Karl Ninh

Phone:  817-235-9227

2316 Valleywoods Drive

karl@karlninh.com

Fax:  469-574-5024

Carrollton, TX 75006-7769

http://www.karlninh.org

 

OBJECTIVE

Senior software developer in data and telecommunication network, network security, and web services.

 

EDUCATION

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

o Juris Doctor Candidate, 2012, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Real Estate.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, Richardson, Texas

o Master of Science, December 2000, Computer Science, GPA 3.67.

o Bachelor of Science, May 1999, Computer Science, GPA 3.44.

DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT, Dallas, Texas

o Spring 1995 - Summer 1997, Spanish Language, GPA 3.67.

 

HONORS

2011 Blackstone Legal Fellowship Intern

2008 Five Outstanding Young Dallasites

2004 Republican National Convention Alternate Delegate

2002 Nortel Networks Most Valuable Member of Scientific Staffs Award

1995 Math Olympiad - Seventh place

1995 Math Olympiad Computer Programming - Third place team

1995 Asian American Advisory Committee Scholarship

1995 Dallas Vietnamese Lions Club Scholarship

1994 University Interscholastic League (UIL) - Third place

 

EXPERIENCES

05/07 – present   Shared Technologies, Irving, Texas

                  Software Engineer

§  IT development with Java using Eclipse, AJAX, Velocity, JUnit, Javascript, CSS, SSL, MySQL on Linux/Tomcat, MSSQL on Windows 2008 Server.

 

10/10 – present   Liberty Institute, Plano, Texas

                  Legal Intern

§  Assist staff attorneys with legal research.

 

07/00 – 06/07     Nortel, Richardson, Texas

                  Member of Scientific Staff/Software Engineer

§ UMTS OAM: develop software for wireless internet Fault, Performance, and Configuration Management, Security Provisioning, Geographic Disaster Recovery.

§ Preside Wireless Solution: a complete network management package for both the GPRS and UMTS networks. Responsible for Performance Management and Reporting.

§ Product eService Enablement: providing Nortel customers (MCI, AT&T, Southwestern Bell, O2, TMO) with tools enable them to access, maintain and report issues with their network elements to Nortel System Engineering.

§ Utilizing Oracle, Sybase, Versant, MSSQL Server, MySQL, IIS, JBoss, Java (Visual Cafι, Eclipse,) Visual Basic, VBA/MS Access, IIS, Apache, ClearCase, ASP, Java/VB script, Unix shell scripts, CA ArcServeIT, Veritas NetBackup, Solaris IPSec, Ant, Clover, FindBug, JUnit.

 

09/01 – 05/02     North Lake Community College, Irving, Texas

                  Part-time Continuing Education Instructor

§ Teach Java Programming Language.

 

06/99 – 06/00     J.C. Penney Inc., Plano, Texas

                  System Analyst.

§ Financial System Development using DB2 on IBM-370, MVS COBOL, JCL, DYL280, ESP, ASP, Javascript, Visual Basic script, Java (VisualCafι 4.0 and JDK), Visual Basic 6.0, ActiveX, IIS, SQL Server 6.5 & 7.0, Visual SourceSafe. Part of the Business Continuity team.

§ MS SQL Server 6.5 administrator (running third party software Concur Technology XMS for company travel expense system.)

 

08/97 - 05/99     J.C. Penney Inc., Plano, Texas

                  Co-op.

§ Provide custom financial reports using MS Access 97, PeopleSoft 6.1, MS Office97, Crystal Report, SQL, and VBA.

§ CGI programming with C++ on Windows NT platform.

§ LAN support/installation/configuration on NT/98/95 platforms.

 

08/95 - 07/97     Unique Gifts Inc., Dallas, Texas

                  Buyer.

§ Buying and supplying merchandise for several retailing stores in DFW International Airport and Las Vegas McCarran Airport.

§ Entry level maintenance and technical support of a small LAN using DOS and Novell NetWare.

 

CERTIFICATES

 

10/2000           Introduction to UMTS by Award Solutions Inc.

