ABDOULAYE FOFANA
11176 Captains Walk Ct, North Potomac, MD 20878
(301) 610-0725
[email protected]
https://www.imappl.org/~fofana
OBJECTIVE:
EDUCATION:
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace and Howard
University (5/96 - 5/97)
Research Assistant on High Speed Networks
Performed benchmark tests (Netperf, TTCP,
DirectChannel) to illustrate the performance of the fibre channel cards
on Silicon Graphic Indigo 2 under TCP/IP, UDP/IP and Direct Channel
interface.
Developed network interface software to utilize the UMP(Unified
Message Passing) protocol over the ethernet and fiber channel networks.
Institute for Multimedia Applications
(08/96 - 5/97) (08-97 - Present)
System Administrator
Created and managed file systems, user accounts.
Installed and managed
NIS/NFS and other software for the network.
Upgrated SGI platforms(indy, Indigo2, Onyx, Challenge) from IRIX 5.3
to IRIX 6.2.
Constructed and tested 10BaseT ethernet cables.
Webmaster and redesigned web page for the Department of Systems
and Computer Science(https://www.scs.howard.edu).
NC-REN/NCIH Videoconference Center, Elizabeth City, NC. (8/95 - 1/96)
Assistant program coordinator, responsible for
schedule and operating the Grass Valley Video Switcher which is used
for computer generated graphics.
Responsible for operating the Macintosh performa
466 which controls the network.
Timing and white balancing all the camera
equipment for proper video signals.
ECSU Student Support Services. (9/93 - 4/96)
Tutored fellow undergraduate students in math
and computer science courses.
Computer Graphics/Virtual Reality Research
Teams, ECSU. (1/95 - 5/95)
Defined scenes using the tools we built, and
describe the surface details like shading and texturing using Renderman
shader language.
Developed frames for animation by either moving
part of the scene or moving the camera, and putting these frames
together for playing.
INTEREST/ ACTIVITIES: