Education
Current Position
Active Q Clearance
Program Manager, Knowledge Management, 2021-Present
National Security Research Center, Los Alamos National Lab | Los Alamos, NM
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Collaborate with the Dean of Weapons Learning to develop curriculum strategy, teaching best practices, and requirements for LMS and learning portal
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Manage a team of 9 knowledge managers, learning specialists, and videographers to develop learning and knowledge capture products for technical staff
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Lead strategic vision of learning and knowledge capture for the Lab
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Develop search ontologies and natural language processes package to make science and engineering document repositories interoperable
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Design and conduct UX testing for classified Windows-based applications and knowledge transfer tools
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Act as project manager for technical teams using Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall methodologies
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Additional Roles
Project Manager/Lead Technical Writer, Center for Science of Information, NSF, West Lafayette, IN, 2018-2020​
Assistant Director of Rhetoric & Composition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN | 2017-2019​
UX/HCI Research Intern, Data Science at Scale, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, 2018-2020​
Content Coordinator, Purdue OWL, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2017-2018​
Editorial Assistant, Peitho: Journal for the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric , 2014-2016
Grant Writer, International Programs in Agriculture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2013
+ $12 million Gates Foundation Grant awarded 2014
Field Researcher and Staff Writer, Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), Kampala, Uganda, 2012
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Curriculum Development, Course Design & Teaching
Online Masters of Science in Technical Writing, Purdue, 2018: Developed courses and assisted with curriculum design for Purdue’s first online professional M.S. in Technical Writing. Worked with faculty to develop syllabi, consider best practices for online pedagogy, and perform benchmarking research on other programs of similar scale and goals.
| Visiting Clinical Instructor, Purdue University, 2020-2021
| Graduate Instructor, Purdue University, 2013-2020
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PROFESSIONAL WRITING COURSES
Research Methods for Professional Writing, Engl 203: Designed empirical research course with emphasis on UXD, qualitative methods, ethics of vulnerable populations, data vis, and community engagement, 1 section
Multimedia Writing and Design, Engl 419: Designed course with emphasis on UXD methods, mobile app design, video and print design, photovoice, community engagement, 4 sections
Technical Writing (Online), Engl 421: Designed asynchronous, fully online course with emphasis on transferable workplace skills, usability, design thinking, team writing, technical genres, 4 sections
Business Writing (Online and In-person), Engl 420: Designed course with emphasis on data visualization, team dynamics for innovation, grant writing, community engagement, 9 sections
FIRST YEAR COMPOSITION COURSES
Advanced First-Year Composition, English 108: Designed course to produce mobile app walking tour of public art in collaboration with Small Spaces Lafayette and the city-funded public art project, focusing on community advocacy and usability, 2 sections
First-Year Learning Community, Engl 106E: Partnered with the College of Technology to design, assess and teach a tech-focused writing class as part of a learning community, emphasizing UXD, iterative design, and multimedia writing, 2 sections
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First-Year Composition, Engl 106: Focus on rhetoric, digital composition, research & revision strategies, and collaborative writing, 4 sections
Publications
PEER-REVIEWED
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Brock Carlson, E. and Overmyer, T. (2023) "Tuning to Place: Using Participant-Generated Imagery as a Tool for Problem Solving." Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 19 pages.
Turton, T., Banesh, D., Overmyer, T., Sims, B. and Rogers, D. (2020). “Enabling Domain Expertise in Scientific Visualization With CinemaScience.” IEEE Visualization Viewpoints. DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2019.2954171. 8 pages.
Overmyer, T. and Bowes, L. “More Than a Deliverable: Building Infrustructural Partnerships in Professional Writing.” Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement. Vol. 6, Fall 2019. DOI: 10.5703/1288284316987. 8 pages.
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Li, C. Anderson, H., Kim, H., Lanum, J., Cheoh, J. Brewer, N, Hillary, B., Overmyer, T. “Reproducing Performance of Multi-Physics Simulations of the Tsunamigenic 2004 Sumatra Megathrust Earthquake.” (2019). PARCO: Journal of Parallel Computing. DOI: 10.1016/j102565. 8 pages.
Overmyer, T. and Brock Carlson, E. (2019). “Design Thinking and the Ethics of Place.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication. DOI: 10.1177/1050651919854079. 6 pages.
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Overmyer, T. (2019). “UX Methods in the Data Lab: Arguing for Validity.” SIGDOC, Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery. DOI: 10.1145/3328020.3353954. 6 pages.
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Samsel, F., Overmyer, T. and Navratil, P. (2019). “Highlight Insert Colormaps: Using Luminance for Focused Data Analysis.” EuroVis. DOI: 10.2312/evs.20191170. 5 pages.
Overmyer, T. (2013). “Technical Writers and the Gender Gap: Trending Discussions and Disparities.” The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research. Vol. 3, Article 48. DOI: 10.5703/1288284315176. 1 page.