09/2000           Advanced Programming in Java by The Willcam Group Limited/CDI

Corporate Education Services

06/1999           DB2 Application Programming by NewData Strategies

06/1998           PeopleSoft Query by JCPenney Inc.

 

ACTIVITIES

08/08 – present   American Bar Association – Law Student Division

                  State Bar of Texas – Law Student Division

                  The Federalist Society

                  Member.

 

08/08 – present   Baruch HaShem Messianic Synagogue

                  Member, Security Team, Video Ministry.

     

03/02 – present   Republican Party of Texas

                  Alternate Delegate to 2004 Republican National Convention.

                  Delegate to the 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 State Convention.

                  Member, Organization Committee, 2006 State Convention.

 

10/04 – present   Dallas/Fort Worth Asian American Citizen Council, Texas

                  Vice President (2007, 2008) Assistant Secretary (2006) Board of

                  Directors (2005).

 

01/05 – present   Dallas County North Republican Club, Richardson, Texas

                  Treasurer (2007, 2008).

 

04/02 – 08/10     Dallas County Republican Party, Texas

                  Precinct Chairman, Chair of Legislative District 103 and 115 (2008).

 

03/05 – 11/10     Rick Perry for Governor Campaign

                  Campaign Ambassador.

 

09/05 – 08/08     Dallas County Young Republicans

                  Vice Chair of Treasury (2008), Vice President for Political

                  Activities (2007), Director of Community Affairs (2006).

 

08/07 – 08/09     Texas Young Republican Federation

                  Liaison, Republican Party of Texas Executive Committee (2007-2009).

 

11/07 – 08/08     Young Republican National Federation

                  Member, Information Technology Committee, Policy Research Committee.

 

09/04 – 07/06     City of Carrollton, Texas

                  Library Advisory Board Member.

                 

06/04 – 11/04     Pete Sessions for Congress Campaign, Texas

                  Precinct Captain.

 

04/01 – 12/01     Carter Bloodcare, Plano, TX

                  Volunteer.

 

06/99 – 06/00     University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

                  RTP implementation as a network level protocol in FreeBSD kernel.

 

12/98 - 06/99     University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

 Research: Implementation of TCP/IP protocol stack in FreeBSD 2.2.8.

 

04/97 – 12/09     Living Word Evangelical Church, Arlington, Texas

                   Member of the board of deacons, treasurer, youth group leader.

 

01/95 - 10/96     Vietnamese Baptist Mission, Dallas, Texas

                   Youth Group Leader, Sunday school teaching and translation.

 

SKILLS        Languages: fluent in Vietnamese, basic in Spanish, beginner in Biblical Hebrew.

 

                  Legal: Constitutional, Business Associations, Wills & Trusts, Criminal Procedure, Oil & Gas, Administrative, Products Liability, Sales & Leases.

 

Operating system: installation and configuration of Windows (all versions), Solaris, Linux (RedHat, OpenSuse, FreeBSD), MacOS Leopard, Snow Leopard.

 

Networking: solid experience in TCP/IPv4 protocol stack. Academic experience in ATM, FR, SONET, Adhoc Wireless networks. Working experience in GSM, GPRS and UMTS OAM FCAPS.

 

Programming Language: C/C++/C#, Java/J2EE, HTML/DHTML, PHP, VB/VBA,

COBOL, Assembly, Javascript, Visual Basic script, Pascal, DYL280,

SQL, Pearl, and Unix shell scripts (Korn, C and Bourne).

 

                  Database: Access 97/2000/XP, PeopleSoft 6.1, Oracle 8.x, 9.x, SQL

                  Server 6.5/7.0/2008, MySQL 4.x, 5.x, JdataStore 6, 7. RDBMS

professional experience: 14 years.

 

                  Others: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence,

                  Computational Biology, OOAD, Real-time Systems, Computer Systems and

                  Networks Performance Analysis, Applied Cryptography, Graphics Design.

 

VISA STATUS    US citizen.

REFERENCES    Available upon request.