As a Research Programmer at Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences (GSLIS) at University Illinois at Urbana Champaign I work for MONK and SEASR digital humanities projects. In these projects I work with humanists and software developers developing web applications and software architecture that are at the cusp of libraries and humanities computing.

I started humanities computing software development as a Graduate Student of Computer Science with Matt Kirshenbaum in 1999/2000 developing a image whiteboard called Lightbox using Java and RMI ; Subsequently I worked with MITH -Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities on about 10 humanities related projects including Versioning Machine. I have been working at GSLIS for over 4 years now and I have worked on NORA project and now MONK .

I have been responsible for middleware services in MONK and have dabbled with faceted browsing interfaces for our collections using Flamenco. Lately I have been working on MONK workbench components that are based on EXTJS and some XUL based glue to interact with Zotero.

My core skills are in Java -Spring and ORM stack along with javascript frameworks like EXTJS and JQUERY. I have created MONK extensions to Zotero so that users can select documents while browsing MONK application and submit them for analytical processing including part of speech (POS) tagging and ingestion into a database that would allow POS queries like count of Lemmas and Spellings over decade, by male/female author -any work/collection related metadata.