J. Michael Moore

1502 Edgewood Ave.

Austin, TX 78722

 

jmichael@jmichaelmoore.net

http://jmichaelmoore.net/

979-575-5359 (voice)

Technical Skills

PHP, MySQL, Yii, Java, C++, UX/UI, Human-Centered Computing, Interaction Design, Design Science, Intelligent User Interfaces, Software Engineering, Requirements Elicitation and Analysis

Education

PhD. in Computer Science (GPA:  4.0)                                                                                       August 2007

Texas A&M University

Dissertation:  Design Exploration: Engaging a Larger User Population

Advisor:  Frank Shipman

M.S. in Computer Science (GPA:  3.9)                                                                                        August 1997

Southwest Texas State University (currently Texas State University)

B.S. in Biochemistry (GPA:  3.5)                                                                                                  August 1991

Texas A&M University

·         University Undergraduate Fellow: Program involving a year of research and compilation of a thesis.

·         University Honors: Curriculum including honors coursework.

Teaching Experience

Adjunct Faculty                                                                                                      January 2013 – May 2013

University of Texas, Austin, Texas

·   Taught Introduction to Programming (Spring 2013) using Java.

Lecturer                                                                August 2008 – December 2009, August 1999 – May 2000

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

·   Developed and presented lectures for Pascal (Fall 1999, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, & Fall 2009) and Java (Spring 2000). 

·   Developed and coordinated labs. Supervised teaching assistants for the programming labs associated with the lectures.

Instructor                                                                                                                     June 2006 & June 2007

Duke TIP, College Station, Texas

·   Developed and presented course on Interaction Design for gifted junior high and high school students.

Lecturer                                                                                                               January 1998 – August 1999

Blinn Junior College, Bryan, Texas

·   Developed and presented lectures for Pascal (Spring and Fall, 1998; Spring and Summer, 1999).  Developed and instructed the programming labs associated with the lectures.


Work Experience

Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf (TSID)                                                   October 1998 – present

Webmaster

·   Volunteer work to develop and maintain the TSID website (http://tsid.org/).

·   Main website created with custom PHP code with a MySQL backend. This includes a calendar for use by the organization and a simple CMS that allows officers, spread throughout the state, to share files.

·   Create custom websites for the annual conferences: 2000-present excluding the 2001 conference site, http://tsid.org/conference/.

o   Starting in 2008, the sites are implemented with custom PHP code and a MySQL backend.

o   Starting in 2013, the sites are implemented with the Yii framework.

Austin Community College – Austin, Texas                                                             January 2013 – present

Sign Language Interpreter (Part time)

·   Interpreted lectures and labs for Interpret for deaf and hard of hearing clients.

Camp Gladiator – Austin, Texas                                                                                  May 2014 – July 2014

Contractor

·   Code development and debugging using PHP and MySQL.

Texas State, San Marcos – Texas                                                                          January 2013 – May 2013

Sign Language Interpreter (Part time)

·   Interpreted lectures and labs for Interpret for deaf and hard of hearing clients.

Bryan/College Station/Houston, Texas                                                    September 2001 – December 2012

Freelance Sign Language Interpreter

·   Interpret for deaf and hard of hearing clients. Done primarily in the post-secondary setting at Texas A&M University, Blinn College, Houston Community College and Cy-Fair College.

·   Interpret video relay for CSDVRS.

Texas A&M University, College Station – Texas                                                         July 2007 – July 2008

Postdoctoral Research Associate

·   Worked with the Design Exploration (DE) grant – Java, PHP, and MySQL.

·   Wrote and assisted with conference, journal, and grant proposal writing.

Texas A&M University, College Station – Texas                                                   August 2000 – June 2007

Graduate Assistant Research

·   Worked on Visual Knowledge Builder (VKB) and Design Exploration (DE) development – Java.

·   Wrote and assisted with conference, journal, and grant proposal writing.

Texas A&M University, College Station – Texas                                               August 1996 – August 2000

Sign Language Interpreter (Staff)

·   Interpreted lectures and labs for Interpret for deaf and hard of hearing clients.

·   Developed policy and publications related to interpreting and disability services.

Southwest Texas State University – San Marcos, Texas                                 January 1996 – August 1996

Graduate Assistant

·   Developed and modified a user interface for a project engineering package.

·   Set up and maintained a group of Pentium 166 machines running Windows NT 3.51 for a Software Engineering practicum course.

Dissertation

1.      J.M. Moore, “Design Exploration: Engaging a Larger User Population”, PhD. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2007.

Publications

1.      S. Bae, D. Kim, K. Meintanis, J.M. Moore, A. Zacchi, F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, and C. Marshall, “Supporting Document Triage via Annotation-Based Multi-Application Visualizations”, Proceedings of ACM and IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2010.

