Some of my experience and work.
Web Developer | Provo, UT (Remote) | February '16 - Present
Instructor | Provo, UT, Beirut, Leb. | February '16 - Present
Web and Mobile App Developer | Orem, UT | Dec '12 - February '16
Item Writer / QA Tester | New York, NY | Nov' 11 - Nov '12
Czech & Slovak Translator // Slavic Languages Specialist | Provo, UT | April '09 - Nov '11
I've been taught a thing or two along the way.
MA. Computational Linguistics – Dec 21, 2011
I studied phonetics and phonological system analysis, corpus and computational linguistics, as well as langauge acquistion. I attended Georgia State with the intention to focus on computational approaches to language analysis, but ultimately emphasized in phonetics. I left Georgia State before completing my masters degree and do not currently have plans to complete the degree; though, I am continually involved in advancing the field of phonetics, computational speech and language analysis, and linguistics.
BA, Lingustics | Czech and French language Minors – Aug 2011
The Brigham Young University Linguistics Department is the largest in the United States and is a leader in corpus and phonological linguistics. My coursework involved a wide range of core linguistics classes, though I spent a good deal of extra time participating in natural language processing, phonetic, and morphological research.
"Ramid'o vis mixtu pal'ma, vis'visadoqvin vias quopuer to." Dyesh Henge
I have a wonderful (on all days) wife and three great (on most days) kids. I love:
(in no particular order)| • Biking | • The South |
| • Reading | • Javascript |
| • Kayaking | • Weightlifting |
| • Traveling | • Playing violin and viola |
| • Programming | • Fetty Wap and 90's grunge |
| • Classical music | • Helping and serving people |
| • Orange cream soda | • Studying less-common languages |
I am a linguist and web developer. I am responsible for a few biofeedback mobile apps and for helping some people learn how to pronounce new sounds. I am a phonetician and am keenly interested in speech technologies. I am a leading expert in electropalatography and have helped simplify the learning curve to help speech therapists and parents do better articulation therapy. I do speak a few languages, but I like to think that keep an academic interest in language diversity and that I am not just a language enthusiast that tries to learn any language I come across...but it's not true. I just like learning languages.
I'm continually working to improve my software and web development skills. I am a big fan of JavaScript and primarily develop for the web to create and consume RESTful apis. I have worked on native mobile platforms, but now use React-Native and Ionic to create mobile apps. I find socket-based databases and three-way data binding exciting. I love the ubiquity and ever improving functionality of JavaScript. I have used other languages as needed, including Objective-C, Swift, Python, and C++.