Assistant to the Dean, 2004-2006
School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

• Responsible for course and faculty scheduling, advising, and program development

Director of Rhetoric and Writing, 2005-2006
School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

• Administered and managed program offering multiple sections of Rhetoric 1302 (Argumentative Essay)
• Supervised twenty graduate teaching assistants
• Oversaw professionalization of graduate students
• Taught graduate practicum courses; mentored graduate students

Assistant Director of Rhetoric and Writing, 2002-2005
School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

• Developed training materials and resources for Teaching Assistants
• Acted as a liaison to the University Library
• Conducted in-class evaluations of Teaching Assistants
• Managed Teaching Assistant Office
• Assisted textbook review decisions
• Conducted workshops and training sessions
• Participated in Writing Instruction Task Force

Steering Committee, Emerging Communication Arts Program, 2004-2005
School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas

• Designed new communication program focusing on emerging forms of electronic communications

Director, University Writing Center, 1996-1997
Department of Language and Communication
Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA

• Responsible for daily administrative duties as well as long-range planning
• Provided resources for writers of all levels and from all disciplines
• Trained/mentored Graduate Teaching Assistants

Director, Media Services, 1985-1987
Eastern Montana College, Billings, MT

• Administered University Library media services program to support undergraduate and graduate education and research

Conference Co-Chair, May 2008
Electronic Literature Organization "Visionary Landscapes" Conference and Media Arts Show
Vancouver, WA

• Coordinated conference registration and materials production
• Built and maintained conference web site
• Co-curated three media art shows

Moderator/Discussion Leader, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1998, 1997
Research Network Forum
Conference of College Composition and Communication

Moderator/Discussion leader, 2001
Graduate Research Network, Computers and Writing Conference
Muncie, IN

Proposal Review, 1997-1999
Computers and Writing Conference Proposal Review Committee

Conference Co-Chair, 2000
Computers and Writing 2000 Conference
Fort Worth, TX

• Coordinated conference details and arrangements for this international conference
• Developed and maintained conference world wide web site
• Coordinated production of conference presentation abstracts book
• Coordinated production of conference program book
• Solicited over $50,000 in funding from publishers and other organizations

Moderator, 15-30 June 1998
"Cyberliteracy Discussion Section." Rhetoric and Technology in the Next Millennium: An Asynchronous Interactive Rhetoric Computer Conference
Federation of North Texas Area Universities
Denton, TX

Coordinator, 1997
Assembly on Computers in English Studies Center
National Council of Teachers of English Conference

• Organized and scheduled over 33 presentations/demonstrations featuring over 20 individual presenters

• Board of Directors, Fort Vancouver Community Television, Vancouver, WA, January 2010-present
• Review Board, Leonardo Digital Reviews, MIT Press and International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology, 2003-present
• Computers and Community Editor, Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of English, 1997-1998
• Editorial Board, Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, 1997-2002
• Instructional Technology Committee, National Council of Teachers of English, 1997-2001
• Reviewer, CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1992-1993
• Editorial Board, The ACE Journal (The Journal of the NCTE Assembly on Computers in English)

• iDeal Reader electronic publishing, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2001-present
• Allyn & Bacon and Longman, 2001
• Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC, 1996
  • Provided curricula and pedagogical considerations for new computer augmented writing center
  • Installed computer lab and local area network
• Michigan Technological University, 1996
  • Campus Coordinator for "Research Project Regarding the Use of Computer Technology for Teaching and Learning" conducted by the Center for Computer-Assisted Language Instruction
• University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 1996
  • Developed and implemented a computer writing lab under a Title III grant
  • Facilitated workshops for faculty of English and Spanish departments about use of computers in writing lab
• Writing Program Administration, 1996
  • Invited member of focus group conducted by Mara Holt, Director of Composition, Department of English, and Leon Anderson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University

• Electronic Literature Organization
• International Digital Media Arts Association
• Society for Science, Literature, and Art
• Computers and Writing
• Conference on College Composition and Communication

