Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland
  Ph.D., Computer Science
Dissertation: "Rover: Architectural Support for Exposing and Using Context"
Advisor: Ashok K. Agrawala 		May 2010
  M.S., Computer Science May 2005
New York University New York, New York
  B.A., Computer Science May 2003
  A.A., General Studies May 2001

Research Experience

University of Maryland, College Park
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory 		College Park, Maryland
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Faculty Research Assistant
    Graduate Research Assistant 		April 2010 - November 2010
September 2007 - April 2010
May 2004 - August 2007
Involved in the research and development of several projects, including assisting in writing grants as well as the supervision of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. Research projects include the following:

Rover - A context-aware framework which manages context effectively between entities and separates related entities into Rover ecosystems. Two specific applications have been developed using the Rover platform: MyeVyu (a series of quality-of-life improvement context-aware applications developed initially for university campuses, such as real-time transit information, dining services, and localized weather information) and V911 (a new paradigm for contacting public safety answering points in the event of an emergency situation by taking advantage of mobile device capabilities, including location and audio/video streaming; includes development of a prototype dispatch console, mobile clients, and the ability to forward relevant information, context, and streams to first responders).

Horus - Location determination technique using signal strength from wireless devices. Responsible for developing signal strength collection nodes and porting the prototype implementation written in C++ to managed C#.NET for use in standalone applications and in a web server environment.
New York University
Computer Science Department
Parallel and Distributed Systems Group 		New York, New York
    Undergraduate Research Assistant May 2002 - August 2003
Assisted in the development of a toolkit as part of the Distributed Coalitions (DisCo) project. In its entirety, DisCo included tools which expressed distributed access rights, a secure communication stack, locality-aware service discovery, and component deployment to machines which may lose privileges to components in an instant.

Professional Experience

Ubisense, Inc
RTLS Delivery, Ubisense Americas 		Denver, Colorado
    RTLS Software Applications Engineer November 2011 -
  • Design and code applications based on customer needs.
  • Travel to customer sites to discuss requirements and deliver software.
  • Support internal applications.
Consultant Greenbelt, Maryland
    Web Developer 2006 - 2008
  • Remote development consultant providing programming and proposal support for web design teams, including work for:
    • Van Gennep Design
          Hospitals Insurance Company (ASP.NET/MSSQL) (Winter 2007/2008)
             Content management system and insurance quoting system.
          Voices of September 11th and Voices for Kids (PHP/MySQL) (Fall 2006)
             Extentions to a custom content management system.
    • Tom Newman, LLC
          CT Partners (RSS/Podcast) (Summer 2007)
             Assistance with creating RSS podcast feeds.
    • Techie Tender
          HowMuch2FixMyCar (PHP/MySQL) [defunct] (Winter 2006/2007)
             Templated main site, created bidding system, and generated reports.
New York Connect
Technical Support Division 		New York, New York
    Web Developer,
    Technical Support, and
    System Administrator 		September 1998 - September 2001
  • Developed the a flexible content management system called NYCT Manager, written in PHP, which initially kept track of contacts, buildings, and potential clients. NYCT Manager has been extended by other developers to incorporate support e-mails, trouble tickets, and support calls.
  • Assisted in maintaining and programming backend solutions for a variety of client web sites using PHP and Perl.
  • Provided technical support over the phone and in person to clients of an Internet Service Provider.
  • Performed basic system administration duties to support daily operations in both FreeBSD and Windows NT environments.

Teaching Experience

University of Maryland, College Park
Department of Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant 		College Park, Maryland
    CMSC214: Introduction to Computer Science II
    CMSC214: Introduction to Computer Science II 		Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Led recitation sections twice a week and graded exams for the second course in the introductory computer science major sequence, taught in C++. Developed project 5 for the spring 2004 semester. This project introduced programming basic graph representations and traversal algorithms. This included creating documentation, skeleton code, and test suites for grading.
New York University
Computer Science Department
E-Tutor 		New York, New York
    V22.0102-001: Introduction to Computer Science II (Honors)
    V22.0101-001: Introduction to Computer Science I (Honors) 		Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Assisted students through e-mail and graded all course projects in the first and second courses in the computer science major for honors students. Projects developed with the Java programming language.

Publications

Rover: Architectural Support for Exposing and Using Context
Christian B. Almazan
Ph.D. Thesis. University of Maryland, College Park. College Park, Maryland, United States. April 2010.

Rover: An Integration and Fusion Platform to Enhance Situational Awareness
Christian B. Almazan, Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok K. Agrawala
The 1st International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures. Appears in the 26th IEEE Internet Performance Computing and Communications Conference, pages 582-587. New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. April 2007.

A Comparison of Bug Finding Tools for Java
Nick Rutar, Christian B. Almazan, and Jeffrey S. Foster
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pages 245-256. Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France. November 2004.

Presentations

V911 - Taking Advantage of Mobile Device Capabilities
Christian B. Almazan
Invited Talk. Emergency Services Workshop 7. College Park, Maryland, United States. May 2010.

An Inspection and Control Logic Architecture for GXA Web Services
Christian B. Almazan (sponsored by Eric Freudenthal).
The 29th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference. College of Arts & Sciences, New York University. Abstract appears in Inquiry, Volume VII, pages 53-54. New York, New York, United States. April 2003.

Academic Service

Awards

Graduation Honors, New York University, College of Arts & Sciences, May 2003:
    Magna Cum Laude
    Founders' Day Award
    Computer Science Degree Awarded with Honors

The 29th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference. Honorable Mention (co-recipient), Natural Science Presentations. April 2003.

Dean's List, New York University, College of Arts & Sciences:
    Fall 2001, Fall 2002
Dean's List, New York University, School of Continuing & Professional Studies:
    Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000

Certifications

CompTIA i-Net+. Beta Exam Period. November 1999.
CompTIA Network+. September 1999.
CompTIA A+. August 1999.

Memberships

ACM (2003-), IEEE (2004-), IEEE Computer (2004-)

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