education & professional development

Professional development

In-person seminars & training

• Conflict Resolution and Management, InsightStrategies for Classmates Online, Renton, Washington. June 2009
• Certified Scrum Product Owner, SolutionsIQ for Classmates Online, Renton, Washington. January 2009
• Performance-based Interviewing, The Adler Group for Classmates Online, Renton, Washington. January 2009
• Presentation Skills, InsightStrategies for Classmates Onlines, Renton, Washington. December 2008
• WorldWide Communications and WorldWide Internet Marketing Services Symposia, Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas. October 2007
  • Leveraging Digital Platforms, Google
  • The Digital Landscape: 10 Best Practices Shaping the Future of B2B Marketing, Google
  • What Sticks: accountability and metrics in advertising, Greg Stuart
  • Building Messages with Impact and Meet the Press!, WPNT workshops
  • Assistant, Search Engine Marketing/Search Engine Optimization (SEM/SEO) workshop
• Endeca Search and Navigation, Dallas, Texas. March 2007
• Google's Leveraging the Google Platform, Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas. November, 2006. Topics included:
  • SEM Best Practices
  • Strategy & Opportunity
  • Non-Ad Products/SEO best practices
• The Brown Symposium: GNP or Gross National Well-being?, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. February 2006. Seminars attended:
  • The Neural Basis of Valuation: Imaging Brain Responses to Trust, Reward and Regret, Read Montague (Baylor College of Medicine)
  • Science of Well-Being: The Benefits and Causes of Happiness, Ed Deiner (Univ. of Illinois)
  • Happiness and Economics, Rafael Di Tella (Harvard)
  • Materialism and Its Alternatives, Tim Kasser (Knox College)
• Edward Tufte's Presenting Visual Information, Austin, Texas. February, 2003
• Jakob Nielsen's World Usability Tour, Austin, Texas. January 2001

Self development

• Presenter, author, Social Network Brown Bag , Classmates, Seattle, Washington. January, 2009
• Presenter, author, Why Taxonomy Matters: Taxonomy From the User Experience Perspective, Classmates, Seattle, Washington. July, 2008
• Presenter, author, LocalNet2000 (global system engineering symposium): "Toward a More Cognitive Knowledge Management," Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada. October 2000

Online/remote training

• SharePoint Search and IA Jumpstart, four-part series, Earley & Associates. May-June, 2009
• Best Practices in Taxonomy Development for Faceted Search, Earley & Associates. February, 2009
• Metaverse Marketing: Rules of Engagement, with John Jainschigg of 2nd Life/CMP Metaverse. November, 2007
• Introduction to Perl Scripting, Nortel Networks. May, 1998
• Basic Telecommunications, Nortel Networks. May, 1998
• Java for C++ Developers, Nortel Networks. December, 1999
• Object-Oriented Principles and Java, Nortel Networks. December, 1999
• An Overview of Java, Nortel Networks. December, 1999
• JavaScript, Nortel Networks. October, 1999
• Creating Fill-In Forms (CGI), Nortel Networks. May, 1998
• Advanced HTML, Nortel Networks. April, 1998

Memberships

• Puget Sound SIGCHI (Northwest User Experience Professionals)
• IxDA (Interaction Design Association)
• SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) member (as part of TI's global Search Topic Team)
• Linean Society

Academic development

Texas Woman's University

• B.S., psychology
• Summa cum laude (4.0/4.0 GPA)
• Undergraduate studies included heavy biology concentration, computer science, learning and cognition, neurophysiology in addition to biopsychology, statistics, experimental methodology
• Presenter, sole author, 1999 TWU Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium: "Interpreting Autism from the Language Acquisition Perspective to Better Understand Emotional and Linguistic Development"
• Lay therapist, autistic children ages 2–5. Under licensed therapist's training and supervision, worked as behavioral therapist using modified Lovaas technique. 15 hours/week from August–November 1997.

Walden University

• Graduate psychology studies at accredited online university.

Awards

• Psi Chi, national psychology honor society
• Dean's list
• National Merit Semifinalist
• University of Texas Honors Colloquium
• various writing and speech awards, including 1st place, statewide Baylor University Poetry Festival