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ELDON G. MARKS

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OBJECTIVE
  To work within a research-oriented environment.
EDUCATION
 


August 2008 - December 2009
M.Sc. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Howard University, Washington DC. GPA: 4.0/4.0
August 2000 - July 2004
B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana GPA
Major: 3.6/4.0

Awards

  • 2009 - Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of Systems & Computer Science, Howard University
  • 2008 - Tuition Award, Howard University Graduate School


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    TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES / SKILLS
     


  • Highly creative developer and active researcher engaged in independent and collaborative research for over six years. Key areas of interest are human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence.
  • Experienced Drupal developer and specialist in web-based interface development.

    • Programming: C, C#, C++ .NET, Java, Python, Perl, Assembly (X86, MIPS)

    Web Engineering / Design: , PHP, CSS, DHTML, XHTML, XML, AJAX, GWT, Adobe Flex

    Database Development: MySQL, SQLServer 2008, DB2, ER Diagramming, SQL, TSQL, JPQL

    Applications: LaTeX, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Powerpoint, Adobe Creative Suite

    Analysis/Design: Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD), UML and UP

    Operating Systems: Windows Server, Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, Solaris, Fedora
    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
     


    2006 - present University of Guyana, Department of Computer Science
     

    Lecturer I

    Revise, prepare and deliver lectures to students; plan and deliver lab and tutorial sessions. Compose and grade course assignments, semester projects and exams for respective courses. Hold office hours and provide additional guidance to students outside of class. Supervise undergraduate student research.
    2010 - 2012 University of Guyana, Department of Computer Science
     

    Head of Department

    Coordinate department faculty members; recommend yearly teaching assignments; craft yearly development objectives; chair departmental meetings, represent department at various boards and statutory meetings; process student applications and registrations; provide academic guidance to students; evaluate faculty member performance; coordinate various departmental quality management practices.


    01/2010 – 04/2010 Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), IT Division
     

    IT Consultant

    Oversaw IT support operations for the 2010 Local Government Elections related to voter registrations and ID card production; assessed existing registration information system and related procedures and produced system improvement plan of voter registration, verification and processing.


    2004 - 2006University of Guyana, Department of Computer Science
     

    Assistant Lecturer

    Understudied and assisted primary Lecturers in lab sessions and lectures. Assisted in grading and design of course assignments, projects and exams; supervised exams and provided additional assistance to students outside of class.
    Worked along with students in their final year research projects.
    2000 - 2004 Self-Employed
     

    Computer Technician

    Provided computer systems solutions and services to various establishments and individual clients.

     

    Projects

  • 2011. Designed and Developed the Royal Products Website and Product Catalogue (royalflavours.com)
  • 2011. Developed Online Customer Account Enquiry Service for Guyana Power & Light (gplinc.com/account)
  • 2010. Developed CARICOM’s Foreign & Communications Directorate Information Portal and Civil Society Registry (fcr.caricom.org)
  • 2010. Lead developer in the Caribbean Information Society (CARIB-IS) Project (carib-is.net)
  • 2010. Developed the Faculty of Social Sciences website.
  • 2008. Developed the Appropriate Technology website.
  • 2008. Developed the Guyana Power & Light web-based information system.
  • 2008. Designed and Developed PHP web-template for Guyana Water Incorporated.
  • 2007. Designed and developed the Brandsville Apartments website
  • 2007. Designed and developed the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport website
  • 2007. Developed web-based newsletter templates for the Guyana National Trust
  • 2007. Developed a web-based management system for the Bed and Breakfast Secretariat of Guyana
  • 2006. Developed the Banks DIH web-based information system
  • 2006. Designed and developed the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences website
  • 2006. Designed and developed the University of Guyana website
  • 2005. Designed and developed a tailored Intranet Monitoring Utility (IntraMon) for the Computer Science Lab.
  • 2005. Implemented a web-casting server as part of the "Radio & Multimedia Production Programme for Community Media" - Centre for Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana
  • 2005. Designed and developed the University of Guyana – Centre for Communication Studies (UGCCS) website
  • 2005. Designed and developed the Strategic Environmental Assessment of Mining – Guyana website
  • 2005. Designed and developed the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) website.
  • 2004. Developed a web-based file system explorer (Xplorer) for the Department of Computer Science.
  • 2004. Developed and implemented a Course Directory Service for the Department of Computer Science
  • 2004. Designed and developed the Department of Computer Science website.
  • 2004. Designed and developed the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Guyana website.
  • 2004. Developed the 7th Caribbean and International Social Work Educators Conference website

