CV
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, MS in Library and Information Science, August 2009
University of Chicago, BA/MA in Slavic Linguistics, June 2006
Henry Foss High School: International Baccalaureate Program; Tacoma WA, 1999-2002
Work experience
Technical
Coordinator, Emerging Technologies; NSIT Academic Technologies, University of Chicago, 2009-present
Communications Specialist/Workshop Findings Editor; Project Bamboo, 2008-present
New Media Consultant; NSIT Academic Technologies, University of Chicago, 2007-2009
Assistant Site Developer; NSIT Web Services, University of Chicago, 2006-2007
Research assistant; Humanities Computing, University of Chicago, 2006-2007
Computing Assistant/Multimedia Computing Assistant; USITE computing cluster, University of Chicago, 2004-2007
Web site designer and/or webmaster, Slavic Languages & Literatures and various faculty members’ home pages, 2005-2007
Technical director, various grant projects for University of Chicago faculty members (Medieval Slavic Database;Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian dictionary of aspectual pairs; digitizing Balkan and Caucasian course materials), 2004-2008
NSIT Student Advisory Committee member, 2006
ThoutReader/DotReader XML-based e-book creator, 2005-2007
Digital media
Photography published in Reuters online, Wall Street Journal blog, BBC World Service, Russian wikipedia; used in PBS program "History Detectives" and in an exhibit at the Bureau of Land Management visitor center in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada, and elsewhere.
Videographer / video editor; Ecomadera/Kallari (Ecuadorean NGOs), Korean Student Organization show, South Asian Students’ Association show; 2004
Awards
Winner, Beer and Demo Jam at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 (sponsored by Mark Logic)
Student Support Award, Balisage: The Markup Conference, 2009
University of Chicago Honor Scholarship (full undergraduate tuition), 2002-2006
4th Year Winner, T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting, 2006
Dean’s List, 2002-2006
Solomon-Manaster Scholarship, 2002
Nora Holdsworth Scholarship (tuition for the Summer Russian Program at University of Washington), 2002
Gold medal, International Olympiada of Spoken Russian; Moscow, Russia, 2001
Talks and Presentations
AAASS 2009, “Old Church Slavonic dictionaries: two approaches to data models and standards”
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009, poster and impromptu talk, “Visualizing Bulgarian Dialect Data”
NITLE summit 2009, poster and Three Minutes of Fame presentation, “Project Bamboo: Explore, Innovate, Create” [slides]
Publications
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Confessions of the University of Chicago, 2009. (ISBN 978-0-557-17205-4)
Professional Development
Virtual World Librarianship: Your Second Life, University of Illinois, May-July 2007
Slavic Digital Text Workshop, University of Illinois, June 2007
International Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture; Ohrid, Macedonia; August 2006
Ohio State University, Medieval Slavic Summer Institute, June-July 2006
St. Petersburg Centre of Language and Culture, July-August 2005; rated at Четвёртый сертификационный уровень: ТРКИ-4 (highest proficiency level)
Writing
Contributor to Teleread e-book blog, 2005-2006
Teaching
Lecturer, independent 1st year Russian course, 2006-2007
Lecturer, 1st year Russian, fall 2006
Drill instructor, 4th year Russian, fall 2006
Languages
English (native), Russian (fluent), Spanish (advanced), Macedonian (intermediate), Hindi (basic), Japanese
(basic)
Reading knowledge of French, German, Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
