Prior to coming to CUNY, I graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. My concentration was in Applied Narrative – examining the forms narrative and storytelling take, and the ways in which they can be used effectively. Much of my career so far has involved teaching children aged 6-14 software usage skills or about narrative and storytelling, using Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition as a medium for doing so. I’ve also taken on several jobs gathering information from specified texts or other sources.

Research/Information Gathering: Research is probably the area I have the most experience, and maybe even the most proficiency. A huge part of my curriculum designing process involves seeking out and evaluating educational sources and learning tools. I’m comfortable performing research on a very wide variety of topics, especially in the realms of literature, literary analysis, and history. Perhaps the most significant research project I’ve undertaken was scouring a text corpus about the South African magazine, Drum for usable information for my employer at the time (he was writing a book on the subject).

Curriculum Design: While designing curriculum is a somewhat niche skill, I feel like my experience in this area could potentially be applicable elsewhere. When I design curriculum, I always need to take into account my audience and the speed at which the curriculum expects students to learn the material. I also have to design assignments, exercises, lists of readings, and projects that fit the subject matter. Last semester for Digital Pedagogy, I designed an introductory college-level course (including several project prompts, a full syllabus, and a full list of readings) for the Digital Humanities focusing on aiding students in designing their own personalized corpus.

Archiving and Recordkeeping: I keep and maintain an organized collection of offline archives on my computer, some personal, some for others. I have experience using DropBox and Google Drive, and I’m in the process of figuring out Conifer. I’ve never done archiving professionally, but from my experience, it has a lot of overlap with information gathering, and it is often a part of my information gathering process.

Teaching: I’m placing this rather low because I don’t know how applicable it will be. I’ve been teaching part-time for, depending on how one counts, 4-6 years, although the last three years have been the most formative and intensive. If a project requires people being taught a new skill or how to be familiar in a new area, I might be able to help, especially if it’s something in the realm of software use, literature, literary theory/critical analysis, or research.

Programming: I’m putting this at the very bottom of the list because at best, I can help someone proofread code. I’m familiar with Lua, JSON, and C++ (and I have messed with HTML and Python before), but not to the degree that I could reliably design anything with them. However, if my group’s programmer needs a proofreader in these languages or similar ones, I’m comfortable doing that. On a related note, I have experience with graphic design (I mostly work with Paint.NET, but I have experience with Photoshop as well), although only on a hobbyist level.