Lynn S. Mancini (née Messing)

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Contact Information:

Office: 

 
Computer Network Engineering Department
Delaware Technical and Community College 
333 Shipley Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
(302) 573-5466

mancini@college.dtcc.edu
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Certifications/Education:

Certifications/Examinations:

  • CompTIA A+
  • Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows NT 4.0 Server)
  • Microsoft Certified Trainer (Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Windows NT 4.0 Server)
  • Networking Essentials
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • Cisco Certified Academy Instructor
  • Microsoft Office User Specialist (Word 2000 Core)
  • Cisco Routing 2.0

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics (1993)
    University of Delaware, Newark, DE
    Dissertation: The Use of Bimodal Communication by Hearing Female Signers
    Specializations: Language Pedagogy and Sociolinguistics
  • M.A. in Linguistics (1991)
    University of Delaware, Newark, DE
  • B.S. in Computer Science with Linguistics Minor (1986)
    Summa Cum Laude (GPA: 3.9 out of 4.0)
    Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  • Six Courses in Conversational or American Sign Language (1987-1994)
    Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Professional Experience:

  • 4/99-present - full-time networking instructor with Delaware Technical and Community College
  • 5/97-1/99 - wrote logical reasoning problems for the Educational Testing Service to use in the GREs.
  • 8/93-6/99 - post-doctoral fellowship with the Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, a joint affiliation of the University of Delaware and the duPont Hospital for Children. Selected responsibilities:
    • co-editing a book to be published by Oxford University Press on the relationships among spoken and signed languages and gestures.
    • providing linguistic expertise on a project involving the computer recognition and synthesis of American Sign Language signs.
    • organized and chaired a professional, international, interdisciplinary workshop in October, 1996, on language and gesture (the Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and Speech, a satellite workshop of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing). Keynote speakers were David McNeill, Sherman Wilcox, and Thomas Huang.
    • taught a combined undergraduate-graduate course on language and gesture in the Linguistics Department of the University of Delaware.
    • visiting scholar and outside honor's thesis committee member, Knox College
    • participated in a National Science Foundation Proposal Review Panel.
  • 9/92-6/93 - tutored English at the University of Delaware's English Language Institute.
  • 9/91-5/93 - taught introductory courses in the Linguistics Department of the University of Delaware.
  • 8/86-8/88 - programmed computers for IBM. Wrote code interfacing an expert system shell and SQL/DS. Maintained code and solved customer reported problems. Voluntarily left the company as an associate programmer.
  • 8/2005-present – Grievance Committee member
  • 8/2005-present – Awards Night Committee member

Selected Computer Skills:

Routing Protocols: RIP versions 1 and 2, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP (fundamentals)
WAN technologies: Asynchronous dial-up, ISDN, X.25, Frame Relay
Platforms/Operating Systems: UNIX, DOS, Macintosh, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT and CE, VM
Programming Languages: C, C++, Pascal, LISP, JAVA PL/I, FORTRAN
Text Processing Programs/Markup Languages: HTML, FrameMaker, WordPerfect, MS Word

Awards:

  • Presidents' Post-Doctoral Commendation at the Linguistics
  • Association of Canada and the United States 1994 conference
  • Competitive Fellowship from the University of Delaware
  • Two Achievement Awards from IBM
  • Honorable Mention for an NSF Fellowship
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Selected Papers and Presentations:

Sole or primary author:

  • Messing, L., and R. Campbell (eds.) 1999. Gesture, Speech, and Sign. Oxford University Press.
  • On the Other Hand: American Sign Language, Signed Englishes, and Other Visual Language Systems. In Press. In Rebecca Wheeler (ed.). Living English. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • What's the Use of Bimodal Communication? 1996. The Proceedings of the Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and Speech.
  • Bimodal Communication: What is it, and Why Study It? 1995. In Mava Jo Powell (ed.). Twenty-First LACUS Forum 1994.
  • Bimodal Communication, Signing Skill, and Tenseness. 1994. Sign Language Studies vol 84: 209-220. Burtonsville, MD: Linstok Press.
  • Messing, L., R. Erenshteyn, R. Foulds, S. Galuska, and G. Stern. American Sign Language Computer Recognition: Its Present and its Promise. 1994. The Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Conference Book and Proceedings. pp. 289-291. Maastricht, Netherlands.
  • Sign-English and English-Sign Dictionaries. 1993. The Nineteenth LACUS Forum. Lake Bluff, Illinois: LACUS.
  • Is There an Affective Filter? 1991. Delaware Working Papers in Applied Linguistics. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware.
  • Bimodal Communication. 1990. The Sixteenth LACUS Forum. Lake Bluff, Illinois:LACUS

Co-author:

  • Erenshteyn, R., L. Messing, R. Foulds, G. Stern, and S. Galuska. Back Propagation Neural Network for American Sign Language Recognition. 1994. Proceedings of World Congress on Neural Networks vol 1: 405-409. San Diego: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., and the International Neural Network Society Press.
  • Erenshteyn R., P. Laskov, R. Foulds, L. Messing, G. Stern, and S. Galuska. In press. Static and Dynamic Recognition of Fingerspelled Sentences. Proceedings of World Congress on Neural Networks, San Diego: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., and the International Neural Network Society Press.

References available upon request