Alida Segal Resume

Adjunct Lecturer/Faculty, The City University of New York, Touro, NYC(2010-2017)
taught courses on Security , C++, Java, Python, Microsoft Access Database, Adobe Dreamweaver;
taught courses Microsoft Office Skills 2010, Computer Science Discrete Structures, Linux Shell;
taught Computer Architecture, Windows XP Operating Systems, Windows 7 Operating Systems;

Consultant/Trainer/Teacher, CCT , NYC DOE, NY(2001-2009)
provided instruction/training to healthcare medical personnel in using CPOE Prism clinical software;
removed buffer overflow, managed life cycle development with Rational Software, C, C++, Fedora;
managed SP1 , SP2 patches, monitored MSN Windows security with MBSA , Ad-Aware, Antivirus;
professional computer training, maintaining technical edge, learning new skill sets at NY seminars ;
architected, built, and published customer websites for commercial profit and online advertisement;
taught as per diem teacher, and tutored, students in Math, English, Science, Technology, & English;
wrote/published 4 books at LULU about Poetry, Cryptology, Pattern Recognition apps, and Memoire.

Sr. Software Engineer, SDS , R&D for US Military, Advanced Technical Division (2000)
Linux sockets programming, remote command execution, using Visual C++, MFC, Linux, C/C++;
ITS-AIR is a tutoring system for aircraft training and simulation using intelligent software agents;
Systems Automated Module (SAM) provides pilots a user interface for mission control training;
Real-time 3D visual computing, rendering, simulation, and animation using the OpenGL framework;
innovative color blending algorithm used to blend several overlapped projected image boundaries.
Night Vision Training System (NVTS) for the Night Vision Goggles (NVG) simulation, visualization.

Lecturer, UMUC , Benelux European Division.(1998)
taught University-level graduate computer studies course in data structures about the imperative,
functional, logic-oriented, object-oriented, and the distributed programming structures, and models.
some of the programming languages discussed were: C, C++, SQL, Prolog, Pascal, ML, FP, Ada.
some projects were implemented, coded, and executed in C, C++, Prolog, SQL,and RedHat Linux.

Sybase Developer/Tester, AT&T Worldnet Project, IVth Gen., Inc.(1998)
defined, designed, and implemented, test requirements for the new AT&T Worldnet Price Plans;
created test plan, performed functional testing using SYBASE/HP-UX/C/C++/SQL, and scripting;
performed black-box testing using customized off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation software Arbor/BP.

Teaching Assistant/Ph.D. student, McGill University , Montreal (1997).
graded UNIX/C/C++ projects for Files and Databases about sequential, direct-access, and tree-
structured files for computer applications at different volatility, symmetry, and many activity levels;
graded UNIX/C/C++ projects for Introduction to Computer Science about algorithms, recursion,
interfaces, variable types, time complexity, sorting lists, linked lists, stacks, queues, binary trees.
hybrid approach between FP and CSP points-to analysis for research project McCat compiler .

Sr. Software Engineer, Billsite Parking Project, Lockheed Martin IMS (1997)
coded, tested in javaScript a spreadsheet for travel expenses, with Netscape and Java applets;
researched Internet Security solutions with firewalls, RSA keys, certificates, and smart cards;
coded a shopping cart application in Java using system sockets programming, persistent data;
installed Red Hat Linux and performed RedHat Linux Administration for small group of people.

HPUX/C Consultant, Lucent , Loop Maintenance Operations Systems (LMOS), BFR (1996-97)
ported LMOS /ANS to HPUX/C, recompiled, and removed the redundantly defined data & code;
converted TUXEDO database schema to a relational schema; designed schema as FD compliant;
automated the process of table/attributes creation with dbaccess, and populated them with data.

AIX/C/VM-CMS Consultant, IBM ITIRC/Stairs Project,CTG (1996)
AIX/C system sockets programming for ITIRC/Stairs, on the IBM RISC/6000 AIX/C platform;
AIX/C Server integration with the VM-CMS/Rexx Client, and TCP/IP boot-device configuration;
AIX Administration using Smit, Lotus Notes design, and file importing/exporting with VM-CMS.

UNIX/C/SYBASE Consultant , BRASS Brokerage Project, ASC(1992-95)
coded, tested, and executed UNIX/C Client-Server modules for OTC(over-the-counter) orders;
worked on R&D projects, and programmed, tested ACES, Wagner Sttot, ADVEST applications;
coded DBLib/C routines, embedded SQL, recovery modules, with Transact-SYBASE for BRASS;
contributed porting, enhancing, modifying BRASS for the IBM RISC/6000 AIX/C environment.

Supplemental Programmer, ProductManager- Object-Oriented Database, IBM (1990)
wrote test cases and test data to validate ProductManager logical paths with IBM BookMaster;
created a Twist education package and executed test scenarios based on it, with Twist (Tester);
trained employees on ways to use Twist, based on the small education package, I have written;
performed functional testing on customization panels using many tools: CATIA, VM, MVS, DOS.

Information Management member, AT&T (1989-1990)
designed solutions to the specifications with structured charts, tree diagrams, and pseudocode;
coded, documented, tested, and executed UNIX/C programs; created test cases, expected results.

Systems Engineer, AT&T Execu-Bill Project, EDS (1989)
coded JCL programs on MVS ISPF(TSO) platform; performed validation of the batch cycle output;
tested, documented, and validated AT&T Execu-Bill functionality; trained employees on validation;
created user interfaces Help panels with Realia Cobol to be activated by user interaction for help;
completed several computer-based courses using UNIX, C, C++, MVS ISPF/TSO, JCL, MS-DOS.

SEMINARS/PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

"Mobile and Wireless Road Show and Security Concerns Presentation" 2003, by Microsoft &, HP .
"Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Purify", 2003, Rational/IBM
"Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Purify", 2003, Rational/IBM
"Rational ClearCase LT for UCM and Windows, Rational Automated Testing", 2003, Rational/IBM
"Rational Suite Development Studio for Windows", 2003, Web-based training, 2003, Rational/IBM
"A Project Leader survival guide to overcome chaos in Software Development", 2002,Rational/IBM
"Managing Software Development Change and Complexity", 2002; seminar given by Rational/IBM
"Disaster Recovery Implementation Seminar, NetBackup, Restore", in 2002, seminar by VERITAS
"Extend the Enterprise: Secure Web Access Management", 2002, seminar given by RSA, and BEA
"The Case for Disaster Recovery, Protecting Critical Data",in 2002, seminar by FUJITSU at AIIM
"End-to-End Security Solutions, RADIUS, LDAP Servers", 2002, seminar given by Nortel Networks
ECE 745 "Advanced Wireless Networks course", 2002; given at New Jersey Institute of Technology
ECE 757 -"Wireless Communications (CDMA) course", 2002; given at N.J. Institute of Technology
CSc G6700, "Computational, Vision, and Image Processing for Advanced Technology", 2002, CCNY
"Signal Separation in Multiuser Systems (Multi-Carrier)", 2002 given at the ICC Conference, NJIT.

References and transcripts are available upon request