Jan 29, 1999

EXPERIENCE

Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA	1998-present
Member of the Research Staff
Facilitated interviewing and testing of product usability. Created prototype user interfaces for various hardware and software products. Performed market research on emerging technologies.

Stanford University, Stanford, CA	1997-present
Postdoctoral Scholar/Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Designed, implemented, and performed research. Managed research teams of 5-10 people. Taught courses in the Department of Psychology.

Independent Consultant, Palo Alto, CA	1990-present
Computer Programmer / Data Analyst / Research Design Specialist
Developed data collection and multimedia presentation software. Invented tools for manipulating and analyzing data. Consulted with research labs on the implementation of psychology experiments.

First Bank System, Minneapolis, Minnesota	1989
Planning and Analysis Intern
Analyzed and reported on corporate employment trends for upper-level management.

Unisys Corp., Roseville, Minnesota	1988
Training and Development Intern
Produced a comprehensive handbook of all in-house education and career development programs.

EDUCATION

Stanford University, Stanford, CA	1996
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY	1990
B.A., Psychology, magna cum laude

AWARDS

Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, 1996

Stanford Graduate Research Opportunity Funds Dissertation Research Grant, 1995-1996

Stanford University Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1996

National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1991-1994

Stanford University Department of Psychology Fellowship, 1990-1991

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE

Pinto, J. P., Fernald, A., McRoberts, G. W., & Cole, S. (in press). Reliability and validity in infant auditory preference procedures. Advances in Infancy Research.

Swingley, D., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (in press). Assessing the speed and accuracy of word recognition in infants. Advances in Infancy Research.

Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., Swingley, D., Weinberg, A., & McRoberts, G. W. (1998). Rapid gains in speed of verbal processing by infants in the second year. Psychological Science, 9(3), 228-231.

Pinto, J. P., Miners, L., & Fernald, A. (in preparation). Infants' sensitivity to prosodic and segmental repetition in speech.

Pinto, J. P. (1996). XHAB (version 6.5): Experimental control software for MS-DOS [computer software]. Palo Alto, CA: Author.

Pinto, J. P. (1996). VideoHAB (version 0.6): Multimedia experimental control software for Macintosh [computer software]. Palo Alto, CA: Author.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Pinto, J. P., Miners, L. M., & Fernald, A. (1997, April). Infants' sensitivity to repetition in speech. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Pinto, J. P., Fernald, A., Cole, S., & McRoberts, G. W. (1996, December). Issues of reliability and validity in infant-controlled procedures using auditory stimuli. Paper presented at Evaluating methods used to investigate infant's language knowledge, Melbourne, Australia.

Pinto, J. P. (1995, March). On-line errors in infant-controlled procedures: Implications for observer reliability and data validity. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Pinto, J. P. (1995, March). Infants' sensitivity to structure in music. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association for Computing Machinery, SIGCHI, 1998-present

American Psychological Association, 1994-present

American Psychological Society, 1991-present

Society for Research in Child Development, 1991-present

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Operating Systems: MacOS, UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows 95

Authoring Environments: HyperCard, QuickTime, Macromedia Director, SuperCard

Programming Languages: C++, HTML, Perl, AppleScript, Pascal, Visual Basic for Applications

Hobbies include: skiing, music enjoyment/performance, and weight lifting

REFERENCES

Available upon request.