Education
-
Ph.D. in progress,
English (expected
completion August 2009)
Texas A&M
University, College Station, Texas
-
M.A., English, 1998
University of Texas at San
Antonio
- B.S., Computing and
Information Sciences, 1981
Trinity
University, San Antonio, Texas
Employment
January 1998 - present
Freelance Writer
Scribionics
Katvah
Activities include technical writing, development
of regulatory and legal documents, document design, graphics design, electronic
publishing, editing, website creation
and maintenance, e-commerce setup and support, onsite and remote technical
support, and instruction.
Subject-matter areas of specialization include information technology,
science, health, nature, education, electronic commerce, intellectual property.
January 2007 - June 2007
Technical Project
Coordinator
TEFTEC
Corporation
Responsibilities included leadership of short-term
project to design and develop FDA-compliant documentation supporting
medical device
manufacturing,
including
manufacturing work instructions, user manuals, service manual, and parts
manual.
May 2005 - November
2006
Technical
Writer
BioNumerik
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Information
Systems and Technologies Department
Responsibilities included design
and development of FDA-compliant documentation to support clinical trials
management software, including online Help, training material, software requirements,
validation
plans, project plans, and standard operating procedures.
August 2001 -May 2005
Lecturer
Our Lady of the Lake University, Department of English,
Drama, and Communication Arts
Responsibilities included teaching
undergraduate students:
- "Composition
I" in
computer classrooms
- "Composition
II" in
computer classrooms
- "Honors
Composition II" in
a computer classroom with focus on sociolinguistics
- "Introduction
to Poetry and Drama" with online
course management
- "Introduction
to Fiction" with
online course management and focus on African American literature
- "Technical
and Professional Writing" as
a service-learning course
August 2001 - May 2004
Instructor
Temple Beth-El Religious School
Responsibilities included management of the school's
website and teaching Hebrew and Judaica classes for elementary students.
January 2002 - August
2003
Programmer
Analyst II
Texas A&M
University, Department
of English
Responsibilities included website development and
maintenance, development of database application, and production of bi-weekly
online newsletter.
August
1998 - December 2001
Graduate
Assistant
Texas
A&M University, Department
of English
Responsibilities included:
- teaching "Technical
Writing" for undergraduate students as a
distance course
- teaching "Scientific
and Technical Writing" for undergraduate students
in a conventional classroom
- teaching "Rhetoric
and Composition" for undergraduate students
in conventional and computer classrooms
- teaching new Graduate
Assistants to create websites
- preparing the annual
departmental report (Harrison Meserole Editorial Assistantship)
- design and construction
of website supplemental to Reinventing
Identities book
- maintenance of South
Central Modern Language Association organizational website
June 1982 - February
1998
Systems Programmer,
Senior Systems Programmer, Staff Systems Programmer, Staff
Information Technology Planner
USAA Information
Technology Company
Responsibilities included:
- installation,
testing, and maintenance of mainframe and midrange
operating systems and utilities
- creation and maintenance
of procedures and documentation
- leadership
of task groups and project teams
- development and
presentation of technical training and management presentations
- leadership of meetings
and workshops
- planning, documentation,
and testing of disaster recovery methods
- coordination between
technical staff and internal and external business partners
- selection and implementation
of technology and methods to support online procedures, intelligent printers,
voice response, automated operations, massive parallelization
1982
Systems
Programmer
Santa
Rosa Medical Center
1981
Assembly
Language Programmer
Software
Consulting Service
1979
- 1981
Academic
Programmer, User Consultant
Trinity
University Computing Center
Research Interests
Dissertation: "Hypertextual
Ultrastructures: Movement and Containment in Texts and Hypertexts"
Areas of focus in the
dissertation: textual
studies; cyberculural studies; scientific and technical communication
Fields
of study for preliminary examination: textual studies; discourse studies; 19th-century U.S. literature
Independent
Study: Early African American Literature Bibliography Project
Other: alphabets,
number systems, nomenclatures, encoding methods; artificial languages; illustration,
visualization, captioning; human-computer interfaces; resistance to digitization;
repetition
with variation; collaborative authorship; electronic publication;
history
of technology; community
newspapers; newspapers in literature;
science in literature; non-territorial
communities; resistance to racism; censorship; translation; oral
tradition; religion and history; ancient poetry; early science fiction
Publications
Conference Proceedings
- 2000, "Fighting
Speech With Speech: David Duke, the Anti-Defamation League, Online
Bookstores,
and Hate
Filters."
Proceedings of the 33rd Hawai'i International Conference
on System Sciences, IEEE
Electronic
Journals
- 2000, "La
Llorona y El Grito / The Ghost and The Scream: Noisy Women in Borderlands and
Beyond."
