods for engaging with the population of students rejected from capacity constrained majors.
• Developed educational materials for advisers and students to aid the growing population of students unable to pursue capacity constrained majors related to technology.

Seattle, WA

• Collaboratively developed education pathways with undergraduates to enable graduation and other scholastic success.
• Lead advisor and technical support for Plenum, an undergraduate research publication in UW's Department of Geography
• Data access and analysis using EARS, DARS, SDB, and EDW for information retrieval related to student and departmental goals.
• Advising students on future pathways through graduate school and other professional development programs
• Handling phone and e-mail requests for assistance with professionalism and a cheerful demeanor.
• Management of the undergraduate listservs, "geogu-l" and "jobs4geogs."

Seattle, WA

• Devised original curriculum for "Geography 277: Geographies of Cities."
• Coursework focused on a history of urban geography which is later tied into socio-technological developments of social media and other augmented reality software.
• Performed all lead instruction duties: teaching, research, grading, and accessible office hours.

Seattle, WA

• Founded and led project management for Social Media Lab (SoMe Lab) at the University of Washington, managing a $1 million National Science Foundation grant and $75,000 in additional funding.
• Managed inter-university collaboration on a free/open source software package for social media retrieval, storage, and analysis across three groups of stakeholders at Clemson University and the University of Washington.
• Designed durable processes to decrease meeting times by 50% and encourage faculty and researchers at the Social Media Lab to remain focused and productive.
• Produced documentation to train 30 researchers in the use of Social Media Lab software, including data collection and analysis using a MongoDB backend.
• Organized six faculty presentations, including airfare, travel arrangements, hotel arrangements, one-on-one meetings, roundtable discussions, and the final talk.
• Produced slides and presented 10 conference papers (8 refereed) to audiences of 50-100 people.

• Providing computer consultation to students, researchers, and faculty in face-to-face, telephone, and e-mail venues.
• Supporting clients with Wordpress, MySQL, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe CS, R, and troubleshooting general computational issues.
• Developed educational workshops for ArcGIS, analysis of the American Community Survey, Zotero, and Wordpress.

Seattle, WA

• Served as a teaching assistant for a wide variety of classes: Introduction to Globalization; Introduction to Geographic Information Systems; Urban Geographic Information Systems; and GIS Workshop (a capstone.
• Led 3 classes of 40 students in teams of 5 to produce needs assessments and workflows for collaborative community mapping projects.

Arcata, CA

• Used ArcGIS to produce spatial analysis, interative participatory mapping, geospatial and statistical visualizations
• Produced policy recommendations on pesticide drift stemming from research