Curriculum Vitae

BYU

  • BA: Linguistics (2013)
  • with: Honors
  • Minor: Psychology
  • Minor: Computer Science
  • Minor: Linguistic Computing

Georgia Tech

  • MS: Digital Media (2015)
  • Narrative Cognition
  • Goal Reasoning

R & D

  • Idea Labs/Storylab
  • BYU Digital Humanites
  • Navy Research Lab (D.C.)
  • Acxiom Data
  • BYU Linguistics Lab

Work & Experience

Devops & Deployment (2019+)

  • Linux
  • CI/CD with Jenkins
  • Full server configuration
    • Apache
    • Wildfly
    • NginX
  • SystemD
  • Linux command line (Bash)

Data Modeling & Database Design

  • SQL (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite)
  • NoSQL (Postgres, Datalog, Mongo)
  • SQL visualizations (ERD)

BYU ODH Senior Web Application Engineer & Research Partner (2018+)

  • Tech Spec: LAMP, Node.js, d3js, Polymer, Wordpress, Clojure & Clojurescript, Server Administration, R statistics, Mongo DB, MySQL, Postgres, Docker
  • Office councillor for project intake, technology support, and project deployment matters
  • Developed and maintained a variety of programs for purposes including data visualization, text analysis, stylometrics
  • Developed back-end web-services interacting with University web services

BYU Web Admin Committee (2016-2020)

  • Participated in re-organization of university-wide Web Community structure
  • BYU.edu: Involved in discussions of planning and technical development of official BYU web presence and identity
  • Involved in discussions for selection and adoption of University-wide Digital Asset Management system

BYU Humanities College Webmaster (2015-2018)

  • Developed plugins and sub-themes for Wordpress which interacted with the BYU core site and services
  • Planned, customized, trained, and implemented college-wide adoption of web framework
  • Server and DNS management for over 100 personal, organization, and web-app sites
  • Hiring, training, and supervision of Humwebhelp student web service team (2018)
  • Sole technical worker implementing, customizing, and rolling-out custom Wordpress Theme to 8 Humanities departments (2016)

Navy Research Laboratory: Student Research Contractor (2014-15)

  • Tech Spec: VM, Linux, LaTeX, Emacs/Orgmode, BibTeX
  • Brought insights from computational narrative to planning & goal reasoning
  • Helped refine traditional planning methods for special scenarios
  • Created extensive literature reviews in multi-agent plan recognition and computational narrative

Acxiom Corp.: Computational Linguist (2012-13)

  • Tech Spec: Java, Perl, Mojolicious, Linux, Bash shell
  • Web-crawled to produce 4-million word topical corpus
  • Designed & developed system to parse JSON arrays, extract twitter messages, and lexically analyze over 180-million messages for sentiment & topic in reasonable time. Utilized a dynamic web framework with AJAX to create a cloud-based launcher for this system.

Publications

  • An NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities2019Sustaining DHWorkshop Participant
  • Event tagging for narrative reconstruction2019BYU Student Research ConferenceCo-Author
  • Timeline survey2019Digital Humanities: Utah 3 (Weber State University)
  • Course design: DIGHT 3402018Developing Javascript
  • Natural language data visualization2016,17,18BYU LING-485 Corpus LinguisticsGuest lectures
  • Demonstrating Fairy Tale TV2018Digital Humanities: Utah 2, Utah State UniversityTechnical demonstration
  • Designing Fairy Tale TV2017Digital Humanities: Utah, Utah Valley UniversityTechnical discussion
  • Using Watson for constructing cognitive assistants2016Adv. Cogn. Syst. 4, 1-16.
  • From episodic memory to narrative in a cognitive architecture2015Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative
  • Goal reasoning and narrative cognition20152015 Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems: Workshop on Goal Reasoning
  • Thinking in stories2015Master's Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • NI-Discover History: meta-narrative for explanation bounding2014Technical Report, Navy Research Lab
  • Syntax stories: episodic memory for natural language processing with Soar2013Honors Thesis, Brigham Young University
  • Semantic memory for syntactic disambiguation2013Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2013)