ABDOLLAH HAGHIGHI

**** ********* *****

Oakton, VA 22124

abn9rl@r.postjobfree.com

703-***-****

Professional Experience

The KBM Group

August 2008 to September 2012

Duties /Responsibilities: Department of Housing and Urban Development

(HUD):

Has been responsible for creating two large housing databases on a

quarterly bases in Oracle 10G and 11G, and geo-code information of HUD

public housing and section 8 tenants in HUD's office of Programming

Development and Research (PD&R). His responsibility included programming in

SAS by providing statistical and socio-economic information and ad hoc

reports of tenants to researchers, other US agencies, and academic

institutions in MS Windows and mainframe platforms. Worked with the HUD's

Office of Investigator General (OIG) in meeting their requirements for

regional and national data for auditing purposes. Expanded and maintained

the SAS code to provide housing data to the US Census to include the vacant

and occupied public housing units and socio-economic information of the

public housing and section 8 tenants for the Census 2010 and beyond. PD&R

provides the US Census with the tenant and housing data on an annual basis.

Extended PD&R SAS geo-coding procedure to include the periodical

geographical changes of the US. Worked with the HUD IT division in

maintaining the PD&R database servers and their software/hardware upgrades.

Immediate Supervisor/Telephone: Tracey Chiricosta 301-***-****, Deserene

Wosley 301-***-****

Skills Utilized: SAS, SAS Macro, SPSS, NOMAD, MS EXECL, MS Access,

Statistics, SQL, MS NT Server, ORACLE, Unisys, IBM Mainframe,

Computer Sciences Corporation

September 1995 to August 2008

Duties /Responsibilities: Department of Housing and Urban Development

(HUD):

As a system administrator and SAS programmer, was in charge of daily

administration of a SAS application server and two Oracle database servers.

Led the design and development of HUD's PD&R housing databases in MSSQL,

Oracle. His responsibilities included, installing and configuring SAS and

database applications on the users, workstations, determined the hardware

/software needs, getting the pricing from the vendors, attending in the

meetings with the HUD office Programming development and Research (PD&R )

and IT directors, examining the procured hardware / software, and

installing the client/server applications. Developed SAS/GIS programs for

monitoring and cross checking of FEMA Katrina/Rita database versus HUD's

TRACS database system, and a monitoring system to investigate the fraud in

the housing authorities associated with HUD. Developed the PD&R welfare to

work system in SAS, and analyzed the effect of welfare reform on HUD's

public housing and section 8 tenants since 1997.Provided the housing

datasets to the US Census and HUD's Office of Investigator General (OIG),

research institutions . Developed the Community Development Work System

(CDWS). CDWS consists of a data entry, two ranking systems, and a reporting

module. CDWS is used to review, evaluate and rank the qualifications of

research institutions, and universities interested in community development

studies. Created a database, containing the annual income data of public

housing residents and studied the resident's income fluctuations for the

years 94, 95, and 96. Modified a PD&R housing retrieval system in FORTRAN.

Redesigned and automated PD&R TRACS DB2 database system in NOMAD and SAS.

This database system provides the PD&R with monthly extracts on both

Hitachi and the Unisys mainframes.

Developed a FoxPro system to maintain socio-economical data of Hispanic

communities and identify the areas in needs of community development.

Created a racial-income database, a geographic, and a geocode database of

the locations of public housing projects in the city of Dallas, and created

GIS maps and reports to be used by HUD's lawyers in a housing dispute with

the city of Dallas. Developed section 8 databases for city of Chicago and

Cook County. Incorporated census socioeconomic factors such as percent

poverty, racial composition, and vacancy rate in the databases and designed

several regression models to show the effect of socioeconomic factors on

section 8 residents at tract level. Linked Contract and Project databases

of Housing data warehouse and extracted a socio-economic and geographical

data of public housing residents using MS Access and performed statistical

analyses on the derived database in SAS. Designed a contract tracking

database system in FoxPro, and wrote and generated all procedures and

supporting modules of the system. Participated in the design of HUD's

Moving to Opportunity (MTO) database system. Created a database containing

the socio-economic status of elderly and handicapped public housing

residents. Created a questionnaire and a database based on MTO survey in

RaoSoft. Created a customized housing database for the US Census bureau.

Converted Fannie-Mae housing database into SAS, MS Excel and Access

datasets.

Number/Type Personnel Supervised: None

Immediate Supervisor/Telephone: Frank Kidd 202-***-****

Skills Utilized: SAS, SAS Macro, SPSS, NOMAD, FORTRAN, MS EXECL, FoxPro, MS

Access, Statistics, MSSQL, JAVA (JDK, JDBC, EJB, WebServer), NT Server,

ORACLE, Unisys, Hitachi

The Orkand Corporation

September1989 to October1995

Duties/Responsibilities: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):

Worked on Elderly & Handicapped Housing database and developed SAS programs

fulfill the requirements of General Accounting Office (GAO). Used Conquest

database software for tracking, mapping and socio-economic analysis of

native Indian reservations. Wrote SPSS programs on Unisys mainframe to

extract all housing projects in multifamily insured database, compute the

housing units under each individual project, and extract the selected

projects from the database. Performed extensive socio-economic analyses on

all census tracts of Miami and Dade County which were devastated by

hurricane Andrew using Conquest, and SAS to compute total undamaged housing

units. Assisted HUD Evaluation Division in identifying 1980 census tracts

which expanded, contracted and changed during 1980's. Worked on software

integration of HUD Insured Multifamily Housing Stock, developed in

different programming environments. In support of policy and management

questions concerning the Voucher and Certificate program, loaded,

maintained and performed statistical analysis on Voucher Demonstration

database in MVS environment using SAS. As part of the defense against an

ongoing discrimination law suit in Allegheny County Pennsylvania, produced

demographic reports and maps (using Conquest) to support expert witness

testimony. Provided preliminary data analyses to be used by PD&R in

preparing a mandated report to Congress on budgetary impacts of changing

eligibility rules for preservation Incentives. Provided programming support

to PD&R staff in reporting to principal staff and the Secretary, the

national budgetary implications of modifying procedures for computing rent

increases in Section 8 project rents. In estimating physical condition of

Multifamily Stock, integrated several HUD databases to develop a

statistical model which HUD can use in place of costly on-site assessment

to estimate physical condition and capital needs of insured properties

using readily-available information collected by field offices. To assist

the PD&R in redesigning the Tenant Rental Assistance Certificate System

(TRACS), performed systems analysis and converted forty eight DB2 data sets

into SAS data sets residing on HITACHI(3090), and provided statistical and

data quality control services. This is an ongoing task. Performed tape

database management and statistical analysis on Underclass database and

made it available for all the interested users on the Hitachi mainframe.

Provided demographic data analysis of US cities and metropolitan

statistical areas (MSA) with population greater than 50,000. In response to

Hispanic headers' criticism, that Hispanics don't get a fair share of HUD's

public housing program, assisted PD&R by extracting Hispanic's housing and

socio-economic database in the cities Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dade

County, San Antonio and Chicago. Worked on the generating Regional Factors

for distribution of the Loan Management Set-Aside funding for FY94. In this

task, performed statistical analyses on the related factors of each HUD's

regional office. Extracted socio-economic and geographical data (at block

group level) of 71 major Texan cities and used Conquest/Atlas GIS mapping

software to generate the maps of HUD's Section 8, Public Housing Projects,

and Private Providers locations in 10 of those cities. In this task dbase

III + was used to create a reliable database of locations of housing

complexes, racial composition and economic status of their occupants.

Extracted the tract poverty of MSAs Seattle, Oklahoma, Washington DC from

census CDROM's and merged the data with GAO's section 8 database containing

the socio-economic data of 27,000 households. The final database was used

to study the % tract poverty, % black, % black poverty of four MSAs and

their major counties and cities. Geocoded the locations of public housing

project in Boston city by using Conquest/Byways and extracted the minority

socio-economic data for census tracts of Boston. Then by merging the

geocode and minority data created a map of Boston city showing the

locations of the public Housing projects and minority concentration. In a

cross-platform effort, converted the Tenant Rental Assistance Certificate

System (TRACS) databases from DB2 into SAS databases, using NOMAD. TRACS

currently resides on HITACHI mainframe with over five million records. Then

revised and merged the SAS databases and created a unified database to be

exported to UNISYS mainframe. Used Microsoft Access to extract data from

FHA's Multi-family data warehouse. This data warehouse resides on Housing

division's client-server system, administrated by Sybase SQL database

server.

Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services (FNS), Senior

Systems Analyst:

Duties/Responsibilities: Maintained, developed, and enhanced a Text

Information Management System (TIMS) in PL/I on IBM (3090) using MVS/ESA,

ISPF/PDF. The purpose of this system is to provide line access for all

seven FNS regional offices and headquarters staff to agency specific

regulations, law, instructions, waivers, policies and directives used in

the administration of FNS. He developed a CLIST program in TSO environment

for on line processing of PL/I programs, VSAM data files and wrote numerous

JCL files for batch processing.

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Senior Computer

Analyst:

Duties/Responsibilities: Performed systems, software/hardware and cost

analyses for the conversion of DOL/Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

