Full-time, two months. Position included the operation of production-level studio photography equipment (Sinar CaptureShot software suite) for the digitisation of historical documents. Responsibilities included the photography of maps and travel posters, but mostly the photographic plates of the Boston Herald-Traveler photojournalist Leslie Jones (whose work spans from 1917 to 1956). Additionally, I helped/learned about the development and application of metadata schemes, color-management and digital reproduction standards.

As a self-initiated extension of this project, I solely and voluntarily developed a digital library of Leslie Jones’ life work using the Drupal CMS into which I import the 30,000+ images and associated metadata that comprise the collection. The digital library website can be found at:

www.lesliejonesphotography.com

Work included the development of all stages of the digital library website. This included the overall design (CSS) of the site, and the Drupal configuration of the content fields, image views and slideshows; this includes the taxonomic vocabularies, faceted search mechanisms, tagging/tag clouds, jQuery menus, and site indexing. More about the project can be found here.

As a continuation of my graduate studies in cognitive psychology, I went to do research in mental models and deductive reasoning with Juan Garcia Madruga of the UNED in Madrid, Spain.  I continued to carry out some of my own research in cultural psychology and counterfactual/verbal reasoning, but also assisted Professor Madruga in the online implementation of his own studies. Here, I wrote basic Perl/CGI scripts embedded in HTML controlled questionnaires for what was then quite innovative in social scientific data collection.

In 2006 I decided to finish my graduate studies ABD in cognitive psychology for a career in digital information and library management. To fund these changes, I work to this day as a Spanish-English translator and editor.  Professor Madruga's team (and often his colleagues from similar institutions) send me academic articles for publication, posters, announcements and letters for either substantial English language editing or Spanish to English translation.  I usually charge between .05 to .09 cents a word (Euros) for translation and receive anywhere from approximately 50 to 300 pages (single space) in a year. Samples are available.

Designated ABD (Ph.D. candidate) in cognitive psychology. Research in multiple laboratories conducting studies in causal/counterfactual and analogical reasoning, behavioral law & economics, and cultural psychology. Significant coursework in social psychology and statistics, including multivariate, linear and dynamic modeling (structural equation modelling), SAS programming, and various experimental/survey methodologies.  Master’s thesis entitled:  Structural Factor Modeling of a Disgust Sensitivity Scale.

Taught laboratory component of Research Methods & Statistics class for psychology undergraduates (five semesters), instructing students in experimental design, statistics with SPSS, data collection and presentation, and scientific writing; also served as a teaching assistant for introductory courses.

Oversaw creation of comprehensive archive of PDF files of over 500 scientific articles in social and cognitive psychology for internal laboratory use. Made resource available as both a searchable Microsoft Access database as well as an Endnote library (reference management system). Maintained laboratory of eight Macintosh OS9 computers, installing firewalls, updating software, and securing data and file-sharing networks and led transition to OSX.