Resume
SUMMARY
Five years of experience, two professionally, conducting over 20 different applied qualitative ethnographic research projects, many complemented by quantitative methods. I have worked in every phase of research projects from proposal writing all the way to client deliverables on both the project management side and the research side.
EXPERTISE
Qualitative Research; research design, participant observation, interview and focus group guide design, face-to-face and telephone semi-structured interviews, focus group and friendship group facilitation, virtual ethnography, personas, write-up, deliverables, recruitment, web 2.0 Quantitative Research; survey design, survey administration, segmentation, data maps, topline reports, conjoint Project Management; vendor management, client management, team leadership
EDUCATION
Masters of Science, Applied (Design) Anthropology August 2009
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology August 2005
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Associate in Arts, General Education August 2003
Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL
HONORS
National Honor Society for Anthropology, Lambda Alpha Eta of TX, Life Member
The National Dean’s List, 2007
Phi Theta Kappa, 2001, 2002, 2003
Super Apple Award, Brevard County Apple Corps, August 2003
Community Service-Learning, Brevard Community College, August 2003
Dean’s List for Excellent Achievement, 2001, 2002
President’s List for Excellent Achievement, 2001
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
Intel-Sponsored Student Scholarship, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, Intel 2007
PACS Graduate Student Travel Grant, UNT 2007
AFFLIATIONS
Market Research Association, 2008 – Present
Usability Professionals’ Association, 2007 – Present
Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, 2007 – Present
SfAApodcasts.net (Founder/Admin), 2006 – Present
American Anthropological Association, 2006 – Present
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, 2006 – Present
National Association of Student Anthropologists, 2006 – Present
Society for Applied Anthropology, 2005 – Present
PUBLICATIONS
Regular contributor to the Newsletter for the Society of Applied Anthropology 2007– Present
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2008 “Teaching Anthropology 2.0: Innovative Strategies for Incorporating Visual Technologies into Teaching and Learning” Discussant, roundtable panel at the Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association. November, San Francisco, California.
2008 “Comparing an On-Campus and Online version of the Same Graduate Course” Co-presented with Christina Wasson at the Center for Distributed Learning Brown Bag Lecture Series. May, Denton Texas.
2007 “Using Linguistic Anthropology to Compare Online And On-Campus Learning Experiences” Co-presented with Christina Wasson and Megan Bannon at the Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association. November, Washington D.C.
PRESS
Smoking’s Social Side
Scott, Marian, 2006 The (Montreal) Gazette, May 13. http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/smoking/story.html?id=72ce5196-50a1-4cf1-97ca-9eef3fb97512&k=65894
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Account Manager
Intrepid Consultants, Inc.
August 2009 – Present
Leading interdisciplinary research teams, and working with clients, to write project proposals, to create project plans including research objectives and logistics, to develop qualitative topic guides, to collect qualitative data via 1:1 interviews, focus groups, and participant observation, to analyze data, and to create final client presentations that effectively communicate applied research findings and recommendations
Research Assistant
Intrepid Consultants, Inc.
October 2008 – August 2009
Working within interdisciplinary research teams to write project proposals, to create project plans including research objectives and logistics, to develop qualitative topic guides, to collect qualitative data via 1:1 interviews, focus groups, and participant observation, to analyze data, and to create final client presentations that effectively communicate applied research findings and recommendations
Successfully introduced virtual ethnography as a research methodology which entailed translating this commonly academic technique to the business world and answering questions such as value, process, and deliverables. To date, every Intrepid employee has viewed the virtual ethnography training program that I created
Research Assistant
University of North Texas
January 2007 – February 2009
Principal Investigator: Christina Wasson, Anthropology Department
Founder & Manager of Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Podcasts
November 2006 – Present
Coordinate, plan, and execute the audio recordings of selected sessions at the Annual Meeting and published the audio recording as Podcasts to SfAApodcasts.net with a team of volunteers and audio professionals and over a hundred speakers each year.
I work closely with both UNT and the SfAA to ensure that their needs are met with this project
Research Intern
Intrepid Consultants, Inc.
July 2008 – September 2008
Assisting principal investigator with research, analysis, PowerPoint decks for clients, visually representing data, focus groups
Textbook Manager
Gray’s College Bookstore @ GSU, LLC
February 2005 – August 2006
Organizing and managing paperwork flow and information within the store and company, maintaining relationships with professors and publishers, strategic planning of goals for the department and store throughout the semesters, critical thinking and problem solving.
Textbook Assistant
Gray’s College Bookstore @ USF, LLC
December 2003 – February 2005
Cashier, Customer Service, Stock
Dollar Tree, Inc
November 1998 – July 2003
LEADERSHIP ROLES
Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) IT Task Force Member
February 2009 – Present
Working on a team of four to advance and enhance the use of IT within the SfAA including; SfAA Podcasts, newsletters and publications, and webinars
