Lance Garrison Email & Phone Number

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Acted as Data Curation Lead for over a dozen socioeconomic data domains within Wolfram|Alpha.-Vetted data sets with tens of thousands of entities to ensure data consistency and fidelity.-Ongoing management in assigned domains. Responsible for resolving bugs and integrating new entities.-Responsible for data entity spellings (natural language processing) in these domains and others.Promoted to two-person data entity disambiguation team.-Processed and ordered hundreds of new entities per week.-Diagnosed and resolved show-stopping disambiguation bugs to preserve a weekly development schedule. Frequently pushed fixes to live site and partner platforms (Siri, Alexa, Microsoft Excel).Managed WordData (dictionary functions) and SourceData (external citations) repositories, acting as administrator and quality assurance lead.-Sole responsibility for authorship of new definitions and citations.Contributed to Amazon Alexa integration and improvement project. Inputs provided over a one-month period demonstrated usefulness of Wolfram|Alpha as a data source for voice assistant services and contributed to a major contract partnership.Wrote AI demonstration functions for partnership with ChatGPT. Tracked current events for notable deaths and leadership changes. Pushed updates to the live site as needed.

Greater Chicago Area

Conducted intensive and impromptu one-on-one help sessions for patrons with a varied degree of technological knowledge. Session topics ranged from computer basics like USB drive usage to advanced topics like CPL subscription database search techniques. Developed and led technology and job search information literacy classes. Improved attendance through marketing materials and community outreach.Assisted reference services librarian on Internet and technology related queries.

Greater Chicago Area

Assigned metadata and added pre-digitized items to local DSpace Institutional Repository (share.iit.edu). Modified item bitstreams to remove outdated files and restrict or expand item access.Collected COUNTER usage statistics from vendor websites, standardized and integrated COUNTER statics into local collection analysis system via phpMyAdmin interface.Performed in-class information literacy instruction covering essential search strategies with a focus on patent searching.Contributed to monograph collection development by assigning donation funds.Answered reference questions digitally and in-person during weekly reference desk shifts.

Greater Chicago Area

Developed and produced weekly opinion and news articles in collaboration with editorial staff.Formatted articles and media to meet site presentation standards via Drupal content management platform.Marketed and promoted articles in a Web 2.0 environment through Digg, Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook.

Masters, Library And Information Science

Ba, History