Resume for David Kent Norman
Drupal Profile
- Member of http://drupal.org/ 9 years, beta tester of the original http://drop.org.
- Ranked top 50 in Drupal contributions by CVS HEAD commit rate (source Ohloh)
- Google Summer of Code 2006-2008 mentor
- Google Highly Open Participation contest mentor
- General Assembly Member of the Drupal Association General Assembly
- Maintainer of or contributor to a lot of modules. Listing them all here would just look silly.
Education
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL; August 2008; GPA 3.86/4.0
- Dissertation title: "Predicting the performance of interpreting instruction based on Digital Propensity Index score in text and graphic formats"
M.S. Management Information Systems
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL; August 2005; GPA 3.568/4.0
B.B.A. General Business
The University of Texas at Tyler
Tyler, TX; December 2002; GPA 3.216/4.0
- Study abroad in Beijing, China for marketing
Work Experience
9/2007 - present
Development Manager
GOOGLE12/2006 - 12/2007
Quality Rater
ADVANCED AUTOMATION INC.
8/2003 - 6/2007
Information Technology Director 8/2003 - 4/2006
Senior Consultant 4/2006 - 6/2007
2/2002 - 6/2003
Computer Technician
UNIVERSITY PINES APARTMENTS4/2001 - 8/2001
Senior Resident Assistant
Professional Certifications
- Zend PHP Certified Engineer
- MySQL 5.0 Developer Certification (exam 1 only)
- Brainbench Master of PHP5 (2006-2009)
- Thawte Web of Trust notary
- CACert notary
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (2005-2008)
- Legal Expense, Life, Health, & Annuity Agent Florida Licensee (Lic #: E104841; Classes 0215 & 0256) (2004-2006)
Honors and Awards
- 2006 Recognition of Merit for Service at University of Central Florida
- 2006 Nominated by faculty for membership in Pi Lambda Theta, an International Honor Society and Professional Association in Education
- 2005 - 2007 Qualified for membership in Kappa Delta Pi, an International Education Honor Society
- 1999 Texas A&M University at Galveston honorary Sea Aggie science research award
- 1999 Lucky 13 Award for 13 years of consecutive science fair participation
- Boy Scouts of America: Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow, Arrow of Light
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal
Norman, D. (2006, Summer). Argument against MD5 authentication. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, 23(2), 57.
Norman, D. K., & Blasi, L. (2006, November 28). A pilot study: Instructional technology students’ perceptions of how age impacts proficiency with electronics. Poster session presented at the final meeting of Qualitative Research in Education, Orlando, FL.
Norman, D. K., Hogg, J., Head, M., Weber, T., & Hirumi, A. (2006, April). Hospice comforters. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the University of Central Florida Service-Learning Showcase, Orlando, FL.
Norman, D. K. (1999, March). Ask the macroinvertebrates. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Science Engineering Fair of Houston, Houston, TX.
Norman, D. K. (1998, March). Top to bottom: Armand Bayou. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Science Engineering Fair of Houston, Houston, TX.
Norman, D. K. (1997, March). Moon over the creek. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Science Engineering Fair of Houston, Houston, TX.
Norman, D. K. (2006, May). ISACware (Version 2.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved from http://deekayen.net/isacware
Norman, D. K. (2004, November). myBackware (Version 1.0b1) [Computer software]. Retrieved from http://deekayen.net/mybackware
Norman, D. K. (2001, December). Thatware (Version 0.5.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved from http://sourceforge.net/projects/thatware/
Norman, D. (2002, November 3). Re: problems configuring root on raid. Message posted to openbsd-misc electronic mailing list, archived at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=103635776223483
Deekayen. (2001, September 18). A guide to OpenBSD custom kernel compilation. Hack in the Box, 21. Retrieved February 20, 2006, from http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3663
Norman, D. K., DaCosta, B., Nasah, A., Prickett, C., Henderson, K., White, J., et. al. (2007). Differences between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: A pilot study of the Digital Propensity Index questionnaire. Unpublished manuscript.
Meli, P., Massiah, C., Norman, D. K., & Witta, E. L. (2006). Analysis of survey data: Impact of new technologies, employment and social affairs, and disabilities. Unpublished manuscript.
Marquez, R., Norman, D. K., & Hogg, J. (2005). Changes in grade 3 population and free lunch versus national average. Unpublished manuscript.
Consulting
Various customizing of Drupal modules.
NASA Inspired EducationRecruited as a PHP implementation expert to deploy a web portal for education related to NASA's Virtual Lab. The portal was collaboration between NASA, Saint Leo University, University of Central Florida, and the Orlando Science Center. My role primarily involved integrating HTML templates with PHP, creating a web-based lesson plan database, and a miscellaneous resource center, including blogging, forum, search, comment, and revision abilities for teachers to collaborate on lesson ideas.
Pearl Harbor Survivors ProjectFeatured on CNN and Good Morning America. Designed a phone tree and interface for the phone service to interact with the website software and database so survivors could leave information through a toll-free phone system and have the website grab it. Created submission system for survivors to donate photos, text, or audio on the project website.
Prepared data translation tables for data storage conversions. Wrote custom import scripts for data translation from Excel to CiviCRM
3D Security (Eastern Mennonite University)
CHL Marketing- Migrated a Microsoft Access customer management system to a web-based platform using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
- Drew data entity relationship diagrams in Microsoft Visio
- Wrote software documentation
- Diagnosed computer hardware problems
- Recommended software front-end packages
- Wrote data conversion scripts and web interface
Affiliations/Memberships
- Drupal Association (2007-2012)
Friend of Gnome (2003-2011)- Oregon State University Open Source Lab Rackathon supporter (2006-2009)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (2000-2010)
Friend of Eclipse (2009-2010)- Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT), UCF Chapter (2005-2008)
- American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) (2005-2006)
- International Digital Media & Arts Association (iDMAa) (2005-2006)
- Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX) (2003-2006)
- Cloaked supporter of Peer-Directed Projects Center (PDPC) (2001-2008)
- System Administrators Guild (SAGE) (2003-2006)
- HTML Writers Guild (HWG) (2004-2006)
- Supporter of OpenBSD (2001-2006)
Professional Development
Technical editor for Packt Publishing
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Summer Science Camp participant
Conferences Attended- AECT International Convention: Exploring the Vision, Orlando, FL, October 2005
- International Digital Media & Arts Association Conference, Orlando, FL, March 2005
- Applied ASCnet TENCon, Orlando, FL, October 2004
- Florida Association of Insurance Agents 100th Anniversary Convention & Education Symposium, Orlando, FL, June 2004
- Insurance Expo, Athens, GA, March 2004

