Education

• UNC - Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science:
  August 2007
  MS in Information Science
• Oberlin College:
  BA, January 2003
  Major in Biopsychology with a Concentration in the Cognitive Sciences

Publications

• Kelly, D., Harper, D. J., & Landau, B. Questionnaire mode effects in interactive information retrieval experiments. Information Processing & Management. 44(1), p121-144
  doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.02.007

Skills

Employment & Experience

1. Viget Labs Web Developer

   5/08-Present

   • Ruby On Rails Development

2. DesignHammer Web Developer

   7/07-5/08

   • Refactored a custom CMS system to be more OOP
   • Scripted XML conversions and imports.
   • Developed custom CMS back-end solutions
   • Developed Rails Web Application deployed via Capistrano
   • Administrated a nginx/mongrel/rails server stack
   • Managed an Amazon S3 account and used it as an asset and backup server.

3. Motricity: User Experience Engineer Intern

   10/06-6/07

   • Worked on redesign of CSS/HTML prototypes, mostly changing the structure to make the code more maintainable, and allowing for easier style changes in the future.
   • Testing of various CSS capabilities of Mobile Devices, and analysis of the results
   • Designing and executing a usability test of a sites redesign
   • Analysis of the usability test results be evaluating both questionnaire results and screen captures.
   • Presentation of results to business owners, developers and other team members.

4. UNC - Chapel Hill: Research Assistant for Dr. Diane Kelly

   5/06-8/06

   • Helped design experiment for testing a information retrieval interface
   • Conducted research with participants
   • Made a web form participant sign-up system for the experiment
   • Made web forms for the usability questionnaires given during the experiment

5. ILSSA Technical Coordinator

   1/06-12/06

   • Redesigned and maintained the organizations web site: http://www.ils.unc.edu/ilssa/
   • Set up a Mediawiki Wiki, customized it, maintained it and administrated it: SILSWiki
   • Managed 2 email lists
   • Designed, managed and administered a department wide web-based voting system for Student Organization Officer Elections
   • Coordinated with other organizations on various projects and activities

6. New-Found Therapies: Occupational Therapy Aide

   9/03-4/05

   • Administered therapy with children under supervision of an OTR/L
   • Maintained client files
   • Correspondence with clients