John P. Abraham

1501 Northgate Lane, McAllen, TX 78504

Home: 956-686-5042   Office: 956-665-3550

      john.abraham@utrgv.edu

 

EDUCATION

1990               Texas A & I University, Kingsville and Corpus Christi, TX.

Graduate Courses in Computer Science 18 Sem hours.

Programming  (Assembly, Pascal, Cobol, BASIC), Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Parallel Computing.

 

1986               University of Houston, Houston, TX.

Ed. D. in Allied Health Leadership – A combined program of Baylor Medical College and University of Houston. Courses taken from both institutions.

Statistics and Higher Education Administration.

1974   Texas A&M University,              College Station, TX.

M. Ed. In Allied Health Leadership – A combined program of Baylor Medical College and University of Houston. Courses taken from both institutions.

Noyes Foundation Fellowship Recipient.

Management, Ed Psych, Curriculum, Leadership.

 

1972   Lubbock Christian University,    Lubbock, TX.

B.S. in Biology, Chemistry and Clinical Laboratory Sciences (triple major). 158 sem hours.  Board Certified Medical Technologist-MT(ASCP) and Specialist in Hematology-SH(ASCP).

 

1968   Lubbock Christian High School, Lubbock, TX.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2018 -  2019 -  University of Texas RGV – Interim Chair, Electrical Engineering

2015 -  Current  - University of Texas RGV

Professor of computer Science

Professor of Computer Engineering

1976 - 2015 University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539.

 

2006 -  2015            Professor of Computer Engineering. http://cmpe.utpa.edu/faculty-1

2003 -  2015            Professor of Computer Science. http://www.cs.panam.edu/people 

1986 – 2002            Associate Professor of Computer Science

1976 – 1986            Chair and Assistant and Associate Professor of Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

 

1975 – 1976     Laboratory Assistant Program, Memorial Hospital Corpus Christi, TX.

1973 – 1975     Instructor, Medical Technology Program, Texas A&I University, Corpus Christi, TX.

 

Courses Taught

           Cyber Security and Forensics (Graduate)

              Operating System and Computer Architecture (Graduate Course)

              Advance Computer Networking for Electrical Engineering Students.

              Independent Studies (Graduate) C#

E-Commerce (Graduate)

Graduate Seminar in Writing Thesis/graduate project

Graduate Seminar in Windows SharePoint Services.

Applied Database Principles – Oracle (Graduate)

Principle of Information Systems (Graduate)

Network Security (Graduate Seminar)

Advanced Computer Architecture (Graduate) for Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Advanced Network (Graduate).

Foundation of Systems (Graduate), Computer Organization and Operating System concepts.

E-Commerce (Graduate Seminar).

Computer Networks (Senior)

Computer Architecture (Senior)

Senior Project

Advanced C# (Junior)

Practicum in Computer Science (Junior)

Topics in Computer Science (Senior)

Object Oriented Visual Basic (Junior)

Survey of Computer Concepts (Junior)

Advanced Visual Basic (Sophomore)

Data Structures in C++ (Sophomore)

Data Structures in Pascal (Sophomore)

C++ (Sophomore)

Fortran for Engineers (Sophomore)

Introduction to Computer Science – Pascal (Freshmen)

Introduction to Computer Science – C++ (Freshmen)

Computers and Society (Freshmen)

Instrumentation I & II (Junior)

Clinical Chemistry I & II

Clinical Microbiology (Senior)

Clinical Parasitology (Senior)

Hematology (Senior)

Immunohematology (Senior)

Methods of Analysis I & II (Senior)

 

New Courses or Programs Developed

 

Developed the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Degree program (and all the courses) and got it approved from Coordinating Board and got it accredited.

