Assistant Teaching Professor – English Department Muncie, IN
August 2019 – Present
Independently design and lead in-person, remote, and hybrid courses on technical and professional communication, digital writing, and academic research writing.
Teach students best practices related to professional and technical communication, producing high quality documentation, content strategy, structured authoring, project management, and other industry-standard practices and tools (e.g., HTML5, Markdown, Git/GitHub).
Develop and manage instructional assets, including instructional videos, online learning modules, and teacher-led lessons, using Ball State’s learning management system.
Serve on English Department committees to revise and improve procedural documentation and implement curricular feedback from multiple stakeholder groups.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Section Editor Remote
May 2016 – Present
Review and edit HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to assess and support authors’ multimedia submissions according to APA and Kairos style guides and documentation standards.
Ensure accessibility compliance across digital submissions according to HTML5 best practices.
Maintain and participate in collaborative, fast-paced production timelines as digital submissions move through editing and publication stages.
Correspond with authors.
Projects
Software Documentation: Wrote and contributed an OpenAPI specification document for Octobox, an open-source software project on GitHub.
Hugo Template Development: Created a template titled “Little Ghost” for the content management platform Hugo using my knowledge of HTML5, CSS, and the programming language Go.
Grant Writing: Serve on the board of the Soup Kitchen of Muncie and currently chair its grants committee, managing grant application projects through research, writing, and submission stages.
Education
University of Louisville – English Department
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition
MA in English
Chapman University – English Department
BA in English Louisville, KY
Class of 2019
Class of 2015
Orange, CA
Class of 2013
Additional Information
Skills: Written and Oral Communication, Research Methods, API Documentation, Project Management
Computer: Proficient in DITA/XML, HTML5/CSS, Jira, Hugo, Jekyll, Adobe Suite
Certifications: Agile with Atlassian Jira (Coursera, Issued June 2023)
Interests: Community Service, Web Design, Literature, Language Learning (Korean – Beginner), Fitness