Quinn Dombrowski
New Media Consultant, University of Chicago
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, MS program in Library and Information Science, since July 2007
University of Chicago, BA/MA in Slavic Linguistics, June 2006
Henry Foss High School: International Baccalaureate Program; Tacoma WA, 1999-2002
Work experience
Technical
New Media Consultant, University of Chicago Academic Technologies, 2007-present
Assistant Site Developer, University of Chicago Web Services, 2006-2007
Freelance website designer and developer for Chicago-area artists, 2007
Research assistant, Humanities Computing at the University of Chicago, 2006-2007
Computing Assistant/Multimedia Computing Assistant, USITE computing cluster, 2004-2007
Web site designer and/or webmaster, Slavic Languages & Literatures and various faculty members' home pages, 2005-2007
Technical director, various grant projects for University of Chicago faculty members (Medieval Slavic Database;Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian dictionary of aspectual pairs; digitizing Balkan and Caucasian course materials), 2004-present
NSIT Student Advisory Committee member, winter-spring 2006
ThoutReader/DotReader XML-based e-book creator, 2005-2007
Web site content and graphics editor, OSoft, 2004-present
Web site designer and webmaster, Save the Shoreland student campaign, fall 2004-winter 2005
Web design, content, and graphics editor, MySoftwareHelper and MyClassroomHelper, 2001-2004
Beta-testing web sites for the Helper Company and OSoft, 2001-present
Digital media
Winner, "Best Music", 5-minute Film Festival, 2006
Photograph published in Schmap Martha's Vineyard Guide, August 2006
Videographer / video editor, South Asian Students Association Show, 2004 and 2006
Photographs published in Leptir Mašna literary journal, May 2004/December 2005
Winner, "Most Artistic", Where? What? film festival, 2004
Videographer / video editor, Ecomadera/Kallari (Ecuadorean NGOs), 2004
Videographer / video editor, Korean Student Organization Show, 2004
Photographer / video editor, University Libraries annual newsletter, 2004
Writing
Contributor to Teleread e-book blog, 2005-present
Design/layout editor, Leptir Mašna literary magazine, December 2005 issue
Copyeditor: MySoftwareHelper, OSoft, University of Chicago faculty; 2002-present
Teaching
Lecturer, independent 1st year Russian course, 2006-2007
Lecturer, 1st year Russian, fall 2006
Drill instructor, 4th year Russian, fall 2006
Tutor for 2nd year Russian student, 2005
Other
Founder and chief organizer, Save the Shoreland (student activist committee opposed to the university selling a historic dorm), 2003-2004
Bookstacks assistant, Regenstein Library, 2003-2004
Awards
University of Chicago Honor Scholarship (full undergraduate tuition), 2002-2006
4th Year Winner, T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting, 2006
Dean's List, 2002-2006
Solomon-Manaster Scholarship, 2002
Nora Holdsworth Scholarship (tuition for the Summer Russian Program at University of Washington), 2002
Gold medal, International Olympiada of Spoken Russian; Moscow, Russia, 2001
Professional Development
Virtual World Librarianship: Your Second Life, six-week course through UIUC, May-July 2007
Slavic Digital Text Workshop, UIUC, June 2007
International Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture; Ohrid, Macedonia; August 2006
Ohio State University, Medieval Slavic Summer Institute, June-July 2006
St. Petersburg Centre of Language and Culture, July-August 2005; rated at Четвёртый сертификационный уровень: ТРКИ-4 (highest proficiency level)
Other technical skills
Extensive experience creating and modifying xml-based e-books
Experience developing web sites using the Drupal content management framework
Experience modifying and creating fonts using FontLab Studio
Extensive experience using OCR in a variety of languages
Languages
English (native), Russian (fluent), Spanish (advanced), Macedonian (intermediate), Hindi (basic), Japanese (basic)
Reading knowledge of French, German, Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian