Ivan Strnad - Resume

Education :

1996 - present : PhD student in Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
Computer Science

1994 - 1996 : Master Degree in Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
Computer Science

1983-1989 : Master Degree in Physical Engineering

Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Major - Physical Engineering - Physical Electronics.

Employment & Professional Experience:

1994 - present : New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.

Spring 1996 : System Administrator at Computer Science Department at NMSU.

Summer 1998 - Present: Manager, Systems Support

Summer 1997 - Summer 1998: System Analyst III

Spring 1996 - Summer 1997: System Analyst II

Leading a small group fo professionals and students and administrating a network of several hundreds of machines running Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems (in past also few IRIX, Sequent, and Macintosh machinesa.)
These include variety of servers:

mail, name, web , DB (MySQL, Oracle, DB 2, Postgress, ...), print, backup and many more ...
Sun Rays thin client network, security, users, ...

and special research machines and clusters of machines:

• Beowulf clusters:
  • 192 core Intel Xeon based cluster running Linux, Connected by Infiniband and Etherent
  • 40 core Opteron based cluster running Linux, Connected by Infiniband and Etherent
  • 32 Intel dual Xeon processor PCs running Linux: Myrinet / MPI (till ~ 2006)
  • Myrinet Cluster of 4 PCs with 4 processors each running Solaris (till ~ 2005)
  • 32 Intel PII PCs running Linux, Connected by Myrinet and Fast Etherent - MPI, BIP (till 2003)
• SMP Servers:
  • SunFire V890 Server, 8x Dualcore SPARC, 64GB memory, ...
  • Sun Enterprise Server 4500 with HPC (High Performance Computing) Package - MPI, Prism, RTE, LSF, ..
• ATM cluster using WUGS ATM switch and PC nodes running Linux

Teaching at NMSU

• CS 474 Operating Systems - to teach in Fall 2010
• CS 478 Computer Security - Spring 2010
• CS 454 Linux System Administration - Fall 2009
• CS 409 Computer System Administration - Summers 2006 & 2007, Springs 2008 & 2009
• CS 409 Computer Security - Fall 2007
• CS 209 Computer System Administration - Fall 2003, Spring & Fall 2004, Summer 2005
• CS 473 Architectural Concepts 1 - Spring 2001
• CS 167 C Programming - Fall 1996

Summer 1995 : Research Assistant at Computer Research Laboratory at NMSU.

Developed a demo of multimedia software package CyRiL, language learning environment for foreign students, using Macromedia's Director developing tool. Platform - Macintosh and PC.

Spring 1995 : Teaching Assistant for CS 272

Taught Prolog, Miranda, C.

Summer, Fall 1994 : Research Assistant

Took part in implementation of a new laboratory environment for new CS271 & CS272 classes. Maintained hypertext program (SysNotes) in Unix environment -XView toolkit. Implemented on-line hypertext manuals for Miranda programming language and C-Beginner manual. Tested AUI - a graphical user interface for the Awk programming language developed at CS NMSU.

Spring 1994 : Tutor for CS110

Taught WordPerfect, DB III / IV, Lotus 123, Pascal.

1991 - 1993 : Podnik Vypocetni Techniky (Computing Technology Company), Liberec, Czech Republic.

1993 : Trade Team Chief

Responsible for marketing, advertisement, trade, installation (HW + SW), and support of system DEFIS - SW system for pharmacies in the Czech Republic. This application was the mostly used complex system in pharmacies in the Czech Republic (more than 50% of all pharmacies in the country used this system = about 70% pharmacies which had any computer system).
47%/year increase in sales of DEFIS SW during this time.

1992 : Junior Chief Program Analyst

Responsible for design and implementation of the DEFIS system.

1992 : Trained in SSADM (Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology) developed by LBMS.

Experience with Excelerator CASE tool developed by Intersolve.

1992 - 1993 : Novell Netware 3.11 Network Administrator

Supervised development team's LAN (20 PC's).

1992 : Novell Netware Certified Supervisor

1991 - 1992 : Programmer

Programmed personal computers in Pascal. LAN environment - Novell Netware, and Lantastic mainly.

1989 - 1991 : Monokrystaly Turnov , Turnov, Czech Republic.

1990 - 1991 : Programmer

Provided Software support for the Monokrystaly company - programming of personal computers in Pascal, and Quattro Pro.

1989 - 1990 : Assistant Researcher

Developed Optical Resonator for Solid State Lasers (YAG/YAP) with Adjustable Spherical Surface.

Publications:

Mikhail Auguston, Subhankar Banerjee, Manish Mamnani, Ghulam Nabi, Juris Reinfelds, Ugis Sarkans, Ivan Strnad:
AUI - the Debugger and Assertion Checker for the Awk Programming Language.
AADEBUG 1995: 309-310

Advisors:

current: Dr. Enrico Pontelli, Computer Science Professor and Department Head, NMSU
past:
    Dr. Roger T Hartley , Computer Science Professor and Department Head, NMSU
    Dr. Arthur I Karshmer , Computer Science Professor and Department Head, NMSU
    Dr. Juris Reinfelds , Computer Science Professor, NMSU

Awards:

Other Activites:

2002 - present : Webmaster and scheduler for High Noon Soccer League, Las Cures, NM
1998 - present : Soccer coach for the Sharks and the Black Sharks Soccer Teams, HNSL, Las Cures, NM

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