Jana Thompson

Current

• Junior System Administrator at Support Intelligence

Past

• Research Assistant at Project for the Documentation of the Krim and Bom Languages
• Research Internship at Linguist List, Eastern Michigan University
• Events Coordinator at GeekAustin

• Graduate Research Assistant at Texas German Dialect Project, University of Texas at Austin
• Teaching Assistant at University of Texas at Austin
• Facilities Coordinator at Inter-Cooperative Council
• Events Coordinator at GeekAustin
• Phoneme Analyst at Motorola, Inc.
• Research Volunteer at Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
• Mathematics Tutor at St. Edward's University
• Ontologist at Cycorp, Inc

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Education

• Freie Universität Berlin
• The University of Texas at Austin
• The University of Texas at Austin

• The University of Texas at Austin

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Connections

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Jana Thompson’s Summary

The bulk of my professional experience has been in education and linguistics research. At both the Linguistics Research Center and LinguistList, I was working on documentation in historical linguistics. On the Texas German Dialect Project and my last position, I work on endangered language documentation and archiving.

Jana Thompson’s Experience

• Junior System Administrator

  Support Intelligence

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  August 2008 — Present (5 months)

• Research Assistant

  Project for the Documentation of the Krim and Bom Languages

  (Research industry)

  October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

• Research Internship

  Linguist List, Eastern Michigan University

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

• Events Coordinator

  GeekAustin

  (Online Media industry)

  January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

  Met with venue owners and managers to organize events
  Assisted with set-up, speakers and organization

• Graduate Research Assistant

  Texas German Dialect Project, University of Texas at Austin

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  September 2002 — August 2005 (3 years)

  system administration, linguistic field work, database administration, transcription/translation of audio data, quality control of others' work

• Teaching Assistant

  University of Texas at Austin

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2005 — May 2005 (5 months)

• Facilities Coordinator

  Inter-Cooperative Council

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  June 2004 — January 2005 (8 months)

  chaired committee with responsibility for maintenance of nine houses, drafting of Facilities Budget and dealing with member complaints with regards to physical maintenance
  
  sat on the Executive Committee for the organization, responsible for emergency decisions
  
  sat on the Board of Directors

• Events Coordinator

  GeekAustin

  (Online Media industry)

  February 2003 — March 2004 (1 year 2 months)

• Phoneme Analyst

  Motorola, Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)

• Research Volunteer

  Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  February 2002 — July 2002 (6 months)

• Mathematics Tutor

  St. Edward's University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2001 — January 2002 (5 months)

• Ontologist

  Cycorp, Inc

  (Research industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

Jana Thompson’s Education

• Freie Universität Berlin

  none, Germanistik, 2005 — 2006

• The University of Texas at Austin

  MA, Germanic Studies, 2003 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  UT Linguistic Circle, Dept. of Germanic Studies Technology Committee, Digitization of Zwirner Corpus, Texas German Dialect Project, Inter-Cooperative Council

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BS, Mathematics, 2000 — 2002

  Activities and Societies:

  Linguistics Research Center

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BA, Anthropology, 1997 — 2000

Additional Information

Jana Thompson’s Groups:

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•    Geek Austin
•    Natural Language Processing
•    Corpus Linguistics

Jana Thompson’s Contact Settings

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