14 Stony Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790
bzhang_at_cs_dot_sunysb_dot_edu
1999-Present Supervising Programmer/Analyst, Computer
Science Department
The State University of New
York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), Stony Brook, NY
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Invited as a
member of New Computer Science (CS) Building committee to work with the CS
department faculty and staff, other university entities, the architects, and
the construction crew on the 40.8 million dollar building design and interface
between them.
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Working with the
CS department faculty and staff, other university entities, the architects, and
the construction crew on the 50 million dollar building for the Center of
Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT).
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As a member of conference committee, organizing ACM Solid and Physical
Modeling Symposium and IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and
Applications which will be held on June 2-6, 2008.
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Supervising the systems support of the Center for Visual Computing
(CVC), Multimedia, Visualization, Virtual Reality, HP Visualization, and
Hardware labs and offices.
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Setting the CVC and lab rules and seeing to their enforcement.
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Serving as a member of the CVC governing group that purchases several
hundred thousand dollars of computing equipment.
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Coordinating the programming and applications activities of the users
in the CVC and laboratories.
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Served as the CVC Site Manager for the SGI Varsity Program. Responsible for all SGI software licensing,
distribution and Software/Hardware discounts for the departments of Computer
Science, Mathematics, and Radiology.
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Evaluating and recommending computing equipment, peripherals, and
software/hardware products in response to needs of CVC and laboratories
research and teaching goals.
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Assuring network connectivity 24 hours a day of the CVC and labs,
internally with the CS Department and externally with the Computing Center and
Internet.
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Maintaining the RAID controller and tape subsystems; enhancing network
performance by researching new technologies and/or methods of configuring
server/client software to the network; writing, testing and installing systems
and application level software.
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Provide consulting to other departments within the CVC, University and
other units within the CS Department.
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Supervising students and other systems support staff of the CVC, and
instructing students and staff in use of new hardware and/or software.
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Handling, installing, and maintaining any new or old equipment,
software, expansion or changes to the physical facilities and equipment as they
show up.
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Debugging systems related to software and hardware problems.
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As a member of conference committee, organized Computer Graphics International
2005 and Point-Based Graphics 2005 in SUNYSB.
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As a member of conference committee, organized the Joint IEEE TCVG and
Eurographics Workshop on Volume Graphics in SUNYSB.
1996-1999 Sr. Programmer/Analyst,
The
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Administrated, maintained, programmed, trouble-shoot UHMC’s Lotus Notes
servers; installed Lotus Notes Client on users’ computers, provided support and
training to users.
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Administrated, maintained, and trouble-shoot patient scheduling
systems, especially ORSOS from Per-Se Technologies, in a client/server
environment; provided support and training to users.
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Supported hospital-wide information systems, such as, SMS Invasion, SMS
Pharmacy, OpenLink server, etc.
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Installed, configured, administrated, maintained UHMC’s multi-platform
network operating systems, network hardware and software, network applications,
LAN to HOST interfaces, and network workstations.
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Supported and managed UHMC’s network interconnectivity devices to
ensure reliability of the network services on a 24-hour basis.
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Managed and implemented UHMC-wide mainframe “dumb terminals” to PC
conversion projects; developed and maintained a web site for the projects.
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Provided accurate technical assistance and advice to departmental-wide
network planning and implementing to meet department head’s needs.
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Evaluated and recommended computing equipment, peripherals, software
and hardware products in response to needs of various departments.
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Enhanced network performance by researching new technologies and/or
methods of configuring server/client software to the network and writing,
testing, and installed systems and application level software.
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Assisted the implementation of new Ethernet backbone, Wide Area
Network, CISCO switches and routers, various types of Ethernet/Token-ring hubs.
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Set up, implemented, and maintaining patient care data transmission
from mainframe to a Novell file server for Clinical Practice Management Plan
(CPMP).
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Transferred daily and monthly census reports from mainframe to a Novell
file server, and posted the reports from the file server to UHMC’s UNIX web
server.
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Set up, implemented, and maintaining patient care data transmission
between mainframe and UHMC’s Lotus Notes servers for Mental Health Services.
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Provided training and support for less experienced staff.
