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Education

Ph.D. Instructional Technology
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

CLASSIC GRAPHICS
9/2007 - present

Development Manager

GOOGLE
12/2006 - 12/2007

Quality Rater

ADVANCED AUTOMATION INC.
8/2003 - 6/2007

Information Technology Director 8/2003 - 4/2006
Senior Consultant 4/2006 - 6/2007

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
2/2002 - 6/2003

Computer Technician

UNIVERSITY PINES APARTMENTS
4/2001 - 8/2001

Senior Resident Assistant

Professional Certifications

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

  1. Norman, D. (2006, Summer). Argument against MD5 authentication. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, 23(2), 57.

Poster Presentations

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Norman, D. K. (1999, March). Ask the macroinvertebrates. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Science Engineering Fair of Houston, Houston, TX.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Software

  1. Norman, D. K. (2006, May). ISACware (Version 2.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved from http://deekayen.net/isacware

  2. Norman, D. K. (2004, November). myBackware (Version 1.0b1) [Computer software]. Retrieved from http://deekayen.net/mybackware

  3. Norman, D. K. (2001, December). Thatware (Version 0.5.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved from http://sourceforge.net/projects/thatware/

Notable Internet Postings

  1. 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

  2. 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

Work in Progress

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Marquez, R., Norman, D. K., & Hogg, J. (2005). Changes in grade 3 population and free lunch versus national average. Unpublished manuscript.

Consulting

Xomba

Various customizing of Drupal modules.

NASA Inspired Education

Recruited 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 Project

Featured 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.

Congress for the New Urbanism

Prepared data translation tables for data storage conversions. Wrote custom import scripts for data translation from Excel to CiviCRM

Active Living Network

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

Professional Development

Technical editor for Packt Publishing

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Summer Science Camp participant

Conferences Attended
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