Bradley Herman

Work Experience:

Information Management Researcher, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India, 2006

Three month internship with a prominent global IT- and strategic services company in India.
Perform independent research around the concept of “information management”
Distill a coherent and comprehensive definition of “information management,” develop a framework for understanding the concept, and investigate approaches to modeling information architecture.

Webmaster and Systems Administrator, Political Science, UC Berkeley, 2001 – 2006

Maintain and update department’s public website and intranet: involving the integration of databases, interfacing with campus-wide information systems, managing SSL certificates.
Design and implement a web-based graduate student application and review system to replace the existing paper-based process, becoming the second department at UCB to implement such a system.
Redesign the entire department website user interface and layout (over 500 individual pages).
Responsible for purchasing, setup, and troubleshooting of faculty and student computer systems and network, including webserver, backed-up fileserver, and Windows domain controller.
Research and evaluate new technologies for potential pedagogical or administrative value.

Research Associate, New America Foundation, Washington D.C., 1999

Six month internship with a prominent non-partisan public policy institute.
Research, write, and present report on the state of the “digital divide” in access to technology.
Write background materials and coordinate press coverage for New America’s conference on the “digital divide”
Draft internal policy memos and contribute generally to the intellectual atmosphere.

Professional Skills:

Programming: web development in ASP, PHP, Ruby On Rails, DHTML, and CSS, mySQL. Some Java, XML.
Interpersonal: experience leading small teams, training users and coworkers.
Research: policy research, product comparison, needs assessment, design prototyping.
Computer: Windows system administration, Photoshop, office suite, MS Project.
Personal: analytic thinker, enjoy problem solving, eager to learn.

Education:

Masters of Information Management and Systems, May 2007

University of California, Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems

Coursework in information organization, policy and law, project management, design and human factors.

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, May 2001

University of California, Berkeley, graduate with Honors

Honors thesis on “Governance Institutions and Open Source Software”. Computer Science coursework in software programming and computer architecture.