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    Activities

  • 2009. Presenter at Appropriate Technology Symposium & Technology Fair – Blackburn Center, Howard university, Washington D.C. April 10 2009; presented a web development advisor expert system.
  • 2008. Served as Summer Programme Coordinator – Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Guyana.
  • 2008. Delivered a Guest Lecture on ICT & The Environment – School of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Guyana.
  • 2008. Served as member of the IT Steering Committee & Technical Team, University of Guyana.
  • 2006. Served as Projects Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Guyana.
  • 2006. Delivered a Guest Lecture on web-streaming - Centre for Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana.
  • 2005. Administered a workshop on Web-casting as part of the "Radio & Multimedia Production Programme for Community Media" - Centre for Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana.
  • 2004. Presenter at 14th Biennial General Meeting – Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS); presented publication entitled: "Gestures Speak Louder than Emoticons: A Practical Implementation of Non-Verbal Communication Improvements on Text-Chat", Trinidad & Tobago.


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    RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
     
    • Ramcharitar, P., Marks, E., Singh, L., Barakat, F., DeFreitas, P. (2011). An Investigation of the Usability Overheads in Managing Social Contexts in an Online, Friendship Social Network.
    • Tappin, S., Mohammed, I., Marks, E., Licorish, S., Williams, M., Gajraj, R. (2010). Exploring the Applicability of Self-Organisational Principles of Biological Systems to Solve the University Course Timetabling Problem.
    • Dewnath, S., Marks, E., Singh, L., Gajraj, R. (2010). Combating Information Overload on Friendship Social Networks.
    • Trotman, C., Marks, E., Morris, A. (2010). Modeling Social Awareness in Agents for the Selective Disclosure of User Information on Online, Friendship Social Networks.
    • Marks, E., Keeling, H., Trimble, J. Anderson, K., (2009). A Prosody-Enriched Dynamic Text Presentation Technique for Enhanced Reading of Electronic Text.
    • Marks, E., (2008). The Infojector: Maximizing Textual Information Assimilation Using an Improved Information Interface (In Submission to Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) 2008), Grenada.
    • Barakat, F., Marks, E. (2008). Computer Supported Cognitive Enhancement: The Formulation of an Intelligence Augmentation Cognitive Model Based on the Cognitively Beneficial Effects of Programming.
    • De Freitas, P. Marks, E. (2008). An Exploration of Methods for Effectively Conveying Math Concepts to Right-Brained Individuals.
    • Morris, A., Marks, E. (2008). MIA: A Digitally Emulated Consciousness Based on the Abstraction of Human Logic in Conversation.
    • Peters, T., Marks, E. (2007). People HR: An Investigation In Utilizing Groupware to Support High Involvement Human Resource Management for a Highly Productive Workforce.
    • Singh, K., Marks, E. (2007). Exploiting the SMS Text Messaging Medium in Guyana: An exploration in linguistic compression to overcome the constraints of SMS.
    • Braithwaite, R., Marks, E. (2006). Digital Palmistry: An Exploration of Computer Vision to Visually Analyse Palm Prints.
    • Ramotar, M., Marks, E. (2006). Voice Chat in Sign Language: The Development of a Voice Chat that Allows the Hearing Impaired to Communicate Effectively Through “Signing” (In Submission to World Science Day Symposium 2006), Guyana.
    • Chan, C., Marks, E. (2005). A Remote, Web-based Controller (In Submission to World Science Day Symposium 2006), Guyana.
    • Marks, E., Williams, M. (2004). Gestures Speak Louder than Emoticons: A Practical Implementation of Non-Verbal Communication Improvements on Text-Chat (In Submission to Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) 2004), Trinidad & Tobago.
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