Liviu William Doroftei, Ph. D.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
LIVIU WILLIAM DOROFTEI, Ph.D.
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ADDRESS: 128 East Broadway, NYC, NY 10002 - 0690
E-mail1: dr.livius@writeme.com
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SUMMARY
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Post-Master's in Computer Science.
Several years of successful experience in Teaching and Research,
Engineering, Systems Administration with consistently increasing
responsibilities in, teaching, staff training, network administration
and management.
Knowledge and some experience in systems architecture, design and
analysis of telecommunication systems. I am interested in pursuing
creative and innovative system solutions.
Team player with management and communication skills with over 15
years experience in: Engineering, Teaching, Systems Administration,
Network Engineering, and Electronics.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Electrical Engineering: Knowledge and limited experience in Digital/
Analog signal processing; Modulation / Demodulation; analysis and
simulation of wireless channels and systems, including Radar.
Computer Science: Control / Source Coding; Cryptology; Complexity
Issues; Mathematical and Computer Simulation of processes and systems,
Artificial Intelligence and Information theory.
Electronics: Knowledge and experience in design, implementation and
troubleshooting of Digital / Analog circuitry.
Mathematics: Knowledge and experience on Finite Elements, Linear
Algebra, Non Linear Systems / Programming and Control Theory.
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Distributed Systems Architecture/Networking
Systems Engineering, System Analysis, Modeling and Simulations
Supercomputing and Parallel Processing
Research in AI: Neural Networks, Learning Automata ( L-systems )
and Expert Systems
Robotics
EDUCATION
GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY of NEW YORK, NY.
Pursuing a Post-Doctoral Degree in Computer Science.
KENSINGTON UNIVERSITY ( KIU ), LOS ANGELES, CA.
Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. Area of concentration:
Electronic Communications. Minor in Software and Systems.
Graduation date February 1996. GPA 3.83/4.00.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: Open Distributed Systems.
THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ( CUNY ), NYC, NY.
Post - Master's degree in Computer Science. Minor in Computability
and Cryptography, Graduation date, September 1995. GPA 3.73/4.00.
THESIS: Cellular Automata: Computer Simulations using Collective
Learning Systems.
KENSINGTON UNIVERSITY ( KIU ), LOS ANGELES, CA.
Master's degree in Information and Computer Sciences. Area of
concentration: Software and Systems. Minor in Expert Systems.
Graduation date, June 1990. GPA 3.51/4.00. THESIS: Supercomputers.
KENSINGTON UNIVERSITY ( KIU ), LOS ANGELES, CA.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Area of concentration:
Theoretical Computer Science. Minor in Electronics. Graduation date,
June 1988. GPA 3.88/4.00. Project: Robotics.
EMPLOYMENT
Software Development: Sr. P. Engineer/ QA Supervisor 1997-Present
Company X: Leader in Enhanced Information Distribution, NJ.
Part of the software development team that does development / train/
support professionals on XSI products. At present I perform a
series of functions as an Engineer and Quality Assurance Supervisor.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-Designed and implemented bilingual software applications for far east
markets
-Developed advanced message switching and telephony enhancements for
products
General job responsibilities:
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Conduct the lead role in the internal development customer programs
and leadership role in the Quality Assurance of software products:
-Possess over 4 years testing experience.
-Experience with handle network configuration issues
-Experience with write automated test plans and scripts; VT,HT,SQA
-Experience with Win95, Win 3.xx ,Win NT and UNIX
-Familiar with data bases.
-Knowledge of SQL servers and experience with MSSQL.
-Experience with product build configuration and management.
-Knowledge and some experience with IS.
Testing of Alpha, Beta and new software releases as well as patches
for interim deliveries.
Development, distribution, and administration of patch releases to US
and international sites.
Training and instruction of new features for customer service and
technical support.
Documentation such as technical bulletins, FAQs, problem reports
Track bugs and problem reports and control of the Issues Handling
Committee.
Support API and answer questions related to it.
Phone support to customer service, technical support, and customers
directly.
QA job responsibilities:
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Analyze product features and product design, design and create tests
to accurately evaluate the reliability and usability of the software,
execute tests, and document results.
Review product documentation for technical accuracy and readability.
Report results in an objective manner and interact with development,
documentation and management to facilitate the best decisions for the
product and the customer.
Work closely with developers sometimes assisting in unit testing.
During second level support rotation, provide accurate solutions to
user problems of moderate nature to ensure user satisfaction and
productivity.
Research, resolve, and respond to questions in accordance with support
standards.
Technical Engineering/Education Specialist 1995-1996
WANG LABORATORIES, BOSTON, MA / NJ / NY.
Part of a team that does customer support and train professionals on
Wang products. At present time I provide customer support and staff
training for Wang Laboratories. I support and instruct staff
personnel ; systems engineers and consultants in Imaging, Workflow,
Document / Form processing management software for distributed
environments.
Alsso, worked as a part of a team that worked in the design,
development, coding, testing and debugging of a large scale
OS/2 client server application:
Developed a multi-threaded application used to test a document
imaging API under OS/2. The application, written in C under OS/2,
was a dynamic-link library that was able to be called directly
from REXX. REXX command files were then written to a scenario to
test the underlying imaging OS/2.
Developed a multi-threaded server module that was written to the
Microsoft ODBC specification. This updated module, written in C
under OS/2 interacted with Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB/2.
Fixed and reported bugs for the some releases of an OS/2 based
product. Extensive debugging was required for resolving multi-
threaded function calls, Presentation Manager user interfaces,
SQL queries, LAN transactions, inter-domain transfers, document
archive and retrieval; file management.
Adj. Associate Professor 1997 - 1998
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, NY, Departments of Computer Science.
