Resume Holly Patterson-McNeill

Curriculum Vitae
HOLLY PATTERSON-McNEILL
October 2008

Current Position:

Professor of Computer Science, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID

Academic Preparation:

BA	University of Texas	1970	Mathematics
MS	University of Texas at San Antonio	1977	Computer Science
Ph.D.	Texas A&M University	1996	Computer Science
	Dissertation: “Computer-mediated groups: A study of a culture in USENET.” John Leggett, advisor.

Academic Experience:

Professor Computer Science		2002 – Present
	Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
	Matt Johnston, Chair
	Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID
Assistant Professor Computer Science		1996 – 2002
	Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
	Carl Steidley, Chair retired
	Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Instructor		1989 – 1991
	Computer Science
	University of Texas at San Antonio

Other Employment:

Data processing office manager – San Antonio, TX
	Equipment Listing Service	1986 – 1987
Math Teacher – San Antonio, TX
	Taft High School	1986
	Southwest High School	1985
Owner, Manager – San Antonio, TX
	Digidyne Corporation	1983 – 1984
Systems Analyst – San Antonio, TX
	Keuffel & Esser Company	1980 – 1983
Programmer – Austin, TX
	Geotronics Corporation	1978 – 1979
Math Teacher – San Antonio, TX
	Pease Middle School	1974 – 1976
	John Jay High School	1973 – 1974

Teaching Activity:

Courses Taught:

At Lewis-Clark State College:
	CS111 Foundations of Programming	F03 - F08
	CS112 Object-Oriented Programming	S03, S04, F06 (hybrid), F07 (online)
	CS116 Markup Languages	F08
	CS192 ST: UNIX	F08
	CS213 Algorithms and Data Structures	F02 - F05, S06 - S08
	CS245 Databases	F02, F07
	CS310 Algorithm Design and Analysis	S03, S05
	CS345 Information and Knowledge Management	S05*, S08
	CS360 Software Engineering	F03, S05 - S07
	CS440 Intelligent Systems: AI and Information	S04, F06, F08
	CS450 Usability: Human-Centered Design and Testing	S04, S06, S08
	CS492 ST: Programming Languages	F05
	MATH025 Basic Algebra	F07
	MATH130 Finite Mathematics	F05**
	MATH 186 Discrete Mathematics	S05
*co-taught with Dr. Jeff Matthews
**co-taught with Masoud Kazemi

New Courses Developed:

At Lewis-Clark State College:

CS111 Foundations of Programming – major rewrite

CS213 Algorithms and Data Structures - major rewrite

CS245 Databases

CS360 Software Engineering

CS440 Intelligent Systems: AI and Information

CS450 Usability: Human-Centered Design and Testing

CS492 ST: Programming Languages

Kids' College 2003
Developed and taught 4 one-week sessions of LEGO Robots: Building Robots that Move. Summer 2003

Professional Development:

CCSC: SC, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, 19^thAnnual South Central Regional Conference, Corpus Christi, TX, April 18-19, 2008
CCSC: NW, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, 9^thAnnual Northwestern Regional Conference, McMinnville, OR, Oct 12-13, 2007
CCSC: SC, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, 18^thAnnual South Central Regional Conference, Wichita Falls, TX, April, 2007
SIGCSE 2007, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, KY, Mar. 7-10, 2007
Facilitation Institute, Northwest Regional Professional Development Center, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID, Jan. 26-28, 2007
CCSC: NW, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, 8^thAnnual Northwestern Regional Conference, Cheney, WA, Oct. 6-7, 2006
Annual INBRE Research Conference, Nampa, ID, Aug. 7-9, 2005
Educating the Net Generation, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, June 8-9, 2005
Assessment Institute: Laying a Foundation to Elevate Student and Faculty Performance, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, May 31-June 3, 2005
SIGCSE 2005, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, MO, Feb. 23-27, 2005
CCSC: NW, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, 6^thAnnual Northwestern Regional Conference, Salem, OR, Oct. 8-9, 2004
SIGCSE 2003, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, NV, Feb. 19-22, 2003
TeachScheme workshop, Rice University, Houston, TX, July 1999.
Project Kaleidoscope

National Assembly, Tucson, AZ, Dec. 1-2, 2000.
Just-in-Time Computer Education for the 21^st Century, Snowbird, UT, July 25-28, 2001.

