TRAN QUOC VIET

37/3 Chan Hung, Tan Binh, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

(84-8) 823 6481

[email protected], [email protected]

EDUCATION

University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, January 2001

Major: Computer Systems & Computer Networks

First Class Honor (top 5%), GPA 3.23/4.0

Graduate research project: Checkpointing & Process Migration under UNIX 06/2000 – 01/2001

· Implemented a system to provide job scheduling, process migration, load balancing and fault-tolerance under UNIX using checkpointing technique and checkpoint optimization (incremental checkpointing, memory exclusion and checkpoint compression)

AWARDS AND HONORS

Nortel Scholarship (2001)
Paragon Solution Scholarship (2001)
Next Level Communication Scholarship (2000)
University of Technology Scholarship (1999)
Award for 12 Years of Excellent Student (1996)
Outstanding Math Performance Award (1996)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Grid computing, high throughput computing
Parallel processing & distributed systems
Web technology, XML

WORKING EXPERIENCE

ELCA Information Technology Ltd, Vietnam (www.elca.com.vn, www.elca.ch) 02/2001 – present

Software Engineer

Participated successfully in many projects
Provided Web programming and Java training courses

Infrastructure Group

Administered Windows/Linux network (domain controller, frame relay network, VPN, servers, firewalls, routers)
Webmaster, Oracle DBA, MySQL DBA

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Secutix™ – online ticket printing system 01/2003 – present

Winner of Siemens Special Award and Swiss Technology Award

Designed and implemented XML meta catalog to store meta data
Developed AdminApp to manage ticket selling, quotas, prices…
(PHP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, SOAP, Java, Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache)

Intranet search engine 01/2003 – 03/2003

Researched on Internet Search Technology
Designed and implemented an effective Intranet search engine
(PHP, Perl, MySQL, Apache, URL rewriting technique)

Cont’n’Shop™ - web technology framework 01/2002 – 01/2003

Content management system with embedded e-commerce support

Designed technical specification
Participated in most of back-office and front-user development
(PHP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, MySQL, Oracle, Apache, LDAP, SSL, HTTPS, PDF)

ELCA Instant Messaging System 09/2002 – 01/2003

Designed Graphic User Interface and handled system fonts
Implemented instant messaging library using CORBA Notification service and Object Request Broker (ORB)
Built installers using InstallAnywhere and deployed Java application to run as NT service
(MVC design pattern, Java, CORBA, RMI, JNDI, ORACLE, InstallAnywhere)

Voice over IP 06/2001 – 09/2001

Developed a VoIP system to enable phone-to-phone and PC-to-phone calls
Investigated QoS metrics for capturing loss/delay correlation and studied their impact on VoIP service quality
(C, TCP/IP, Telephony API, Audio API, Real Time Protocol, Resource Reservation Protocol, PSTN, H.323, PBX)

KOS-FUNK system 02/2001 – 06/2001

Used a three-tier persistence framework to develop a central application for customers of telecommunication and electronic media sectors
(Java, J2EE, Java Bean, JDBC, IDL, JNDI, RMI, IIOP, LDAP, Oracle)

PERSONAL & ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Simulated web server

Designed and implemented a PHP simulated web server to relay HTTP requests (process user requests, relay requests to destination web servers, parse page content, process hyperlinks, download and redirect needed resources)
Established a URL rewriting scheme to allow URL redirection. Enabled user authentication and secure transactions
(PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Apache, CURL, URL redirection)

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)

Researched on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and web-based cell-phones
Developed WAP gateway and WAP applications to provide services for cell-phones via Internet
(WAP, WML, WMLScript, Nokia WAP Development Toolkit)

Simple DNS system

Designed and implemented system to simulate functionality of DNS (primary masters, secondary masters, resolvers, forward resolution, reverse resolution, name caching)
(Ansi C, Solaris Unix, TCP/IP, DNS, ARP, RARP)

Simple RTSP client-server

Researched on Real Time Stream Protocol (RTSP)
Investigated related works of RealNetworks (RealProducer, RealServer, RealPlayer)
Developed a simple RTSP client-server to deals with audio (*.wav, *.au) stream control (pause, fast forward, reverse and absolute positioning)
(Visual C++, TCP/IP, RTSP, Real Time Protocol)

VHDL project

Designed and implemented a phone line interfacing device to recognize incoming phone number and calculate cost of phone calls
(Verilog HDL, VHDL, Altera Max Plus)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Technologies & Languages

ANSI C/C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Java, SQL, Assembly, Pascal
PHP, XML, HTML, ASP, JSP, JavaScript, Perl, CGI, Flash
WML, WMLScript
UML, Prolog, Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Tcl/Tk, Python, Lex, Yacc, LaTeX
Verilog HDL,VHDL, AHDL, PLC Programming, SPICE
XML and Web Service technologies: XSL, SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL
Web and distributed system programming: Java Servlets, EJB, JSP, CORBA, RMI, IDL, JINI
Microsoft .NET Framework

Tools

JBuilder, Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Project, Visual Interdev, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash
Visio, VisiBroker, Rational Rose, CVS, Ant, LaTeX
Nokia WAP Toolkit, Altera Max Plus, VMWare, Apache Tomcat, IMB WebSphere, Jboss
SoftICE, GDB

Network & System

Unix, Linux, Windows, DOS platforms
IP networks, Ethernet networks, Frame Relay networks, VPN, ATM Networks, ASDL
PKI, Kerberos, TLS, SSL, IPSec

LANGUAGES

Fluent in English, conversational French

ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

Member of Union of Vietnamese Student Associations
Member of Youth Union
Green Summer 2000 Volunteer Campaign to help people in rural areas
Music, science books, astronomy, healthcare, football