Resume

• 2010

  Ph.D.

  English Literature

  University of Toronto

• 2007

  Graduate Course Work in English Literature (non-degree program)

  University of California

  Berkeley

• 1989

  M.A.

  Security Policy Studies

  George Washington University

• 1981

  B.A.

  Government and Law

  Lafayette College

• Editing

  Public Relations

  Latin

  Writing

  Leadership

  Start-ups

  Research

  Entrepreneurship

  British Literature

  Marketing

  Strategy

  Public Speaking

  Grant Writing

  Negotiation

  Old English

  Social Media

  Middle English

  Product Management

  University Teaching

  Software

  Hardware Combine for Better Modeling

  Software

  Hardware Combine for Better Modeling

  Ph.D. dissertation

  Metaphors of Turning: The Mind

  Agency

  and Free Will in Anglo-Saxon Literature

  A Hoagie By Any Other Name

  Fæhða Gemyndig: Hostile Acts vs. Enmity

  Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends

  Elizabeth Loughney

  Proceedings of the DNA International Conference on Controlling Arms

  Journo's Boffo Lingo: The Slang of Daily Variety

  Summary of the Proceedings of the DNA International Conference on Controlling Arms

  Rethinking the Prescriptivist-Descriptivist Dyad: Motives and Methods in Two Eighteenth-Century Grammars

  Computer Simulation of Molecular Docking to Screen Compounds

  Verification Technologies: Roles and Applications

  Dave

  Self-employed

  Institute for Advanced Study

  Self-employed

  NVIDIA

  OpenTV

  Texas A&M University

  SAIC

  Mosaix

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  University of Toronto

  Toronto

  Ontario

  Course design and syllabus planning

  lectures

  leading seminar discussions

  grading

  and mentoring students:\n— Cognitive Approaches to Literature\n— Critical Writing About Literature\n— Effective Writing\n— History of the English Language\n— British Literature—Medieval to Romantic\n— Literary Tradition\n— Narrative\n\nResearcher on a project to develop and use an annotation system for digital versions of medieval manuscripts. Development and testing of the user interface

  creating the digital catalog of the manuscripts

  identifying and categorizing early modern annotation to the medieval manuscripts.

  Instructor

  University of Toronto

  Alameda

  California

  Provided sales support and strategic and competitive analysis at an enterprise document workflow / CRM software company.

  Product Marketing Manager

  Mosaix

  McLean

  Virginia

  Arms control verification planning and training for the U.S. Air Force.

  Senior Arms Control Analyst

  SAIC

  Princeton

  NJ

  Visitor

  Institute for Advanced Study

  The Pentagon

  Alexandria

  Virginia

  Represented the Defense Department at the Chemical Weapons Convention Preparatory Commission meeting in The Hague

  The Netherlands. Pentagon action officer for chemical/biological arms control matters.

  Senior Arms Control Analyst

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  Emeryville

  California

  Provided business planning and product strategy/management to high-tech corporate clients. Wrote and edited corporate profiles

  lesson plans

  web content

  press releases

  and marketing material for a variety of business and educational clients.

  Marketing Consultant / Writer

  Self-employed

  Albany

  California

  Provided business planning and product strategy/management to high-tech corporate clients and the U.S. Air Force. Wrote and edited corporate profiles

  lesson plans

  web content

  press releases

  and marketing material for a variety of clients.

  Marketing Consultant / Writer

  Self-employed

  Berkeley

  California

  Managed a GPU-accelerated

  3D rendering software product targeted at the digital film market from launch through version 2.1. Duties included: \n— Planning marketing strategy

  branding

  and messaging\n— Defining target markets

  value propositions

  messaging

  positioning

  and pricing\n— Defining product requirements and road maps\n— Developing online community around the product.\n\nPrimary editor and writer of external communications—press releases

  web and ad copy

  white papers

  product collateral

  and published articles—for multi-billion dollar computer hardware manufacturer.

  Senior Product Manager

  NVIDIA

  Mountain View

  California

  Managed the product life cycle of multiple hardware and software product lines

  from requirements definition

  through delivery and launch

  to end-of-life for an interactive television company. \n\nCreated and implemented marketing strategy for new interactive content business unit.

  Senior Product Manager

  OpenTV

  Bryan/College Station

  Texas Area

  Course design and syllabus planning

  lectures

  leading seminar discussions

  grading

  and mentoring students:\n— Linguistics\n— Technical Writing\n— Composition and Rhetoric\n— Writing About Literature

  Lecturer

  Texas A&M University

  Medieval Academy of America

  International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

  New Chaucer Society

  American Dialect Society

  Modern Language Association

  English

  Middle (1100-1500)

  Latin

  English

  English

  Old (ca.450-1100)

  Norse

  Old

  ROTC Scholarship

  U.S. Army

  University of Toronto Fellowship

  University of Toronto

  Ontario Graduate Scholarship

  Ontario

  Eugene P. Chase Prize

  Lafayette College

  C. B. Farrar International Graduate Scholarship in English

  University of Toronto

  College President's Award

  Lafayette College

  Ruben Cheng and Pui Yuk Chek Cheng Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities

  University of Toronto

  Minerva and Emil V. Novak Award in Government and Law

  Lafayette College

  Distinguished Military Graduate

  Chemical Officer Basic Course

  U.S. Army Chemical School