EDUCATION:M.S. in Computer Engineering 4/2005

SAM TRAN P.

3518 GLENHILL DR.

PEARLAND, TX77584

281-935-3504

EDUCATION:M.S. in Computer Engineering 4/2005

University of Houston - ClearLake

B.S. in Computer Engineering 7/2001

Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam.

B.S. in Electronic Engineering 7/1995

Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam.

SKILLS:Programming Languages:

C++, MFC, VC, VB, Java, C#, Perl/CGI, ASP, JSP, Pacal, Assembly.

Simulators:

Matlab, NS-2, OMNeT++.

Database:

MS Access, MS SQL, ORACLE, MySQL.

Platforms:

Windows NT/9x/2000/ME/XP, Linux.

Micro-Controller and System Design:

Motorola 68xxx/ColdFire, PIC-16F8x, Intel 80x86, 8051, DSP TI TMS320C6x.

EXPERIENCE:Lead Software Engineer PRESENT

DI Central, Houston, TX, USA.

Programming to convert among EDI, XML, and flat files.

Research Assistant 5/2004 – 8/2005

Dr. L. Shih - School of Science & Computer Engineer, UHCL.

Skeletonization 2D & 3D images – Focus on rock image processing to evaluate the throughput of gas, water, and oil mixture in oil exploration.

Expert of Technical Management Department 12/2000 – 12/2002

Saigon Telecom, Ho Chi Minh PostTelecom, Viet Nam

Administrating and Consulting of Paging System, VoIP, DSL, Wireless Lan’s and PBX integration, Voice applications.

Senior Embedded Software Engineer 11/1997 – 12/2000

Saigon Telecom, Ho Chi Minh PostTelecom, Viet Nam

Developing embedded software based on paging system to broadcast information or configure a system from remote. Devise “E-mail to Pager” for Glaynare paging system.

Programmer 04/1997 - 10/1997

Ho Chi Minh Transportation Department, Vietnam.

Designing and Coding “Ho Chi Minh Traffic Simulation” project.

System Administrator 08/1995 – 03/1997

PhonelinkCenter, Ho Chi Minh PostTelecom, Vietnam.

Operating and Maintaining the Novell Netware LAN, Harris Digital Telephone System, and Glaynare paging system. Data Interface programming between the systems and PC.

AWARDS:Conferred a “Talented Engineer” by Ho Chi Minh Post & Telecom 2000, 2001, and 2002.

Special award for the “Email to Pager” by Ho Chi Minh Post & Telecom 2000.

PUBLICATIONS:Tran, Sam Phu Manh, and T. Andrew Yang. “Evaluations of Target Tracking Methods in Wireless Sensor Networks”. Proceedings of the 37th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2006). Houston, Texas. 3/1-5, 2006 -

Tran, Sam Phu Manh, and T. Andrew Yang. “OCO: Optimized Communication & Organization for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks”. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2006). Taichung, Taiwan. 6/5-7, 2006 -

ACTIVITIES:Soccer team member 1990 -1998, 2003 – current

REFERENCES:Dr. T. Andrew Yang

Associate Professor of Computer Science

School of Science & Computer Engineering (SCE)

University of Houston - ClearLake

Office phone: 281 - 283 - 3835

Email:

Dr. Liwen Shih

Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

School of Science & Computer Engineering (SCE)

University of Houston - ClearLake

Office phone: 281 - 283 - 3866

Email: