Jennifer L. Davidson Career Objective I am aspiring to become a human-computer interaction/user experience researcher in industry after obtaining a graduate degree at Oregon State University. Education and Training PhD Computer Science, minor in Aging Sciences, GPA: 3.78 September 2009 - Present Emphasis in human-computer interaction research methods Expected graduation June 2014 BS Computer Science, minor in French, GPA: 3.47 August 2005 - May 2009 Study Abroad Program December 2009 - January 2010 Rabat, Morocco Skills Research: Participatory Design, Empirical Lab Studies, Case Studies, Think-Aloud Studies, Data Analysis, Semi-structured Interviews Technical: Python, C#, HTML5, Javascript/jQuery, Perl, Java, PHP, Drupal 7, Sharepoint 2010, LaTeX Peer-Reviewed Publications Davidson, J. L. and C. Jensen. What Health Topics Do Older Adults Want to Track: A Participatory Design Study. To appear in 15th ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). 2013. Davidson, J. L. and C. Jensen. Participatory Design with Older Adults: An Analysis of Creativity of the Design of Mobile Healthcare Applications. 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, ACM, 2013. Overall acceptance rate: 23%. Forrest, D., C. Jensen, N. Mohan, J. Davidson. Exploring the Role of Outside Organizations in Free/Open Source Software Projects. The 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems, 2012. Acceptance rate full paper: 24%. Davidson, J.L., N. Mohan, C. Jensen. Coping with duplicate bug reports in free/open source software projects, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2011. Acceptance rate full paper: 34%. Shah, A.R., J. Davidson, et al. An Efficient Data Format for Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 21:10, 2010. CV Jennifer Lynn Davidson, Page 1 of 5
Davidson, J.L., G-A. Amoussou. Testing To Certify An Embedded Software System, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceeedings of CCSC-SC Conference, 25:4, 2010. Davidson J.L., M.S. Ragwar, A.E. Smith, J. Eckroth, G-A. Amoussou, S.J. Steinberg. A Framework for a Service Oriented Architecture in a Community Information & Referral System, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of CCSC-SW Conference, 24:4, 2009. Davidson J. L., R. Zhang, J. Eckroth, G.-A. Amoussou. Generating Design Knowledge Through Data Mining, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of CCSC-SW Conference, 24:4, 2009. Panel-Reviewed Graduate Consortium Publications Software. To appear VL/HCC 2013. Software. VL/HCC, 2012. Software. Open Access Journal, Open Source Systems, 2012. Work Experience Community Manager April 2012 - Present Priv.ly, Corvallis, OR Managing developers and communication with the community for an open source project. Program Manager March 2012 - Present ChickTech, Portland, OR Helping an organization to increase the amount of women interested in high tech. Graduate Technical Intern June 2012 - September 2012 Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR Gathered data, designed, and implemented an interactive information visualization (Python, HTML5, Javascript) to determine the risk of using external intellectual property. Research Assistant September 2010 - September 2011 Conducted two qualitative research studies to evaluate the feasibility of drag and drop interaction for children creating graphs. CV Jennifer Lynn Davidson, Page 2 of 5
Software Designer II October 2010 - April 2011 Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, OR Worked on printer applications. Skills include designing test plans, executing test plans, collaborating with external teams. Intern January 2010 - October 2010 Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, OR Worked on printer applications (C#, HTTP, Ruby on Rails). Skills include user experience test plan creation and writing instructional technical documents. Website Programmer October 2009 - March 2010 Oregon State University Valley Library, Corvallis, OR Worked with Drupal 5 (including PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS) to create sophisticated websites for use in a university setting. Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Intern (SULI) June 2009 - August 2009 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA Worked in the Bioinformatics group on Proteomics data management (C#). Professor Assistant/Website Developer August 2008 - May 2009 Skills include documentation of courses, giving substitute lectures, and website maintenance. Research Assistant October 2007 - October 2008 Skills include development and testing of Kanji Characters Alive! software. NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Intern/Assistant May - July 2008 Generating Design Knowledge through Data Mining. Skills include researching, writing technical papers in LaTeX, working in teams, leading fellow interns, and presenting technical information. NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Intern May - August 2007 A Framework Using Service-Oriented Architecture in a Community Information and Referral System. Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant CS 391 Social and Ethical Issues in Computer Science Fall 2010, Winter 2010, Spring 2011 Duties included grading, office hours CS 261 Data Structures CV Jennifer Lynn Davidson, Page 3 of 5
Spring 2010 Duties included preparing and presenting lectures for lab sessions, grading, office hours CS 352 Introduction to Usability Engineering Winter 2011 Duties included quiz writing, grading, office hours Tutor October 2009 June 2010 Inspire Tutoring, Corvallis, OR Tutored Java and Algebra. Teaching Assistant August 2007 May 2008 Grader/Tutor for Introduction to Programming using C++ and Computer Architecture. Awards and Honors Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honors Society Alpha Chapter of Oregon April 2012 - Present NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Sept 2011 - Present Awarded two years of funding to conduct research in healthy aging. Computer Science Student of the Year May 2009 3 rd Place Poster Presentation Award October 2007 Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges - Northwest Region Conferences Graduate/Doctoral Consortia IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages/Human Centric Computing 2012 Open Source Systems Conference 2012 Full Papers ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition 2013 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages/Human Centric Computing 2011 Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges South Central 2010 Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges Southwest 2009 Short Papers CV Jennifer Lynn Davidson, Page 4 of 5
Posters Computing Research Association-Women Graduate Cohort Workshop 2012 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) 2008 Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges Northwest 2007 Invited Speaker Guest Lecture for Human-Computer Interaction Course at Pacific University 2013 ACM-Women workshop at Washington State University Vancouver 2012 Attendee Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting 2011, 2012 InfoCampPDX 2012 BeaverBarCamp 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing 2011 Volunteer Attended Open Source Hackathon ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011, 2012 Reviewer CHI Work-in-Progress (4 papers) 2013 CHI Work-in-Progress (1 paper) 2012 ACM Student Membership GSA Student Membership IEEE Student Membership Systers Member Memberships CV Jennifer Lynn Davidson, Page 5 of 5