{"id":2064,"date":"2013-05-03T09:59:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T13:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryoit\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2013-05-03T10:17:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:17:35","slug":"alex-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/2013\/05\/03\/alex-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Thomas, Software Engineer, Sr., R-WIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2176\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryoit\/files\/2013\/05\/new-thomas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2176\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryoit\/files\/2013\/05\/new-thomas.png\" alt=\"Photo of new employee Alex Thomas\" width=\"360\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/files\/2013\/05\/new-thomas.png 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/files\/2013\/05\/new-thomas-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex is an Emory alum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alex has been working in the Library since 2008, and has been doing a lot of work with the Fedora Commons repositories using Python, Django, and PHP. Before Emory, he worked at Ricoh where he was a back-end Java programmer.<\/p>\n<p>At the Library, Alex has worked a lot with the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) software and revamping the <a href=\"http:\/\/slavevoyages.org\/tast\/index.faces\">Slave Voyages<\/a> database.<\/p>\n<p>Alex has a degree in Computer Science from Emory and is also certified as a Scrum Master.<\/p>\n<p>An Atlanta native, Alex loves to travel domestically, especially to Florida and South Carolina. He&#8217;s an avid reader and loves sci-fi movies.<\/p>\n<p>You can reach Alex at <a href=\"javascript:secureDecryptAndNavigate('DkRm+x57UNtMcVecuk\/xUHeUrvtv5x4NLm2HJgYObue4GUT84U8GGCfeOQGaZNbsTwDnoTkjNd8mEx2ZuFmFgHUHDEiHzyKO', 'f06ce84dc9f38960737bc21900f48c093bed7fe35b4c8a11db8d44734d12ad54')\">athom09 [at] emory [dot] edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex has been working in the Library since 2008, and has been doing a lot of work with the Fedora Commons repositories using Python, Django, and PHP. Before Emory, he worked at Ricoh where he was a back-end Java programmer. At the Library, Alex has worked a lot with the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":2176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-new-employees","tag-r-wit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}