Walker Sampson

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Education

MS in Information Science, The University of Texas at Austin.
Focus on Digital Archives

BA, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi.
Major: English, Minor: Art

The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
Coursework: Elements of Design, Graphic Design, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing

Experience

Preserving Games Research Project
Graduate Research Assistant

Goodwill Computer Museum
Database design, coding and usability

Teaching Assistant, Competitive Intelligence Resources and Strategies

Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Intern

The Austin History Center
Preservation Volunteer

Harry Ransom Center
Preservation Volunteer

Austin Community College
Assistant in Acquisitions and Processing

English Center for Children, Sisa Language Institute, Suwon, South Korea
English as Second Language Teacher

Lemuria Bookstore, Jackson, Mississippi
Inventory Management and Bookseller

Jackson Free Press Newsweekly, Jackson, Mississippi
Writer Intern

Academics

Magna Cum Laude, The University of Mississippi

Phi Beta Kappa Member for outstanding academic performance

Sigma Tau Delta Member for outstanding English studies

Phi Kappa Phi Member for outstanding academic performance

The University of Mississippi Study Abroad Program:
Shakespeare Summer School at the University of Cambridge

Skills

Development Tools: Java, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, XML, CSS, HTML

Operating systems: Linux, OS X, Windows 3.11 to Vista

Software: Apache Web Server, Subversion, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, OpenOffice, iWork suite, AppleWorks

Organizations

Student Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Member, Society of American Archivists (SAA)

Member, American Library Association (ALA)

Member, Texas Library Association (TLA)

Last modified June 28, 2009

walker@ischool.utexas.edu