Developed the Master’s Degree in Information Technology

Courses developed:

 

CSCI 6175 – Hadoop (Big Data) 2018

CSCI 6175 – Recent Developments in Computer Science (2015)

CSCI 6831 – Independent Study (C#)

CSCI 6318 – Cyber Security and Forensics

CSCI 6303 – Principles of Information Systems. Graduate course

CSCI 6314 – E-commerce. Graduate Course

CSCI 6315 – Applied Database Systems – Oracle Administration. Graduate Course

CSCI 6389 – Internship. Graduate Course

CSCI 6175 – Network Security. Graduate Seminar

CSCI 6175 – Sharepoint services. Graduate Seminar

CSCI 6175 -  Advanced file handling techniques. Graduate Seminar

CSCI 4345 – Computer Networking

CSCI 4318 – Cyber Security and Forensics

CSCI 3327 – Advanced Object Oriented Visual Basic

CSCI 3328 – Advanced Object Oriented C#

CSCI 3333 – Structured Basic

 

 

 

ADMINISTATIVE EXPERIENCE – University Related

 

2018 - 2019           Interim Chair, Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, UTRGV

1976 – 1986          Chair of Clinical Laboratory Science, University of Texas Pan American

1981 – 1982          Internship at the President’s office (Dr. Nevarez).  Major accomplishments: Enrollment prediction, Tenure and Promotion system and Faculty Evaluation.

1984 – 1985          Interim Dean, Health Related Professions, University of Texas Pan American

1975- 1976            Coordinator of the Laboratory Assistants Program, Memorial Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

President – Abraham Technologies, Inc. 20 years.

Board Member – McAllen General Hospital, McAllen Methodist Hospital, McAllen Medical Center. 10 years.

Established and consulted – JPA Home Health Care, McAllen, TX.  5 years.

 

 

SHORT COURSES ATTENDED

 

Five days workshop – Federated Computing Research Conference, ACM,  San Francisco, CA, May, 2007

One day workshop – MATLAB Reference for super Computing,  Education Summer Program, Super Computing, Purdue University, June 25-27, 2007.

One day workshop – SKETCHUP & GOOGLE EARTH,  Education Summer Program, Super Computing, Purdue University, June 25-27, 2007.

4 hour workshop – Online Trust and reputation, ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San Diego California. June 11, 2007.

4 hour workshop - Prediction Markets: Economics, Computation, and Mechanism Design,  ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San Diego California. June 11, 2007.

4 hour workshop Modeling Complex Networks for Electronic Commerce, ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San Diego California. June 12, 2007.

4 hour workshop Sponsored Search,  ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San Diego California. June 12, 2007.

Two days workshops in Visualization and Data Mining, Super Computing Conference, Tampa FL 2006.

Two days workshops in Data Mining at the Super Computing Conference,  Seattle WA, 2005.

One day workshop in Critical Thinking, University of Texas Pan American, April 15, 2005.

Two days workshop in ‘Famous Accounting Software,’ Fresno, California, Dec.  Dec 15-18, 2003.

Three days workshops: How to build a Grid Service using Globus Toolkit , A Practical Approach to High Performance Data Transport, and Introduction to GRID computing and overview of the Globus Toolkit. 2003 Supercomputing Conference, Phoenix, AZ, Nov 15-20, 2003 .

Three days tutorials on High Performance Computing, 2002 Supercomputing Conference, Baltimore, MD. November, 15 to 19, 2002.

One week workshop on Topics in Computer Science, University of Central Florida July 29 to Aug 2, 2002.

Two days workshop on the Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational Challenges. ACM Sigcomm 2002 Conference. Pittsburgh, PA 2002.

Computational Science Workshop. One week training at Louisiana State University.  Jan 4, 2002 to Jan 10, 2002.

NCR – Teradata, One week training in Teradata Administration (California).  June 17- June 22, 2001.

NCR – Teradata, One week training in Teradata Application Development (Atlanta, GA), July 23 to July 28, 2001.

CISCO Router course. Region One Education Center. One week (Edinburg, TX)

INTERACTIVE, 3 day course in 386ix

NETWARE, two weeks training in Novell Server Installation and Administration.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, two days course in Use of Cray in Biological Research (Austin, TX).

