Engineering Software

LAITH M. AlBARAKAT

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Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA

Tel. 217-***-**** E-mail *****.*******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

A fulltime or part time position in the software industry utilizing my

strong analytical, interpersonal and problem solving skills

EDUCATION

Jan. 2009 - Present University of Illinois, Urbana

Champaign - USA

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering and Computational Science and

Engineering

Honors: Selected to fellowship to peruse my master degree in nuclear

engineering at University of Illinois

Sept. 2002 - Sept. 2007 Jordan University of Science

and Technology - Jordan

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

SKILLS

Algorithm Development Environments Mathematica, LabVIEW, MATLAB

Operating Systems Win95/98/XP/Vista, Linux, UNIX and

Mac

Databases Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server, MySQL,

Microsoft Access

High-Level Languages C++, C#, Java, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, CSS,

JavaScript, coldfusion, python and Perl

Source Control Software Subversion and

Visual SourceSafe (VSS)

Web Servers Internet Information Server,

Apache Server

Content Management Systems & Framework Drupal and Codeigniter

Network Simulation Tools OPNET IT Guru and NS-2

Office Tools Photoshop; Microsoft Visio, Project

& Office Suite, SPSS

Software Development Environments Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft

Visual Studio 2005, Zend Studio, Adobe

Suite

Electronic Design Automation Tools PSpice, Circuit maker

Hardware Description Languages Active HDL, VHDL

Test & Measurement Tools Signal Generators, Oscilloscopes,

Spectrum Analyzers

WORK EXPERIENCE

May.2009 - Current University of Illinois at Urbana

Champaign - USA

Website/Technology Specialist

The primary responsibilities include developing websites for the college of

education using drupal 5&6, codeigniter as frame work, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL

and ASP.Net as well as working with project supervisors to present reports

and data in an online format.

Sept.2007 - Dec.2008 Maktoob Group, Inc. (recently part

of Yahoo, Inc.) - Jordan

Senior Software Developer - Maktoob.com

I have been in involved in projects that aim to develop web applications. I

was responsible to architect and develop these applications using open

source technologies viz., LINUX, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Drupal

May 2007- Sept. 2007 Computer Center - Jordan University of Science

& Technology, Jordan

System Administrator

I worked as DBA on JUST site, and was responsible for Load balancing,

backup and recovery, Creating users and privileges

PUPLICATIONS

Magdi Ragheb and Laith AlBarakat, "Incidence and Likelihood Risk and Safety

Indices", Proceedings of the 1st International Nuclear and Renewable Energy

Conference (INREC10), Amman, Jordan, March 21-24, 2010

Mohammad Malkawi, Mohammed Khasawneh, Omar Al-Jarrah and Laith Barakat,

"Modeling and Simulation of a Robust e-Voting System", Volume 8, number 26,

Communications of the IBIMA, 2009, pages 198-206

Mohammad Malkawi, Mohammed Khasawenh, Omar Al-Jarrah and Laith Barakat

"Modeling and Simulation of a Robust e-Voting System" Proceeding in the

11th International Business Information Management Association, Cairo,

Egypt, 2009

Mohammed Khasawenh, Mohammad Malkawi, Omar Al-Jarrah and Laith Barakat "A

Biometric-Secure e-Voting System for Election Processes", Proceeding in the

5th International Symposium on Mechatronics and Its Applications (ISMA'08),

Amman, Jordan, May 2008

REFERENCES

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