Short Fiction Judge, 1997
Southern Literary Festival, Mississippi State University

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• At Home At School
  • Volunteer advisor, website construction, Summer 2008
• Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Washington
  • Volunteer advisor, web site construction, January-May 2009
  • Volunteer advisor, information video, January-May 2009
• City of Vancouver, City Manager's Office
  • Volunteer advisor, translation of City website into German and other foreign languages, August-December 2007
• Clark County Administration
  • Volunteer advisor, Local Revitalization $12.5 million funded grant, September 2009
• Clark County Public Utilities Stream Stewards Program
  • Volunteer crew leader for tree planting and salmon stream restoration projects, September 2008-present
• Clark County Public Works
  • Presentation: "Social Networking," April 2009
• Columbia River Economic Development Council
  • Volunteer advisor, web site construction, January-May 2009
• Council of the Homeless Vancouver, Community Voice Mail
  • Volunteer advisor, informational video about voice mail message system for clients, June-July 2007
• Downtown Vancouver Merchant's Association
  • Volunteer advisor, 3-D animation of downtown Vancouver, August 2009-present
• Fort Vancouver Community Television
  • Board of Directors, January 2010-present
  • Volunteer host, Telethon 2009
  • Volunteer advisor, Community Access Media course in conjunction with WSUV, January-May 2009
  • Volunteer host, "Clark County Connects," October 2008-present
  • Volunteer production crew for remote broadcasts
• Fort Vancouver Regional Library District
  • Volunteer advisor, multimedia teaching environment for new library building, Fall 2007
• Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce
  • Presentation: "Digital Future: Today's Technologies and their Implications for the Future" 2 June 2009
• InterACT Clark County
  • Volunteer advisor, web site construction and Project Service Leadership program
• Killian-Pacific
  • Volunteer advisor, Grand Central and 101 Main projects and corporate web site, January 2008-present
• Living in Southwest Washington
  • Volunteer advisor, web site construction, January-May 2009
• Milam-Imse Consulting
  • Volunteer website construction, April 2010
• Open House Ministries
  • Volunteer advisor, web site construction, January-July 2009
• Turkey Trot Community Fundraiser Family Fun Run
  • Volunteer advisor, web site construction, June-July 2009; Volunteer registration, November 2009
• Vancouver's Downtown Association
  • Volunteer advisor, 3D animated fly-through of Main Street, September 2009-May 2010
• Vancouver Fire Department
  • Volunteer advisor, animated fire safety messages, Fall 2007
    • "The #1 Cause of Fire is Careless Smoking"
    • "Does Your Family Have an Escape Plan?
    • "Working Smoke Detectors Save Lives"
• Vancouver Mural Society
  • Volunteer advisor, web site construction, September 2009-present
• Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
  • Volunteer advisor, information video, August-December 2009
• Vida's Ark
  • Volunteer advisor, informational video production, July-August 2008