AUTODESK – two weeks training in AUTOCAD.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, two days workshops in Workload Characterization, IEEE (Austin, TX).

 

 

PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS (recent)

 

Fu, B., Fengjuan, Z., Abraham, J. P. (2018). A Model for Donation Verification (arXiv:1708.07973 ed., vol. Archive, pp. 5). Online, New York: ACMSE 2018 Proceedings. http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Abraham:John

Craig Franke, Samuel Morin, Artem Chebotko, John Abraham, and Pearl Brazier, "Efficient Processing of Semantic Web Queries in HBase and MySQL Cluster", IT Professional, 2013. IEEE Computer Society. June, 2013.

Craig Franke, Samuel Morin, Artem Chebotko, John Abraham, and Pearl Brazier, "Efficient Processing of Semantic Web Queries in HBase and MySQL Cluster", IT Professional, 2012. IEEE Computer Society.

Andrey Kashlev, Artem Chebotko, John Abraham, Pearl Brazier, and Shiyong Lu, "Benchmarking Bottom-Up and Top-Down Strategies for SPARQL-to-SQL Query Translation", in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'12), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 16-19, 2012.

Craig Franke, Samuel Morin, Artem Chebotko, John Abraham, and pearl Brazier. Distributed SemanticWeb Data Management in HBase and MySQL Cluster.  2011 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, 2011.

Irma Resendez, Pablo Martinez, and John Abraham, An Introduction to Digital Forensics, ACET Journal of Computer Education and Research, Volume 6, 2009-10. February 2010.

John Abraham and Mary Walker, Assigning IP Addresses to Routers.  ACET Journal of Computer Education and Research, Volume 6, 2009-10. February 2010.

John Abraham, Pearl Brazier, Artem Chebotko, Jaime Navarro, and Anthony Piazza.  Distributed Storage and Querying Techniques for a Semantic Web of Scientific Workflow Provenance.  2010 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, 2010.

Irma Resendez, Pablo Martinez, and John Abraham, An Introduction to Digital Forensics, Peer Reviewed, proceedings of the Conference of the Association of Computer Education in Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, October 2009.

Pablo Martinez and John Abraham.  The customer Tracking System (CTS),  Peer Reviewed, Proceedings of the Conference of the Association of Computer Education in Texas, Corpus Christi, TX , October, 2009.

John Abraham, Zhixiang Chen, Richard H. Fowler, Bin Fu, Binhai Zhu: On the Approximability of Some Haplotyping Problems. AAIM 2009: 3-14

Zhixiang Chen, Bin Fu and John Abraham.  A quadratic bound for Rocchio’s similarity-based relevance feedback algorithm with a fixed query updating factor.  Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 2008.

John Abraham, and Mary Walker, Assigning IP Addresses to Routers.  Peer Reviewed, Proceedings of the conference of the Association for Computer Education in Texas, Austin, TX. October, 2008.

John Abraham. An online book in progress for CSCI 6303, Principle of Information Technology Systems.  I have been writing two to three chapters a year. 2006 – 2009.  The book has 150 pages so far. This is the only required textbook for the class.  Available on my website.

Fu, Bin, Sai Krishna Aravalli and John Abraham, Software protection by Hardware and Obfuscation,  Proceedings of the Internation conference on Security and Management, June 25-28, 2007.

Abraham, John P, A Proxy Server for Mirrored Sites, Proceedings of the ASEE Regional Conference, South Padre Island, March 2007.

Abraham, John P. Creation of Indexed File for Fast Access Using the Dot Net Environment, Proceedings of the ASEE Regional Conference, South Padre Island, March 2007.

Wu, Xiadong & John P. Abraham, The Intensity Level Reduction in Radiation Therapy,  Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Santa Fe, New Mexico,  ISBN: 1-58113-964-0, 2005 pp. 242-246.

