OBJECTIVE

To provide consultant services-- preferably by 'telecommuting' via e-mail and Internet-- in natural language processing, information retrieval, and other fields that incorporate linguistic theory into specific computational applications.

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT

Linguistic Researcher, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, California. August 2000 - June 2003. Assisted in the development of a computational formalism, "Embodied Construction Grammar", for the description and analysis of conceptual and linguistic structure. My work focused on the syntactic and semantic representation of core grammatical structures in English and German, especially argument-structure constructions and auxiliary verbs.

Web Designer and Manager, Linguistic Enterprises. September - December 2002. Re-designed and maintained the website of Linguistic Enterprises, a project of the Linguistic Society of America dedicated to helping academically-trained linguists find employment outside of academia. Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/enter/

Metaphor & Analogy Consultant, goggleworks.com, San Francisco CA. October 2000 - March 2001. Performed analysis of metaphors and analogies for basic science concepts, in support of the development of educational software for middle- and high-school students. General consulting and advice in the field of metaphor theory.

Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley. August 2000 - May 2001.

Linguistic Researcher, SRI International, Menlo Park CA. July - August 2000. Investigated the use of metaphor and analogy in the understanding of scientific concepts.

Linguistic Consultant, e-lingo Corporation, San Mateo CA. January - May 2000. Evaluated machine-translation software (English-German and German-English).

Research Assistant, Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) project, University of California, Berkeley. October 1999 - April 2000.

Software Developer, RIT Research Corporation, Rochester NY. February - July 1999. Developed database, GUI, and other applications in Visual Basic and Visual C++.

Programmer, FoneFriend Systems Inc., New Paltz NY. November 1997 - July 1998. Developed UNIX-based server applications (in C++) in support of an Internet telephony product; UNIX / X-Windows applications (with GUI) for testing these servers; and other software.

Research Assistant / Programmer, New Paltz Interprocedural Compiler (NPIC) project, State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. October 1997 - July 1998. Assisted in the development of an experimental interprocedural optimizing compiler.

EDUCATION

Master of Arts degree, Linguistics; University of California at Berkeley, May 2002.

Bachelor of Arts degree (magna cum laude & "With Honors"), Linguistics; State University of New York at Buffalo, June 1998.

Bachelor of Arts degree (magna cum laude), Computer Science; State University of New York at Buffalo, June 1998.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Familiar with basic HTML, and with the Macromedia suite of web authoring tools (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks).

Three years professional and personal experience programming in C++ and Perl; one year experience in Visual Basic.

Familiar and comfortable with Windows (PC), Macintosh, and UNIX operating system environments.

LANGUAGES

Fluent in German (speaking, reading, writing).

Intermediate reading knowledge of French and Czech; working to improve in these languages.

Beginning knowledge of Spanish, working to improve.