Harrell, S., Smith, P. M., Smith, D., Hoefler, T., Labutina, A. A., & Overmyer, T. (2011). “Methods for Creating Student Cluster Competitions.” ACM TeraGrid Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery. Article 50. DOI: 10.1145/2016741.2016795. 6 pages.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
Brock Carlson, E. and Overmyer, T. (2018) “Photovoice Methods: Interrogating Participant-Researcher Dynamics through Digital, Mobile Data.” in Handbook of Methods in the Digital Humanities. Lewis Levenberg, David Rheams, and Tai Neilson, Eds. (pp.129-150). Washington, D.C.: Rowman and Littlefield International. 21 pages.​
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TECHNICAL REPORTS
Overmyer, T. and Pellegrini, M. (2019). Annual Report. Center for the Science of information.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. For the National Science Foundation. 157 pages.
Overmyer, T. (2018). Analysis and Strategies of a Successful LANL Research and Development
Collaboration. Los Alamos, NM. LA-UR-18-29988. 21 pages.
Overmyer, T. and Love, P. (2018). Annual Report. Center for the Science of information. Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN. For the National Science Foundation. 145 pages.
Overmyer, T. (2012). Impact Report: Village Budget Clubs in Kibaale, Gulu, Kabale. Forum for
Women in Democracy. Kampala, Uganda. 11 pages.
Grants, Awards & Honors
Totalling over $30,000
$5,000 | Overall Emergent Scholar, William H. and Ruth E. Crouse Award, 2019
$1,000 | Janice M. Lauer Award for Excellence in Dissertation Work , 2019
| Purdue Students’ Favorite Faculty Nomination, 2017
| Indiana House of Representatives Outstanding Community Volunteer, 2017
$5,000 | Purdue Faculty Engagement Fellow, 2016
$350 | College of Liberal Arts Promise Grants for Travel, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019
$750 | College of Liberal Arts Promise Grant for research funding, 2016
$5,000 | Promising Scholar, William H. and Ruth E. Crouse Award, 2016
$500 | Purdue Service Learning Grant, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 $1500 | Purdue Engagement Grant — with E. B. Carlson, E. Twal, C. Grant, J. Isaac & T. Morrison, 2015
$2,500 | Academic Publishing Award, William H. and Ruth E. Crouse Award, 2014
$1,500 | Purdue International Engagement Grant, 2014
$5,000 | Community Engagement in Professional Writing Award, 2012
Conference Presentations
UX Methods in the Data Lab: Arguing for Validity. SIGDOC, Portland, OR, 2019.
Crafting Relationships: Cross-disciplinary Internships, Experiential Learning, and Faculty Support Structures. CPTSC, West Chester, PA, 2019.
Data Voices: A Three-Year Study of Self-Reported Student Insight on Research, Genre, and Multimedia Writing. CCCC, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019.
Stories of Engagement: How Service-Learning Prepares Faculty for Lives of Sustained Engaged Citizenship. Campus Compact National Conference. Indianapolis, IN, 2018.
A Human Network, Materialized: Built Infrastructure and Rhetorical Force. Conference on Community Writing. Boulder, CO, 2017.
What Resilient Ecologies Can Teach Us about Sustainable Activism. FemRhet. Dayton, OH, 2017.
Restoring Exploration to Invention: Databases, Digital Ecologies & Relational Meaning-Making. Computers & Writing. Findlay, OH, 2017.
Ubiquitous Computing in Student & Participant-Driven Research: Photovoice as Emergent Technique. ATTW. Portland, OR, 2017.
From Sustainability to Resilience: Shifting in Climate Change Discourse. Rhetoric Society of America.
Atlanta, GA, 2016.
Putting Graffiti in Its Place: Mobile App Development in a Freshman Writing Class. You Are Here: Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space and Embodiment. Omaha, NE, 2016.
Tagging as Wayfinding: Peitho Journal and Feminist Publishing Practices. FemRhet. Tempe, AZ, 2015.
Framing Maternal Health in Uganda: The Rights-Based Approach. FemRhet. Tempe, AZ, 2015.
Invited Talks & Workshops
Writing Case Studies on Knowledge Management. Joint Working Group on Knowledge Management, AWE, London, 2022.
UXD & In Situ Data Visualization: Vis for Scientific Discovery. Computer Graphics and Technology Special Topics course (Dr. Vetra Byrd), Purdue, 2022.
Teaching Rhetorical Data Practices in PW Courses. PW Mentorship course (Dr. Jenny Bay), Purdue, 2022.
The Science of Tacit Knowledge. Division Leadership Meeting, Los Alamos National Lab, 2022.
Ontologies: The Gateway to Knowledge-Enabled Information Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory. (With Sims, Blackhart, & Pope). USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), 2022.
Role of Students’ Critical Reflection in Community Engagement. Social Justice Seminar, Purdue, 2020.
