Rafiou Oketokoun

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Cell Phone: 678-***-****

North Reading, MA, 01864 - USA

E-mail: abn9k3@r.postjobfree.com

Languages: English & French

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Profile Summary: Excellent ability to provide primary problem diagnosis and

coordinate resolution, strong analytical, verbal and written communications

skills; team player with extensive experience in software object oriented

development, web development, and relational database design.

Domain of Expertise: software design and application development using .NET

(C#, C++) with imaging libraries (OpenGL, Open Inventor, DICOM), and under

object-oriented methodologies (UML and RUP), specifications, user interface

design, architectural design, software quality assurance and system

integration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Imaging Software Engineer

2011-06 to 2012-11

On-Q-ity - Waltham, MA, USA

- Developed of high performance Circulating Tumor Cell imaging detection

system. Built a scalable imaging system capable of handling

significant amounts of data for internal applications

o Developed, assisted and optimized complex efficient image

segmentation algorithms for detection of rare circulated tumor

cancer cells, cells counting and artefacts elimination.

o Designed, implemented complex web components and software

systems from requirements, and developped test harnesses and

unit tests for all code.

o Actively participated in all phases of the software development

lifecycle using a scrum based Agile development process

environment and within multi-disciplinary teams.

o Tools used: MATLAB, Visual C++/C# .NET, MFC, OPENCV,

LABVIEW,ODBC, MySQL

Senior Software Engineer

2008-08 to 2011-06

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Center for Molecular Imaging) -

Boston, MA, USA

- Designed and implemented of clinical software for novel intraoperative

imaging system in the regulated FDA software development environment:

multiple near-infrared fluorescence assisted medical imaging systems

assisting surgeons during oncology image-guided cancer surgeries

o Contributed to the development of software requirements,

architecture, and overall implementation of medical imaging

systems and maintained existed software systems.

o Implemented software features as multithreaded image acquisition

with digital and UDP cameras, GPU computing, resampling,

autofocus, auto-normalization, BCG, 2D-3D image visualization,

PNG to DICOM converter for PCAS system and user interface with

MFC.

o Tools used: Visual C++ .NET, MFC, OpenGL, OpenCL, GLSL/GPU,

CMU1394

- Designed and implemented of large and complex software platform for

clinical in-vivo & in-vitro information combination and correlation

for the validation of new biomarkers for prostate cancer detection

o Designed and implemented data acquisition module for specimen

slides digitization.

o Implemented user interface components to interact with the

microscopy imaging system.

o Developed digital histopathology application system for

mosaicking of unlimited size specimen slides and web-based map

for stitched specimen slide visualization and annotation.

o Developed an automated pair-wise and global registration

algorithm for 2D and 3D images data co-registration.

o Tools used: Visual C#/C++ .NET, NI, Apache, JavaScript, MySQL,

Oracle, JDBC, JSPs

Software Developer

2007-07 to 2008-08

SIEMENS (Siemens Corporate Research) - Princeton, NJ, USA

- Participated in the development of medical image visualization &

processing application, the software is part of a core level software

component used with a clinical imaging system.

o Programmed real-time image multi-threading data acquisition from

digital CCD cameras, GPU computing, image segmentation, image

analysis, 2D-3D image visualization and hardware instruments

control (data acquisition board, motor stepper drives, serial

ports, cooling system)

o Designed and implemented graphical user interface components

with Qt library.

o Tools used: Visual C++ .NET, Qt, OpenGL, Open Inventor,

National Instruments (NI-DAQ, NI-Vision)

Programmer Analyst

2006-08 to 2007-06

TELUS Mobility - Montreal, QC, Canada

- Developed an improved database applications used for supporting

networks technologies data and business operations process (PCS, CDMA,

iDEN and EVDO)

o Analysed current systems functionality and applications

o Maintained existed databases and generated documentations (Data

Report). Programming mostly in VBA to support applications built

around with MS Access & Excel.

o Migrated data from to Oracle 10g database.

o Designed and implemented graphical user interface using .NET

framework components.

o Tools used: Visual Basic .NET, Oracle10g, Oracle Migration

Workbench, PL/SQL

Software Developer

2003-01 to 2005-12

ATTSOFT - Montreal, QC, Canada

- Participated in the entire software development for accounts and

customers management

o Designed the user interfaces of the software

o Imported an old non-relational database to a new relational

database, and designed new tables and written new stored

procedures.

