Ben J. Colborn
(650) 793-0492
bcolborn@gmail.com

San José State University, San José, California (August 2004-Present)
Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

- Cumulative GPA: 3.96.

- Expected graduation date: May 2006.

University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (August 1993-May 1998)
Bachelor of Arts in English
Minors in Computer Science and German

- Cumulative GPA: 3.7.

- Honors Program Certificate recipient.

- Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, and Golden Key honor societies.

Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Germany (October 1995-August 1996)
Participant in International Student Exchange Program (via University of Idaho)

- Major: German language and literature.

- Other subjects: linguistics, philosophy, Italian.

San José State University, San José, California (August 2004-May 2005 & January 2006-Present)

Reading/Writing Tutor, Language Development Center

- Tutor undergraduate students in academic reading and writing skills, both one-to-one and in small groups.

- Students are native speakers of English, non-native speakers of English, or Generation 1.5.

- Develop instructional materials for tutors.

San José State University, San José, California (August 2005-December 2005)
Teaching Associate, Department of Linguistics and Language Development

- Taught LLD 99, Grammar for Writers, an academic writing class.

- Students were primarily non-native speakers of English or Generation 1.5.

University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (August 1994-May 1995 & August 1996-
May 1998)

Writing Tutor, Department of English

- Tutored undergraduate students in academic writing skills.

- Students were native or non-native speakers of English.

San José State University, San José, California (August 2005-Present)
Officer, Linguistics and Language Development Student Association

- Participate in biweekly department curriculum committee meetings as the voting student representative.

- Manage Twiki-based web site and listproc-based e-mail discussion/ announcement list.

- Organized a sale of surplus books to raise funds.

ATLAS Adult Literacy, Sunnyvale, California (September 1998-June 2001)
Adult literacy tutor

- Tutored low-income adult immigrants in general and survival literacy skills.

Member of TESOL and CATESOL professional organizations

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, California (November 1999-August 2004)
IR Web Technologist, Middleware and Integration, IT Operations

- Provided operating system and application support for Solaris web/application and other servers in a 24x7, mission-critical, secure environment.

- Configured and deployed lab and production intranet and Internet servers.

- Acted as technical adviser for divisional security compliance team.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sunnyvale, California (June 1998-November 1999)
IR Systems Technologist, IT Operations, SunIT

- Provided operating system, hardware, and network support of Solaris desktop systems and servers.

- Users were the Sun Microelectronics executive staff and engineers.

University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (August 1994-May 1995 & August 1996-
May 1998)

System Administrator/Lab Manager, Software Engineering Test Lab

- Provided operating system, hardware, and application support for lab systems.

- Edited technical publications and M.S. Theses.

Technical writing and editing

Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking German

Operating Systems: Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux

Languages: Perl, sh/ksh/bash, eXtensible Markup Language, HyperText Markup Language, Java, C

Applications: SunONE, Apache, and Netscape web servers; SunONE application server; Postfix; rsync, ssh; system and network utilities