Copyright Specialist at University of Michigan
Greater Detroit Area
Copyright Specialist at University of Michigan
Greater Detroit Area
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Manage graduate student volunteers participating with the Open Educational Resources initiative, a part of the OPEN:Michigan project, at the University of Michigan. My responsibilities include educating and answering questions concerning copyright law and training the students to clear educational content so it can be published in a Free and Open manner.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
October 2008 — March 2009 (6 months)
Research Assistant to Paul N. Courant, the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
Developed professional relationships with members of the Creative Commons community; conducted interviews and produced Case Studies of professionals using CC licenses; co-managed a copyright status registry project; and provided technical expertise and support on various projects.
(Publishing industry)
January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)
Produced online peer-reviewed scholarly journal publications for the University of Michigan Library. Additionally, I modified text conversion scripts and wrote internal work-flow documentation.
(Public Policy industry)
February 2008 — February 2008 (1 month)
One-week internship to aid in research and writing of Freedom of Information Act Requests along with informational documents published by EPIC.
Masters , Library and Information Sevice, Information Policy , 2007 — 2009
Bachelor of Arts , Anthropology, Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
Copyright, Creative Commons, Free/Libre Open Source Software, Open Access Publishing, Open Educational Resources, Scholarly Communication
Michigan Ubuntu Local Community Team, Ubuntu, Creative Commons, ALA, ARL