The fellowship was administerd by the Drexel University Metadata Research Center. I embedded with the Haverford College, Digital Humanities Department where we:

• Built cool language learning tools
• Used RDF data structures
• Worked with the Greek language

Within the context Open Access publishing:

• Conduct an enviormental scan of SASS services platforms related to open access publishing
• Implimentation options for digital libraries and repository software

At the University of North Texas:

• Research metadata schemas used in OAI-PMH networks
• Publish findings
• Research language identification in metadata records via information extraction and classification

Within the context of a technology startup:

• NFT Asset Description
• Legal Policy Summary
• Organizational Development
• Provided project based input related to competing products and services, along with technology choice comparisons
• Interview candidates for new positions
• Completed weekly research reports at the behest of HR Director, COO, CXO, and CEO

Within the context of grant funded research at the School of Journalism:

• Personal Data Protection Policy Research
• Annotate legal texts from California, Colorado, Virgina, Utah, and the European Union
• Interview industry leaders and legal experts

Within the context of grant supported work on RefLex:

• Visualization continuity
• Complex search design
• User Interface simplification
• Typography
• Menu structure
• Final report

Within the context of the public election cycle prior to November Elections:

• Met all requirements for lawful candidacy.
• Ran campaign to advocate land use change and open govenance (especially operations data).
• Competed and debated in a three-candidate race.
• Received 10% of all votes cast. Final vote split: 10/11/78
• Archived Website.

Within the context of IDX Innovation’s mission:

• Identify opportunities to create customers.
• Describe, plan, and report on innovation projects.
• Evaluated existing corporate projects for growth potential.
• Identified data sources for business intelligence.
• Directed data scientist operations in the development of queryable business intelligence systems for asymmetrical data.
• Advise the Chief Innovation Development Officer.

Within the context of SIL’s Training mission:

• Worked with a team to bring language documentation and linguistic content to the web in a user friendly manner with current web technologies.
• Acted as a business consultant to organizational units in SIL International to bring their services to the web.
• Was a member of the SIL Corporate Intellectual Property Policy Team.
• Analyzed and evaluated contracts and memoranda of understanding (MOUs)
• Major areas of participation included: Information Architecture, Planning, Business Analysis, User Experience Analysis, Communication Strategy Development and implementation.

Within the context of SIL America Area Administration’s mission:

• Performed the duites of site manager for the SIL Americas Area Archival Digitization Program.
• Recruited, led, and supervised 12-15 people across three teams.
• Consulted industry standards for best practices related to audio and video archiving.
• Established archival quality digitization procedures for language documentation and minority language education materials.
• Collaborated with SIL’s Language & Culture Archive to establish metadata schemas for audio and video materials, both for discovery and processing of materials through digitization work flows.
• Managed several teams digitizing various carriers of language documentation and cultural artifacts: Photos, Books, Audio.

Within the context of SIL America Area Administration’s mission:

• Worked with SIL staff in México doing language documentation
• Established project metadata tracking and file organization procedures for multi-researcher language documentation project.
• Made project specific technology recommendations for language documentation and language development use cases.

Within the context of nonprofit operations:

• Developed leads generating over $600,000 in revenue.
• Managed a donor-based revenue goal of $40,000 per year.
• Created and manage budgets with restricted and unrestricted funds.
• Logistics planning and support.
• Presented the organization’s mission and cause to donors.

Working at Apple retail stores I:

• Developed complete solutions based on customers’ specific needs.
• Provided one-on-one training to customers on Apple products.
• Created brand advocates by providing an amazing, personalized shopping experience to each and every customer.

Working as SIL-UND staff I:

• Set up and mothballed network hardware for summer program.
• Managed FTP server.
• Managed network users and guest devices, integrating with existing University network infrastructure.
• Persisted educational data as required.
• Advised the director on technology changes and new opportunists for integrating with UND technology services.
• Oversaw student workers and managed project goals and tasks for student workers.