The Personal Pages of Troy T. Anderson
7 GREEN BRIAR CIRCLE • RUSSELL, PA 16345
PHONE: 814-688-5399 • E-MAIL: TROYANDERSON@PSU.EDU
TROY ANDERSON
Objective
To obtain a full time consulting and/or project management position in information technology that will challenge my technical, communication, and leadership skills.
Education
- The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA
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- Bachelor of Science in Information Sciences and Technology
- Earned: May 2007
- Cumulative GPA: 3.95
- Eisenhower High School - Russell, PA
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- Class of 2003 Valedictorian
Technical Skills
- World Wide Web
- HTML, XHTML, PHP, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), basic JavaScript, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Zope, Plone, Web standards, U.S. Section 508 Web Accessibility
- Programming
- C++, Java, basic Python, basic C#
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, basic UNIX, basic Linux
- Computer Applications
- Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Minitab, Macromedia Dreamweaver, CSE HTML Validator Pro, UsableNet LIFT Machine
Professional Experience
- Marking & Communications - Information Technology Services - Penn State University
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- University Committee Member and Departmental Staff - Summer 2005-present
- Designed, developed, and implemented a content management newswire for all central Penn State IT alerts, news, and Web pages, substantially increasing internal efficiency and external visibility
- Gathered data and wrote documentation for the most common Web standards and accessibility errors to serve as a resource to University Web developers
- Active member of the Penn State University AD54 Web Accessibility Committee
- Provided consulting, configuration assistance, and administration for the department’s first production and development servers
- Consulting & Support Services - Information Technology Services - Penn State University
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- IT Intern - Summer 2005
- Evaluated legacy asset-management database and made recommendations
- Performed maintenance and operating system restoration on computers and servers
- Migrated entire website into Plone and wrote customized products in Zope and Python to satisfy developers' needs and meet Section 508 web standards
Activities
- Envisioneers - 2003-present
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- Group Coordinator and Team Leader
- Chairman of the Envisioneerathon event for charity
- Team Captain in the Penn State College of Engineering Rube Goldberg Contest
- Application & Recruitment team leader
- Engineering Design & Graphics - 2004
- Received the Best Design Communication Award in a team competition
- Digital Grass Roots - 2001-2003
- Web page design student leader for non-profitable organizations
Related Courses
- Information Technology
- Database Design and Management; Enterprise Integration; IT Professional Development; eCommerce and Agents; Interface Design; Project Management; Organizations; Java; Discrete Mathematics; Networks; Digital Systems
- Mathematics
- Calculus I, Calculus II, Differential Equations, Matrices, Statistics
References