Computer Science Quality Assurance

John P. Abraham

Professor of Computer

Science

University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX78539

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956-***-**** (home), 956-***-****

(office)

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www.cs.panam.edu/abraham

Education:

1990 Texas A & I University, Kingsville and Corpus Christi, TX.

Graduate Courses in Computer Science 18 sem hours.

Programming

(Assembly, Pascal, Cobol, BASIC), Artificial Intelligence and Expert

Systems, Parallel Computing.

1986 University of Houston,

Houston, TX.

Ed. D. in Allied Health Leadership A combined

program of BaylorMedicalCollege

and University of

Houston. Courses taken

from both institutions.

Statistics and Higher Education Administration.

70 sem. hours. GPA 3.8/4.0

1974 TexasA&MUniversity, College

Station, TX.

M. Ed. In Allied Health Leadership A combined

program of BaylorMedicalCollege

and University of

Houston. Courses taken

from both institutions.

Noyes Foundation Fellowship Recipient.

Management, Ed Psych, Curriculum, Leadership. 37

sem hours. GPA 3.9/4.0

1972 LubbockChristianUniversity, Lubbock, TX.

B.S. in Biology, Chemistry and Clinical

Laboratory Sciences (triple major). 158 sem hours. GPA 3.42/4.0

Board Certified MT(ASCP) and SH(ASCP).

1968 LubbockChristianHigh School, Lubbock, TX.

Short Courses:

One day workshop ABET Faculty

Workshop on assessing Program Outcomes, San Antonio, TX, December 1, 2007.

One day workshop MATLAB Reference for super

Computing, Education Summer Program,

Super Computing, PurdueUniversity, June 25-27,

2007.

One day workshop SKETCHUP & GOOGLE

EARTH, Education Summer Program, Super

Computing, Purdue University, June 25-27, 2007.

4 hour workshop Online Trust and

reputation, ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San DiegoCalifornia.

June 11, 2007.

4 hour workshop - Prediction

Markets: Economics, Computation, and Mechanism Design,ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San DiegoCalifornia.

June 11, 2007.

4 hour workshop Modeling Complex Networks for Electronic

Commerce, ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San DiegoCalifornia.

June 12, 2007.

4 hour workshop Sponsored Search, ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San DiegoCalifornia.

June 12, 2007.

Two days workshops in Visualization and Data

Mining, Super Computing Conference, Tampa FL 2006.

Two days workshops in Data Mining at the

Super Computing Conference, SeattleWA,

2005.

One day workshop in Critical Thinking, University of Texas Pan American, April 15, 2005.

Two days workshop in Famous Accounting

Software, Fresno, California, Dec. Dec 15-18, 2003.

Three days workshops: How to build a Grid

Service using Globus Toolkit, A Practical Approach to High Performance Data

Transport, and Introduction to GRID computing and overview of the Globus

Toolkit. 2003 Supercomputing Conference, Phoenix,

AZ, Nov 15-20, 2003 .

Three days tutorials on High Performance

Computing, 2002 Supercomputing Conference, Baltimore, MD.

November, 15 to 19, 2002.

One week workshop on Topics in Computer

Science, University of CentralFlorida July 29 to Aug 2, 2002.

Two days workshop on the Workshop on

Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational Challenges. ACM Sigcomm

2002 Conference. Pittsburgh,

PA 2002.

Computational Science Workshop. One week

training at LouisianaStateUniversity. Jan 4, 2002 to Jan 10, 2002.

NCR Teradata, One week training in Teradata

Administration (California). June 17- June 22, 2001.

NCR Teradata, One week training in Teradata

Application Development (Atlanta,

GA), July 23 to July 28, 2001.

CISCO Router course. RegionOneEducationCenter.

One week (Edinburg, TX)

INTERACTIVE, 3 day course in 386ix

NETWARE, two weeks training in Novell Server

Installation and Administration.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS,

two days course in Use of Cray in Biological Research (Austin, TX).

AUTODESK two weeks training in AUTOCAD.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS,

two days workshops in Workload Characterization, IEEE (Austin, TX).

Dissertation:

Effect of DRG in Texas

Hospitals. 1986.

Personal Data:

Married with three children. Children are all college graduates and well

settled.

Very active in community organizations such as

The Comfort House, Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity and Hospital Boards.

Very active in Churches. Taught Bible studies for over 15 years.

U.S. Citizen.

Teaching Courses taught

(most recent first):

Graduate Seminar in Windows SharePoint Services.

Applied Database Principles Oracle (Graduate)

Principle of Information Systems (Graduate)

Network Security (Graduate Seminar)

Advanced Architecture (Graduate) for Computer

Science and Electrical Engineering.

Advanced Network (Graduate).

Foundation of Systems (Graduate), Computer

Organization and Operating System concepts.

E-Commerce (Graduate Seminar).

Computer Networks (Senior)

Computer Architecture (Senior)

Senior Project

Practicum in Computer Science (Junior)

Topics in Computer Science (Senior)

Object Oriented Visual Basic (Junior)

Survey of Computer Concepts (Junior)

Advanced Visual Basic (Sophomore)

Data Structures in C++ (Sophomore)

Data Structures in Pascal (Sophomore)

C++ (Sophomore)

Fortran for Engineers (Sophomore)

Introduction to Computer Science Pascal

(Freshmen)

Introduction to Computer Science C++

(Freshmen)

Computers and Society (Freshmen)

Instrumentation I & II (Junior)

Clinical Chemistry I & II

Clinical Microbiology (Senior)

Clinical Parasitology (Senior)

Hematology (Senior)

Immunohematology (Senior)

Methods of Analysis I & II (Senior)

New

Courses Developed:

CSCI 6303 Principles of

Information Systems. Graduate course

CSCI 6314 E-commerce. Graduate

Course

CSCI 6315 Applied Database

Systems Oracle Administration. Graduate Course

CSCI 6389 Internship. Graduate

Course

CSCI 6175 Network Security.

Graduate Seminar

CSCI 6175 Sharepoint services.

Graduate Seminar

CSCI 6175 - Advanced file handling techniques. Graduate

Seminar

CSCI 4345 Computer Networking

CSCI 3327 Advanced Object

Oriented Visual Basic

CSCI 3333 Structured Basic

Professional Skills:

Over 30 years of University Level teaching

experience with highest student rating.

Over 25 years of experience in computer related

consulting.

Established several very successful private

businesses: Abraham Technologies (25+ years), JPA Home Health Care (3+ years),

Manna Associates (2+ years), and Abraham Construction (2+ years).

Served on the Board of the largest hospital in

the County.

Very Knowledgeable in computer hardware (A+

certified), networking, routing, etc.

Developed several custom software used in

Banking, Hospitals, Produce Industry, Insurance, Retail, Physician s Office

Practices, Accountants, Quality Assurance, Auditorium Reservation, etc. Career History:

2003-present Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas Pan

American, Edinburg,

TX78539.

1986-2002 Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas Pan

American, Edinburg,

TX.

1976-1986

Assistant and Associate Professor of

Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University

of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX.

Administrative

Responsibilities:

Ten years, department chair of

Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

One year, Acting Dean of Health

Related Professions.

Twenty-five

years, President of Abraham Technologies, Inc.

Three

years, Administrator of JPA Home Health Care, Inc.

Grants Reviewed for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board:

Nursing, Allied Health and

Other Health Related Education Grant Program (NAHGP)

Murray, Tinker. D, Implementation of the Bienestar Overweight and Obesity

Program for Children in San Marcos,

TX School Community. $336,000.00 grant proposal. TexasStateUniversity, San

Marcos, TX. 2005

Rohrer, James E., An Attitude

Reconditioning Approach to Weight Loss Education. $164,033.00 grant

proposal. TexasTechUniversityHealthSciencesCenter, Lubbock, TX.

2005

Castro, Juan F., VIVA Healthy

Living, $295,310.00 grant proposal. Coastal Bend

Health Education Center, TexasA&MUniversitySystemHealthScienceCenter,

Corpus Christi, TX. 2005

Balcazar, Hector, Church-based

Obesity Initiative Culturally Enriched Strategy. $283,834.00 grant proposal.

UNTHSC-School of Public Health. Fort

Worth, TX.

Kwon, Junehee, Development of

comprehensive coordinated nutrition education program to reduce obesity risk of

Hispanic children. $133,675.00 grant proposal. Texas Woman s University, Denton, TX.