Teaching Computer Science courses, at the graduate level. Have taught
courses in Computer Architecture, and Machine Organization .
Adj. Lecturer, Adj. Assistant Professor 1992 - Present
THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK , Departments of Computer Science
and Mathematics.
Teaching Computer Science courses, at the undergraduate and graduate
level. Have taught courses in Assembly Language, FORTRAN, BASIC,
Pascal, C , Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Machine Organization
and Discrete Mathematics.
Technical Instructor 1997 - 1998
EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE,Inc. under a contract with AT&T / Lucent
Technologies.
I am responsible for upgrading technical knowledge of their employees
in the following areas: Technical Mathematics, Electronics Digital /
Analog , Computer Design, Data Communication and Networks.
Research Assistant 1994 - 1996
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, NYC.
Assisting in the preparation of departmental research and educational
proposals. Also, pursued intensive research in the areas of:
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulations and Mathematical Modeling, and Distributed Computing.
My research activity lead to three Theses, two Technical Reports and
six scientific papers ( two pending ) published at two International
Conferences on Computer Simulations and Mathematical Modeling.
Undergraduate Advisor 1994 - 1995
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, NYC.
Advised undergraduate students on their course requirements, and
assisting them with their registration.
Engineer / Technical Assistant 1984 - 1992
LITTON INDUSTRIES ( SYSTEMS ) INC., CA / NY.
Provided technical assistance to the Engineering and Data Processing
departments in the design/implementation of their local computer
etworks, Novell LANs. Coordinated the activity of the technical group
in charge of its maintenance. Also, provided training for in - house applications.
Responsibility included configuring, installing, troubleshooting and
maintaining two networks formed of PCs and Apple Computers/
Macintosh, and an IBM System 36. Provided support for multiserver,
Internet Novell LAN using Ethernet. Also, exposure to UNIX; TCP/IP,
UDP and ICMP protocols, routing, broadcasting, Ethernet
encapsulation. I have solved several types of hardware and software
conflicts/failures, including application and generic problems.
I have Troubleshooted and Fine - Tuned PCs, Printers, LANs. Support
areas included application software and programming in Assembler,
BASIC, RPG, Paradox - PAL and C on many environments.
SKILLS
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
Distributed applications design, including Remote Procedure Calls and socket level programming.
Applications development experience under Solaris, OS/2, Windows 95.
User Interface Design experience using X-Motif and Windows.
Advanced Message Switching and Telephony.
Advanced Network design - including ATM networks.
Multi-lingual software design and implementation.
Experienced in all major research topics; Collective Learning
Systems /Self Adapting Systems ( CA, ANNs ), Evolutionary and
Genetic Algorithms.
Posses advanced level experience and knowledge of Computer Simulations
and Mathematical Modeling.
Several certifications in Imaging Processing and Document
Management systems.
Experienced programmer on DOS , Windows and UNIX, OS/environments.
Also, exposure to programming for real time applications.
Experience with various programming languages: Assembly Language,
BASIC, FORTRAN, ADA, C / C++, Lisp, Simula, Visual Basic, Fox Pro,
MSDN.
Experience with automated testing software: HighTest, VisualTest,etc.
Also, exposure to SQA.
Experience and knowledge of all phases of computer networks design
and development.
Knowledge of Distributed Networks; ATMs, and distributed platforms;
PVMs, pSather and Linda,..,etc.
Experience using DOS, Windows 3.X, 95, NT, UNIX and software
configuration / installation on multivendor platforms.
Experience with Novell, NetWare V2.X, V3.11, V4.X and Bridges,
Routers, Hubs.
Knowledge of TCP/IP and other protocols.
Proficient on IBM and Apple Macintosh and SUN, hardware and software.
Knowledge of several hardware architecture and technologies,
including RISC.
Experience in the electronic troubleshooting of analog and digital
devices,including computers, from the system to component level.
Experience in teaching Computer Science; programming, Electrical
Engineering, and mathematics courses. At the graduate, undergraduate
and continuing education levels.
Experience in writing functional specifications, technical reports.
Posses problem-solving, communication, interpersonal and leadership
skills.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Teaching Experience:
As a part of the research and teaching positions I hold/held at The
George Washington University, The City University of New York -CUNY,
and Long Island University - LIU. I am/was responsible for teaching
undergraduate and graduate classes.
My duties include lecturing, syllabus preparation, and administrating
examinations. Among other courses, I taught Assembly Language,
FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, Computer Communications, Computer
Architecture, Discrete Mathematics, and Design and Analysis of
Algorithms.
From 1997 I teach with Educational Alliance-VA under a contract with
AT&T and Lucent Technologies.
I am responsible for upgrading technical knowledge of their employees
in the following areas: Technical Mathematics, Electronics Digital /
Analog , Computer Design, Data Communication and Digital Networks.
While working for Litton Systems Inc. and Wang Laboratories Inc.
I gave lectures on the Systems Administration of Novell / Microsoft
networks and calibration of various electronic equipment.
Research Experience:
Since 1992, my major research topics are Cellular Automata, Neural
Networks, Genetic / Evolutionary Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, Speech
Recognition and Distributed Computing / Processing.
Within these areas, I have pursued the following avenues:
Used all known paradigms as learning methods for Collective
Learning Automata and Artificial Neural Networks. These systems
were used to model/simulate natural/artificial systems.
Used Artificial Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition.
Various topics in Distributed Processing/Open Distributed Systems.
In 1993 while visiting George Washington University, I collaborated
on a research project involving design, implementation and testing
of ADA compilers / tutorials. The project was under the supervision
of Prof. Michael F. Feldman.
In 1995, I was admitted and participate in the research project
titled, "Word Recognition: From Cochlear nuclei to Temporal Cortex"
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