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• Mentor/Research Supervisor, September 2009-May 2010
  "CityCube: An Interactive 3D Fly-Through of Main Street, Vancouver"
  Advised and mentored two undergraduate students in the Spring 2010 DTC 476 Digital Literacies class as they developed a three dimensional, interactive, and immersive information technology for the Vancouver's Downtown Association. This project was selected for the 2010 Research Showcase in Pullman, WA, one of only four projects from the College of Liberal Arts, and for the 2010 Research Showcase in Vancovuer, WA, where it won the "Best Undergraduate Research" award.
• Mentor/Research Supervisor, August 2008-July 2009
  Fulbright Visiting Scholar Nataliya Shyplova, faculty member of the Center of American Literary Studies at Bohdan Khmelnytsky State University, Cherkaksy, Ukraine. Dr. Shyplova produced the following work:
  • Contemporary American Literature: From the Beats to Postmodernism
    A manuscript in progress for a book focusing on the transformation from the Beat literary paradigm to postmodernism, suggesting the diverse American literary continuum as the basis for the further cultural and literary vitality and development. Richard Brautigan's works are used to illustrate this evolvement via the postmodern literary polyphony, implying the interactive "chaosmos" of the diverse elements finding their way into the heterogeneous artistic universe from which such writing evolved.
  • "Richard Brautigan: The Magic of the Fragmented Word." 19th Annual Mardi Gras Conference. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2009.
    "Addresses Brautigan's literary uniqueness rooted in a fantastic variety of different cultural and literary traditions that creates a vital artistic continuum marked by energy and ceaseless movement. Brautigan's fragmented artistic world is analyzed from the perspective of the dialogue between the Beats and postmodernism.
  • "Performance Potential in Richard Brautigan's Works." 17th Annual Acacia Conference. California State University, Fullerton, CA. March 2009.
    "Addresses the strategies Richard Brautigan used in his works to create an inspiring artistic 'chaosmos' that incorporates the principle of all-inclusiveness masking the search for the illusory harmony and balance. The focus is on Brautigan's characteristic presentation of a plural vision stirring up the artistic exchange and communication."
  • "Richard Brautigan: Inspiration for Literary Diversity." Clark County Historical Museum, Vancouver, WA, October 2008.
    "Highlights Brautigan’s search for his unique writing style within the inspiring and diverse Bohemian San Francisco of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Brautigan is presented as a literary persona that, being sensitive and responsive to the paradigmatic and epistemological changes articulated via a great variety of overlapping and intermingling artistic presentations, including the Beats, Diggers, hippies, and jazz musicians, creates his individual artistic 'chaosmos'."

• Digital Technology and Culture Program Advisory Committee, 2006-present
• Service and Activities Facilities Fee Allocation Committee, April 2007-present
  • Appointed by the Chancellor
  • Committee recruits budget request submissions, holds hearings, and makes allocations of approximately $500,000
  • Provides leadership in initiating questions and evaluating responses to balance competing needs and broadly represents student preferences
• Media Board, 2008-present
  • Invited membership
  • Oversees all Services and Activity Fee funded campus media programs including student newspaper, literary journal, and radio station
  • My role: Faculty Advisor, KOUG Radio
• Digital Technology and Culture Club, Faculty Sponsor, academic year 2007-2008
• KOUG Radio, Faculty Advisor, 2009-present

• GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program)
  • Faculty Presentation, May 2007
• MOSAIC: College Awareness and Outreach Program
  • Faculty Presentation, 21 May and 13 February 2009
  • Faculty Presentation, 15 May and 29 February 2008
• PACE Academy, Center for Youth Workforce Preparation
  • Instructor, "Art with Computers," 6-10 August 2007
• Preview Day
  • Program Representative, 2 April 2010
  • Program Representative, 18 November, 17 October, and 3 April 2009
  • Program Representative, 5 November, 18 October, and 4 April 2008
  • Program Representative, 14 November, 20 October, 6 April, and 26 February 2007
• ROAR: Orientation Sessions
  • Panelist: Academic Culture and Faculty Expectations, 6 January 2010
  • Panelist: Academic Culture and Faculty Expectations, 2 September and 18-19 August 2009
• Faculty Presentations
  • Hudson's Bay High School visit, 23 January 2009
  • Centennial High School visit, 15 May 2008

• MediartZ, North Bank Artists Gallery, Vancouver, WA, 1-30 October 2009
  • Interactive media arts exhibition and events
• "An Afternoon of Digital Music, Interactive Dance, and Electronic Literature," 28 September 2007
  • Co-sponsored by the Clark College Art and Graphic Communications and Printing department and Digital Technology and Culture program
• WSUV Representative, Clark County Fair, 12 August 2007

• "Sound Editing 101 Using GarageBand." The Creative Media & Digital Culture Fall 2010 Workshop & Lecture Series. Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, 8 September 2010.
  
