User:DrTanNguyen
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[edit] Dr. Tan N. Nguyen
Mobile Phone Number 703-338-7935
email: drtannguyen@gmail.com
ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:
From August 2007 to Present
Dr. Nguyen is an interdisciplinary civil service government employee in information technology and computer science at the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD).
From November 2005 to August 2007
Dr. Tan Nguyen was a Principal Systems Engineering Manager at the Systems Engineering and Architecture (SE&A) Division of SAIC Corporate at SAIC. He was a Chief Systems Engineer of the Army Knowledge Online (AKO) Enterprise Services (ES) and was a Chief Architect for the Simulation and Information Technology Operation (SITO) Group at SAIC. His responsibility is to oversee a complex interdisciplinary software development project and to provide architectural analysis and design support to assist in implementing technical capabilities to satisfy functional requirements and interoperability needs for the AKO, Future Combat Systems (FCS), and Theater Effect Based Operations (TEBO) projects. Dr. Nguyen also works in a team environment with principal architects and data modelers to analyze and optimize IT systems and business process requirements.
From August 1978 to present
Dr. Tan Nguyen is an Adjunct Professor at the Information Technology and Engineering School at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Dr. Nguyen is currently teaching (Spring 2008) a graduate level course, SYST513 - Total Systems Engineering, Reengineering, and Enterprise Integration. Recently, he conducted SYST510 - System Definitions and Cost Modeling in the Fall 2007. His web site is at http://classweb.gmu.edu/tnguy1
From May 2003 to November 2005
Dr. Tan Nguyen was a Program Management Director of Systems Enterprise Architecture at Lockheed Martin (LM) Information Technology (IT). He also served as a member of the LM Corporate Architecture Development User Group. He led several Information Technology Technical groups at the LMIT DoD Services. Dr. Nguyen was also an executive mentor of the Executive Mentoring Program at LMIT.
From October 1996 to May 2003
At Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Dr. Tan Nguyen served as chief systems architect for the Telecommunications Group, software development team lead for the U.S. Army Knowledge Online (AKO) program, and as software engineering manager and chief systems architect for the Defense Logistics Agency Corporate Data Center (DLACDC). He directed numerous projects in deriving Enterprise Architecture concepts, enterprise network design, network management, and implementing AKO functions in Java in a J2EE environment using ATG Dynamo Portal He served as the principal DLACDC consultant for integrating and consolidating mid-tier applications and hardware into a single data center.
From 1978 to 1996
Dr. Nguyen held technical management positions at Software Productivity Consortium, Network Imaging Corporation, Infodata Systems Inc., MITRE Corporation, U.S. House of Representatives, and Control Data Corporation.
CONTRIBUTING IDEAS that WORK:
Dr. Nguyen successfully applies his extensive experience in computer science, software systems engineering, data communications and network, and enterprise architecture to a wide range of IT requirements, as illustrated by the following successful projects:
• As senior technical manager at the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Nguyen designed and developed the inventive Electronic Voting System (EVS), including developing and implementing numerous operating system programs, hardware drivers, data communication modules, and applications in high-level and low-level computer languages. The EVS is still on operations at the U.S. House.
•While working as a task leader at MITRE Corporation, Dr. Nguyen successfully led several large-scale development projects for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including software development, integration, and communications systems that earned him Outstanding Achievement Recognition from the FAA as well as the MITRE Program Achievement Award.
• As a senior web developer, Dr. Nguyen, within a very short period, successfully developed, implemented, and delivered the DLA Web Survey for over a million users worldwide.
• As a system and network architect at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Dr. Nguyen successfully resolved the asynchronous versus synchronous distributed application problems among the IBM mainframe, Windows, and midrange computer network. He successfully devised the message queue model and used MQ Series to implement the solution.
• As an enterprise architect at EDS Federal Systems, Dr. Nguyen successfully redesigned part of the Department of Navy (DoN) Portal to improve the network performance.
