Randall C. Chang, Ph.D.

Address: **** ***** ****** **, ****** Springs, FL

32708

Cell phone: 407-***-****

Email: abhqif@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Over 13 years of continuous achievement in information technology and both

product management and enterprise system architecture, Mr. Chang has

provided computer software consulting services in central Florida area and

had great opportunities to design, implement, maintain, and support a

variety of large-scale software, database, and network systems for

companies like S.W.I.F.T., FedEx and Lucent Technologies. He also helped a

few small companies to develop and set up their information systems for

various engineering and e-Business functions. These industrial development

projects include multi-tier online transaction processing (OLTP) system,

database management, system development life cycle (SDLC) improvement,

innovative e-commerce applications, monitor and control software system for

satellite earth station ...etc.

His experiences include (1) substantial software architect, analysis,

design, and development experience with major operating platforms and

frameworks in n-tier, networked, and client-server environments; (2)

successful project leadership techniques used on several multi-million

dollar technology upgrades and mission-critical software development

projects. (3) highly effective business process analysis techniques result

in solid application requirements foundations.

Education

M.S. in Engineering Management, University of Central Florida, 2002

Orlando, FL

FedEx sponsored coalition program with the Department of Industrial

Engineering and Systems Management.

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida,

1996 Gainesville, FL

Dissertation: Using Information Technology to Advance the SCADA/Energy

Management System Design in a Gas Turbine Power Plant

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, 1992

Gainesville, FL

Thesis: A Pitch Detection Methodology for Complex Harmonic Signals

using Fast Fourier Transform and Constant-Q Spectral Transform

B.S. in Chemical Process Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1986

Taipei, Taiwan

Awards: NTU Honor Award

Computer Expertise

Systems and Tools: UNIX (SUN Solaris, HP-UX), MS-DOS/WIN NT(MFC),

C/C++, JAVA, Perl, Smalltalk, Visual Basic, FORTRAN, Motorola DSP

56001 Assembly, HTML/Internet CGI programming, SQL(Sybase, Oracle),

ESQL(Informix), PVCS, Lotus Notes, Visio, IBM MQ Series,

TIBCO/Rendezvous, CA/AutoSys, HP/OpenView-VPO, Rational Unified

Process.

Middleware Systems: FoxboroI/A Series Distributed Control System

(DCS), HP Real Time Application Platform (RTAP), Plant Information

(PI) System (Oilsystems, Inc.), AccessPoint (AccessWare, Inc.),

TUXEDO/WebLogic (Oracle/BEA Systems, Inc.).

Professional Training: BEA Tuxedo Administration, Advanced JAVA

Programming, Oracle System Administration, OOA/OOD using UML, Applied

Team Skills in Technical Environment.

Work Experiences in Information Technology industry

Spectrum Bridge, Inc., Lake Mary, FL

System Architect: 01/2008 ~ 06/2010

. Develop an online spectrum exchange trading marketplace for

Federal Communication Comission regulated Secondary Market for

licensed spectrum. (www.SpecEx.com).

. Provide technical leadership in solution architecture system

design with Tuxedo system backend services messaging framework

and functional specification details design for the

implementation team.

. Data model and details design for backend spectrum management

applications to list spectrum, query spectrum inventory, and

maintain leased spectrum records.

. File patents for spectrum exchange system design and management

system for the right to use spectrum (see the end page of

resume).

. Design quality assurance test cases and test processes for the

spectrum exchange trading system.

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication),

Manassas, VA

System Consultant: 07/2006 ~ 12/2007

. BEA Tuxedo system security enhancement and development

consultancy for Society of Worldwide Inter-bank Financial

Telecommunication (S.W.I.F.T. at www.swift.com).

. Test Automation on BEA Tuxedo system and application

functionalities between connected domains to ensure the

integrity of system installation and patch migration.

. Support software conversion to .NET clients for BEA Tuxedo 9.1

. Tuxedo software system migration project to HP Itanium servers,

Itanium specific STK reports, software component compilation

debug with 64-bit compiler, software component test case

automation.

Prosoft International, Ltd.,

Project Development Contractor: 03/2005 ~ (per new customer)

. Server system architecture design consultancy for a Mobile

Instant Messaging Solutions provider, XCome Technology Ltd,

Taipei, Taiwan.

