SOUMA BADOMBENA-WANTA

**** ****** ******** **. #** ( Fairfax, VA 22030 ( Phone: 804-***-****

E-mail: abmn30@r.postjobfree.com ( Web: http://mason.gmu.edu/~sbadombe/souma_wb

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a full-time position in Telecommunications Engineering, IT,

Computing or a relevant industry field with relevance to systems

architecture, applications analysis and design, performance and

quality testing or components integration and deployment within a

dynamic and conducive work environment, where I can leverage my

technical skills, learn, contribute to fruitful work and deliver

value.

EDUCATION

George Mason University, Fairfax VA, May 2010,

The Volgenau School of Information Technology & Engineering,

Master of Science, Telecommunications,

Focus area: Networking Applications, Mobile and Embedded Computing,

Distributed Networks/Systems and Smart Grids.

Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, December 2006,

School of Science, Engineering & Technology,

Bachelor of Science (Magna Cum Laude), Electronics Engineering, Cum.

GPA: 3.6/4.00

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ INTERNSHIPS

IBM Corporation Research

Triangle Park, NC

Software Performance Analysis Intern

06/09- 09/09

. Analyzed and tested the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Platform

infrastructure and software agents,

. Designed and built a large-scale testbed and simulation environment

for scaling and high-availability testing

. Performed scale/regression testing, measurements and benchmarking

for deployment and provisioning,

. Executed software agents loading, installs and upgrades and tuned

them against capacity planning specs,

. Managed Distributed Network, OS/Platforms through performance

monitoring and workload balancing.

Camp Dresser &McKee Inc. (CDM) Falls

Church, VA

I&C/Automation Engineering Co-Op

05/08-09/08

. Assisted on major industrial plant project application engineering

duties and tasks completion,

. Performed control software QA/QC and Performance benchmarking

achieving optimized start-up routines,

. Designed Network-integrated Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and

OIT/LOP embedded software and executed downloads for equipment

readiness.

nTELOS Wireless Inc.

Richmond, VA

RF/Wireless Associate Engineer

02/07- 01/08

. Performed RF/Wireless (CDMA) Network Performance Optimization

operations and fault diagnosis tasks,

. Assisted with RF network design, planning, integration and

deployment of CDMA2000/3G/1xEV-DO network.

. Investigated, troubleshot and addressed customer-related network

issues and device failures.

. Utilized SQM tools (Lucent Watchmark, IBM Vallent ) on a daily

basis to analyze network metrics, provide resolution strategy and

predictions.

DoE (Dept. of Energy) / Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Batavia, IL

RF/Physics Research Intern 05/06-

08/06

. Designed and implemented an enhanced wideband RF Phase Detector for

RF signal monitoring operations,

. Conducted RF beam-oriented signal conditioning and monitoring

experiments,

. Assisted RF engineers, physicists and technicians in assembling,

testing and calibrating modules and devices.

Research Paper on work and experiments performed at FERMILAB as part

of the SIST Research Program: Design and Implementation of a wide

band RF Phase Detector enhanced with signal monitoring capabilities.

SKILLS

Computing/Networking/IT: Windows 2000/XP/Vista Office Suite, Visio,

IBM Lotus, IBM Tivoli Monitoring/ Websphere, Windows Server 2003, DB2,

IDE (Eclipse, Netbeans), MPI, OPNET, Window Embedded CE, NI/LabView

10, Cisco IOS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, DNS, DHCP TCP/IP

Programming: C/C++, Java (J2EE, JME), JavaScript, Unix (IBM-AIX, Sun

Solaris) Linux (RedHat, Centos), Shell Scripting, PERL, MySQL, PHP,

Visual Basic, ASP .NET, HTML/XML, Android SDK, MATLAB, LabView.

Telecommunications/Automation: Network Design/Performance (LAN/WAN,

WLAN, VoIP, GSM, CDMA, NGN), Architecture, Exploitation and

Performance (OSPF, BGP, RIP, VPN, VLAN, TCP/IP Perfomance), Converged

Networks/Unified Communications (VoIP, SIP, MGCP, H.323) Wireless

Implementation, Troubleshooting/Testing, Industrial Networking, HMI

Embedded integration.

PUBLICATIONS

. Badombena-Wanta S., Sheybani E., Mobile Communications for

Development: Enabling Strategic and Low-Cost e-Applications for

Rural and Remote Areas, IEEE/Wireless Telecommunications Symposium

(WTS-2010), Tampa, FL

. Sheybani E., Javidi G., Wanta S., Establishment of a Global

multinode Teleconferencing Infrastructure for Research and

Education, IEEE SouthEast 2007, Richmond VA.

ACTIVITIES

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Chapter

Chair (2005-06), Student member

COMSOC, Computer Society, Student member (2007-08)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Student member

Project Management Institute (PMI)/IT-Telecom SIG, Student Member

The Internet Society (ISOC), Global Member

The USENIX Association, Student Member

Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Student Member

SuperComputing Conference 05/06- Student volunteer/IEEE SouthEastCon

'07 Volunteer

Google Campus Ambassador (Volunteer) 08-09

AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS

Google Academic Scholar 2008

International Communications Industries Foundation (ICIF) Scholar 08-

09

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-YES/ NOKIA Corporation

Scholar

High Performance Computing (HPC)- USC/CACS 2007 Scholar

References Available Upon Request

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