I seek out the big picture and the minority language user. I have a passion for eradicating technical, social, and legal barriers to sustainable self-managed cultural identity.
Graduate Certificate in Information Agency Management, (2024)
University of North Texas
M.A. in Linguistics, 2021
University of North Dakota
B.A. in German, 2007
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Selected Publications
When conducting fieldwork on tone languages, the linguist choosing to use the IPA to make phonetic transcriptions of tone is presented with a challenge: Current methods of tone transcription in the IPA require a degree of phonological analysis before they can be applied and when applied they do not adequately display pitch distinctions relative to other pitches. I describe this challenge and the bar method as a proposed solution. The bar method visually presents F0 distinctions relative to other F0 expressions without ties to segments. I hope this solution facilitates the discussion of phonetic tone transcription without regard to phonological assumptions, linguistic tradition, or geographical area of research.
A chapter on designing keyboard layouts for tone marking languages following design principles of Dieter Rams.
The (inter)dental approximant is a little-studied speech sound in the Philippines and Western Australia. In this paper, we document the articulation of the sound, providing acoustic and video data from Kagayanen and Limos Kalinga, respectively. The sound is attested in at least fifteen languages. It is contrastive in five Western Australian languages, while in the Philippines it generally patterns as an allophone of /l/ but has emerged recently as a separate phoneme due to contact. It arose independently in the two regions. The sound is easily describable in terms of values of phonological features or phonetic parameters. All of these factors argue for the inclusion of the sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Corporate & Personal projects
ICHL workshop surfacing design patterns in historical linguistic datasets.
ICHL workshop on comparative forms and uses of the associative construction in sub-saharan languages.
Archival curriculum developement for graduate level instruction on language archives.
A Haverford Classics Project Supporting Language Learning.
An entrepreneurial experiment making bespoke culinary wood boards.
A Royal Protocol project to use schema.org vocabulary to provide a description context to NFT assets.
A detailed look at information structure and technology issues in the OLAC community.
A research undertaking at the U of O to look at privacy policy within the United States and gaps in the framework as it is experienced in Oregon.
A software oriented collaboration improving the ease of scholarly publication in linguistics.
We edited a special collection at the Journal of Open Humanities Data which addressed the issue of Language Documentation Collections: Assessment and Recognition.
An essential resource for anyone doing research in Kainji langauge speaking areas.
A project collecting Narratives and wordlists from the various lects of the u̱t‑Maꞌin language.
Taking an interdiciplanary look at science and language.
Strategy, technology, and user interaction consultation about RefLex.
Discussing the business maturity of an ongoing business idea and a business in operation is a frequent task of IDX. This canvas was designed to facilitate that conversation.
An essential resource for anyone doing research in Dan langauge speaking areas.
Working within SIL’s Ideation and Experimentation incubator to produce a product which gives real time language use and valuation metrics derived from a graph based architecture of known relationships.
A collaboration with Becky Paterson to organize the various layers of U̠t-Ma’in linguistic data into a shareable resource.
Clarifying what ‘rights holders’ actually have to hold, and what ‘uses’ of language are provided for and protected under law and practice.
A Github collaboration to index open source software for minority or low resource languages.
We use the Business Model Canvas to develop the business case for various SIL service offerings.
Strategy and technology consultation with SIL staff to develop interdepartmental communications strategy.
How much work is it to type languages with tonal markers in their orthographies?
Worked with a team to bring modern features via Drupal 7 to the flagship website of SIL International.
This project creates DCMI application profile using LRMI, DC, OLAC, and proprietary SIL metadata schemas.
Revolutionizing text input. We moved text input from being on a single OS via a non-unicode input method, to working on multiple OSes in Unicode.
SIL Americas Area project to digitize analogue audio mediums.
SIL Americas Area project to digitize photos documenting the people and the work of SIL in the Americas.
SIL Americas Area project to digitize for electronic distribution many of its indigenous language resources in print mediums.
This project seeks to make known issues in Language Resource Accessibility. It is primarily concerned with two facets of accessibility 1) the User Experience related to interacting with archived content; and 2) the aggregation of item level metadata about language resources in collections.
This project seeks to visually display patterns about languages as those visualizations relate to cartography.
A collaboration with an experienced linguist. I contributed extensive metadata and technical audio-visual expertise a team of people from the USA and Meꞌphaa speakers.
An investigation and description of a rare and socially stigmatized speech sound where the tongue protrudes out of the mouth.
Jots, Bibliographies, Research Notes, Language Data Notes, Professional Notes & Professional Development Notes
Teaching Assistant University of North Dakota
Personal Trainer Apple, Inc.
Classroom instructor It’s a Small World
Classroom Teacher Junior Achievement
ESL Classroom Assistant International Institute, St. Louis, Missouri
Highlights from my most recent employment history.
The research project was administered by the University of North Texas, College of Information and funded by IMLS: RE-254860-OLS-23. The project Community Memory and Language: Archiving and Curation Training created and tested curriculum for curators of archival language collections:
The fellowship was administered by the Drexel University Metadata Research Center. I embedded within the Haverford College, Digital Humanities Department where we:
Within the context Open Access publishing:
At the University of North Texas:
Within the context of a technology startup:
Within the context of grant funded research at the School of Journalism:
Within the context of grant supported work on RefLex:
Within the context of the public election cycle prior to November Elections:
Within the context of IDX Innovation’s mission:
Within the context of SIL’s Training mission:
Within the context of SIL America Area Administration’s mission:
Within the context of SIL America Area Administration’s mission:
Within the context of nonprofit operations:
Working at Apple retail stores I:
Working as SIL-UND staff I:
Professional Affiliations & Technical Workgroups — past & present
Non-Government Organization
Linguistic
Audio Archiving
Educational Metadata
Internet & Language Metadata
Family & Social fit
Marital Status
StrengthsFinder Themes
Visual Aural Read/Write Kinesthetic Learning Style
Myers-Briggs Personality Type
I usually vacillate between ‘E’ and ‘I’. Usually this means that the NT archetype is much stronger than the single value for ‘E/I’.
Learning a language is almost as easy as forgetting a language. All skills ebb and flow with fluency in various seasons of life.
Microphones:
Dynamic,
Cardioid, Hypercardioid,
Shotgun,
Audio Boundary Microphones
Media Carriers:
Reel to Reel Tape,
Cassette Tape,
CD,
Microcassette,
MiniDisc, Solid State Drives, DVD, VHS
Live & Studio Sound: Mixers (Behringer),
Monitor and Speaker balancing
Photography, Lightroom, Canon Cameras.
schema.org, Dublin Core, Open Languages Archive Community (OLAC), Learning Resource Metadata Innovation (LRMI), VRA Core, MODS, OAI-PMH, JSON+LD, XML.
Operating systems: Linux —
Ubuntu and
Wasta, OS X/MacOS 10.6-10.12
Website hosting:
WordPess,
Drupal,
Hugo,
MediaWiki
Authorship & Scholarship: LaTeX,
Overleaf,
XLingPaper,
Endnote,
Zotero, Markdown, Google Apps
Marketing:
MailChimp.
Coding:
VS Code, Github, HTML,
Bash
Other:
Omnigraffle,
Confluence,
FLEx (Linguistic Lexical Data Managment).
Lesser experience with: ELAN, Praat, Audacity, WeSay, SayMore, Bloom, CSS, Python, MySQL, XML, Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Pro Tools, FinalCut Pro.
Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne
Woodworking, Canvas (Painting, Melted Crayons), Sketching