2.      J.M. Moore and F. Shipman, “Combining the Analysis of Spatial Layout and Text to Support Design Exploration”, Proceedings ASE 2008, The 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Sept. 2008. (24%)

3.      S. Bae, H. Hsieh, D. Kim, C. Marshall, K. Meintanis, J.M. Moore, A. Zacchi, and F. Shipman, “Supporting Document Triage via Annotation-based Visualizations”, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Oct. 2008.

4.      S. Bae, C. Marshall, K. Meintanis, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, J.M. Moore, and F. Shipman, “Patterns of Reading and Organizing Information in Document Triage”, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), 2006.

5.      R. Badi, S. Bae, J.M. Moore, K. Meintanis, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, F. Shipman, C. Marshall, “Recognizing User Interest and Document Value from Reading and Organizing Activities in Document Triage”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2006, pp. 218-225. (24%)

6.      S. Bae, R. Badi, K. Meintanis, J.M. Moore, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, C. Marshall, F. Shipman, “Effects of Display Configurations on Document Triage”, Human-Computer Interaction: INTERACT 2005, pp. 130-143. (26%)

7.      F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, J.M. Moore, and A. Zacchi, "Supporting Personal Collections across Digital Libraries in Spatial Hypertext", Proceedings of the ACM and IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004, pp. 358-367. (30%) (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

8.      J.M. Moore, Communicating Requirements Using End-User GUI Constructions with Argumentation. Proceedings ASE 2003, The Eighteenth IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 360-363.

9.      F. Shipman, J.M. Moore, P. Maloor, H. Hsieh, and R. Akkapeddi, "Semantics Happen: Knowledge Building in Spatial Hypertext", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, 2002, pp. 25-34. (31%) (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

10.  J.M. Moore and F. Shipman, "Requirements Elicitation using Visual and Textual Information", Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, 2001, pp. 308-309.

11.  F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, R. Airhart, P. Maloor, J.M. Moore, and D. Shah, "Emergent Structure in Analytic Workspaces: Design and Use of the Visual Knowledge Builder", Human-Computer Interaction: INTERACT 2001, pp. 132-139. (33%)

12.  F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, R. Airhart, P. Maloor, and J.M. Moore, "The Visual Knowledge Builder: A Second Generation Spatial Hypertext", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, 2001, pp. 113-122. (27%)

13.  F. Shipman, R. Airhart, H. Hsieh, P. Maloor, J.M. Moore, and D. Shah, "Visual and Spatial Communication and Task Organization in the Visual Knowledge Builder", Proceedings of the ACM 2001 GROUP Conference, 2001, pp. 260-269. (30%)

14.  J.M. Moore and F. Shipman, "A Comparison of Questionnaire-Based and GUI-Based Requirements Gathering", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2000, pp. 35-44. (~20%) (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

Book Chapters

1.      S. Bae, R. Badi, K. Meintanis, J.M. Moore, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, C. Marshall, F. Shipman, “Effects of Display Configurations on Document Triage”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3585, Sep 2005, Pages 130 - 143

2.      F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, J.M. Moore, "Towards a World-Wide Spatial Hypertext", in N. Arganaraz, editor, Humanistic Informatics, in press.

Professional Service

Program Committee Member: Hypertext 2008                                                                       2008

Judge: Student Research Week, Texas A&M University                                                          2008

President: Brazos Valley Interpreters for the Deaf                                                                    2006 - 2007

Parliamentarian: Brazos Valley Interpreters for the Deaf                                                        2003 – 2006

Temporary Member: Aggie Honor Council                                                                             2005

President: Computer Science Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University            2003 – 2004

Student Member: Institutional Review Board (non-voting), Texas A&M University             2003 – 2004

Student Member: Graduate Appeals Panel, Texas A&M University                                       2002 – 2004

Financial Officer: Rainbow Graduate Student Association , Texas A&M University             2002 – 2004

Doctoral Symposium/Student Volunteer: IEEE ASE 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada       2003

Student Volunteer: ACM-IEEE JCDL 2003, Houston, TX                                                     2003

Computer Science Representative: Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University       2002 – 2003

Student Member: Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and Globalization                                    2002

Vice President: Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University                                        2001 – 2002

Co-Chair: Student Research Week, Texas A&M University                                                    2001 – 2002

Graduate Student Member: Graduate Committee, Texas A&M University                           2001 – 2002

Student Volunteer: ACM Hypertext 2000 conference, San Antonio, TX                                2000

Student Volunteer: ACM Digital Libraries 2000 conference, San Antonio, TX                      2000

Computer Science Representative: Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University       1999 – 2000

Secretary: Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf                                                               1999 – 2001

Webmaster: Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf                                                            1998 – present


Awards

Mentoring Award (2004) selected by faculty members in the Computer Science department and presented by the Aggie Women in Computer Science at Texas A&M University

Student scholarship recipient to attend the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference 2003 presented by the Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science

Guseman Award (2002) presented for outstanding contributions to the Graduate Student Council at Texas A&M University

2nd Place (2006) Student Research Week Poster Competition

Affiliations

Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf (TSID) Certified Member

Certifications

Level II Interpreter Certification (Sign Language) granted by the State of Texas, Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services