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Greenlee School's IT guru to receive master's degree

By Lori Runkle
Greenlee Web Team

Jeremy Haubrich, Greenlee School system support specialist, will graduate this month with a master’s degree in information systems from ISU’s College of Business.

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Haubrich’s degree is designed to provide him with the technical and business skills he will need to develop and manage a full spectrum of information technology projects.

“There’s a lot of people here (at ISU) who do more than just one thing,” he said. “I work with the Web servers, databases, video streaming and email. I keep databases with student information and scholarship information, work with the Web Team and manage student employees.”

Haubrich, who joined the Greenlee School full time in 2000 after earning a bachelor’s in management information systems from the College of Business, also oversees the School’s four computer labs and tends to the computing needs of faculty, staff and students.

Haubrich chose to complete a creative component for his master's degree instead of writing a thesis. His research focused on a crime lab in Mission, Kan.

Haubrich investigated the possibility of using radio frequency identification tags (RFID) to maintain a chain of custody for evidence in crime labs.

Barcodes are often used to keep track of evidence in crime labs, and they are cheap; however, “if there is a whole stack of evidence in a drawer, and you can’t find it, radio frequency hand-held devices will locate the evidence and beep. It saves time, but it’s expensive.”

RFID technology is now used by companies like Merck & Co. Inc. to guarantee the authenticity of its drugs, Haubrich said. This technology is “very popular in logistics and for government and military use.”

The U.S. government and companies like Wal-Mart use it “for anything that has a high enough value to track,” he said.

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