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Zahid Anwar 1-847-***-****

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Email: abpazp@r.postjobfree.com URL: http://srg.cs.uiuc.edu/~anwar/

OBJECTIVE: Looking for a challenging career opportunity in software systems design and development.

SUMMARY:

Completed a PhD in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Industry Experience in several technology companies such as IBM, Intel, NCSA and Motorola

More than 5 years of Software Engineering experience in Object Oriented and Component Based Analysis, Design Patterns, Testing,

Consultation and Implementation of Software Applications

Strong analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills

EDUCATION:

PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA UIUC (Dec 08)

MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA UIUC CGPA 3.8/4.00 (Apr 05)

BS Computer System Eng. from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Eng. Sci & Tech (GIKI), Topi CGPA 3.7/4.00 (Aug 97-April 01)

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:

Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada (Dec 08- April 09) URL: http://www.lightsource.ca/operations/remote_access_project/

Role: Managed a team of 5 developers for the design and development of the Science Studio project- A remote instrument control and

complete experiment management system allowing researchers to remotely control and observe, all aspects of research that must be

carried out at Canada s National Synchrotron Laboratory. Technologies: J2EE, Eclipse, AJAX, Spring Framework

INTEL Software Solutions Group, JF-1, Hillsboro, OR, USA (Aug 06- Mar 07) URL: http://www.intel.com/research/labs.htm

Role: Software Developer. Worked with a team to design a software licensing solution and a test harness for the entire line of Intel s

software products and compatible with more than 30 combinations of Intel hardware architectures, saving valuable development time and

release shipping time. Recipient of the Intel Corporate Services award. Technologies: SOA, Web Services, Java, C++ .NET, Perl, XML,

IBM T. J Watson Hawthorne, NY, USA (April 06- Aug 06) URL: http://www.watson.ibm.com

Role: Software developer summer intern. Research and design of security features for the SoulPad Project- IBM s mobile operating system

solution that lets users migrate their OS and applications between heterogeneous computing devices. Involved coordination with customers

and industry partners for marketing SoulPad. Technologies: Linux, kernel programming, wireless, crypto, file systems.

Motorola Labs CTO, Schaumburg, IL, USA (April 05- Aug 05) URL: http://www.motorola.com/

Role: Software developer summer intern. Design and development of the STREET (SysTem for Remote End-to-End Testing) project

designed to optimize wireless signal strength and performance in real-time by querying call statistics from end-users devices and adjusting

the transmission accordingly. Technologies: Web Services, Java, J2EE, Hibernate, SQL, DBMS

National Center for Super Computing Applications, Security Group, IL, USA (April 04-Dec 04) URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

Role: Research in innovative security technologies for web services, survivable group communication, VoIP, social computing and key

management. Work involved demonstration of research prototypes to various government funding agencies including Office of Naval

Research (ONR), and the National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research (NCASSR), and regular publications in journals and

international conferences.

Communications Enabling Technology, Irvine California (June 01- Dec 02) Software Design Engineer URL: http://www.avaz.com

Role: Software design engineer responsible for design, development and maintenance of the companies VoIP stacks product line including

H.248, ISDN PRI, Automatic Call Distribution System (ACD), SS7, SIP. Technologies: C/C++, VxWORKS, Linux, TCL/TK

ASSISTANTSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

Recipient of the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Abbasi Fellowship for Academic Excellence (Jan 08- Aug 08)

Intel Corporate Services Award for volunteer contributions and role modeling the Intel Values, Discipline, Quality & Risk Taking (Dec 06)

Receipt of the Teachers and Researchers Fellowship for Science & Technology from the Ministry of Science (Jan 03 - Jan 06)

Research Assistant for Granger Engineering Library Digital Library Projects (Feb 03 - Aug 03)

Thrice Gold Medalist for academic excellence and best student award at school, college and honor role at university (Undergraduate)

AFFILIATIONS:

Technical Reviewer

Conferences: IEEE PERCOM, ACM ASPLOS, IEEE DSN, IEEE MobiQuitous

Journals: IEEE Trans Mobile Computing, IEEE Trans Multimedia, International Journal on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier

Books: Handbook of Computer Networks

Member Simulation/Validation Focus Group at the Information Trust Institute (ITI) http://www.iti.uiuc.edu/tcip/

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

C/C++/C# .NET, Java, Tcl/Tk, Visual Basic, Prolog, Matlab, Perl, OCaml, ASP,JSP/Ajax, Oracle, ISAPI, OPNET, NS2, Linux, Solaris, J2EE

VxWORKS, BEA WebLogix, Apache/Tomcat, IBM MPI, Verilog, VHDL, Eclipse, x86/MIPS/Motorola 68000, HTML/DHTML,JavaScript, SOA

RELEVANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Teaching Assistant for Computer Architecture 2 (Sep 03 May 04) Earned Graduate Teaching Certificate

International Center for Research and Academics (Jan 2002- Dec 2002)

Taught undergraduate introductory courses on Artificial Intelligence and Database Systems

PUBLICATIONS:

Zahid Anwar, Zhiguo Wang, Chun Wang, Dan Ni, Yaofeng Xu, Yuhong Yan, An Integer Programming Model and Heuristic Algorithm for

Automatic Scheduling in Synchrotron Facilities . IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, San

