I am a graphic designer with extensive museum experience and a commitment to serve the public. I specialize in creating refined, compelling work on behalf of non-profit cultural institutions.

Yale University
2003 Cognitive Science BA

2008–present
Director, Strategic Planning Project Eli Whitney Museum
I serve as an advocate for new projects. This includes an expansion of our computer-based workshops, an effort to better articulate our mission and role in the community, and a project to develop new web infrastructure. Additionally, I work in a support role as a product designer and educator.

2004–2008
Graphic Designer and Production Manager, Amon Carter Museum
I collaborated with various stakeholders to plan, design, and implement nearly every aspect of the museum’s visual identity, including all printed materials, advertising, web sites, signage, and a dozen exhibitions (portfolio).

1999–2004
Freelance Graphic Design
I provided print and web design for clients including The New Haven Oral History Project (portfolio), the New Haven arts organization Artspace (portfolio), The Yale Literary Magazine (portfolio), and numerous New Haven organizations and Yale undergraduate organizations and events (portfolio).

2001–2003 (during the school year)
Assistant, Peabody Museum of Natural History Exhibits/Graphics Department
I designed and produced museum graphics (posters, labels, wayfinding signage). The job involved extensive use of Gerber vinyl printing equipment.

2002 summer
Artist in Residence, Eli Whitney Museum, Yale President's Public Service Fellowship
I helped build a large outdoor sculpture for the New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas, upgraded The Water Learning Lab, built a Kinetic Sculpture, and contributed to projects around the Museum.

1999 summer
Intern, 2x4
I helped prepare a reprint of Rem Koolhaas's proposal to renovate MoMA. The job involved extensive preparation and organization of files, including heavy use of Photoshop for color correction.

Winner of first prize for magazines in the 2007 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition for the Winter ’06–’07 issue of Program magazine.

Graphic design work held in the Arts of the Book permanent collection, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.

Winner of a 2003 Lohmann Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Printing and Design at Yale Universty for the Yale Literary Magazine and related posters.

Winner of a 2003 Lohmann Prize for movie poster and collateral material for Max Borenstein's feature film Swordswallowers and Thin Men.

Winner of the 2003 Adrian Van Sinderen Poster Competition.

Winner of a 2002 Honorable Mention Lohmann Prize for the Yale Literary Magazine.

2000–2003
Eli Whitney Museum
Board Member

2001–2003 (during the school year)
Student Volunteer Coordinator, Peabody Museum Volunteer Office
I recruited student volunteers, planned museum activities for children, helped schedule volunteers for large museum events, and did clerical work, including data entry and letter writing.

2001 summer
Intern, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Education Department
I designed and implemented a FileMaker based card catalog for the department library.

2000 summer
Interpreter, Mystic Seaport Museum
I explained exhibits at a maritime history museum, and demonstrated historic maritime tasks, including construction of barrels, rowing, singing, and working aloft.

1998 spring–2001 (summers, school years, intermittent)
Educator, Eli Whitney Museum
I designed and taught hands-on building projects for children aged 6–12 at a children's museum, supervised apprentices, and contributed to the design and maintainance of exhibits and museum facilities.

2002 summer
Teacher, Yale China Association
I taught English to College Students at Kunming University in China's Yunan Provence.

2001 summer
Teacher, US-China Education and Cultural Exchange Center
I taught English to High School Students at DaXian Teacher's University, in China's Sichuan Provence.

Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress, Drupal, HTML, CSS, PHP, Basic MySQL, Basic Python, Basic Perl

Gambell, T. & Yang, C. 2004. Statistical learning and Universal Grammar: Modeling Word Segmentation. To appear in the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Geneva, Switzerland.

Gambell, T. & Yang, C. 2003. Scope and limits of statistical learning in word segmentation. Paper presented at the 34th North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS) Meeting. Stony Brook, New York. (www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/nels/)

Provided upon request.