research assistant

Posted on: 2006-01-11

Megan Richardson 1011 Ferndale Drive, Las Cruces, NM 88005, USA 1.505.639.7952 [email protected] Able to relocate in May 2006. Able legally to work in USA or EU. Experience 2006 Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM research assistant Interface design and usability testing for a collaborative virtual environment for software development. 1/2005-5/2005 Department of Industrial Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM research assistant Assisted in computational and human factors aspects of project on Human Performance Modeling to Improve the Decision Making Process in Manufacturing Cells. Designed model, selected software, researched psychological metrics, collected data. Summer 2004 Shijiazhuang Language and Culture Exchange College, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China English as a Foreign Language teacher Taught American English pronunciation, grammar, and conversation to junior-high class of 40 and small advanced high school class. Intel Design & Discovery Fair Play Camp, Las Cruces, NM instructor Taught Intel curriculum in design and engineering to junior-high school level Girl Scouts. 2002-2004 Computer Operations Group, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM technical assistant Provided Windows, Mac, and UNIX technical support to mathematics department. 1/2001-7/2001 Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM research assistant Organized, mapped, reformatted, and wrote scripts for indexing photographic data for NASA’s Planetary Data System. Produced indexed CD of all grayscale photographs of Jupiter taken by NASA spacecraft, for use by astronomers worldwide. 2001-present Science Education Alliance, Las Cruces, NM Science Advisor Worked with the public schools in science curriculum enrichment. Currently helping design mathematics activities for use in the home by students in grades 1-5 and their parents. 1999-2000 Doña Ana County Humane Society, Inc., Las Cruces, NM licensing coordinator/systems administrator Designed and administered pet licensing program for the city of Las Cruces in compliance with new law. Developed licensing procedures, hired work-study employees, trained staff on policies, procedures and software, audited records daily, and organized promotional events. The program licenses approx. 15,000 animals per year and generates $100,000/year for spay/neuter programs. Built and maintained network of PCs, established and managed database of all animals and shelter activity, customized software systems, developed reporting system and analyzed data. 1998 Computing and Networking, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM technical assistant Modified programs for monitoring network traffic and for display of traffic data. 1996-1998 University Communications, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM technical assistant Maintained heterogeneous computer network, produced web publications, purchased and maintained hardware and software, automated production of publications and news releases, instructed users. 1995-1996 Financial Services Administration, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM technical assistant Provided technical support to network users and maintained campus-wide Novell network. Administered LINUX server and university websites. 1991-2001 Las Cruces Public Schools, Las Cruces, NM substitute teacher Education 12/2006 New Mexico State University, Honors Bachelor of Science GPA: 3.6 thesis topic: Automatic summarization through surface-level sentence feature weighting majors: Mathematics/Linguistics minors: Software Development/Psychology 2005 Institute for Advanced Study, Park City Mathematics Institute Heriot-Watt University, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2004 Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium, Summer Conference (short course on neural networks) 2003 University of Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modeling 2001 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, First Computational Linguistics Fall School Helsingin Yliopisto, Helsinki Summer School in Intelligent and Adaptive Systems 1994 State University of New York at Buffalo, First International Institute in Cognitive Science 1991 New Mexico State University, Bachelor of Arts with Honors major: Philosophy Relevant Courses: CS 485 User Interface Design PSY 570 Information Visualization PSY 530 Human-Computer Interaction PSY 625 Seminar in Cognitive Science: Models and Applications PSY 400 Research (assisted in research on how users read documents online) CS 370 Compilers and Automata Theory CS 475 Artificial Intelligence CS 489 Natural Language Processing (assisted in creation of ontology for Mikrokosmos project) LING 303 Formal Structure of Language LING 501 Psycholinguistics STAT 371 Statistics for Engineers and Scientists OEGR 290 Interaction Design for Multimedia Honors: ADVANCE Student Researcher Scholarship, NMSU Regents’ Scholarship, Mathematical Sciences Departmental Scholarship (2004 & 2005), Noyes Memorial Scholarship, Society of Women Engineers chapter scholarship, NMSU Crimson Scholar, Golden Key Internat\'l Honour Society, Psi Chi (psychology honor society), Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics honor society), Sumasil Foundation grant, Tapia Diversity in Computing scholarship Associations: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Association for Computing Machinery, Society of Women Engineers, Society of Mexican-American Engineers and Scientists, Association for Computational Linguistics, Mathematical Association of America (nominee member), Sigma Delta Epsilon, Computing Research Laboratory Summarization Group Skills: C, C++, Perl, Python, Lex, YACC, usability testing, training & documentation, user modeling (GOMS, ACT-R), Dreamweaver, Director, Excel, Microsoft network administration, German