Julie C. Evershed
Director

Julie Evershed became Director of the LRC in August of 2010, after working as the Information Specialist since 1998. She received her Masters degree in Information and Library Science in December 1997 from the University of Michigan School of Information. She received her BA in French Languages and Literatures from UofM and holds a Certificate of Political Studies in International Relations from the University of Aix-Marseille. She has also had coursework in Turkish, Spanish, and German.

Office: 1195 North Quad -- Phone: (734) 764-0424 -- FAX: (734) 764-3521
e-mail: evershed@umich.edu

Johnathon Beals
Instructional Learning Senior

Johnathon joined the LRC in July of 2011. He received his Master's in Educational Technology from U of M Flint in 2010, and has previously worked as an Assistant Director at Grand Valley State University's Language Resource Center. Johnathon has a background in East Asian languages and cultures, and has studied Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, in addition to some flirtations with Czech and Tibetan. His technical skills include dynamic database-backed web development, desktop database management and cataloguing systems, task-based learning through video/audio production, and Twitter. Johnathon enjoys playing guitar and helping Phill move the web to 3.0.

Office: 1195C North Quad – Phone: (734)647-0762 – Fax: (734)764-3521
Email: johnathb@umich.edu

Phill Cameron
Instructional Learning Intermediate

Phill is a certified audio engineer who is currently working toward a Master of Arts in Educational Psychology. Since starting in July 2000, Phill has been steadily building his pedagogic and technical skill set at the Language Resource Center. Now, he coordinates the digitization, duplication, creation, and distribution of audio material. He also assists with the production of web and mobile material for use by faculty and students. Phill works closely with language coordinators and other LRC Staff to deliver a plethora of learning, and culturally enriching material. He likes futurism, audio engineering, and helping move the web to 3.0.

Office: 1207 North Quad – Phone: (734)615-6526 – Fax: (734)764-3521
Email: phillcam@umich.edu

Rob P. DeMilner
Instructional Learning Senior

Office: 2211 MLB -- Phone: 647-7744 -- FAX: (734) 764-3521
e-mail: demilner@umich.edu

Cyndy R. Kayden
Accounting Clerk Senior

Cyndy joined the LRC staff in late September 2007. A Canton native, she received her B.A. in Business Administration from Eastern Michigan University in June 2003, majoring in Marketing and Finance. Prior to joining the LRC, Cyndy spent 13 years working for Trinity Health, with the most recent 8 years being at Care Choices HMO in the Financial Reporting & Analysis Department. Her responsibilities include handling the financial operations and accounting functions related to the LRC. Professional interests include process improvement and finding alternative uses for current financial analysis and data.

Office: 1195 North Quad-- Phone: (734) 764-0424 -- FAX: (734) 764-3521
e-mail: cykayden@umich.edu

Danielle Peters
Information Resources Assistant Senior

Danielle (Danni) Peters  started working at the LRC as an undergraduate in August of 2004. In June 2009 Danni joined the LRC staff full time.  Danni coordinates the LRC equipment loan and facilities reservation services, as well as the reservation services specific to the video collection for faculty and instructors. She received her BA in Political Science and History from the University of Michigan in 2008. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Science.

Office: 1545 North Quad-- Phone: (734) 936-6960 -- FAX: (734) 764-3521
e-mail: petersds@umich.edu

Ann L. Levenick
Instructional Learning Intermediate

Ann Levenick earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Michigan, and spent 3 years doing television production work in New York City before returning to her hometown of Ann Arbor and joining the UofM Dental School TV staff in 1976. While at the Dental School she studied electronics and soon moved to the U-M Television Center as a broadcast engineer. From there she came to the LRC where she has overseen satellite downlinks, and taken care of electronic equipment for 20 years. In her years at the LRC she's been responsible for the LRC's first equipment loan service, first webpage, and first computer network.

Office: 2014 MLB -- Phone: (734) 647-0758 -- FAX:(734) 764-3521
e-mail: annl@umich.edu

Philomena A. Meechan
Instructional Learning Lead

Philomena has been at the University of Michigan for the past 14 years, nine of which have been in the Language Resource Center. She has her Masters degree in Spanish Linguistics from UofM and has acquired an extraordinary amount of experience with computer-assisted language learning and teaching with technology. Philomena has been a central team-member on numerous projects. These projects include: Chinese listening comprehension exercises using Problem Set Framework; German history texts and exercises using Storyspace; a French multimedia reader with reading strategies using Problem Set Framework and Annotext; Language and Discrimination texts using Voyager Expanded Book Toolkit; and Lazarillo, a multimedia application for a 16th century Spanish novella, using SuperCard. She is currently involved in projects for Arabic, ESL, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, and Tagalog. Her areas of professional interest are Spanish linguistics, materials development, and foreign language instructional technology.

Office: 1195 North Quad-- Phone: (734) 763-5002 -- FAX: (734) 764-3521
e-mail: phili@umich.edu