Curriculum Vitae - Short

Curriculum Vitae - short

Sharon D. Grant

Dept. of IT. Field Museum of Natural History 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL 60605- Address: 2495. tel. +1 312 665 7203; [email protected]

Work Experience

Company: The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. : Dec 2008 – to present Job Title: Academic Systems Project Leader (IT) • Collections management - KE EMu Sysadmin • Collections online web presence. Primary Responsibilities: • Project management - Co-ordination of IT requirements for collections and research projects.

Company: The Natural History Museum, London : Jun 2004 – Dec 2009 Job Title: Systems and Database Manager – Botany department Band 4 • IT Systems • Database manager Primary Responsibilities: • Webmaster • GIS assistant

Company: The Natural History Museum, London : Jun 2002 – Jun 2004 Job Title: Richard Spruce Project & PBI Solanum Research assistant (SSO) • Database manager Primary Responsibilities: • Web developer

Company: British Antarctic Survey (BAS) : Apr 1996 – Jun 2002 Job Title: Numerical Marine Ecologist (HSO) • Fieldwork – Pelagic ecosystems team Primary Responsibilities: • Research – Development of optical plankton counter. Ecosystem mapping Education

M.Sc. Natural Resource Management : Sep 1994 – Sep 1995 Institution: University of Leicester, Leicester. United Kingdom Postgrad Dip. Information Systems : Sep 1993 - Jun 1994 Institution: Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. U.K. B.Sc. Marine and Fisheries Ecology 2:1 : Sep 1989 – Jun 1993 Institution: University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. U.K.

Applications/Languages

Collections managements Systems KE EMu; Brahms Access; SQLserver; Oracle; Paradox (windows, DOS); Dbase; Database INFO Programming/Scripting languages C++; Visual Basic; Perl, Sed/Awk; html Reporting/Word Processing Crystal; Word; Textpad GIS ESRI Arc products Operating Systems Windows; UNIX (solaris); MacOS; DOS Statistical SAS; Mathamatica Other XMLSpy

Publications

Field comparison of an LHPR net sampling system and an Optical Plankton Counter (OPC) in the Southern Ocean. Sharon Grant, Peter Ward, Eugene Murphy, Douglas Bone and Steven Abbott. (2000). Journal of Plankton Research Vol.22 no.4 pp.619-638, 2000.

Status of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus 1758, at Bird Island, South Georgia. Simon D. Berrow, John P. Croxall and Sharon D. Grant. (2000). Antarctic Science, Vol. 12, Issue 04, pp 399-405, December 2000.

The Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front: physical and biological coupling at South Georgia. Peter Ward, Mick Whitehouse, Mike Meredith, Eugene Murphy, Rachael Shreeve, Rebecca Korb, Jon Watkins, Sally Thorpe, Rachel Woodd-Walker, Andrew Brierley, Nathan Cunningham, Sharon Granta and Doug Bone. (2002). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers Volume 49, Issue 12, Pages 2183-2202. December 2002. References

Current Line Manager. GIS Specialist, The Natural History Museum Dr Malcolm Penn Phone: +442079425523 Email: [email protected]

Associate Keeper - Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum Mr Bob Press Phone: +442079425748 Email: [email protected]

Curator of the British Room. The Natural History Museum Dr Mark Spencer Phone: +442079425878 Email: [email protected]