. Develop distributed Jabber/XMPP server system for instant

messaging solution using C++, Perl, and SQL.

Results Reservation Technologies, Inc., Miami, FL

Senior Project Contractor: 05/2004 ~ 01/2005

. Produce 3-tier airline reservation information system to

regional airline carriers. Customers include: US Spirit

Airlines, Thai Nok Air, Mexico AeroCalifornia...etc.

. Handle software development routines, coordinate among 12

developers and report to Swiss managing partner/investors.

. Developed backend services to a 3-tier airline reservation

system, ResultS, to low cost airlines. The ResultS system is now

in operation for Spirit Airlines (5M passengers per year) since

October 2003 and Nok Air (startup low cost carrier in Thailand)

since July 2004.

. Backend service applications include: ATM payment interfaces

(Siam Commercial Bank/Krung Thai Bank), Credit Card payment

gateway (Bankok Bank/BBL), Advance Seat Reservation (ASR), Web

XML Service Conversion to all ResultS reservation booking

services, End Transaction XML Service Conversion, Dynamic SQL

Service...etc.

. Software architecture technologies include: Informix relational

database, BEA Tuxedo system, Embedded C++/Linux, ESQL, SOAP,

XML/XSL, VB, HTTP.

Management Information Systems Department at University of Central

Florida, Orlando, FL.

Adjunct Professor: Spring, 2003 ~ Spring, 2004

. Teaching "Advanced Information System Analysis" using C++/Visual

Basic/JAVA computer programming language.

. Prepared new course incorporating C# /.Net computer programming

language.

FedEx Corporate Services, Information Technology Division, Orlando, FL

Enterprise Architecture / Technical Advisor: 12/1998 - 02/2003

* Architect, develop and debug enterprise software products in

UML, JAVA, C++/Solaris, SQL/Sybase. Write product requirement

document, implement and track development timelines, negotiate

feature sets with the development team leads.

* Plan and design a client messaging framework (via IBM MQ, CST+,

TCP/IP) to OLTP back-end servers via various corporate system

platforms from different projects.

* Plan and execute quality assurance tests for architectural

application software releases.

* Develop and provide technical supports to 3-tier online

transaction process (OLTP) using BEA Tuxedo system and Sybase

database for Federal Express's corporate real-time revenue

solution project: CHRONOS and online invoice solution project:

SEP. The system processes approximately 2-million transactions

per day in near real time using 30+ SUN Enterprise 5000/6000

Series machines and 400+ software developpers.

* Develop an AutoSys / OpenView VPO Help Text project using Oracle

(PL/SQL) and WebDB (Portal) to assist the technical support

diagnosis in the IT Operation Center. Provide processes and

training to troubleshoot AutoSys job failures efficiently.

Project objective is to reduce production down time via the semi-

automatic diagnostic system.

* Debug and Troubleshoot all BEA TUXEDO system related problems in

development, testing, and production phases. Proficient

experiences in system support in production environment.

* Provide Tuxedo system expertise to FedEx Service corporation.

Tasks include (1) Support a 3-tier OLTP client-server system

using BEA's TUXEDO system to manage real-time distributed

computing, and facilitate a service-routing platform with TUXEDO

domain configuration. (2) TUXEDO system configuration consists

of data dependant routing, multiple domains connection via

gateways, fail-over/fail-back, load balancing, Jolt repository

setup for JAVA clients, message queuing, security,

server/database connections, server crash handling...etc. (3)

Quality-assure the execution of Tuxedo system with FedEx

Services proprietary architectural software to project

development. (4) Performance tuning for real-time servers.

Lucent Technologies, Inc., Maitland, FL

Senior Software Consultant: 1/1998 - 10/1998

* Developed a back-end alarm messaging system for Help Desk

service to monitor Lucent Technologies corporate networks.

* Project scope includes implementation of an alarm message

retrieval system using C++/Solaris via a client/server

environment and an alarm tickets generation system to interface

with Help Desk using Remedy's API and inter-process

communications.

Engineering & Technical Services, Inc., Palm Bay, FL

Senior Software Consultant: 3/1997 - 11/1997

* Developed a Monitor & Control system for a satellite earth

station using C++/Solaris and Access Point(Access Ware, Inc.).

* Project scope includes implementation of device drivers, real

time database, and control screen design for satellite

communication equipment( e.g. antenna control units, modems,

tracking receivers, protection switches, ...etc).

