J E F F R E Y P O M E R A N T ZSeattle, WA 919-599-5742 jeffrey@pomerantz.name jeffrey.pomerantz.name

S E N I O R R E S E A R C H E RResearch Design, Multiple Methodologies, and Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis

Extensive experience conducting social science research and program evaluation. Experience managing grants & contracts with government, corporate, and nonprofit partners. Proven abilities in launching & growing programs. Extensive teaching experience. Key skills include:• Mixed-method research, both basic and applied• Writing and public speaking for diverse audiences• Curriculum design, and teaching courses and workshops

A R E A S O F E X P E R T I S ELeadership• Developed & implemented marketing strategy for an academic program, achieved 100% enrollment growth• Expanded and formalized an academic internship program, and led outreach to partner organizations• Led collaborative research and teaching projects with universities in Europe and North Africa

Grant & Contract Management• Managed small teams of research assistants and contractors• Proposal writing & budgeting in response to RFPs from federal, state, corporate, & nonprofit agencies• Project & budget management, and event planning for grant & contract awards of up to $500,000

Research & Evaluation• Designed, conducted, and published original qualitative and quantitative research in Information Science• Program evaluation for information organizations• Coordinated contributions from advisory boards and communities of interest

Teaching & Mentoring• Developed & taught a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about metadata• Developed program-wide curricula, and associated policies• Supervised undergraduate and graduate students in conducting original research

P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT 2004-2015Information services consulting for a wide range of organizations in the public and private sectors.• Conducted evaluations of software products, grant-funded research programs, and government initiatives• Strategic planning for corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies• Taxonomy and metadata development, both manual and automatic via training deep learning algorithms

VISITING PROFESSOR AND ADJUNCT FACULTY 2013-2015Teaching and research collaborations across the iSchool Caucus, including University of Washington, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt University, Berlin).

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, CHAPEL HILL, NC 2003-2014ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (2009-2014)ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (2003-2009)DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES (2010-2013)FIELD EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR (2009-2013)Research, teaching, and administration in a top-ranked public research university.• Conducted mixed-method qualitative and quantitative research, both basic and applied, for federal, state,

corporate, and nonprofit funding agencies.

• Managed project budgets up to $500,000, and oversaw contractors.• Led international, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional project teams.• Designed and tested service models for information organizations.• Supervised students at a range of levels (Undergraduate, Masters, & PhD) in conducting original research.• Published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and presented at peer-reviewed scholarly conferences.• Reviewed research proposals for funding agencies, and scholarly manuscripts for journals & conferences.

A D D I T I O N A L R E L E V A N T E X P E R I E N C E

Author of a book about metadata (including RDF, linked data, and semantic web) for MIT PressAssociate Editor of the Open Access Directory (a project of the Berkman Center Harvard Open Access Project)Manager of Information Technology, Simmons College, Boston, MASoftware Analyst, Segue Software, Boston, MA (a startup developing tools for unit and integration testing)

E D U C A T I O N

Ph.D., Information Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NYM.S. (Library & Information Science), Simmons College, Boston, MAB.A. (Communication), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Published in peer-reviewed journals and books over 25 times. Selected highlights include:• Pomerantz, J., Hank, C., & Sugimoto, C. R. (forthcoming 2015). Social Media Policies in Higher Education.

PLOS ONE.• Greene, J., Oswald, C., & Pomerantz, J. (forthcoming 2015). Predictors of Retention and Achievement in a

Massive Open Online Course. American Educational Research Journal.• Pomerantz, J. (2011). Identifying Reusable Resources in Digital Reference Responses. Reference & User

Services Quarterly, 50(4), 366-378.• Shah, C., & Pomerantz, J. (2010). Evaluating and Predicting Answer Quality in Community QA. In

Proceedings of the 33rd International SIGIR Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.• Eakin, L., & Pomerantz, J. (2009). Virtual Reference, Real Money: Modeling Costs in Virtual Reference

Services. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 9(1), 133-164.For more publications, see my website or Curriculum Vita: jeffrey.pomerantz.name/publications/

P U B L I C S P E A K I N G

Presented peer-reviewed and invited papers at over 25 conferences. Selected highlights include:• “Maximizing Open Access and the DPLA.” DPLAfest, Boston, MA. 25 October 2013.• “How to collect reference questions and answers for research purposes?” Panel presentation “Developing

a Collaborative Sandbox for Digital Library Research.” iConference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 4 February 2010.

• “Comparing Curricula for Digital Library and Digital Curation Education.” DigCCurr 2009. Chapel Hill, NC. 2 April 2009.

For more presentations, see my website or Curriculum Vita: jeffrey.pomerantz.name/presentations/

P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T

Numerous courses including: Python, JavaScript, data science, macro- & microeconomics, finance, & astronomy. Numerous workshops on quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and analysis tools. Numerous conferences in Information Science, Evaluation, & Education.