Resume
William T. Reynolds

117 B 12th Avenue
Seattle, Washington  98122
(206) 223-0989 (home)
(206) 367-7741 (work)

e-mail:  breynolds72@hotmail.com

Employment History:

2001–present         Computational Linguist, Sprex, Inc..  Since August 2001 I have worked as a linguist and software development engineer for this small startup com­pany.  My major accomplishments have included doing field research and Java and HTML coding to enhance Sprex’s lan­guage learning software (“Teachionary”) by updating existing languages and adding new languages (most recently Pashto); writing code and Perl scripts to enable speech recognition over the internet; and taking charge of all aspects of Sprex’s lip-synchronization software.

2001                      Computational Linguist, Conversay, Inc.  I was employed for three months as a computational linguist in charge of linguistic verification.  I was the first (and only) linguistic tester at this company and designed automated procedures (using Perl) for testing and reporting text processing bugs in Korean, German, and British and American English.

1999–2001            Software Test Engineer, Microsoft Corp.  As the lead linguistic test engi­neer for Microsoft’s text-to-speech engine. I was responsible for all lin­guistic testing in the engine’s front end, including text normalization, sen­tence and word breaking, the lexicon, homograph disambiguation, letter-to-sound rules, and prosody.  I designed and implemented scripts for automated testing in these areas and reported bugs.  I also served as lin­guistic advisor to the development team and taught a course in introduc­tory linguistics to the entire speech group.

1997–1999            Research Linguist, Eloquent Technology, Inc.  In this position I was respon­sible for such areas of text-to-speech processing as intonation, grammatical category assignment, homograph disambiguation, and general phonological and morphological rules.  I worked chiefly on English, French, and German, and was the coordinator for both American and British English.  I was also responsible for testing and script writing for all languages.

1994–1997            Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand Department of Linguistics.  I taught undergraduate courses in phonology, sociolinguistics, historical lin­guistics, and phonetics, and Honours courses in phonology and sociolinguis­tics.  I also served as supervisor for a Master’s degree candidate, designed curricula, oversaw teaching assis­tants, and served on various university committees.

1993–1994            Assistant, Graduate Instructor, and Manager of the Phonetics Laboratory, Swarthmore College Linguistics Department.  Duties included general office work, advising students, and running the phonetics lab, as well as teaching an advanced course in theoretical phonology.

1992–1993            Graduate Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics.  As a graduate student, I taught two courses at the University of Pennsyl­vania, one in introductory linguistics and one in English grammar and composition.

Education:

1990–1994            Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation:  Variation and Phonological Theory (December 1994)

1972–1976            B.A. in Linguistics, Haverford College

My research interests include phonological and morphological theory, American dialects, and quantitative sociolinguistic and phonetic analysis, with an emphasis on Germanic languages in general and English in particular.  I am fluent in German and have a good reading knowl­edge of Dutch, Spanish, and Afrikaans.  In addition, I have a working familiarity with such diverse languages as French, Italian, Czech, Maori, Chuvash, Korean, Pashto, Zulu, and Venda.

A detailed list of my publications and talks, as well as a description of the courses I have taught, is available upon request.