Womenwriters.net, Winter 2000
issue
- 2005, general
editor and staff writer, monthly Journal
of Topical Formulations
Reference
- 2003, "American Mercury"
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance,
Fitzroy Dearborn
- 2001,
"Biculturalism"
Encyclopedia of American Studies,
Grolier
- 2001, "Suffragist
Period"
Encyclopedia of American Studies, Grolier
Invited Chapters
- 2005,
with Elishalom
Yechiel, "From
Ancient Potions To Modern Lotions: A Technology Overview and Introduction
to Topical Delivery Systems".
Delivery
System Handbook for Personal Care and Cosmetic Products: Technology, Applications
and Formulations. Meyer.
R. Rosen, ed. William Andrew Publishing.
Presentations
English
- October 2005, "It
Takes One to Know One: Student Audience Analysis as a Curriculum
Design Tool."
South Central Modern
Language Association, Houston TX
- April 2002,
"Violence, Temperance, and the Woman's Place
in Poe's 'Hop-Frog'."
Ohio
Academy of History, Cincinatti OH
- November 2001, "Queen
Vashti: Figures of Royalty and Refusal in the Literature of Black Women‘s
Resistance."
South Central Modern Language Association, Tulsa
OK
- April 2001, "In
time they shall come to possess the land, but not in my time": White
Blood and Red Resistance in Jack London's "The God of His Fathers."
The
Ethnic Community in History : The Seventh Annual Multicultural Conference at
San Antonio College, San Antonio TX
- February 2001, "The
work of my life is in ashes": the physican, the attorney, and the loyal
servant in Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition and Dixon's The
Traitor.
Hate: The 11th Annual Mardi Gras Conference on Language
and Literature at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA
- October 2000, ""The Racial Movement is not
a ‘boys club'...": White Racist Women Define Themselves Online"
Performances of Identity: Interdisciplinary Conference on Language and
Literature, College Station TX
- March 2000, "'Or
telle him why this song was in usage': Silencing the Prioress"
Silence and
Expression: Histories of Permission and Censorship, College Station TX
- January 2000,
"Fighting Speech With Speech: David Duke, the
Anti-Defamation League, Online Bookstores, and Hate Filters"
33rd Hawai'i International
Conference on System Sciences, Maui HI
- December 1998, "'a
man nobody wouldn't be ashamed of': Drinking and Temperance in Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn"
Modern Language Association Conference, San
Francisco CA
- August 1997, "Huckleberry Finn in a lonesome place: Adventures of a Child of
an Alcoholic"
State of Mark Twain Studies Conference, Elmira NY
Computing
Science
- August 1996, "Creating
a Time Machine: A Y2K Testing System"
SHARE Conference - July 1996,
"Implementation of Highly Parallel Coupled Systems"
IBM Top Gun
Academy, Guest Instructor
- October 1993, "Early
Sysplex Implementation Experiences"
IBM Enterprise Technical Update
Seminars, Guest Instructor
- November 1992,
"Merging Forms and Data using XICS"
XPLOR Conference
Service
- 2003, Our Lady of the
Lake University, African American Read-In, Moderator
- 2000, Texas A&M
University Interdisciplinary Conference on Language and Literature, Document
Designer
- 2000, Texas A&M
University Spokenword Week, Workshop Leader
- 2000, HICSS 34 Persistent
Conversation Mini-Track, Reviewer
- 1999, Texas A&M
University Rewriting
Literacies Conference, Webmaster and Document Designer
- 1998, University of Texas
at San Antonio In Search
of the Indo-Europeans Symposium, Webmaster and Volunteer
Awards
- 2001, Texas A&M
University, Center for Humanities Research, Graduate Travel Award
- 1999, Texas A&M
University, Charles Gordone Award for Poetry, Second Runner Up
- 1998, Texas A&M University,
Department of English Graduate Student Travel Grant
- 1997, University of Texas
at San Antonio, College of Fine Arts and Humanities, Graduate Research
Grant
- 1978-1981, Trinity
University, National Merit Scholar
- 1978-1979, Trinity
University, President's Scholar
- 1978-1979, Trinity
University, University Scholar
Languages
- English: native
speaker; teaching undergraduate students Modern English; graduate coursework
in Old English, Middle English, and History of English
- Spanish:
undergraduate coursework; "High Pass" on Texas A&M University graduate
student translation exam
- Hebrew: teaching
elementary students
- Russian: minimal
tourist vocabulary, familiarity with Cyrillic alphabet
- Computer: several
Modern (PHP, MySQL, HTML) and many Ancient (Assembly
languages for IBM S/370, S/390, Series/1; APL, PL/I, FORTRAN, REXX, EXEC,
CLIST, EDL)
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