Abraham, John P., Sylvia Lujan, Ester E. Lopez and Mary Walker. "Graduating Student's Perceptions of Outcomes of College Experiences at a Predominantly Hispanic University,"  Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, July 2002.

Abraham, John P. , Undergraduate Networking Course. A white paper appeared in the Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational Challenges. ACM Sigcomm 2002 Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. August, 2002.

Abraham, John P.,  "Routing Packets Through Subnets," Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Texas Computer Education Association State Conference, Austin, TX 2000.

Abraham, John P.,  "A Practical Approach to Assigning Subnet Masks," Proceedings of the ETCE/OMAE 2000 Joint Conference,  New Orleans, LA 2000.

Abraham, John P., "A Laboratory Approach to Teaching TCP/IP Protocol on Windows NT," Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education, Annual Conference of the Gulf Southwest Region, Dallas, TX, 1999.

 

PRESENTATIONS (recent)

John Abraham, Redundancy Requirements for Computer Networks, 50th ACET Conference, Austin, TX October 2014

John Abraham, “Replacing a Network Laboratory with Virtual Machines,” 50th ACET Conference, Austin, TX, October 2014

 

Grant proposals submitted

 

 

     2016 Grant Submitted: Homeland Security.  Homeland and Personal Security Based on Wireless Data Transmission.  Under Review.  October 2016

     Graduate College Success Fund, Received a grant of $5,000.  April 2016.

     2016 Grant Submitted:   State Department Proposal, “Personal Security Based on Wireless Data Management, Co-PI $181,309. Dec. 2015 Not Funded.

     2016 Grant Submitted: Robortic Telescope Observatory, Nicolas Pereyra, et al. NSF.  Not Funded.

     2016 Grant submitted: NSF Proposal, “Big Data Management for Personal Security”, Co-PI $1,151,899.  Not funded.

2015 Grant submitted: George Ndeta PI to DHHS, I will serve as the consultant. Not Funded.

2015 Grant Submitted: Bin Fu, PI, John Abraham co-PI, BIGDATA: IA: RUI: Big Data Management for Personal Security. NSF.  Not funded.

Received 4 travel related grants totaling $13,000

NCR-Teradata. Software grant.  $1,696,500. Dec 2002.

Grant proposals Submitted:

PI – NSF/IMI grant for $200,000, “International Nanoscience Collaboratory,” NSF-02-096, June, 2002. Not Funded.

PI - NSF grant for $409,396.00,  A Scholarship program for Engineering and Computer Science”, 2000-2001. Not Funded.

Co-PI - Department of Health and Human Services grant for $107,000.00, “Med Alarm: An Alarm and Reminder System for Medication”, 2000-2001. Not Funded.

PI - The Meadows Foundation Grant #84120196.01 - $34,360.00 - Medical Technology. 1986,

Equipment Donation obtained - $ 47,745.00 - Medical Technology. 1985.

Co-PI - Julian Castillo, John Abraham, and Jerry Stamper, Obtained $450,000 AHEC grant.1977.

Noyes Foundation Fellowship Recipient.

 

MASTER’S THESES AND PROJECTS AND HONOR’S COMMITTEES

 

Advisor MSIT, Master’s project 2015-16:

Irby, Cavin, Implementation of VLAN and VPN using CISCO router and Switch, April 2016.

Worsham, Benjamin, Smart Phone App for controlling Traffic Lights in McAllen, Dec, 2015.

Villanueva, Edgar, Virtual and Immersive Entironments Creating Real Time Renders, Dec. 1015.

Tamez, Fidencio, High School Counselor Portal, Dec. 2015

Andrade, Antonio, CCNA Certification, Aug, 2015.

Chair, Thesis Committee. Master of Science in Computer Science, Juan Monrreal, 3D printing using Raspberry Pie.  Nov, 2015.