Antonio, Texas, USA. October 11-14, 2009

Zahid Anwar, Mirko Montanari, Alejandro Gutierrez, Roy. H. Campbell, Budget Constrained Optimal Security Hardening of Control Networks for

Critical Cyber-Infrastructures . International Journal on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, Vol 2, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2009.02.001, Issue April

2009. Available on ScienceDirect at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2009.02.001

Zahid Anwar and Roy H. Campbell, Automated Assessment of Critical Infrastructures for Compliance to (CIP) Best Practices . Proceedings of

the Second IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, Springer. ISBN:

978-0-387-88522-3, Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 290, XVI, 280 p. 173, Mar 08. Available on Springer

http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/book/978-0-387-88522-3?detailsPage=toc

Zahid Anwar and Roy. H. Campbell, Automatic Security Assessment of Critical Cyber-Infrastructures . Proceedings of the 38th Annual

IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, Springer. DOI 10.1109/DSN.2008.4630105,

Page(s):366 - 375 1-4244-2398-9/08/ IEEE July 2008

Zahid Anwar, Shaya Potter, William Yurcik, Carl Gunter, Roy H Campbell, Detecting and Mitigating Denial-of-Service Attacks on Voice over IP

Networks,University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Computer Science Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2008-2958, Engineering No. UILU-ENG-2008-1733,

April 2008. Available at http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/research/techreports.php?report=UIUCDCS-R-2008-2958&section=1

Zahid Anwar et all (Reviewer), The Handbook of Computer Networks, 3 Volume Set by Hossein Bidgoli, ISBN-10: 047******* Wiley December

2007

Zahid Anwar and Roy. H. Campbell, Secure Reincarnation of Compromised Telecom Servers with Time-Forking Virtual Machines .

Proceedings of Perware at the Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications New York- USA, page(s):

477-482, ISBN: 0-7695-2788-4, INSPEC Accession Number: 9463843, DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2007.103 19 - 23 March 2007

Zhenyu Yang, Yi Cui, Zahid Anwar, Robert Bocchino, Nadir Kiyanclar, Klara Nahrstedt, Roy H. Campbell, William Yurcik, Real-Time 3D Video

Compression for Tele-Immersive Environments . Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Computing & Networking, SPIE, the International Society for

Optical Engineering, ISSN 0277-786X, vol. 6071, pp. 607102.1-607102.12 San Jose 2006

Zahid Anwar, Jun Wang, William Yurcik and Roy H. Campbell, SPEEDS - Small-world Privacy-Enhanced Engine for Distributed Search: Toward

Enhancing Privacy Protection in P2P Social Network Communities, proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Telecommunication

Systems -Modeling & Analysis (ICTSM), Penn State - Berks Campus, ISBN: 0-9716253-2-8, pages 332-335, USA, Oct 2006

William Yurcik, Charis Ermopoulos, Yifan Li, Chao Liu, Xin Meng, and Zahid Anwar, Masquerade Detection for HPC Cluster Security Proceedings

of Cluster-Sec, 6th IEEE Inter Symposium on Cluster Computing & the Grid, Singapore, ISBN 0-7695-2585-7 May 2006

Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik, Ralph E. Johnson, Munawar Hafiz, and Roy H. Campbell, Multiple Design Patterns for Securing VoIP . Proceedings

of WIA at the 25th IEEE International Performance Computing & Communications, page(s): 8 pp.-492, ISBN: 1-4244-0198-4 INSPEC Accession

Number: 9005332 DOI: 10.1109/.2006.1629443, Phoenix April 2006

Zahid Anwar, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, William Yurcik and Roy H. Campbell, Plethora: A Framework for Converting Generic Applications to Run in a

Ubiquitous Environment . Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, 17-21 July 2005, San Diego,

CA, USA, Page(s): 192 201 DOI: 10.1109/MOBIQUITOUS.2005.47, San Diego 2005

Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik, Salman Baset, Henning Schulzrinne and Roy H. Campbell, A First Step Towards Call Survivability in Cellular

Networks . Proceedings of IEEE Local Communications Networks, page(s): 2 pp.-502, ISSN: 0742-1303 ISBN: 0-7695-2421-4 INSPEC Accession

Number: 9035517 DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2005.3 Sydney, Australia, 2005

Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik and Roy H. Campbell Leveraging Social-Network Infrastructure to Improve Peer-to-Peer Overlay Performance:

Results from Orkut, ACM Computing Research Repository, arXiv:cs/0509095v1 [cs.NI] September 2005

Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik and Roy. H. Campbell, A Survey and comparison of P2P Group Communication Systems Suitable for Network-

Centric Warfare . Proceedings of SPIE Security and Defense Conference on Communications and Networking Technologies and Systems, Volume

5820, pp. 33-44, DOI: 10.1117/12.604716 Orlando FL USA, 2005.

Ragib Hasan, Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik, Larry Brumbaugh and Roy Campbell, A Survey of Peer-to-Peer Storage Techniques for Distributed

File Systems . Proceedings of International Conference On Information Technology, Vol 2, Pages: 205 213, ISBN:0-7695-2315-3,DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2005.42 Las Vegas 2005

Zahid Anwar, Merging PSTN to IP Networks the Softswitch Signaling Gateway . Proceedings of IEEE MultiTopic Conference, INMIC Page(s):57

57, 0-7803-7715-X/02 Karachi, Pakistan Dec 2002

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