  
• "Creative Media + Digital Culture = Connecting Cutting Edge Research to the Needs of the Community." WSU Foundation Board of Governors, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, 21 May 2010.
  
  
• "XXI Century Brautiganism: Interactive Poetry and Digital Art Installation." Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA 4 December 2009.
  
  
• "Robots: The Human-Machine Encounter." Research Showcase 2007, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, 19 April 2007.
  Stories about The Human-Machine Encounter are both speculative and cautionary because they raise questions concerning the interaction of humans and machines. This tangled relationship between humankind and its created artifacts speaks to our long-standing concern with technology's ability to perform useful functions versus its perceived diabolical nature. Science Fiction has a long history of informing this debate. This presentation draws from multiple examples to demonstrate the various speculative approaches to the intersection of humanity and technology by science fiction literature. The upshot is to inform the audience of the debate, some of its best examples, and promote further thinking regarding the role of technology in our evolving culture.
  
  
• "Great Balls of Exploding Light: Teaching Composition with Graphic Novels." Washington State University Vancouver Writing Center, 7 March 2007.
  This presentation focuses on graphic novels, vernacular and accessible texts featuring juxtaposed visual and verbal rhetoric, as useful tools for the teaching and learning of composition and communication techniques and skills.
  
  
• "Remediating Richard Brautigan: A Pacific Northwest Writer Finds a New Home on the World Wide Web." Digital Technology and Culture Brown Bag Speakers Series, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, November 2006.
  Discusses efforts to collect and curate information and resources about the writings and life of Richard Brautigan through digital remediation and archiving within a dedicated website.
  
  
• "Robots: The Human-Machine Encounter." University of Texas at Dallas, Scholars Weekend Faculty Lectures, Dallas, TX, March 2006.
  Discusses the history of robots as "human-created artifacts" and a science fiction trope.
  
  
• "Richard Brautigan: Mystery and Mythology" Arts and Humanities Faculty Lecture Series, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, November 2005.
  Seeks to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding Richard Brautigan, his life and writings.
  
  
• "Engineering Your Communications." Texas Society of Professional Engineers. Dallas, TX, June 2005.
  Highlights successful tips for preparing and delivering effective professional presentations.
  
  
• "Engineering Professional Proposals." Texas Society of Professional Engineers. Dallas, TX, June 2005.
  
• "Richard Brautigan: A Retrospective." Denton Public Library, Denton, TX, October 1999.
  
• "Teaching Writing with Technology." Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, February 1998.
  Discusses web sites (with appropriate design and construction considerations) as sites for archiving academic research.
  
  
• "Computers and Writing: Some Thoughts and Recommendations." University of Puerto Rico—Arecibo. Arecibo, Puerto Rico, May 1996.
  Despite the unsettling nature of the computer-mediated classroom, there can be, arguably, a level of successful adoption of this medium for teaching and learning. Teachers may create successful, and comfortable, environments using computer technology, by, among other things, modeling protocols for engagement and gently "banking" ideas about how to effectively utilize these resources for teaching and learning.
  
  
• "Traveling on a Dark Road, or Why Teach Writing?" University of Puerto Rico‐Arecibo. Arecibo, Puerto Rico, May 1996.
  The importance of teaching how to effectively utilize writing to facilitate thinking and expression is a valuable and necessary undertaking connected with the development of our selves, our students, our culture, and our future.
  
  
• "Yellowstone Views: Reflections on the Nation's First National Park." Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, March 1996.
  
• "Facing the Big Blank: How To Discover Ideas When There Seems To Be Nothing To Write About." Young Writers' Conference. Indiana, PA, May 1995.
  Freewriting and clustering as techniques for discovering writing topics.
  
  
• "What To Write About When There's Nothing To Write About." Young Writers' Conference. Indiana, PA, May 1994.
  Freewriting as a technique for discovering writing topics.
  
  
• "Poetry and Prose of John Barber." Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writer's Symposium. Indiana, PA, March 1993.
  Readings of original poetry and creative writing.