Lesley Andrews

Lab Assistant
Multimedia Language Lab

Job Duties

The Lab Assistant has very broad responsibilities and may take on wide ranging projects and tasks as experience and skills develop over time. In general, the LA assists the Coordinator in the running of the labs, with general CELOP computer maintenance, with developing curricular, training, and Web projects, and with assisting faculty and staff.

• monitoring “Drop-in Labs,” when students use the labs on their own, usually for word processing, audio or video files, E-mail, Web browsing, ESL software
• assisting in maintaining lab, staff, and faculty computers by running disk utilities
• installing software and upgrades
• assisting and training faculty to scan text and photos
• assisting faculty and students with applications
• assisting with curricular, training, or Web projects
• researching solutions to technical problems
• digitizing and compressing audio and video
• authoring simple multimedia programs with prepared content
• maintaining certain technical and information databases (FileMaker)

Education

• MA in Teaching ESL, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1998
• BA in Spanish and International Studies with a minor in Japan Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1989

Experience Abroad

• Two years total of study and teaching in Tokyo, Akita, and Hamamatsu, Japan.
• Six months total of study and teaching in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Languages Spoken Read, or Understood

• Spanish - 15 years of study, 6 years teaching at University of Minnesota
• Portuguese - 2 years of intensive study of language and literature
• Japanese - 2 years of study in college
• Latin - 2 years of study in secondary school

Related/Other Experience

• Taught English and/or Spanish at the following schools
  • Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999-2001
  • Four Seasons Language School, Hamamatsu, Japan, 1998-1999
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1990-1998
  • Minnesota State University at Akita, Japan, Spring 1997

Other Skills or Qualifications

• More than fifteen years' experience working with Macintosh, Windows, and DOS-based computers
• Fifteen years' experience working as a freelance translator of Spanish and Portuguese (still working on my Japanese)
• Four years of graduate study in Hispanic Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Office room number: EOP 267

Phone: (617) 353-8385

E-mail: lesleya@bu.edu or E-mail Form