Tim Dennis' Resume (Last updated July 1st 2008)

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Tim Dennis


Oakland, CA 94609 USA

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EDUCATION:

  • MS, Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley - School of Information (August, 2004 - May, 2006)

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  • BA, Sociology, Millsaps College (August, 1986 - June, 1990)

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WORK EXPERIENCE:
UC Berkeley The Library, Doe/Moffitt Research & Collections, Research Technology and Services Specialist, Berkeley, CA (August 2006 - present)
  • Created and coordinated Technology Training Program for 100 staff member library unit
  • Led public services unit in setting up and incorporating web2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking ) to support key library research services including reference, selector liaising, & user services
  • Project manager for the Government Information Website redesign using user centered design methodologies (ongoing)

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UC Berkeley Library, Web, Electronic, and Government/Numeric Data Specialist, Berkeley, CA (May, 2002 - August, 2006)
  • Selected, installed, maintained, & customized web collaboration applications (e.g. wikis, blogs, & IM).
  • System administration of library development server including creating and managing accounts, monitoring logs, update applications, and monitor usage and security logs.
  • Project manager of cross-functional teams in developing and implementing new library web based services (IM Reference, website redesign).
  • Trained users and created instruction materials on adoption of new collaboration tools.
  • Provided numeric data/government information reference to students and faculty via IM, email, and face-to-face.

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Center for Document Engineering, Usability Specialist/Researcher, Berkeley, CA (September, 2005 - May, 2006)
  • Completed needs assessment for academic web pattern library application.
  • Developed a pattern library using participatory design techniques, personas, scenarios, lo-fi and hi-fi prototyping.
  • Conducted usability analysis and user testing on patterns and library interfaces.
  • Front-end engineer for application using parallel development environments in JSP, XSL, XML, & BerkeleyDB XML and PHP, CSS, XHTML, MYSQL, & JavaScript.

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UC Berkeley The Library, Government Information Reference Specialist, Berkeley, CA (March, 1999 - April, 2002)
  • Webmaster for the Government Information web pages.
  • Managed a 10, 000 volume government document reference collection including catalog maintenance, binding, stacks maintenance, and record troubleshooting.
  • Hired, trained, and directly supervised 3-4 students in government document processing.
  • Performed advanced bibliographic research on format migration of government documents.
  • Provided government information reference service to students, faculty, and community researchers on the GSSI Reference Desk.

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COURSE WORK:
UC Berkeley School of Information
  • User Interface Design and Development, Model Based User Interface Design
  • Information in Society, Information Organization and Retrieval
  • Foundations in Software Design, Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure, Java Web Applications, JSP
  • Web Services, XML and XML Technologies, XML Foundations
  • Document Engineering, Analysis of Information Systems, Database Management

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SKILLS:
Programming/Web Development
  • Java, JSP, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, XQuery, DOM, WSDL, SOAP, SQL
  • Database Architecture and Design

Software/Operating Systems
  • Dreamweaver, MS-Office, OpenOffice, MySQL, Oracle, MySQL Front, PHPMyAdmin, Eclipse, NetBeans, SPSS, STATA
  • Windows, RedHat & Debian Linux, Unix
  • Library systems: INNOPAC, Gladis, Voyager, Notis
  • CMS: Wordpress, Drupal, Stellent CMS

Systems Analysis
  • UML diagramming
  • Process & Data modeling

User Interface Design
  • User-centered design process (survey design and analysis, interviewing, low-fi prototyping, card sorting, user testing)
  • Heuristic evaluation of interface designs
  • Information architecture (navigation design, wireframes, site maps)

Communication
  • Ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical people
  • Works extremely well in team settings

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PUBLICATIONS:
  • Tim Dennis, and Kelly Snow, A Comparative Analysis of User Interface Pattern Collections. Center for Document Engineering Technical Report CDE2006-TR04, April 2006.
  • Tim Dennis and Kelly Snow, User Interviews Summary Report. Center for Document Engineering Technical Report CDE2006-TR03, April 2006.
  • Tim Dennis and David Hong, Designing and Testing an Interface for the U.C. Berkeley Web Design Pattern Library. Center for Document Engineering Technical Report CDE2006-TR07, April 2006.

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PRESENTATIONS:
  • Tim Dennis, David Hong, and Kelly Snow, User Interface Design Patterns. Sakai 2006, May 31, 2006.
  • Tim Dennis, David Hong, and Kelly Snow, User Interface Design Patterns. UC Berkeley Business Process Analysis Group. May, 25, 2006.
  • Tim Dennis, Social Bookmarking 101. UC Berkeley Library Electronic Resources Group. Janurary 24, 2007.
  • Tim Dennis and Harrison Dekker, Finding your Audience Using Google Analytics. Technology and Library Services: Meeting Today's Users' Needs Symposium. Princeton University, March, 15 2007.
  • Anne-Marie C. Basso, Harrison Dekker, Tim Dennis & Corinne Robinson-Slouber, Collaborative Publishing - The Read/Write Web. Academic Library 2.0. UC Berkeley, Nov. 2, 2007.
  • Dennis, Tim & Dekker, Harrison, Google Data API IASSIST 2008. May 27, 2008.

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TEACHING:
  • Introduction to PHP. UC Berkeley Library, September, 2006 - March, 2007.
  • Lecturer, Government Information Sources (Library 221-3). San Jose State University, Janurary, 2007 - May, 2007. (Online)

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