Bin Zhang

14 Stony Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790

bzhang_at_cs_dot_sunysb_dot_edu


EXPERIENCE

1999-Present   Supervising Programmer/Analyst, Computer Science Department

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), Stony Brook, NY

·          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.

·          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).

·          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.

·          Supervising the systems support of the Center for Visual Computing (CVC), Multimedia, Visualization, Virtual Reality, HP Visualization, and Hardware labs and offices.

·          Setting the CVC and lab rules and seeing to their enforcement.

·          Serving as a member of the CVC governing group that purchases several hundred thousand dollars of computing equipment.

·          Coordinating the programming and applications activities of the users in the CVC and laboratories.

·          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.

·          Evaluating and recommending computing equipment, peripherals, and software/hardware products in response to needs of CVC and laboratories research and teaching goals.

·          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.

·          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.

·          Provide consulting to other departments within the CVC, University and other units within the CS Department.

·          Supervising students and other systems support staff of the CVC, and instructing students and staff in use of new hardware and/or software.

·          Handling, installing, and maintaining any new or old equipment, software, expansion or changes to the physical facilities and equipment as they show up.

·          Debugging systems related to software and hardware problems.

·          As a member of conference committee, organized Computer Graphics International 2005 and Point-Based Graphics 2005 in SUNYSB.

·          As a member of conference committee, organized the Joint IEEE TCVG and Eurographics Workshop on Volume Graphics in SUNYSB.

 

1996-1999       Sr. Programmer/Analyst, University Hospital and Medical Center (UHMC)

The State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

·          Administrated, maintained, programmed, trouble-shoot UHMC’s Lotus Notes servers; installed Lotus Notes Client on users’ computers, provided support and training to users.

·          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.

·          Supported hospital-wide information systems, such as, SMS Invasion, SMS Pharmacy, OpenLink server, etc.

·          Installed, configured, administrated, maintained UHMC’s multi-platform network operating systems, network hardware and software, network applications, LAN to HOST interfaces, and network workstations.

·          Supported and managed UHMC’s network interconnectivity devices to ensure reliability of the network services on a 24-hour basis.

·          Managed and implemented UHMC-wide mainframe “dumb terminals” to PC conversion projects; developed and maintained a web site for the projects.

·          Provided accurate technical assistance and advice to departmental-wide network planning and implementing to meet department head’s needs.

·          Evaluated and recommended computing equipment, peripherals, software and hardware products in response to needs of various departments.

·          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.

·          Assisted the implementation of new Ethernet backbone, Wide Area Network, CISCO switches and routers, various types of Ethernet/Token-ring hubs.

·          Set up, implemented, and maintaining patient care data transmission from mainframe to a Novell file server for Clinical Practice Management Plan (CPMP).

·          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.

·          Set up, implemented, and maintaining patient care data transmission between mainframe and UHMC’s Lotus Notes servers for Mental Health Services.

·          Provided training and support for less experienced staff.

·          Configured, administrated, maintained, trouble-shooting ARCserve/Stage 3 Backup server to ensure reliability of backing up mission-critical data.

·          Shared responsibility for assigning service requests from the Help Desk to other members of the Network & Integration Department.

·          Backed up ten Novell servers and three Novell SAA gateways periodically.

 

1995-1996       Programmer/Analyst, Jzanus Ltd., Floral Park, NY

·          Designed, programmed, implemented Management Information Systems (MIS) in a Novell Netware 3.12 environment.

·          Installed, configured, maintained and trouble-shooting LAN, computer hardware and software, and provided technical support and training to end-users.

·          Configured, administrated, maintained, trouble-shooting ARCserve Backup server to ensure reliability of backing up company’s data.

·          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

·          Implemented, configured, administrated, maintained networks, computer hardware and software, and provided technical support and training to end-users.

·          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.

·          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, Luoyang, P.R.China

·          Invented an efficient and simple method to design the pneumatic control systems.

·          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 University of New York at Stony Brook, in progress

M.S., Management and Policy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 1993

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, August 1990

            Honors: Sir Run Run Shaw Fellowship, 1988-1990

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Luoyang Institute of Technology (Luoyang, China), May 1985

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

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.