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Research Interests
Cryptography, Database Encryption/Decryption, Database and Information Security, Data Hiding & Database Watermarking, Client/Server Applications, Concurrent Programming, Real Time Software.
Education
M.Sc., in Real Time Software Engineering, University of Technology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2004 B.Eng., in Electronics, Communication and Computer Engineering, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, 1997 Diploma, in Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Technology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1993
Employment History
Staff Software Engineer at IBM Corporation (acquired from Vallent Inc) attached to IBM Software Group (Apr 2005 – present) Developer for Prospecttm for Telco network element reporting system. It is a 3-tier Client/Server type system (Prospect Client/Web for Sun Solaris). I was one of the pioneer developer to setup the team in KL. We begin with 5 engineers and until today there are about 20 engineers working in various projects. Responsibilities/Key Achievements : · Participate in the project planning by assisting PM to provide input for project timeline and resources for every project as well as the scope of work for certain delivery (new requirement to add, production issue to resolve etc). Manage the development, integration and implementation of application systems and coordinate a small group of engineers. · Participate in the technical design and application of various technical approaches in product development and writes a development / technical documentation. Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications to product and assist with generation of training packages. · Day to day work involves customizing parser/loader (binary written in c++/java) to handle various datatypes (csv, xml, binary etc) in different projects (Siemens GU, Cisco IP, Motorola OEM/CDMA, Ericsson GGU, Nokia GG, Lucent IMS, Nortel CDMA. · Software packaging for fresh & upgrade install for deployment by Technical Support. Deliverables includes Release Notes, Server preparation documentation, QA Checklist, Unit/Intergaration and Build Verification Test and Checkpoint documentation prior to delivery to QA team for testing. · Ensure the development codes are compliance and audit readiness at all times and continue to improve product quality, process and timelines. Conduct/participate in Code/Peer Review are part of my scope work. · Participate in the Quality Assurance (QA) activities as required including design walk-through, Test Plan review, Build delivery and code efficiency. Provide technical support and maintain integrity and stability of development, UAT & production environment and manage & fixing selected trouble tickets. · Maintaining local team servers (development, middleware, databases) for optimization and expansion plan. Skills/Tools used Programming: Shell & Perl scripting, PL/SQL, Java, C++ Platform: Sun Solaris Database: Oracle Others: Teamware, ClearQuest, DDTS, ClearCase Software Engineer at Motorola Inc attached to Global Software Group. (Jan 2004 – Apr 2005) Responsibilities/Key Achievements : · Testing a Motorola NMS 2G Operation & Maintenance for Radio (OMC-R) a Network Monitoring System for Motorola Mobile Switching Centre. · Subsystem Testing of 2G Performance Management features of OMC-R system. Including Test Strategy Development, Test Planning, Documentation that meet software standard of SEI CMMI Level 5 and Test Automation, Execution & Verification. · PM Feature Test Lead, co-ordinate testing effort between development and other test groups in order to ensure proper test coverage and problem resolution. Responsibility also includes overall scheduling of the testing effort · Organize & discussed technical matters clearly and concisely with engineers from geographically disperses locations through technical meetings between Motorola Software Centre throughout the world. · Provide support to clients in system integration in Cork, Ireland. · To detect system engineering flaws in terms of system functionality before handover to customer and also troubleshooting the system. Skills/Tools used Programming: Perl scripting, C++ Platform: Sun Solaris Database: Informix Others: ClearQuest, ClearCase, TMS (TestCase Mgmt System), Mailmerge Switching Engineer at Celcom (Malaysia) Bhd attached to Regional Network Operation Central. (Nov 2000 – Nov 2002) Responsibilities/Key Achievements : Switch capacity planning, dimensioning and optimization. · Performing the switch audit for the EWSD Siemens (Fixed Switch) and NEAX NEC (IN switch) together with Spare Card Management. Lead on support issues and activities in switch capacity planning, dimensioning and optimization. · Doing the route Tele-traffic analysis and signaling analysis. Participate in any switch implementation projects related to Fixed and IN switches. · Performing the necessity of works in producing the Site Approval Documentation for Celcom’s Radio Base Station before submitting to the CMC. Network Engineer at Time-Telekom Sdn. Bhd. attached to Network Engineering Division (Dec 1997 – Oct 2000) Responsibilities/Key Achievements : Network Transmission (Synchronisation) Plan · Plan & design SDH synchronization distribution network within G.811, G.812T, G.812L and G.81s quality according to Synchronisation master plan. · Participate in the installation, testing, auditing and integration of new transmission network elements within the network. · Preparing the Tender specification of all the synchronization equipment and participate in the Tender Evaluation committee for any synchronization procurement projects. Network Switching (Numbering and Teletraffic) Plan · Collect and analyzed the traffic measurement and analysis data for circuit dimensioning and forecasting for SDH network optimization and expansion. · Develop and maintain the Teletraffic Engineering Analysis Database (written in MsAccess). · Doing numbering, routing and charging plan including the development and maintaining the TTdC PSTN as well as other Carriers’ Domestic Numbering Plan. · Champion in any numbering activity in switch including NWOs, 2+8 number migration and liaising with CMC on any development on Numbering activities. Technical Assistant at Telekom Malaysia Bhd attached to TELITA Videotext Computer Centre, Datacom Operation Unit. (July 93 to Aug 95). Responsibilities/Key Achievements : · Daily operation, troubleshooting and maintaining the mainframe system (OS2000 GEC) and serving customers. · Maintain and process the downloaded KLSE data to be inserted in the TELITA and TELESTOCK system. Note: TELITA is an online Malaysian Videotext system. It is an information retrieval service which is applicable for office, library and home use. MALMARC (Malaysia Machine Readable Catalogue) and JARING (Joint Advanced Research Integrating Networking), a national networking project, provide the infrastructure for research and development purposes as well as information services provided by MIMOS (Malaysia Institute of Microelectronics System), which focuses on the enhancement of systems for information collection, storage, processing, dissemination and use. (System has no longer available as the project has been stop). Technical Assistant at Signal Corporation Sdn Bhd (May 93 to June 93). Responsibilities/Key Achievements : · Monitoring & maintain Remote Test Unit (RTU) at TMB exchange and daily tasks on detecting and clearing fault at Customer Complaint Centre. · Channeling TMB complaints for further action and considerations.
Past projects
· Network Monitoring and Reporting System for Telekom Malaysia Streamyx Links. It is a GUI & web base system designed to monitor the performance or Streamyx routers. It has features like Status Map (displaying network tree), timely Performance graph (displaying Interface Traffic, Errors, CPU Usage, etc) and even zooming a graph. The development is using PHP, Apache, MySQL and Debian. · UTKrip for Oracle8.1.7, a data-at-rest encryption/decryption database tool with key management features. Product still under development under the Security Dept of CASE-UTM. (Win2K, VB6, VC++). · On-Board Auto-Cruise Automobile Real Time System simulator with a DoD 2167A standard documentation and SDLC project management (WinNT, VC++). · Microwave oven controller system. An embedded software program to control the heat of the oven, ADC converter, keypad, power supply and other devices. (Assembly, C) · Teletraffic Engineering Analysis Database (MsAccess) for Time-Telekom SDH Fiber Optic Fixed trunk network. It was designed to provide an analysis result based on the traffic Erlang and congestion level for circuit optimization. · 3D simulation tools to simulate the effect of antennas directivity using Geometrical-based Statistical Macrocell Channel Model for Wireless Communications Systems to study Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular radio systems employing adaptive antennas and switched beam systems. The tool characterizes the excess delay, direction-of-arrival, and received power of multipath components and is particular useful for microcell and PCS systems with low transmitter and receiver antenna heights. It provide an analytical expressions for the probability density functions for all critical channel parameters and is thus useful for analytical purposes. (Matlab)
Publications · “Network Monitoring and Reporting System for Telekom Malaysia Streamyx Links“ submitted for the Master Project Thesis, not published, UTMKL 2004, Kuala Lumpur. · “Tools To Secure Information/Knowledge In Databases: A Three-Product Features Comparison“ Zailani Mohamed Sidek, Aswan Elias, Norbik Bashah Idris, ITSim2003, UKM, Kuala Lumpur · “UTKriptm: An Multilevel Database Encryption Scheme Implementation” Zailani Mohamed Sidek, Aswan bin Elias, Wan Ya bin Wan Hussin, Norbik Bashah Idris, Tuan Sabri bin Hj. Tuan Mat and Hj. Saidin Abd. Rahman, International Arab Conference on Information Technology, Alexandria Egypt, Dec2003.
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