Profile: I am a professional administrator/manager
with significant experience in research, writing and editing, computer software
applications, budget implementation and marketing. I have a unique combination
of skills and expertise.
Ø Strong
verbal and written communication skills
Ø Excellent phone and interpersonal skills
Ø Program and department coordination, administration and management
Ø Writing, copywriting, editing; expertise in grammar, composition and
word meanings
Ø Troubleshooting and analytic problem solving
Ø Research and Development, information retrieval and information management
Ø Web design
Ø Expert in Internet usage, searches and application
Ø Grant/RFP research, writing, and administration of grant awards.
Ø Event Planning: Budgeting, Coordination and Administration
Ø Utilization of computers: PC, Mac, Unix
Ø Office software: MS Office, ACT!. QuickBooks, EndNote, FrontPage, PowerPoint,
Adobe PDF and Photoshop, Access, Dreamweaver: numerous other packages
Ø Programming, including utilization of SGML, statistical analysis (using
packages such as BMDP), Shell, Lisp, SGML, HTML
Ø Administrative:
all aspects of office and lab administration and management
Ø Training and supervision of personnel (3-20 people)
Ø Project coordination
Ø Coordinated, Researched and Developed an online dictionary/thesaurus
(WordNet with Dr. George Miller), as part of team effort.
Ø Designed and led development of workflow and project tracking system
to co-ordinate complex research and development process
Ø Contributing author of book: Wordnet: A Lexical Reference System and
Some Applications, numerous articles and website content (list available
upon request)
Ø Technical, academic, and business writing and editing
Ø Research and preparation of analyses and reports
Ø Content research for business and self-help websites
Ø Executive Producer
Ø Inside sales and marketing for business start-ups.
Ø Creation and execution of successful marketing campaigns
Ø Research, preparation and administration of major grant proposals and
their subsequent awards (awards ranging from $50k through $1.9Mil, each)
Ø Fostered procedural directives and instructions: both technical and
non-technical
Ø Financial planning, cost analysis and project analysis
BOTTOM LINE: With my expertise and experience, I can help
to bridge the gap between high-powered thinkers, savvy business people,
and alert customers and/or donor
Administrative Analyst, University of California, Irvine 2001-Present
Administrative responsibility
for complex analyses that require a global knowledge of policies, procedures
and practices of the immediate organization in conjunction with the operations
of the larger organization. Detailed planning, and locating sources for
the collection of data and information, reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing
reports. Preparation and administration of grant proposals and their subsequent
awards. Day-to-day office management and supervision of Lab and Lab personnel
consisting of 15-20 researchers and students. Preparation of directives
and other instructions. Extensive writing and editing. Customers/sponsoring
agencies include the National Institute of Health, the National Cancer
Institute, and pharmaceutical companies.
Senior Researcher, WordNet Project, Princeton University 1992
- 1999
Under the direction of Dr. George Miller, coordinated and managed the
Semantic project aspect of the Research and Development of Wordnet, an
online lexical dictionary. The product source code is in wide use by myriad
business and research concerns, such as software developers and computational
linguists (e.g., Oxford English Online, Linguistic Data Consortium). Among
our Customers/sponsoring agencies were the Office of Naval Research, the
National Science Foundation, and the Department Of Defense.
Administration and Research, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 1986 - 1992
Cognitive Science Lab, Princeton University
Administered and coordinated projects in the research and development
of products such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems that involved use of Artificial
Intelligence methodologies, for such Customers/sponsors as DARPA and the
Department of Defense.
Contract
Administrative,
Sales, Marketing, B2LS
Software 1999-Present
Design and Business Consulting
Marketing, Administration, and Contracting for independent contracting
business that offers software development and general administrative business
solutions. Customers include an aeronautical development company with government
contracts who makes use of subcontracted software development, and business
and administrative solutions for the following small business concerns:
Executive Producer,
Editor, StrategyWeek.com 2000-2001
Researched and booked CEO's of leading Internet companies for weekly radio
broadcast and website that presented ebusiness strategies to businesses
via insightful interviews. Position also required content writing, editing,
and web design and implementation, in addition to strong communicative skills.
Administrative Sales,
Marketing, OneFineYarn 2000-2001
Administration
and salesfor online and mail
order yarn business: increased sales twofold during contract tenure.
Researcher, Writer, Psychology websites 2000-2001
Researched and wrote extensive content for websites dealing in self-help
for
troubled adolescents and their parents.
Education
Ø CUNY, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn NY: B.A. Anthropology and Psychology; Cum Laude, 3.3 GPA
Ø Audited Cognitive Science graduate classes, Princeton University
References: Available
upon request
Academic Publications
Merrill,
D. C., Reiser, B. J., and Landes, S. "Human tutoring: Pedagogical strategies
and learning outcomes". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA., April,
1992.
George A. Miller, Martin Chodorow,
Shari Landes, Claudia Leacock and Robert G. Thomas, 1994, "Using a Semantic
Concordance for Sense Identification", Proceedings of the ARPA Workshop
on Human Language Technology, San Francisco, Morgan Kaufman.
Merrill, D.C., Reiser, B.J., Merrill, S.K., and Landes, S. "Tutoring:
Guided Learning by Doing". Cognition and Instruction, 1995, 13(3). 315-372.
Fellbaum, Christiane, J. Grabowski,
and Shari Landes. "Matching Words to Senses in WordNet: Naive vs. Expert
Differentiation of Senses". Technical Report, Psychology Department,
University of Mannheim, Germany, 1995.
Fellbaum, C., Grabowski, J.,
Landes, S., and Baumann, A. "Matching Words to Senses in WordNet: Naive
vs. Expert Differentiation of Senses". In: Fellbaum, C., (ed.), WordNet:
A Lexical Reference System and Some Applications, MIT Press, 1998.
Landes, S., Leacock, C., and Tengi, R. "Creating Semantic Concordances
with WordNet". In: Fellbaum, C., (ed.), WordNet: A Lexical Reference
System and Some Applications, MIT Press, 1998.
Miller, G., Tengi, R., and Landes, S. "Matching
the Tagging to the Task" (submitted).