Management Training

Thomas Dreis

aboza9@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** **** ****** ***

City: Knoxville

State: TN

Zip: 37923

Country: USA

Phone: 414-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $40,000

Willing to Relocate

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Thomas A. Dreis

Career Profile

To have the opportunity to advance my professional and technical skills in a stable

company with an opportunity for progressive advancement. Seeking a consistent working

environment that can offer a traditional career path in a positive and fast paced

atmosphere. I offer a technical expertise across a wide spectrum from desktop support to

server operation and maintenance including communication services, to web site and portal

creation using advanced as well as open source tools. I also have thorough training and

experience in SQL and variant database design, implementation, web enablement,

maintenance, in stand-alone and collaborative environment settings as well as web site

search engine optimization. An ideal position would allow continual learning and the

opportunity for me to use my skills to better the company.

Summary of Relevant Experience

Experienced technical writer and researcher with experience in governmental contracting

and government contract coordination. I am also an applications programmer and information

scientist with experience in website development and information management, with advanced

web development experience including front-end and back-end web applications for

relational databases. Supported information systems projects with both proprietary and

open source tools. Diligent, hardworking employee who takes pride in providing an

exceptional product every time. 10 plus years experience working in a business environment

with progressive advancement in skills and responsibilities in IT support, development,

and analytics, with experience in supervision roles.

Summary of Skills

* Masters Degree in Information Science along an IT track as well as additional IT

certifications through Microsoft and CompTIA

* Nine years experience in relational database systems using an Information Scientists

approach to metadata, organization, information management for precision and recall

* Experienced governmental contractor with technical and research contracts

* Understudy experience with Project Management Professionals and group project

coordination

* Extensive computer training, including knowledge of multiple networking environments

and business software packages. Continual training programs in Microsoft and Open Source

packages.

* Concentration in Portal/Content Management Systems including Drupal, Ning, MediaWiki,

Joomla, Moodle, DSpace, WordPress, Apache Lenya, iAPPS, Impress, and Marketpath.

* Experienced in advanced web content creation and management using CSS, Java, ASP, PHP,

Coldfusion, Perl, and XML, advanced use and development of web applications front back and

end.

* Strong technical service background with emphasis on desktop computer/user support,

server operation, database management, maintenance, and system migration, information

architecture, database structure.

* Extensive computer training, including knowledge of multiple networking environments

and business software packages. Continual training programs in Microsoft and Open Source

packages.

Education

M.S. Degree in Information Science and Systems. Dec 2009 (Cum Laude GPA 3.9/4.0)

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Concentration in Systems Design, network applications, IT, advanced Web 2.0 content

creation. Database management including Oracle, Perl, and SQL coding. Specialty in digital

library and repository creation, administration, content selection, metadata, and

searching. Specialization in search engine optimization and key word search strategy

planning and execution. Experience with multiple research topics including information

technology, medical and scientific resources and open source software solutions. Extensive

Drupal training from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

Education cont.

B.S. Degree in Information Science and Systems 2006

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Concentration in SQL database design and Windows 2000 Server administration.

Advanced Web content creation including PHP, Perl, Java, and CGI scripting.

Microsoft Certification Courses and Testing

MCSA Windows 2003 Server and SQL Server 2005

Certification and training including service and repair of computer hardware, operating

systems, database management, and tech support. Current level of MCP and I anticipate

completion of the MSA program in 2010 and the MCDBA program in 2012.

My most recent certifications include:

* Course 2275: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

* 70-290 Microsoft Certification Exam

* CompTIA Network+ Certification

* CompTIA Certification Hardware and Software

* CompTIA Server+ Certification

Current enrollment: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 70-

029

Work History & Experience

Technical Information Specialist I and Web Design,

Information International Associates,

Oak Ridge, TN. http://www.infointl.com (2009-Present)

* SQL database Perl scripting and development to Wiki format for Collaborative effort

initiative with Media Wiki software including customized module development.

* Theme design development, error correcting, coding and formatting for custom MediaWiki

sites.

* Design, development, and support for custom Media-Wiki generated PDF exports through

module development.

* Intermediary between information scientists and computer scientists for translation of

job specific requirements and requests, technical and non-technical. Introduction to

government contracting and procedure.

* Database research, scientific writing, scholarly article reviewing and abstracting

resulting in documented publication in coordination with contracting within a group

environment

Web and Computer Resource Management Knoxville, TN. (2008-Present)

* Creation of advanced Drupal based content management system for a high-tech scientific

technology company under the supervision of Dr. Vakili from the University of Tennessee

Space Institute.

* On-going Linux Web Server administration, maintenance, and email administration company

wide.

* Custom views, panels, and forms for registered site users with content creation

profiles, custom administration views for multiple permission levels.

* Site and server security hardening through certificate, log and PHP scripting reports

for security of proprietary scientific data.

Additional work through the Masters Program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN

While at UT I was able to train with an enterprise class computer network.

* I have a digital portfolio from the MIS program at http://web.utk.edu/~tdreis that is

an example of work that I have done using CSS to manage content. My personal blog at

http://listech.wordpress.com

* Experienced user of Adobe e-Portfolios for research and technical documentation.

* Initial development work for the UT Trace digital repository http://trace.tennessee.edu

* I received extensive training in Drupal administration and site creation as well as

training using the Evergreen and Koha Open Source Integrated Library Systems.

* Linux, Solaris and Windows Systems Administration - web server and database server

installations, upgrades, migrations, maintenance, scripting and cron jobs ( Fedora,

Solaris, Windows, Mac)

Special Projects

December of 2009 I co-authored an independent study research paper with Dr. Vandana Singh

for the The 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010) to be presented

at The University of Notre Dame, Indiana titled "Free and Open Source Software Technical

Support Internal and External Application: A case study of Moodle, NVU, and Dropline

Gnome".

Professional References

1. Information Technology Consulting Group Lead, Information International Associates

(IIa)

Franciel A. Linares aboza9@r.postjobfree.com 865-***-****

2. Open Source Research Group Lead, Information International Associates,( IIa)

Pam Crane, Project Lead Supervisor, aboza9@r.postjobfree.com 865-***-****

3. Professor, UT-Space Institute

Dr. Ahmad Vakili, 931-***-****

4. Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago

Upon Request

5. University of Tennessee, Knoxville - School of Information Science

Vandana Singh, PhD Assistant Professor Phone: 865-***-**** Email: aboza9@r.postjobfree.com

Suzy Allard, PhD Assistant Professor Phone: 865-***-**** Email: aboza9@r.postjobfree.com

Cindy C. Welch, Assistant Professor Phone: 865-***-**** Email: aboza9@r.postjobfree.com

Dania Bilal, PhD Professor Phone: 865-***-**** Email: aboza9@r.postjobfree.com

My Contact Information

Thomas Dreis

8516 King Arthur Way

Knoxville, TN 37923

Email: aboza9@r.postjobfree.com

Tel.: (414) 704-458

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