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\"DanDan Greene\u2019s (\u201903) current life is immersed in information sciences: he\u2019s an alum of SIS, he is the SIS technology coordinator, and he\u2019s also an SIS lecturer. But information sciences wasn\u2019t even on his radar when he was an undergraduate at East Tennessee State University. There, he switched majors so many times he almost lost count before he finally did graduate with a degree in history. But there were always two other fields that kept pulling at him throughout the years: computer science and librarianship.<\/p>\n

In fact, it all started at his high school library one day when a librarian poked her head out and asked Greene and a few other students if any of them knew anything about websites. It was just around that time when everyone was starting to realize that their organization needed a website, and the library had been put in charge of making the school website. Greene, who at that time was a senior and didn\u2019t know much more than a general idea of what HTML was, volunteered.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy friends basically didn\u2019t see me for about three weeks after that because every day I was in the library doing my high school\u2019s website. I\u2019d always been interested in IT stuff, but doing the website was completely accidental,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He learned everything he needed to know in order to build his school\u2019s website, and from there he was hooked. In fact, he had started out in the computer science program at ETSU, but\u00a0the degree program focused on calculus and advanced mathematics rather than web-based computer science. Though he was working at a computer store in Johnson City at the time, Greene knew that program wasn\u2019t the right fit for him and that\u2019s when he began searching for another major.<\/p>\n

Upon graduation, Greene went into a community college program thinking he would get an associate\u2019s degree in computer science, something more web-based. But that also wasn\u2019t exactly the right fit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like a continuation of high school and a couple of the professors asked me why I was there, that I already knew most of the topics, and I said, well, I want to get the degree as proof that I know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fate would have it that the computer shop would close down, and Greene began wondering if community college was the right choice after all. He had more than one librarian in his life, and both suggested he check out the library program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. So he did, and he entered the class of 2001 to get his master\u2019s degree in information sciences<\/a>. He graduated from the program in spring 2003 and entered the school\u2019s doctoral program<\/a> that fall. Once again, his life was thrown for another loop when he had a serious car accident that October in which he suffered injuries that derailed his plans for two years.<\/p>\n

When he came back to the program in 2005 and was working as a graduate teaching assistant, the then-director of SIS was leaving to go to the University of Missouri and encouraged Greene to follow him there and enter its PhD program. Greene liked the director, and the school paid their GTAs a bit more, so he figured why not. Turns out that Missouri was not to either Greene or the former director\u2019s taste, and both soon left \u00a0for other opportunities. Greene returned to Knoxville in August 2006 and got a job at UT\u2019s Hodges Library<\/a> as a web designer for what was then the library outreach department.<\/p>\n

After that, Greene stayed at Hodges in different IT roles until January 2018, when he saw the position open up at SIS. It was a pleasant return to his roots, and it also was a role that gives him a lot of autonomy and flexibility. He is the technology coordinator for SIS, and he does web server management for both SIS and the College of Communication and Information. As SIS technology coordinator he anticipates, plans for, and supports hardware, software, and IT systems for all SIS faculty and staff, and assists faculty, staff, students, and lecturers with online class support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe technology coordinator job came open at just the right time and it was a good place to go and it remains to be a good place, and I\u2019m quite happy here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

To top it off, Greene started teaching as a lecturer a few semesters ago, with this being his third semester. The class he currently teaches is, of course, INSC 514: Information Technology Foundations. It\u2019s one of the reasons why he took the job, because it was going to allow him to also teach, something he\u2019s always enjoyed doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like it when the lightbulb goes off for students after I\u2019ve gone through something for a few weeks and then someone finally says, \u2018Oh, now I get it!\u2019 and then they\u2019re fine and realize it wasn\u2019t really that hard, it\u2019s just being able to learn the steps and do what needs to be done,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n

Despite teaching an entire semester on IT, and working a full-time job in IT, Greene said the job really culminates in one truism: \u201cAlways turn it off and back on first.\u201d<\/p>\n

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