about me

As of September 2008, I have a joint appointment as Research Process Manager in the ATLAS group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Project Associate at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland (where the web was born!). I have been involved in developing collaborative tools technologies at U-M since 2001, including automated lecture recording, archiving and publishing software, and the design and deployment of video conferencing and remote teaching facilities. I have been centrally involved in the MScribe project and CARMA service. My skills include project planning and management, software development and database and server administration.

In 2001 I received an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and started working for Professor Homer A. Neal as a member of the ATLAS Collaboratory Project. I also have a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in German, and I speak fluent German and basic French. In my free time I enjoy travel, windsurfing, snowboarding, iceboating, climbing, swimming, listening to and collecting music and watching movies. Something interesting: I lived in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for five years as a child!

my schedule

projects

University of Michigan ATLAS Collaboratory Project
CARMA service
MScribe pilot project
Web Lecture Archive Project
UM-CERN Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Geneva, Switzerland

work experience

Project Associate in CERN IT AVC group (September 2008 - present)
Research Process Manager in U-M Physics (July 2005 - present)
Project Associate in U-M Physics (May 2004 - July 2005)
Computer Systems Consultant II in U-M Physics (May 2002 - May 2004)
Computer Systems Consultant II (temp) in U-M Physics (August 2001 - May 2002)
Graduate Student Instructor in U-M Mathematics (August 1999 - May 2001). Courses taught:

• MATH 105 (Precalculus)
• MATH 115 (Calculus I)
• MATH 215 lab (Vector Calculus)

education

M.S. Mathematics, University of Michigan (1999-2001)
B.A. German, University of Oklahoma (1994-1999)
B.A. Mathematics, University of Oklahoma (1994-1999)
One year study abroad (Math and German) at the University of Heidelberg (1996-1997)

papers and presentations

Lecture archiving on a larger scale at the University of Michigan and CERN (CHEP 2009, Prague)
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University of Michigan lecture archiving and related activities of the U-M ATLAS Collaboratory Project (CHEP 2007, Victoria, B.C.)
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2008. Volume 119
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A Web Lecture Capture System with Robotic Speaker Tracking (17 February 2006, CHEP 2006, Mumbai)
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The Web Lecture Archive Project (17 February 2006, CHEP 2006, Mumbai)
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List of CERN publications to which I contributed

A Factorization Formula for Class Number Two, Journal of Number Theory, Volume 79, Issue 1, November 1999 (research completed during summer 1998 in an NSF REU program at Trinity University, San Antonio)
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    also available from sciencedirect.com

in the news

Video archive project can record lectures for posterity - UM News Service, UM Record
ATLAS Web Lectures - ATLAS eNews
Intro and IR Camera - UM Tech Transfer podcast
Celebrate Invention 2005 inspires collaboration - UM Record
Spotlight: Come (brrr!) sail away - UM Record

web sites

CERN IT, ATLAS Experiment, UM Physics
ATLAS Michigan People
Prof. Scott Chapman's (Trinity University) list of former REU students
my other personal web pages: CERN, UM (not updated sing Aug 2001), Fermilab (out of date)

personal projects

Jeremy's Collaborative Tools Blog