mainframe software to micro environment. Currently developing and devising

new methods, work plans, procedures and software programs in PC SAS, C++,

and PC FORTRAN to accomplish this task. Participated in conversion analysis

of BLS micro and LAN to OS/2.0 and studied in depth the related ADP

hardware/software requirements and systems complexities of OS/2.0 versus

UNIX. Developed major variance reduction software in C++ for quarterly

Import/Export sample data bases and assisted the BLS management in

statistical and conceptual design of this task. Worked with the BLS

management in developing and devising of specifications for seasonal

Import/Export data sampling. Developed an on line Command Procedure program

in Wylbur on IBM (3090), to interface with BLS Sampling Tracking System

(STS), and to sample Import/Export Seasonal data bases based on the user's

specifications. Developed a major mainframe SAS program to generate the

quarterly response data bases of Importers/ Exporters, downloaded the data

bases to PC with KERMIT in TSO environment, and developed a PCSAS program

to perform statistical analysis on these data bases. Assisted the BLS

management in theoretical development of a new sampling procedure, based on

probability proportional to size, to find the optimal sizes of certainties

and non-certainties of BLS Export and Import sample passes. Developed

software programs in PC FORTRAN to study the feasibility of this new method

and documented the theoretical and numerical results. Developed a large SAS

macro program and a command procedure to interface with, and sample from

STS and perform statistical analyses and estimation on Export/Import

population, stratum data files, and assisted the BLS staff in production

runs. Developed a large SAS program to compute the probability index

aggregation, short term and long term price relatives of Import/Export data

files. Also developed a command procedure program to interface with a newly

developed PL/I program and several MVS JCL programs to generate price and

product data files for desired sampling periods. Previous contract works

included development of several command procedure and SAS programs to

create import/export master data files, update and merge regional office

sample files and to perform statistical estimations on different population

parameters.

Number/Type Personnel Supervised: None

Immediate Supervisor/Telephone: Alex Cina, 301-***-****

Skills Utilized: SAS, C/C++, PL/I, FORTRAN, CLIST, COMMAND PROCEDURE,

FoxPro, SPSS, and Statistics

The Scientex Corporation

February1985 to September1989

Duties/Responsibilities: Based on Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

specifications for the development of a major PC crash data base program

performed a feasibility study on more than 70 relational and SQL data

bases. Participated and supervised computer programmers in development of

the above crash data base program. As a lead analyst developed mathematical

procedures to compute the algebraic - geometric properties of vehicle

surface points, planar & spherical linkages. Based on these mathematical

procedures, designed FORTRAN programs in TSO environment on IBM (3033), to

generate vehicle modules for a crash simulation package and interface with

CalComp graphics package for graphics representations of crash scenarios.

Developed a validation procedure using FORTRAN and SIMSCRIPT II.5 to

compare the similarities of a computer crash simulation program with actual

data from crash tests performed by the FHWA. Through statistical inference

and signal processing techniques, such as Fourier transformation, spectral

analysis and smoothing, the root mean square log spectral distance of each

pair of filtered data sets was computed and used as a measure of

similarity. Documented the theoretical and numerical results of this task

for FHWA. Designed and developed a command procedure in TSO and a menu-

driven Dbase query software in COBOL to access and interface with a major

accident database and extract information from 200 categories in over

straight or combined format. Previous contract work has included improving

access to safety databases for FHWA, and development of SAS programs in

WYLBUR, C and PASCAL software for improvement of accident analyses on PC

Number/Type Personnel Supervised: Three, Engineers

Immediate Supervisor/Telephoe:Sudahamy Basu,301-***-****

Skills Utilized: SAS, SIMSCRIPT, FORTRAN, PASCAL, BASIC, COMMAND PROCEDURE,

CLIST, DBASE, Signal Processing, and Statistics.

Independent Consultant (1984)

Duties/Responsibilities: Performed a study on the modeling and simulation

of integrated voice and data multiplexing. A time-slotted frame was

utilized and simulated following an integrated voice/data multiplexing

structure with fixed and movable boundaries. It was assumed that the voice

traffic and data pockets, received from satellite sources, would follow

Poisson processes with exponential processing times. Voice calls were

queued only until the next opening of the frame and rejected if not

received. Data pockets, on the other hand, were queued indefinitely until

they were served. The above system was designed and coded in SIMSCRIPT

II.5 on IBM (4381)/CMS and statistically studied for different protocols

based on data gathered for different statistical performance measures.

International Water Resources Institute

January1981 to October 1983

Duties/Responsibilities: Performed statistical modeling of hydrologic time

series databases. The structural characteristics of databases such as

natural and man-made trends, periodicity, and sampling variations were

investigated through software developed in FORTRAN and SAS. To identify

the possible stationary structures (AR, MA, and ARMA), the autocorrelation,

partial autocorrelation functions and spectrum of the series were analyzed.

Through inferential analysis, the related parameters of the models were

estimated and, based on the residuals, proper models were presented.

Education

Applied Scientist Degree, The George Washington University. 1984

Master of Science, The George Washington University. 1981

Bachelor of Science, Gilan College of Management. 1977

Publication

Paticipated in the following published studies.

1 - "Promoting Housing Choice in HUD's Rental Assistance Programs",

prepared by John Goering, Abdollah Haghighi, Helene Stebbins, and Michael

Siewert 1995, by Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),

available on HUD USER.com .

2 - "Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly: Program Status and

Performance Measurement", Authors: Haley, Barbara A., Gray, Robert W.,

Taghavi, Lydia B.,Thompson, Dianne T., Devine, Deborah, Haghighi, Abdollah

H.,Marcus, Seth R., U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Release Date: June 2008, available on HUD USER.com .

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