Jason Jindrich                                                                   214 Jastram Street, Providence, RI 02908

jason.jindrich@gmail.com • Work (401) 863-6323 • Cellular (917) 842-5637

 

Summary

A multi-disciplinary social science researcher with a decade of experience in teaching and project management. Technically proficient, with recognized abilities with a variety of software packages and computer applications across several platforms. Practiced with public presentations both in and out of the classroom.

Areas of Expertise

Training and administration

•     Managed and trained a mixed staff of more than twenty workers in the procedures related to a multi-year research project.

•     Defined technical procedures to achieve a stated goal, hired employees, and maintained databases related to project.

•     Presented findings at conferences and in journal articles.

•     Exceeded all project goals, and met all original project deadlines with expanded targets.

 

Technology and computing

•     Responsible for management, correction, and maintenance of a dispersed dataset of several million records.

•     Integrated a wide scope of media types into classroom teaching, including the annotation and subtitling of films.

•     Competent with a wide array of software including:  Microsoft Office Suite, E-mail, Database software, video and image editing, and SQL.

•     Used on-line services for course content and distribution of materials at four separate institutions with differing software.

 

Experience

S4-Initiative, Brown University, Providence, RI                                                                 2007 to Present

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Supervision of a NSF/NIH granted project utilizing archival records to recreate the census geography of the tenth U.S. Census in a GIS format.

•     Responsible for organization, collating, and assessment of all materials related to the project including the location and georeferencing of nineteenth century maps, location and interpretation of period census records and materials describing the street network and addresses of residents in thirty-nine cities.

•     Training and co-ordination of a team of 8-10 persons employed on the project at any one time.

•     Determining and implementing the organization, collation, and assessment of all materials related to the project.

•     Duties also include the organization and creation of a database of current information that conforms to nineteenth-century analogues and associating those resources to a relational database of individual person records.

 

Rhode Island College, Providence, RI                                                                                              2008

Adjunct Faculty, Sociology

Taught Research Methods class

•     Successfully led a class of twenty-five students through a required course introducing the methods and theory of social science research.

•     Established a personal, but professional relationship with students; using that to customize course content.

•     Developed the course content and collected all materials within a two week period between being appointed to the class and the start of the semester.

 

Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, MN                                                                    2005 to 2007

Research Assistant

Duties included database maintenance and improving conformity of the IPUMS/NAPP census databases.

•     Created variables and performed data quality maintenance to the largest publicly-accessible census database.

•     Acquired proficiency with Microsoft Access, and SQL programming.

•     Composed progress reports, research proposals, and took part in grant writing.

 

North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, MN                                                       2005 to 2006

Adjunct Faculty, Geography

Taught introductory Geography courses.

•     Created original course content for three classes introducing Human Geography.

•     Asked to assume additional classes, and recommended as a permanent replacement upon the retirement of the full-time instructor.

•     Established on-line resources and course content.

 

Rasmussen College, Egan, MN                                                                                                       2006

Adjunct Faculty, Geography

Taught Regional Geography class

•     Successfully led a required class instructing business students in the importance of social sciences to their discipline.

•     Successfully communicated and inspired interest in the course content to students with little initial interest in the topic.

•     Achieved high retention rates in comparison to previous semester.

•     Performance received notice by Dean, asked to return in following semesters.

 

Education

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN                                                                                       2009

Ph.D, Geography

 

University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo                                                                                              2002

M.A., Geography

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO                                                                                              1999

B.A., History, Minor: Graphic Arts

 

Additional Skills

•     Linux OS

•     Web design

•     Leadership/Supervision

•     System Administration

Recent Publications

"The Shantytowns of Central Park West: Fin de siècle squatting in American cities." Journal of Urban History. Cincinnati, OH, Urban History Association, August 2010

"When the Urban Fringe is not Suburban." Geographical Review. New York City, American Geographical Society, January 2010

"Alley Housing." Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2007

"The National Historical Geographic Information System: Democratizing Access to Historical Censuses." Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Public Participation and Information Technologies. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2003, 10-17

Affiliations

Member, American Geographic Society, New York City

Member, Association of American Geographers

Member, Social Science History Association, 2003 to 2005

Member, Missouri Academy of Sciences, 1999 to 2002

Honors

The Applied Historical Geography Award, Historical Geography Specialty Group, 2005

Graduate Research Partnership Award, Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, 2004