Human Factors in SciVis Application Design. Data Science at Scale, Los Alamos National Lab, 2019.
Visual Rhetoric in Scientific Visualization. Data Science at Scale, Los Alamos National Lab, 2018.
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in LANL-Directed R&D. ISTI Exit Talk, Los Alamos National Lab, 2018.
Writing Technical Papers for the ACM. Supercomputing Cluster Challenge, Purdue, 2018 and 2019.
Forming Healthy Community-University Partnerships. Engagement Summit, Purdue, 2018. Resumes Professional Branding. Monarch Women’s Leadership Conference, Purdue, 2018.
Considerations for Stakeholders & Service Learning. Environmental & Eco Engineering, Purdue, 2016.
Client Survey Results and Test Kitchen Curriculum Design. Food Finders Food Bank, 2016
Professional Documents in Freshman Composition. Syllabus Approach Workshop, Purdue, 2016.
Research Posters
Re-Centering Human Meaning Making in Big Data: A Case Study at Los Alamos National Lab,
Symposium for the Communication of Complex Information, 2019.
Qualitative Validity for Custom SciVis Applications: An Iterative User Feedback Model for Data
Visualization Experts. ISTI Poster Session, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2018.
Community Partners, Clients, and Clients-as-Partners. Engagement Summit, Purdue, 2015.
Interactive Digital Texts: Space, Body, Design. Introductory Composition Showcase, Purdue, 2015.
Additional Mentoring Roles
Internship Mentor, UG research in ontology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022
Mentor, Computing for Change in SIGHPC: ACM Special Interest Group for High Performance Computing, 2019
Writing Mentor, Ada 6 women's High Performance Computing team, Purdue University, 2018-2019
Mentor, Women in Business Leadership Conference, Purdue University, 2018
Internship Mentor, Purdue University & Lafayette Transitional Housing, 2018
Syllabus Approach Leader, Introductory Composition, Purdue University, 2016-2017
Community Engagement
Reflections: Faces of Domestic Violence Gallery Committee Member, Lafayette, IN: Gallery event with art from clients of the YWCA Domestic Violence Program and students from English 203 and 419, 2019-2020
PhotoVoice Research, YWCA Domestic Violence Program: Research designed 2017-2018 and led with students from English 203 and 419, 2017-2018
Voices of Homelessness Gallery Organizer, Lafayette, IN: Gallery of photos by people 2018 experiencing homelessness who participated in a service-learning photovoice research project with students from English 419, 2018
PhotoVoice Research, Lafayette Transitional Housing Center: Research designed 2017-2018 and led with students from English 203 and 419, 2017-2018
Mobile App Design—Walking Tour of Public Art, City of Lafayette and Small 2015 Spaces Lafayette with students from Engl 108, 2015
Community Impact Research & Demo Kitchen Curriculum Design, Food Finders 2013-2014 Food Bank, 2013-2014
Service
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Member, Joint Working Group on Knowledge Management, NNSA, 2022-Present
Reviewer, WAC Clearinghouse Foundations and Innovations in TPC book series , 2020
Reviewer, Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement 2020
Reviewer, SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication, 2018, 2019, 2021
Committee Member, Computing for Change in SIGHPC: ACM Special Interest Group for High Performance Computing, 2019
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Member, Atomic Women Employee Group, LANL, 2021-Present
Member, LGBTQ+ and Allies Employee Group, LANL, 2021-Present
Member, Antiracist Teaching Coalition, Purdue University, 2020-2021
Reviewer, Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement , 2020
Member, Provost’s Teaching Evaluation Task Force, Purdue University, 2017-2018
Reviewer, Faculty Engagement Fellowship Award, Purdue University, 2018
Member, University Engagement and Service-Learning Committee, Purdue University, 2018-2019
Steering Committee, Rhetoric Society of America, Purdue Chapter, 2018-2019
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Technical Skills
Applications & Languages
Tableau
InDesign
Premiere
Illustrator
Visio
NVivo
HTML
Basic SQL
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Design
Wireframing
User flows
UI design
Agile/Sprints
Design thinking
Document design
Video editing
Audio editing
Methods
Ethnography
Task analysis
Taxonomies
Role Mapping
Card sorting
User personas
Interviews
Focus groups
Photovoice (PGI)
A / B testing
Ph.D., Rhetoric & Composition
Purdue University, 2020
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Concentrations : Technical Writing, Qualitative Methods, UXD
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Thesis: The Rhetorics of Data: Insight & Knowledge Making at a National Laboratory
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Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Michael Salvo, Jennifer Bay, Benjamin Sims (LANL)
M.A., Rhetoric & Composition
Purdue University, 2015
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Thesis: "Urban Resilience: Reframing Climate Change for Action and Advocacy"
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Committee: Richard Johnson Sheehan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Michael Gulich
B.A., Professional Writing, Creative Writing
Purdue University, 2013​