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Tim Dennis


Oakland, CA USA

EDUCATION:

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

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.

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.


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