2005

Bartholomew, John B., A Coordinated Curriculum to Prevent Obesity in

Elementary-Aged Hispanic Children.

$260,752 grant proposal. The University of Texas

at Austin, Austin, TX. 2005

Bartholomew, John P. A Coordinated Curriculum to

Prevent Obesity in elementary-Aged Hispanic Children, University

of Texas at Austin, December 2003.

Kown, Junehee, Development of a Comprehensive

coordinated nutrition education program to reduce obesity risk of Hispanic

Children, Texas Woman s University, December 2003.

Balcazar, Hector,, Church-based Obesity Initiative

Culturally Enriched Strategy, University of North Texas,

HealthScienceCenter,

December 2003.

Castro, Juan, VIVA! Healthy Living, TexasA&MUniversitySystemHealthScienceCenter, December 2003.

Rohrer, James, An Attitude Reconditioning Approach to

Weight Loss Education,, TexasTechUniversity,

December 2003.

Murray, Tinker, Implementation of the Bienestar Overweight

and Obesity Program for Children in San Marcos, TX School Commiunity,, TexasStateUniversity, December

2003.

Zikarge, Astatkie, Enhancement of Training and

Instruction in Environmental Health Sciences at Texas Southern University, November 2001.

Wilhite, Barbara, Preparing Low-Income, First

Generation, or Disabled Students for Careers in KHPR, University of NorthTexas,

November 2001.

Roeser, Ross J, Early Intervention Through Increased

Health Care Access for Infants with Hearing Loss, The University

of Texas at Dallas/Callier Center, November 2001.

Blume, Arthur, Adapting the Alcohol Skills Training Program

for a BorderlandUniversity,

University of Texas

at El Paso,

November 2001.

Schmaling, Karen, Detection and Treatment of

Depression in a Community Clinic, University

of Texas at El Paso, November 2001.

Grants and Fellowships

NCR-Teradata.

Software grant. $1,696,500. Dec 2002.

Grant proposals

Submitted:

PI

NSF/IMI grant for $200,000, International Nanoscience Collaboratory,

NSF-02-096, June, 2002.

PI - NSF

grant for $409,396.00, A Scholarship

program for Engineering and Computer Science, 2000-2001. Not Funded.

Co-PI -

Department of Health and Human Services grant for $107,000.00, Med Alarm: An

Alarm and Reminder System for Medication, 2000-2001. Not Funded.

PI - The

Meadows Foundation Grant #84120196.01 - $34,360.00 - Medical Technology. 1986,

Equipment

Donation obtained - $ 47,745.00 - Medical Technology. 1985.

Co-PI - Julian Castillo,

John Abraham, and Jerry Stamper, Obtained $450,000 AHEC grant.1977.

Noyes Foundation Fellowship

Recipient.

MASTERS THESIS AND PROJECTS

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

Master

of Science in Computer Science,

Committee member. Maria De

Lourdes Garza, Selection and Visualization for Gravity Analysis Data to be made

available over the Internet. December 2007.

Master

of Information Technology. Advisor for Masters

Project. Christopher Espinosa, Hospital

Architecture: A Case Study of Hospital Network Design Using Best Practice

Principles. December 2007.

Master

of Information Technology, Advisor for Masters Project. Marco Rios, Building GottaGoOut.com, December

2007.

Master

of Science in Computer Science. Allan Figueroa, Parallel Event Construction of

CLEO Data Using the Message Passing

Interface. 2002

Master

of Science in Computer Science. Tibebe

Assefa. E-commerce the eBay model. 2002.

Master

of Science in Computer Science, Gerardo

Alvarez, Medical Database Interaction with Smart Cards. 2002

Master

of Science in Computer Science, Raquel Pena, Speech Pattern Analysis. 2002.

Master

of Science in Computer Science, Jose Luis, Solorzano, Incorporating Technology

into a Stick for the Blind. 2002.

Master of

Electrical Engineering, Ms. Afife Pestana for MSE (Thesis Option) in Electrical

Engineering concentration. Currently

Serving on a thesis committee.

Chair

of Honor s Thesis Committee. Huerta,

Torrey J., The Internet Ma

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