Experienced writer and data analyst -- Finishing grad school and looking for new opportunities
Greater Detroit Area
- Past
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- Graduate teaching assistant (instructor of record): Scientific and technical communication at North Carolina State University
- Graduate research assistant at North Carolina State University
- Technical writer at Kaiser Optical Systems
- Education
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- North Carolina State University
- Eastern Michigan University
- University of Michigan
- Iowa State University
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- Industry
- Research
- Websites
Christian Casper’s Summary
Christian Casper is an expert on the communication, reception, and interpretation of complex information. A trained chemist with an undergraduate minor in biology, he recently completed a Ph.D. at North Carolina State University, where he studied how new media help people understand and use the results of technological and scientific research. Casper provides communication, analysis, public relations, and training expertise to organizations in technical, scientific, medical, and educational fields.
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Note: Although I have sought and been offered a tenure-track university teaching position, I have also worked contentedly in private industry. I will gladly consider opportunities in any sector and would be happy to discuss how the research and analytical skills that I developed in graduate school would be an asset to your organization.
Christian Casper’s Specialties:
Data collection and analysis (quantitative and qualitative), writing and editing for expert and non-expert audiences, education, training, and customer care/customer relations
Christian Casper’s Experience
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Graduate teaching assistant (instructor of record): Scientific and technical communication
North Carolina State University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2005 — May 2009 (3 years 10 months)
• Planned and taught upper-level writing and rhetoric courses to undergraduate students in various programs but primarily the sciences, engineering, and English.
• Pioneered new instructional methods using electronic teaching technologies
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Graduate research assistant
North Carolina State University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2005 — May 2008 (2 years 10 months)
• Provided support for faculty research including gathering and organizing research artifacts and compiling and interpreting data.
• Compiled, organized, and analyzed data set of approximately 1000 newspaper and magazine articles about the scientific and cultural implications of nanotechnology
• Co-presented report at national research conference and co-author of a research article currently in preparation -
Technical writer
Kaiser Optical Systems
(Public Company; Research industry)
April 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 4 months)
• Developed operations documentation and marketing materials for analytical hardware and software for the chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, and energy industries and academic research.
• Provided support at headquarters for sales force in the field.
• Managed and maintained applications laboratory and worked with clients to develop laboratory-based and process-analytical applications.
• Accounts assisted in FY 2004-2005 resulted in successful sale rate of over 90%.
Christian Casper’s Education
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North Carolina State University
Ph.D. , Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media , 2005 — 2009
Dissertation research involved quantitative and qualitative research on communication in online scientific journals.
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Eastern Michigan University
M.A. , English -- Written communication , 2002 — 2005
Coursework in writing, editing, and linguistics, as well as research on writing in its various forms. Completed 69-page M.A. thesis, which was published in revised form in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication in 2007 and was nominated by the journal's editors for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical or Scientific Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, 2008.
All requirements for this degree were completed while working full time at Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. -
University of Michigan
M.S. , Chemistry , 1999 — 2001
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Iowa State University
B.S. , Chemistry; minor in biology , 1995 — 1999
Additional Information
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Christian Casper’s Honors:
North Carolina State University Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching, 2008
North Carolina State University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2008
North Carolina State University Alumni Association Fellowship, 2005–2006
Phi Kappa Phi, 2005
Eastern Michigan University Outstanding Graduate Student in Professional Writing, 2004
Golden Key International Honour Society, 1999
Christian Casper’s Contact Settings
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