Clean Air Capital Market, Inc., Washington, DC

E-Commerce Consultant: 12/1996 - 2/1997

* Designed and implemented a customized centralized database

(using Visual C++, MFC, and Perl ) to collect electric power

transmission data from all OASIS sites (OASIS are power

corporation web sites set up for online power transmission

reservations after electric utility industry deregulation, as

introduced by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in '96 on

http://www.tsin.com) over the Internet. Please refer to the

established website at URL http://www.powernav.com.

* The development involves multiple back-end browser engines on

distributed Windows NT environment. The browser engines send

time-variant URL queries (OASIS 889 protocol) to all OASIS web

sites, and collect the return data to a Btrieve database on

hourly basis (2-year proprietary consulting contract expired in

Feb. 1999).

Florida Power Corporation Gator Power Plant, Gainesville, FL

Information System Consultant: 5/1996 - 9/1996

* Evaluated and integrated a plant-wide SCADA and energy

information systems in a LAN environment, using Visual Basic,

C++/HP-UX, Oracle and Foxboro's Intelligent/Automation Series

distributed control system.

* Designed and implemented the process control applications such

as real-time pricing, thermodynamic analysis, heat rate

calculation, and performance monitoring to assist the operation

of a combined-cycled gas turbine (GE LM6000) power plant.

Discover Diagnostics & Analysis, Inc. Gainesville, FL

Software Development Consultant: 6/94 - 8/94, 6/95 - 8/95

* Developed a real-time transmission protocol using C++/HP-UX

between two databases, Oracle and Foxboro's I/A Series DCS, to

collect the operational data for performance efficiency analysis

at the Gator Power Plant of Florida Power Corporation, St.

Petersburg, FL.

* Implemented a GUI software to view data trends from the database

using Visual Basic.

R&D Experiences in academia

Computer-Aided Process Improvement Laboratory, UF, Gainesville, FL

Graduate Research Assistant: 9/1992 - 5/1995

* Designed and achieved a real-time data transmission system using

C++/HP-UX to provide the selected measurement data from a power

plant's DCS to the corporate intranet and to the Internet. (

Please visit World Wide Web at URL

http://gatorpwr.che.ufl.edu/cogen/data).

* Implemented and maintained a real-time database for Gator

Cogeneration Plant of Florida Power Corporation using Hewlett

Packard's industrial SCADA software, Real-Time Application

Platform (HP RTAP).

* Established a UF cogeneration plant computer model using

GateCycle and neural networks for the model-based control and

performance monitoring design.

* Developed a Neural Network model to design a closed-loop

controller in the metal forging process. Research affiliated

with the Flight Control Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force

Base, Dayton, Ohio.

Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory, UF, Gainesville, FL

Graduate Research Assistant: 9/90 - 12/91

* Designed and implemented a fundamental and harmonics extraction

algorithm for complex harmonic signals using Objective-C (C

and Motorola DSP56001 Digital Signal Processor.

* Designed and implemented a graphical user interface to interact

with the harmonics extraction algorithm on the NeXT computer.

Department of Environmental Engineering, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan

Software Analyst: 9/88 - 7/89

* Designed and implemented a database for automobile gas emission

pollutant analysis.

Selected Technical Publications in the areas of computer science, data

communications, systems analysis and design.

R.C. Chang, "More on the C/C++ Comment Macro for Debug Statements",

C/C++ User's Journal, pp.38, Feb. 2003.

Domijan, A., R.C. Chang, "A Power Plant Distributed Control System

Interface Using an Open Workstation Network--A Network File System

Migration Methodology,", Int. J. of Power and Energy Systems, pp. 1-7,

1998.

C.A. Schwartz, J. Berg, M. Mears, R.C. Chang, "Neural Network

Identification and Control in Metal Forging", Proceedings of the

American Control Conference,

pp.1782-1785, June 1995.

U.S. Patents

1. 201******** AUTOMATED SPECTRUM EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD 06-10-

2010

2. 201******** SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING SPECTRUM USE RIGHTS

06-10-2010

3. 201******** SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED OPTIMIZATION OF

SPECTRUM ALLOCATION 06-10-2010

Professional Membership

IEEE Standards Association Member

Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society

Personal Information

Trilingual in English, Chinese, and Taiwanese.

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