Computer Science Assistant

STATUS

U.S. Citizenship

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a Systems/Software Engineer position in the area of software architectures for real-time performances especially shared and distributed memory, QA testing with large data sets and User Experience testing, data security and backup system, application development.

PROJECTS

[1]. PEPTID: Protein Engine for Parsing and Transformating BioInformatics Data. The goal of this project is to develop a variety of software tools that facilitate the interpretation, analysis, and visualization of molecular data. Java and R-Project are used to build this software

[2]. Spy Logger on Android System: a spyware application that is running in the background of Android smart phone that record sneakily interesting information and transfer it to the third party to do analysis sensitive data for purposes. The program was built in Android 2.3.3 with Eclipse 3.5 and Java 1.6

[3]. Crater Detection: A heuristic approach to detect craters. Python and Weka were used for the project

[4]. Smart Card Testing Tools: Design and build a testing tool to extract useful information on smart card using cryptographic protocols. C++ language was used for the project

[5]. Effect of Network Topology on Network Coding Performance: investigate how network coding affects the performance of linear network coding under various types of network topology. Python was used to study this project

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND CERTIFICATES

Bio-science Simulation Packages: Protein Databank-PDB(Blast), SWISS-MODEL server, Chimera, VMD

Programming: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, C#, Python, C/C++, Shell Scripts, Visual Basic, Java, Pascal

Platforms: UNIX(Linux, Solaris, AIX),Windows & Windows NT, Novel Netware

Applications: Office 2007,2003, Photoshop, Dreamweaver.

Database: MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server

Web programming: JSP, Javascript, ODBC, HTML, XML, ASP.NET in C#, Web 2.0.

Networking Programming: TCP/IP, Socket, Winsock

Network Simulation Packages: OPNET Modeler, NS2

• Certificate of Completion: Cisco Router Configuration Program, Singapore

• Certificate of Completion: Antiterrorism Level 1 Awareness Training, DoD

• Certificate of Achievement: Privacy Act Training Program, DoD

• Certificate of Completion,2009: Washington Headquarters Services Information Assurance Training and Awareness Course, DoD

• Certificate of Completion: National Capital Region Operations Security Awareness Training, DoD

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Graduate Student in Computer Science

Research in Network Security, Social Peer To Peer Networks, Data Mining in Peer To Peer Networks, Moving Objects Database Management System, Cryptography

Cumulative GPA: 3.73

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 2008

Master of Science in Computer Science

Conducted research in Cryptography

Vietnam National University at HCM City, Vietnam 1997

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

HONORS

Research Excellence Award at the 2010 Doctoral Research Symposium, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2010

RELATED EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Boston, MA

Teaching Assistant 08/2008 - 2012

Department of Computer Science

• Teaching Assistant for Advanced Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis course

• Lab instructor for Computer Architecture and Organization course

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Boston, MA

Webmaster/Developer 09/2009 – 09/2011

Department of Computer Science

Network Information Systems Laboratory- NISLab

Create and maintain Network Information Systems Laboratory websites at:

• http://nislab.cs.umb.edu/gridpeer2011/ : IEEE GLOBECOME workshop in Texas

• http://nislab.cs.umb.edu/ccnet2011/: Workshop on Grid and P2P Sys and Apps in Hawaii

• http://nislab.cs.umb.edu/gridpeer2010: Workshop on Grid and P2P Sys and Apps in Swiss

• http://nislab.cs.umb.edu/ccnet2010/: IEEE GLOBECOME workshop in Florida

• http://nislab.cs.umb.edu/umbprogrammingteam: ACM Programming Contest at UMASS Boston

TERVELA, Acton, MA

Engineering Intern 06/2010-09/2010

• Helped with applications such improving API apps and ever-changing network for Tervela Publish/Subscribe Systems.

• Worked on configuration and testing performance in two Unix Labs with high performance of switches and network devices

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, Arlington, VA

Information Technology Specialist Intern 05/2009 – 08/2009

• Assisted with Identity Protection and Management Team in developing independent test tool to communicate with DoD Smart Card at card edge level

• Assisted in testing and piloting Identity Protection Management technologies and capabilities for Washington Headquarters Services

• Assisted WHS customers (internal and external) in leveraging DoD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

• Assisted in developing and documenting WHS-specific IPM processes and procedures

• Reviewed IPM-related documentation, including draft DoD and federal policy

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tallahassee, FL

Teaching/Research Assistant 08/2005 – 08/2008

Department of Computer Science

• Teaching assistant and responsible for grading assignments in Advanced Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis; Introduction of Network Security; Theory of Computation; and Programming C# courses

LANGUAGES

Vietnamese: proficient; Japanese and French: basic knowledge

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