Distributed Learning: The High-Tech Classroom, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Jan. 26 and Feb. 7, 2001.
NSF Faculty Development Workshop: Development of Java Curriculum Materials Using the Java Power Tools, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, July 16-18, 2001.
Academy for Educator Development

TxCetp Inquiry Workshop for Faculty, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, May 17-18, 2001.
Second Annual Chancellor's Invitational Conference, Houston, TX, June 14-16, 2001.

Scholarly Activity:

Funded Proposals:

"Developing Bioinformatics Modules for Computer Science" LCSC INBRE Course Release Spring 2007 3-credit hours.
"Attendance at SIGCSE 2007 Technical Symposium", Faculty Development Grant Award, LCSC, 2006-2007 academic year, $1,500.
"Attendance at SIGCSE 2005 Technical Symposium", Faculty Development Grant Award, LCSC, 2004-2005 academic year, $1,070.
"Attendance at SIGCSE 2003 Technical Symposium", Faculty Development Grant Award, LCSC, 2002-2003 academic year, $1,136.
"Prototype of the South Texas Coastal Bend Exploratorium", Academy for Educator Development Fellowship Award, Recipient: H. Patterson-McNeill, 5/01-6/02, $3,000.
"A Collaborative Framework for Building a High School Web-Based Environment", Regents' Initiative Collaborative Research Grant, Research Team: M. Boggs, H. Patterson-McNeill, D. Boggs, 5/01-6/02, $9,887.
"Building an Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure in Applied Computer Science, GIS, Engineering Technology, and Mathematics", NASA Grant, Principal Investigator: C. Steidley, Co-Investigators: R. Bachnak, S. Dannelly, P. Michaud, H. Patterson-McNeill, G. Price-Blount, 9/00 – 8/04, $1,920,367.
"Restructuring and Enhancing an Applied Computer Science Program", NSF CISE MI-I Planning Grant, Principal Investigators: S. Dannelly, M. Guimaraes, G. Jeffress, P. Michaud, H. Patterson, A. Sadovski, C. Steidley, 9/98 - 8/99, $50,000.
"Real-world Mathematics," Texas Eisenhower Professional Development Program, Project Principals: H. Patterson, G. Tintera, 5/98-10/99, $76,000.
"Real-world Mathematics," Texas Eisenhower Professional Development Program, Project Principals: D. Leasure, H. Patterson, A. Sadovski, P. Michaud, M. Guimares, 5/97-10/98, $103,000.
Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Grant for Internet Access for Texas Secondary Schools, awarded to Teenage Mothers School, Corpus Christi Independent School District, Project Director: S. Sausley, Technical Consultant: H. Patterson, 1/97-12/97, $150,000.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Patterson-McNeill. "From C++ to Python in Three Easy Steps." The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 22 (2), December 2006.
Trivedi, A., Kar, D., and Patterson-McNeill, H. "Automatic Assignment Management and Peer Evaluation." The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 18 (4), April 2003.
Steidley, C., Michaud, P., Dannelly, R., and Patterson-McNeill, H. "Fostering Interdisciplinary and Discovery Learning." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Gulf-Southwest 2003 Conference, Session 3A, CD-ROM, Arlington, TX, March 2003.
Dannelly, R., Michaud, P., Patterson-McNeill, H., and Steidley, C. "A Multidisciplinary Student-Centered Laboratory." Paper 1059, Proceedings of the 32nd American Society for Engineering Education/Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002.
Garcia, M. and Patterson-McNeill, H. "Learning How to Develop Software Using the Toy Lego Mindstorms." Poster Session, Proceedings of the 7^th Annual Conference of Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), SIGCSE Bulletin-inroads, September 2002.
Patterson-McNeill, H. "Community on Usenet Group." Universal Access in HCI: Towards an Information Society for All, UAHCI 2001 Conference Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, August 5-10, 2001.
Patterson-McNeill, H. and Binkerd, C. "Resources for Using Lego Mindstorms." The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 16 (3), March 2001.
Patterson-McNeill, H. and Steidley, C. "Engineering Programming Language Concepts." 2000 ASEE Conference Proceedings, St. Louis, MO, June 18-21, 2000.
Patterson-McNeill, H. and Steidley, C. "Mini-Languages Revisited: Programming Language Concepts." The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 15 (3), March 2000.
Patterson, H. "Understanding Internet-Mediated Communication." The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 14 (3), March 1999.
Patterson, H. “Cooperative Learning in CS1.” The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 13 (4), March 1998.
Patterson, H. and Leasure, D. "Enhancing Learning in CS2 using Manipulatives." The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 13 (4), March 1998.

