Elijah Wright

Employment

Technical Graduate Assistant / SLIS Technology Staff, Summer 2003 - Present
SLIS Computer Lab consultant, Spring 2003.
Computer Lab Consultant and Webmaster, Fall 2001 - Summer 2002
Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio University English Department, Fall 2000 - Spring 2002
Network Administrator, Tennessee Technological University Center for the Management, Utilization, and Protection of Water Resources, 1996-2000
Helpdesk computer lab staff, TTU, 1996-1998
Editor of The Honors Handbook (orientation text/textbook for Honors freshmen), TTU, Summer 1999 (co-editor, layout) and Summer 2000 (managing editor)
Editor, Honorable Mention, TTU, 1998-2000

Publications work: Comfortable with most current software used to produce both Web and non-Web publications. The short list: Pagemaker, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Emacs, a smattering of TeX and Docbook tools.
Administrative work: Extraordinarily fluent with Linux, Solaris, and Novell Netware administration paradigms, most of the standard daemons (Apache, Sendmail, Bind8/9, MySQL, PostgreSQL), and with most of the common UNIX toolsets. Good at figuring out how ways to support masses of users with as few resources as possible.
Programming Language Comfort Zones: Reasonably comfortable writing programs in Visual Basic, PHP, Unix shell scripts, Fortran. Working on general Python, Java, and Perl fluency. In no particular order.
Other previous exposure: A smattering of Zope, XML-RPC, RSS/RDF, ESRI ArcInfo, and miscellaneous other tools.

Doctoral Student, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, fall 2002-present.
M.A. English Studies (Rhetoric and Composition), Ohio University, June 2002.
B.A. English, Tennessee Technological University, May 2000.

SLIS L571 - Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2005)
SLIS L401 - multiple modules each semester since Summer 2003.
English 308J - Advanced Composition (Junior level) (Spring 2002, topic: Writing about Identity)
English 153 - Freshman Composition: Special Topics (Winter 2002, topic: Writing about Visual Rhetoric and American Popular Culture)
English 152 - Freshman Composition: Writing about Literature (Fall 2001, topic: "Writing about Banned Books")
English 151 - Freshman Composition: Writing and Rhetoric (Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters, 2000-2001 academic year)

Last updated May 23, 2005, by Elijah Wright