Creative problem-solver and junior developer. Energetic and detail-oriented full-stack junior developer transitioning from academia. Expert at identifying confusion and providing clarity. Working artist.
Brainstorm and facilitate instructional technology uses with instructors.
Research educational technologies and applications.
Supervise new interns, answer questions, lead standup once a week.
Adding to the app codebase.
Created a major feature for the app: drag and drop matching game for student study use; React, Firebase.
QA testing, troubleshooting extant code.
Participate in progress reports at bi-weekly standups.
Research, implement programming solutions, 3rd party APIs.
Communicated complex concepts to non-specialists: Designed and taught all art history courses as UMHB.
Editing and writing: edited departmental materials and colleagues' writing.
Public Speaking: presented a series of public lectures.
Education Technology: Learning Management Systems, taught use of online research databases and research techniques. Built online courses. Taugh synchronously and asynchronously thrugh Zoom and LMS.
Project management-related: Proposed, developed, and created all art history courses and two study abroad trips. Wrote grant proposals. Transitioned course material to Open Educational Resources.
Event Organization: Member of committees that arranged conference speakers, venues, publications, and gifts honoring colleagues in 2014 and 2017.
Teams and Collaboration: Served on faculty council as treasurer, 2 hiring committees, multiple university and departmental committees.
Teaching: TA'ed and taught as teacher of record. Assisted 6 professors with teaching and grading duties. Taught smaller break-out sections of courses, providing one-on-one answers to student questions and concerns.
Publications: Assisted with research, editing, acquisition of image rights, contacting volume contributors.
Research: Assisted professors with research, investigated Schengen visa law for FSU's London Study Centre.
Organization: Reorganized and streamlined digital records and databases, kept track of student passports and visa records for FSU's London Study Centre.
Graphic Design, Publicity: Created flyers, informational packets, and handouts advertising courses, trips, and events.
Answered questions and supervised small groups of 5 to 15 data entry specialists.
K-12 Art instruction
Middle school English and Social Studies instruction
High school World History instruction
Middle and high school dance instruction
Organized and chaperoned field trips
Translated material from Russian to English in connection with an exhibit co-curated by the National Portrait Gallery (Catalog of American Portraits) and State Russian Museum, which eventually went online.
Education
Epicodus
Certificate in Web and Mobile Development, 2023
Completed 27-week full-time, intensive program.
Created over 60 projects both independently and in teams.
Worked cooperatively on development teams and through pair programming to brainstorm ideas and design applications.
Florida State University
PhD, Art History, 2009-2015. Dissertation: Jesus as Exegesis: Visual Interpretation in the Moralized Bibles, circa 1225-1235.
MA, Art History, 2007-2009. Thesis: Figural and Discursive Depictions of the Other in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
"In Place of an Epilogue: 'What Else Do We See?'" in Tributes to Richard K. Emmerson: Crossing Medieval Disciplines. Edited by Deirdre Carter, Elina Gertsman, and Karlyn Griffith, 315-17. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021.
