Rob Felty

Current

• Lecturer at University of Colorado at Boulder
• Web Developer at independent contractor

Past

• Post-doctoral fellow at Indiana University
• Linguistic Consultant at Marathon Global

Education

• University of Michigan
• Grinnell College

Recommended

1 person has recommended Rob

Connections

31 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Rob Felty’s Summary

I use my training as a linguist as well as my experience as a programmer to build websites which use proper semantic markup, are easy to navigate, and are search engine optimized.

Rob Felty’s Specialties:

Wordpress themes and plugins, php, cms, speech processing, seo

Rob Felty’s Experience

• Lecturer

  University of Colorado at Boulder

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

  I am currently teaching Introduction to Computational Corpus Linguistics, which gives students an introduction to UNIX and python, and how to use programming to answer linguistic questions.

• Web Developer

  independent contractor

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  I have worked on both on the front end and back end of several websites, and also provide some linux-based web-hosting services for several websites.

• Post-doctoral fellow

  Indiana University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  July 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 1 month)

  As a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, I am carrying out research in spoken word recognition. Specifically, I am investigating how the brain translates an acoustic signal into meaningful utterances, both in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, including listeners with cochlear implants.

• Linguistic Consultant

  Marathon Global

  (E-Learning industry)

  March 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  A new company developing software for second language learning.

Rob Felty’s Education

• University of Michigan

  Ph.D. , Linguistics and Germanic Languages and Literatures , 2002 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Linguistics department web committee
  Web designer for MCWOP 2005

• Grinnell College

  B.A. , German , 1997 — 2000

  Activities and Societies:

  Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Band, Orchestra, Bridge Club, Water Polo

Additional Information

Rob Felty’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Rob Felty’s Interests:

Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, German, Jazz, drumming, baking bread by hand, cooking, computer programming, web design, chopping wood

Rob Felty’s Groups:

Acoustical Society of America
Linguistic Society of America

Rob Felty’s Contact Settings

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