Presentations:

Patterson-McNeill, H. "Python for CS0 - Tutorial" CCSC:SC, Consortium for Computing in Colleges, 18^th Annual South Central Regional Conference, Wichita Falls, TX. April 2007.
Patterson-McNeill, H. "Miss Pascal? Try Python!" CCSC: NW, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, 6^thAnnual Northwestern Regional Conference, Salem, OR, Oct. 8-9, 2004.
Patterson-McNeill, H. and Binkerd, C. "Enticing Undergraduate Students into Research." 17^th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2003), Salt Lake City, UT, March 13-15, 2003

Awards:

Lewis-Clark State College Foundation Award

May 2004

Service:

College:
	Electronic Records Retention Team		2007-present
	Promotion Committee
		David McCullough	2008
		Lori Stinson	2005-2006
	Professional Development & Training Task Force		2006-2007
	Advisory Task Force		2006-2007
	Provost's Distance Learning Systems Task Force		2006
	LCSC Liaison to NW Regional Professional Development Center		2006-2007
	Timecruiser's Academic Advisory Board		2006-2007
	Technology Advisory Committee Chair		2004-2005, 2007-2008
	Standing Tenure and Promotion Review Committee		2005
	Web Users Group (WUG)		2005 - 2007
		Co-Chair	2006 - 2007
	Information Technology Planning Group
		Equipment Group Member	2005 - present
		Communication Group Leader	2005 - present
	Brown Bag: Our Online Core : Facilitator		May 6, 2005
Division of Natural Science and Mathematics:
	Division Merit Pay Criteria Committee Chair		2008
	Annual Review Advisory Committee		2006-2007
	Division Web Master		2005-present
	Technology Advisory Committee		2002-2005, 2007-2008
	Natural Sciences Promotion Criteria Committee Chair		2005
	Natural Sciences Advisory Committee		2004-2005
	Natural Sciences Faculty Senate Representative		2004-2005, 2007-2008
	Tenure Committee for Jeff Matthews		2002 - 2003
	Search Committees:
		Engineering	2006
		NS Chair	2006
		Committee Chair for Computer Science Position	2006-2008
		Biochemistry Professor	Fall 2004
		Biology Professor	2003 - 2004
		Math Instructor	Summer 2003
	STAR Sessions		2003 - present
	LCSC Days, Coeur d'Alene		Fall 2003
Computer Science Major:
	Program/Assessment Manager		2002 – present
	Development of CS, CIS, and Web emphases		2004-2005
	Development of Technology emphasis		2005-2007
	Computer Science Laboratory Supervisor		2006-2008
	Mentor for new hire		2008-present
Professional:
	Session Chair - Evaluating Student Work: SIGCSE Technical Symposium		Feb. 23-27, 2005
	Reviewing:
		ACM's JERIC, www.acm.org/pubs/jeric	2002, 2003
		CCSC-SCC	2003, 2004, 2007
		CCSC-NW	2003
		SIGCSE	2003-2008
		SIGCHI	2005
	Moderator: 17^th NCUR Conference , Computer Science sessions		March 13-15, 2003
	Registration Chair, Idaho Academy of Science 2003, LCSC		April 10-12, 2003
Community:
	Web Site for RSVP http://users.lewiston.com/rsvp		August, 2005
	NOVA visit to Natural Sciences, “Programming Lego Robots”		April 7, 2005
	Presentation to Astronomy Group		Nov. 2003, 2004
	GT Day at LCSC, “Programming Lego Robots”		April 22, 2004

At Lewis-Clark State College:
	CS111 Foundations of Programming – major rewrite
	CS213 Algorithms and Data Structures - major rewrite
	CS245 Databases
	CS360 Software Engineering
	CS440 Intelligent Systems: AI and Information
	CS450 Usability: Human-Centered Design and Testing
	CS492 ST: Programming Languages