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Configured, administrated, maintained, trouble-shooting ARCserve/Stage
3 Backup server to ensure reliability of backing up mission-critical data.
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Shared responsibility for assigning service requests from the Help Desk
to other members of the Network & Integration Department.
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Backed up ten Novell servers and three Novell SAA gateways periodically.
1995-1996 Programmer/Analyst,
Jzanus Ltd.,
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Designed, programmed, implemented Management Information Systems (MIS)
in a Novell Netware 3.12 environment.
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Installed, configured, maintained and trouble-shooting LAN, computer
hardware and software, and provided technical support and training to
end-users.
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Configured, administrated, maintained, trouble-shooting ARCserve Backup
server to ensure reliability of backing up company’s data.
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Downloaded mainframe’s data to company’s PC LAN and uploaded PC data to
mainframes via a modem or 9-track tapes.
1993-1995 Programmer/Analyst, Mechatronic Equipment
Corp., NY/CA/China
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Implemented, configured, administrated, maintained networks, computer
hardware and software, and provided technical support and training to
end-users.
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Served as an exclusive sales representative of several major US
companies to promote their computer related products, such as SGI, SUN
workstation, Bay Networks’ equipment (switches, routers, hubs, etc.), in
China. Provided after-sale technical
supports and training to Chinese customers.
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Designed, developed, implemented a MIS system to track international
sales and generate sales and financial reports, etc.
1985-1988 Mechanical Engineer, China Tractor
Research Institute,
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Invented an efficient and simple method to design the pneumatic control
systems.
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Implemented Computer-Aided Design (CAD) projects of hydraulic systems
and components.
AWARDS:
2008 Meritorious Service Award,
Computer Science Department, the State University of New York at Stony Brook
2006 Systems Staff Award, Computer
Science Department, the State University of New York at Stony Brook
2005 Winner of Twenty Top Techies
(T3), Long Island Software and Technology Network (LISTnet)
2004 Systems Staff Certificate of
Appreciation, Computer Science Department, the State University of New York at
Stony Brook
2002 Systems Staff Certificate of
Appreciation, Computer Science Department, the State University of New York at
Stony Brook
EDUCATION
AND HONORS
M.S.,
Computer Science, State
M.S.,
Management and Policy, State
M.S.,
Mechanical Engineering, State
Honors: Sir Run Run Shaw Fellowship,
1988-1990
B.S.,
Mechanical Engineering, Luoyang Institute of Technology (
Operating Systems: WINDOWS (Vista, XP, 2000, NT, 98/95,
3.x), Macintosh MAC OS, UNIX (SGI IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, etc.), Open VMS,
VM
Networking
Topologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, and LAN/WAN
Networking
Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX, AppleTalk, and SNA
Microsoft
Servers: Systems Management Server
(SMS), SQL Server, Internet Information Server
Languages: C/C++, FoxPro, dBASE IV, FORTRAN,
Paradox, Delphi/Visual Basic, SQL
Software Packages: Cheyenne
ARCserve for Netware and NT, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Sybase, Microsoft Office
Professional (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Schedule+, Access), Corel Office
Professional (WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Paradox, Presentations), Lotus 1-2-3,
Photoshop, PageMaker, AutoCAD
Hardware: Cisco routers and Catalyst
switches; Allied Telesyn International Hub/Repeaters; ASANTE Hubs; Bay Networks
Routers, Switches, Hubs; 10/100 Ethernet Cards (Intel, 3Com, IBM, Xircom);
Laser Printers, Color Printers, Scanners, CD-ROM, Modems, Sound Cards, Tapes
Computers: Intel
x86-based workstations and servers running Microsoft Windows 3.x, 9x & NT,
Novell NetWare, SCO, Linux, and various BSD 4.3 & 4.4-derived Unix;
Sun SPARC-based workstations and servers running
SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.x; Silicon Graphics O2, Octane, Power Onyx, Onyx2,
Origin 2100, Power Challenge workstations and servers running IRIX 6.x;
Motorola 680x0 and PowerPC-based Apple Macintoshes
Video
Conferencing: Intel ProShare Conferencing Video System 200
Internet
Language: HTML, CGI/Perl, Java,
JDBC, Javascript.