o Coded automatic generation of financials reports.

o Tools used: Visual C# .NET, MS SQL, Windows Forms, Crystal

Reports 6

Internship - Network Analyst

2002-05 to 2002-08

International Institute of Telecommunications (IIT) - Montreal, QC, Canada

- Developed automatic modules for Virtual LANs communications and

configurations

o Implemented C/C++ configuration of VLAN switching, trunk and

spanning tree with Cisco and Nortel Networks routers, switches

and hubs.

o Analysed of VLANs performance, interoperability, security

enhancement and bandwidth optimizations.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Engineering (M.S.)

2003-2005

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal at Montreal University (Montreal - Canada)

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering (B.S.)

1998-2002

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal at Montreal University (Montreal - Canada)

PAPERS

"Global Error Minimization in Image Mosaicking Using Graph Connectivity and

its Applications in Microscopy" Parmeshwar Khurd, Ph.D., Leo Grady, Ph.D.,

Hari Sundar, Ph.D., Ali Kamen, Ph.D., Rafiou Oketokoun, M.S., Tejas

Gajera, M.S., John V. Frangioni, M.D., 2011 (in press)

"Preclinical and Clinical Validation of a Novel Oxygenation Imaging System"

Sylvain Gioux,Ph.D., Amaan Mazhar, Ph.D., Bernard T. Lee, M.D., David J.

Cuccia, Ph.D., Alan Stockdale, M.E., Rafiou Oketokoun, M.S., Yoshimoto

Ashitate, M.D., Nicholas Durr, Ph.D., Anthony J. Durkin, Bruce J. Tromberg,

John V. Frangioni, M.D., Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7896, (2011)

"The FLARE Intraoperative Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging System: A

First-in-Human Clinical Trial in Breast Cancer Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping"

Susan L. Troyan, M.D., Vida Kianzad, Ph.D., Summer L. Gibbs-Strauss, Ph.D.,

Sylvain Gioux, M.E., Aya Matsui, M.D., Rafiou Oketokoun, M.S., Long Ngo,

Ph.D., Ali Khamene, Ph.D., Fred Azar, Ph.D., and John V. Frangioni, M.D.,

Annals of Surgical Oncology, 16, 2943-52, (2009).

"Towards Optimization of Imaging System and Lymphatic Tracer for Near-

Infrared Fluorescent Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Breast Cancer" Mieog

JS, Troyan SL, Hutteman M, Donohoe KJ, van der Vorst JR, Stockdale A,

Liefers GJ, Choi HS, Gibbs-Strauss SL, Putter H, Gioux S, Kuppen PJ,

Ashitate Y, L wik CW, Smit VT, Oketokoun R, Ngo LH, van de Velde CJ,

Frangioni JV, Vahrmeijer AL., Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2011 In press

"High Power, Computer-Controlled, LED-Based Light Sources for Fluorescence

Imaging and Image-Guided Surgery", Sylvain Gioux, Ph.D., Vida Kianzad,

Ph.D., Razvan Ciocan, Ph.D., Sunil Gupta, B.S., Rafiou Oketokoun, M.S., and

John V. Frangioni, M.D., Ph.D., Mol Imaging, 8, 156-65,(2009).

"Accommodating Usability Driven changes in existing Software Architecture"

Tamer Rafla, Rafiou Oketokoun, Artur Wiklik, Michel Desmarais and P-N.

Robillard, Proc. of the 8th IASTED International Conference on Software

Engineering and Applications, MIT, Cambridge, USA, November 2004, pp. 150-

154.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2K/NT, Windows Server 2003, Unix/Linux,

Mac OS X.

Computer Languages: C#, C/C++, JAVA, SQL, UML, OPENGL, VB.NET, ASP.NET,

ASP, HTML, DHTML,

XML, XSL, JavaScript, VB Script, ActiveX Code Components,

ActiveX Controls, IIS Web

Server, Web Services

Computer Software: VISUAL STUDIO .NET, ORACLE9i, MATLAB, TOGETHER,

UPEDU.

Databases: SQL Server 2000/7.0/6.5, Oracle

9i/8.0/8i/7.3 and MS-Access 97/2000/2003

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English: Excellent / French: Excellent

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