Maintenance Engineer

Simon Lok

Education

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-Present Columbia University

PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Graphics and UI laboratory.

Awarded Master of Science,

Computer Science, 12/99.

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-5/98 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Awarded Bachelor and Master of Engineering,

Electrical Engineering, 5/98.

Received awards for academic excellence and outstanding service to the community.

Awarded fellowship for innovative exploration into computer aided graphic design.

Professional Certifications

MCSE Attained Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer status, 9/98

CCNA Attained Cisco Certified Network Associate status, 4/99

Work Experience

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-PresentFreelanceComputer Consultant

Contracts have included software development for Sarnoff Corporation, network maintenance for NameSpace Inc., teaching MCSE/CCNA certification preparation courses for Bnai Zion, systems administration and deployment for Columbia University as well as e-commerce website development, server maintenance and security audits for various Silicon Alley startups.

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-6/98Department of Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union

Chief network administrator for departmental computing facilities. Manager of a 12 person staff. Responsible for deployment and maintenance of heterogeneous systems on a LAN, development of interactive web based distance learning and administration of wide area and wireless connectivity.

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-12/95NASA - Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Programmer and systems administrator for paleoclimatology research group. Responsible for development of GUIs for data extraction and maintenance of a network of AIX workstations and Apple Macintoshes.

Professional Skills

Programming Capable of implementing production quality software modules in JAVA, PERL, PHP, C and C++. Experience with most programming languages/environments and their common variants, including but not limited to BASIC/QBASIC/Visual BASIC, Bourne Shell/KSH/TCSH/BASH scripting, HTML, LISP, ML, PROLOG, SQL, etc.

Systems Experience with deployment, administration and maintenance of services (web, ftp, DNS, NFS, etc and systems running all common free and commerical OS's, including but not limited to all UNIX variants (Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Tru64/OSF1, IRIX, Linux variants, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.) as well as Microsoft OS's (DOS/Windows/95/98/NT/2000) for both desktops and servers and Apple MacOS.

Networks Certified to deploy and maintain networks with Cisco routers. Experience with the design and deployment of large scale networks with wide area connectivity as well as all common network security technology including firewalls, secure socket services and tunnelling, intrusion detection, etc.

Graphics Familiarity with most common application software used to for commercial graphic design and 3D modeling. Experience with principles and techniques used for web oriented graphic design and layout.

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