EDUCATION: Ph.D. 2009 – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
Electrical Engineering
Dissertation Entitled – StORE: Storage Overlay and Routing Environment
“A Novel Approach to implementing highly adaptable and scalable self-organizing Wide Area Storage networks”
M.S. 2003 – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
Electrical Engineering
Thesis Entitled – High-Fidelity Modeling and Simulation of Gigabit Ethernet Networks
B.S. 1998 – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
Electrical Engineering
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Modeling and simulation of high-performance computing networks and protocols, Fault-tolerance and scalability of large-scale Storage Area Networks, and Fault-tolerance and mission assurance for applications and systems in high-performance computing
FUNDED PROJECTS:
High-Performance Computing and Simulation Laboratory
(cited by the NSA as a Research center of excellence)
Mission Assurance Group: focused on the analysis and development of concepts, technologies, and services that are critical in achieving mission assurance for applications and systems in high-performance computing
Sponsor: Department of Defense
High Performance Computing and Communications Group: focused upon evaluating and developing protocols, architectures, services, and applications for efficient, scalable, and dependable forms of high-performance computing and networking
Sponsors: National Science Foundation, US Navy
WORK EXPERIENCE:
January 2010 – Present: Center for Academic Support in Engineering (CASE)
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Program Manager: Responsible for the management and supervision of the operations, services offered and employees of the CASE Laboratory; Evaluated and implemented tools and services used to support the various tutorial components offered to students; Researched and implemented solutions integrating technology and the teaching and learning strategies used by instructors and students.
June 2010- July 2010: Engineering Concepts Institute (ECI) Summer Program
Florida A&M University
Program Manager: Supervised and managed the instructors, counselors, and students participating in a summer program designed to prepare incoming college freshmen for matriculation in the field of Engineering.
June 2010- July 2010: Engineering Concepts Institute (ECI) Summer Program
Florida A&M University
Pre-Calculus Instructor: Taught incoming college freshmen a course in Pre-Calculus designed to teach and expose the student to Calculus concepts needed to ensure the successful completion of their first year Calculus course.
1999-2009: High-Performance Computing and Simulations Lab
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant: Served as research team leader for the modeling and simulation of technologies focusing on providing high-performance and fault-tolerant solutions to various networking and storage applications.
• Developed a simulation framework using the Network Simulator (NS2) to evaluate the viability of creating storage networks utilizing WANs and commodity-based equipment by exploiting iSCSI, overlay networks and storage virtualization techniques
• Developed a functional SONET model used as a part of a mission assurance/disaster recovery simulation model developed using the Mission Level Designer (MLD)
• Developed a byte-level Gigabit Ethernet simulation model using the Block Oriented Network Simulator (BONeS) to explore various methods to exploit the QoS inherent in Gigabit Ethernet based networks
Summer 2008: Florida Business and Engineering Summer Training
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Coordinator/Instructor: Responsible for the supervision and management of instructors, counselors, and students participating in a summe...
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