Residency

I arrived in New Zealand in October 2009, and hold a valid NZ Working Holiday Visa that allows me to commence immediately in a new job and work for 1 year. As soon as I have received a job offer I will be lodging my application for NZ Permanent Residency, as my intention is to live and work permanently in New Zealand.

Personal Details

Current Address               C 304 – 130 Anzac Street
                                       Takapuna, North Shore City, New Zealand
Date of Birth                     8th April 1980
Nationality                        German
Mobile                              +64 (0) 22 643 0468
Email                                hendriktho@googlemail.com
Web                                 http://www.hendrikthomas.com

Career Objective

As an experienced information scientist as well as an expert in content management systems, I am looking for a challenging position in which I can design, implement and drive effective systems to support companies and end-users in managing their documents and records.

Tertiary Education

Since 10/2008                  Research PhD, Student Knowledge & Data Engineering Group,
                                        Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (part-time from Oct’09)
                                        Research topics: Information management and exchange of knowledge between heterogeneous organisations

01/2006 – 10/2008             Doctorate Student, Chair of Information and Knowledge
                                        Management, Institute of Commercial Information Technology, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
                                        Research topics: Semantic improvement of record management and
                                        information retrieval systems with focus on digital libraries

10/1999 – 04/2005             Study of Computer Science & Business Administration,
                                        Knowledge Management and Information Systems Institute of Commercial Information Technology
                                        Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
                                        Degree:
                                        Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker (Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf.)
                                        Equivalent to a MSc (Master Science) degree in Business Administration with Computer Science

Memberships

Since 2009                        Member of the Records Management Society http://www.rms-gb.org.uk/

Since 2008                        Member of the ISO 13250-7: GTM group for the development of a graphical notation for Topic Maps

Since 2008                         Conference chairman of the international conference on Knowledge Federation (KF’2008), Dubrovnik, Croatia

Technical Skills

* 1 year * * 1 - 2 years * * * 3 - 4 years * * * * 5 years+ hands-on experience

Web Content Management Systems        * * * *    Drupal, Dokuwiki, Mediawiki
                                                             * * *      Typo 3, Siteforum

Office Software                                       * * * *    MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, LaTex

Statistic Software                                   * *         SPSS

Semantic Web                                       * * * *     Topic Maps, RDF, OWL, SKOS

Operating systems                                 * * * *     MS Windows 2000, XP, Vista
                                                             * *         Debina, Ubuntu

Databases                                             * * * *     MySQL, eXist XML database

Technologies & tools                              * * * *     XML, XSLT, XQuery, (x)HTML
                                                            * *          REST web services,
                                                            * *          OO Design and UML, CSS, SQL

Programming languages                         * * *       J2EE, Java Servlets, JSP, PHP
                                                            * * *       Perl, Visual Basic, JavaScript

Work Experience

Apr’09 – Nov’09           Share.TEC European research project, http://www.share-tec.eu
                                   Software Developer (part-time)

• Designed and implemented a record management system for digital learning resources for teachers and lecturers
• Organized system rollout and maintenance
• Trained staff on record creation and procedures
• Created training materials and documentation
  

Oct’08 – Oct’09            Trinity College KDEG, Department of Computer Science (Dublin)
                                   Researcher – FAME Project     

• FAME is Federated Autonomic Management of End-to-End Communications Services
• Developed a framework to support information exchange between telecommunication companies, service providers and end-users
• Designed & implemented an web record management system to support knowledge mapping management
• Developed domain taxonomies and classification systems

Mar’07 – Sep’08          Digital Mechanism & Gear Library (Germany) http://www.DMG-Lib.org
                                   Head of the Semantic Web (research project)

• Designed & developed semantic enhanced information retrieval and navigation systems for digital libraries
• Implemented the digital library management system
• Created a comprehensive domain taxonomy and classification systems for the gear engineering domain
• Organised workshops and trained staff on record creation

Mar’07 – Sep’08           Technical University Ilmenau, Germany, Institute of Commercial Information Technology
                                    Research Assistant - Chair of Information and Knowledge Management

• Planned, organized and processed workshops, seminars, lectures & the assessment of assignments
• Supervised 29 master and postgraduate students in knowledge and information management papers
• Designed and implemented a record management system for assignments and thesis related records (MS Access)
• Extended the content management system for the undergraduate and post-graduate study

Oct’03 – Dec’06             Technical University Ilmenau, Germany,
                                     Post-graduate study Business Administration & Information Retrieval                                             
                                     Research Assistant

• Planned, organized and processed workshops, seminars, lectures & assessment of assignments
• Provided administrative and organisation support for students and lecturers
• Maintained web pages, student records
• Created interactive study materials & documentations

Research Grants and Awards

July 2009                        Awarded second place at the poster and project competition (50 participants) during the European Summer School                                       on Ontological Engineering & the Semantic Web 2009, Spain

10/2008 – 10/2009          Research grant awarded by Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

04/2006 – 09/2008          Research grant awarded by the Federal State of Thuringia, Germany

10/2007                         Best Paper Award: T. Redmann, H. Thomas: The Wiki Way of Knowledge Management with Topic Maps.                                                    International Conference on Information Society (i-Society), Merrillville, USA, Oct 7-11 (2007) pp. 352-357

08/2005                         Best Student Award (2005), Technical University Ilmenau

Publications

Summary One upcoming book publication, two peer reviewed journal papers, 15 peer reviewed conference papers and 5 posters, 9 presentations on international conferences

• Hendrik Thomas, Tobias Redmann: Topic Maps und TMAPI: Wissen managen im Semantic Web, Entwickler press, 2008. , ISBN-10 3868020101 to appear in December 2009.
• Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas: ColdLIB – A concept for a Global Knowledge Space for the Collnet Community. In: Shabahat Husain, Hildrun Kretschmer: Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, Berlin. Taru Publications, New Delhi, 3(1) June 2009, S. 11 – 16.
• Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas: Ranking Approach for Search Engine Result Sets for a Semi-Automated Generation of Occurrences in Topic Maps. In: Shabath Hussain, Hildrun Kretschmer (Eds.): Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, Berlin. Taru Publications, New Delhi, 2(1) June 2008, S. 91 – 98.
• Thomas, H., O'Sullivan, D., Brennan, R.: Ontology Mapping Representations: a Pragmatic Evaluation Evaluation. In: 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. SEKE 2009, 1 - 3 July 3, Boston, USA, 2009, pp. 228 - 232.
• Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas, Tobias Redmann: Developing Topic Maps Applications: Lessons Learned from a Digital Library Project. In: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society 2009, Barcelona, Spain, February 25-28, 2009, ISBN: 978-972-8924-78-2, pp. 51 - 59.
  

NOTE:
A complete list of all international publications and sample lectures can be found on:
http://www.hendrikthomas.com/