Tim Dennis' Resume

Tim Dennis

Oakland, CA 94609 USA

EDUCATION:

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

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

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, and user services. Technical Project Manager and Usability Specialist for the Government Information Group Website Redesign Project. Provided numeric data/government information reference to students and faculty via IM, email, and face-to-face. -
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). 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. -
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. -
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. -

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

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, 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

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.

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.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Tim Dennis, 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)

Tim Dennis, Blog Basics & RSS. Doe/Moffitt Technology Training, Oct. 17-18, 2007.

Tim Dennis, PMWiki Basics. Doe/Moffitt Technology Training, Dec. 4, 2007.

Tim Dennis, Blogging Basics with b2evolution. Doe/Moffitt Technology Training, Jan. 19, 2008.

Tim Dennis & Jesse Silva, Web Widgets 101. Doe/Moffitt Technology Training, May 1, 2008.

Tim Dennis & Harrison Dekker, Google Data API IASSIST 2008. May 27, 2008.

Tim Dennis' Resume (Last updated July 20th 2008)