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Background, Skills and Education

Hollie has over 23 years of experience in server administration of Linux-based servers in physical, mixed-mode, and fully virtual VMware environments. Hollie currently manages server deployment, infrastructure, firewalls and load balancing for multiple servers utilizing Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP combinations and serves as a PCI technical contact for Web infrastructure and development. Her skills in troubleshooting and finding solutions on-the-fly, while maintaining a secure environment for customer transactions, are critical. She is articulate in communicating complex processes at multiple levels to cater to various business environments, making her skills useful for communication with executives, peers, colleague, and customers. She strives to gather knowledge that she can readily disseminate to her team members so that they have a stronger, more cohesive workforce. She has a broad knowledge base in business, criminal justice, education, general technology, informatics, market...
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Spring 2019 Courses

For my final semester in the Master's Informatics Program, I took the following courses: BUS 5743: Project Management Tools and techniques of project selection and management as defined by the Project Management Institute, including network diagrams, critical path analysis, critical chain scheduling, cost estimates, earned value management, and completion of team project management software required. CSCI 5803: Data Warehousing Design, implementation, and management of data warehouse systems and their applications; requirements for gathering data for data warehousing; data warehouse architecture; dimensional model design for data warehousing; physical database design for data warehousing; extracting, transforming, and loading strategies; design and development of intelligence applications for decision support; and expansion and support of a data warehouse. CSCI 5923: Capstone in Informatics Culminating organization and/or community-based interdisciplinary/interprofessio...

Projects

These are the projects that were worked on during my Introduction to Informatics course which provided learning pathways into the topic of informatics, Python scripting and R programming. Project R: Titanic Project Python: First Name Popularity Machine Learning Projects Supervised Learning: The Wine Project Unsupervised Learning: The Crab Project Cross-validation: Revisiting the Wine Project

The Informatics Program at Texas Woman's University

Texas Woman's University Master of Science degree in Informatics program began in 2016. Hollie began pursuit of an advanced degree with an emphasis in data science and data analytics in the fall of 2017, in order to enhance her skills in her career and broaden her skills. She completed the program in the spring of 2019, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. Skills learned or reviewed Courses taken

Why Informatics?

The goal of obtaining my degree in Informatics was to broaden my knowledge and continue strengthening my current skills as a senior systems administrator. The (mostly) online program provided by Texas Woman's University offered just the right fit of diversity and course opportunities to help me achieve those goals. Additionally, the Denton campus was close enough to my home that I could, if the need arose, visit professors, tutorial/professional services or take advantage of other services provided by the university.