• As an enterprise architect at EDS Army-Pentagon Group, Dr. Nguyen successfully derived the Army Architecture Concept that is currently implementing at the DISC4 Installation Information Infrastructure Architecture (I3A).
EXPERIENCE that BRINGS INSIGHT:
Dr. Nguyen has served as chief system architect, senior systems engineer, and software engineer for clients in U.S. government agencies, computer manufacturing companies, research and development (R&D) firms, and universities, including the following researches and projects:
•During more than 25 years as an adjunct professor at George Mason University, Dr. Nguyen has taught doctoral level courses on Information Technology, computer science, software engineering, data communications, computer organization and architecture, operating systems, and language processors and compilers. He conducts doctoral level courses in Information Technology and Software Engineering and is a member of several doctoral dissertation committees.
•As director of Systems Enterprise Architecture at LMIT, Dr. Nguyen develops technical solutions for numerous Business Development projects.
•Since joining EDS, Dr. Nguyen served the DLA as a technical manager and senior systems developer, producing the large and complex cataloguing reengineering systems. He derived an enterprise architectural solution for the U.S. Department Health and Human Services (HHS) unified backbone network. He also was a principal information technologist and senior enterprise integration adviser for the Defense Medical Information Management/Systems Integration Design, Development, Operations, and Maintenance Services (D/SIDDOMS) program. He managed numerous software development and network engineering teams that developed large, complex Web applications for the DLIS, CEIS, and TriCare programs. His teams also designed and implemented—and in one case reverse-engineered—complex systems that incorporated Windows NT servers, UNIX servers, and mainframe computers.
•As director of IT development for the Software Productivity Consortium, Dr. Nguyen managed a staff of 128 and formulated enterprisewide IT management standards. He created quality metrics, cost estimates, and workloads for products developed by his team.
•As Web products development manager for Network Imaging Corporation, Dr. Nguyen directed and implemented all aspects of software and product development, including designing and releasing the Web Multimedia Object Management System for diverse platforms such as Windows NT, Sun Solaris, and IBM AIX.
•As project manager and principal computer scientist for Infodata Systems, Inc., Dr. Nguyen was responsible for network design and system software development life cycle activities. He performed data modeling, using manual and automated Integrated Computer-Aided Software Engineering (ICASE) tools. He also designed, installed, and implemented APIs.
•Dr. Nguyen previously served as MITRE Corporation task leader for the FAA Federal Research Center. He led software development for an air traffic management simulation system and an arrival rate monitoring system. He evaluated and tested new relational database management systems (RDBMSs) and Ada compilers, developed a generic applications design methodology, and designed and completed the integration of numerous FAA systems.
INFLUENCE in the INDUSTRY and GOVERNMENT
Dr. Nguyen is listed in the International Who’s Who and is a member of the American Association of University Professors, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Science Society, and IEEE Software Engineering Society. He also serves on the Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Science Society. He has published numerous papers and IEEE articles on systems and network engineering, including a conceptual paper that innovatively defines the entire Army Enterprise Architecture concept currently being implemented at the Pentagon.
PROFICIENCIES and EXPERIENCE:
Dr. Nguyen offers proven proficiency in the following roles:
•Program Management Director, Principal Systems Engineering Manger, Chief Enterprise Architect, Chief Systems Engineer, and software development manager.
• University professor teaching Computer Science, Data Communications, Systems and Software Engineering.
•Dr Nguyen published several technical papers.
EDUCATION:
Dr. Nguyen earned a Ph.D. in Information Technology, with a concentration in Computer Science, from George Mason University, 1991. He also earned an M.S. in Operations Research and Mathematics from George Mason University, 1980, and B.S. degrees in Education, Physics and Chemistry from Saigon University, 1972.
LANGUAGES:
Dr. Nguyen speaks, reads, writes, understands fluently English and Vietnamese, and some French.
