Hire, supervise, and support full-time and part-time staff in creating, expanding, and maintaining an internationally renowned digital library of over 80,000 SGML and XML-encoded titles

Ensure successful delivery of digital content on a website serving over 300,000 users per day

Collaborate with university library managers to plan and implement the architecture, workflow, and standards of a digital library environment integrating different formats and media types in a "one-stop shopping" user interface

Coordinate with University faculty to assess concepts, technical and financial needs, and implementation methods for the 10 to 15 projects that the Electronic Text Center (Etext) undertakes each year including "Mark Twain in his Times," "The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive," "The Walt Whitman Archive," "The Valley of the Shadow Civil War Archive," and "Clotel: An Electronic Scholarly Edition"

Supervise project managers and write annual and final reports for national and international grant-funded projects worth $800,000 including a $400,000 Mellon-Foundation grant to build an archive of Early American Fiction and a $250,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop a Digital Middle High German text archive with the University of Trier in Germany

Assume primary responsibility in meeting project and grant deadlines and milestones through careful management and allocation of resources, hands-on supervision, and project task delegation

Provide XML consulting and instruction for libraries and educators across the United States

Supervise, train, and support thirteen part-time staff members

Manage, balance, and allocate funds from an operating budget of over $100,000

Spearhead the conversion of XML content to e-Reading formats (MSReader, PDF, Palm) making Etext the most trafficked E-book site on the internet

Analyze problems and implement solutions to challenges of data management and dissemination especially in relation to delivery issues of XML documents on the web

Instruct university students and library staff in image and text scanning, HTML, XML, PERL, and Regular Expressions

Encode texts in a UNIX environment with TEI-conformant SGML

Image scanning and manipulation

Implement specialized projects including:

Instructor: "Web Development with XML: Design and Application" Future Association of Research Libraries (ARL) workshop (with Patrick Yott and Chris Ruotolo) January, 2003, Tucson, AZ

Instructor: "Electronic Texts in XML" Rare Book School workshop (with Chris Ruotolo and David Seaman) July, 2002, Charlottesville, VA

Instructor: "Web Development with XML: Design and Application" ARL workshop (with Patrick Yott and Chris Ruotolo) June, 2002, Charlottesville, VA

Instructor: "Web Development with XML: Design and Application" ARL workshop (with Patrick Yott and Chris Ruotolo) January, 2002, Charlottesville, VA

Speaker: "The Emerging Role of E-books and Their Impact on Libraries and Librarians" Fall Meeting of Virginia Association of Law Libraries (VALL) October, 2001, Charlottesville, VA

Instructor: "An Introduction to XML" ARL workshop (with Chris Ruotolo) August, 2001, Charlottesville, VA

Speaker: "TEI and the E-book Revolution" (with Chris Ruotolo) Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACH/ALLC) June, 2001, New York, NY

Speaker: "The E-book Epoch: The Library as Publisher" Annual Meeting of Virginia Association of Specialized Libraries (VASLA) May, 2001, Charlottesville, VA

Speaker: "E Unus Pluribum: Economics of E-book Production for the New Millenium" Annual Conference, Association of American Publishers (AAP) February, 2001, Washington, DC

Instructor: HTML: An Introduction to Web Development and Design University of Virginia's School of Continuing Education, Fall 2000

Instructor: Library Short Courses on scanning and image manipulation Fall 2000

Instructor: ENGL 383: History of Literature in English III, Contemporary English Literature (discussion) Fall 1999

Instructor: ENWR 105: Introduction to Academic Writing Fall 1999

Instructor: ENWR 101: Introduction to Composition Fall 1998, Spring 1999

Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, 2006
Patrolling and Controlling Our Borders: Vigilante Fictions in America
Director: Franny Nudelman

M.A., English, University of Virginia, 1999
Concentration: American Literature

B.A., English, College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C., 1995
Magna Cum Laude