Advisor, MSIT, Master’s project: Haritha Desari, Hector Garza, Carlos Trevino, Sijham Bahri and Edgar Flores. 2014-2015.

Chair, Thesis Committee.  Rodolfo E. Roman Velasco, “Efficient Evaluation of SPARQL Property Path Queries Over PROV-DM Provenance Graphs in a RDBMS,” Masters in Computer Science May 2014.

Advisor.  Master of Science in Information Technology.  Pablo Martinez. Customer Tracking system (CTS). Masters project, 2008.

Advisor.  Master of Science in Information Technology. J.L. De La Cruz.UTILIZING MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT TO IMPROVE EVALUATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMPUTER AUTOMATED DISPATCH AND RECORD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ALONG THE SOUTH TEXAS BORDER. 2008.

Advisor. Master of Science in Information Technology. Christopher Espinoza.  Hospital Network Best Practice Implementation, Masters Project.  2007.

Advisor. Master of Science in Information Technology.  Serkan B. Celteik. Application Servers and Portal Design. Masters Project, 2006.

Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science.  Eseqiuel Garcia.  Academic Tracking system: Data Mart and e-Portfolio (MUPS) Approach, 2005.

Advisor. Honors Thesis. Ricardo Suzuki.  A Web Based Medical Records system. 2006.

Member. Master of Science in Computer Science. Osama Khan. Parametric Classification in domains of Characters, Numerals, Punctuation, Typefaces and Image Qualities. 2004.

Advisor.  Master of Science in Computer Science. Joe Gomez. ICAST – Interfaceable Cashiering system. 2004.

Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science. Manda Bhadradri Rami Reddy. A Membership Based Secure Digital Library Application. 2004.

Advisor. Master of Science in Information Technology.  Angelita elizondo Teniente.  Job Search Project.  Masters project. 2003

Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science. Allan Figueroa, Parallel Event Construction of CLEO Data  Using the Message Passing Interface. 2002

Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science.  Tibebe Assefa. E-commerce the eBay model. 2002.

Advisor. Master of  Science in Computer Science, Gerardo Alvarez, Medical Database Interaction with Smart Cards. 2002

Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science, Raquel Pena, Speech Pattern Analysis. 2002.

Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science, Jose Luis, Solorzano, Incorporating Technology into a Stick for the Blind. 2002.

Member. Master of Electrical Engineering, Ms. Afife Pestana for MSE (Thesis Option) in Electrical Engineering concentration. Currently Serving on a thesis committee.

Chair of Honor’s Thesis Committee.  Huerta, Torrey J., The Internet Map Design Project,   December 2001.

        Member. Master of Science in Computer Science.  Cox, Michelle, The Application and Performance of a Generic Task routine Decision Making Algorithm to Recipe Selection in Meal Planning, August 2000.

 

 

NEWS AND INTERVIEWS

 

“Cyber Security, Aftermath of Sony Intrusion,” Channel 2, Fox Affiliate, Reporter Pedro Rojas,  December 2, 2014.

"Computer Security,” Channel 5 KRGV, ABC affiliate,  Expert Interview, aired at 6pm and 10pm Nov 28, 2007. http://www.newschannel5.tv/2007/11/28/983060/Computer-Hard-Drive-Search

“Y2K Diagnosis with DOS, " Team Report, Channel 4 news, CBS affiliate, aired at 6 PM, December 29, 1999.

"Y2K Diagnosis with Windows," Team Report, Channel 4 news, CBC affiliate, aired at 10 PM December 29, 1999.

"Y2K - A final Look," Team Report, Channel 4 news, ABC affiliate, aired at 6 AM December 30, 1999.

"Valley Escapes 9/9/99 problems," Interview with The Monitor, September 10, 1999.

"Feeding the Poor,"  Eye Witness News Journal, a 15 minutes live interview on Channel 23, NBC affiliate about my role in the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley. 1997.

"Y2K Problem," a Brief Interview, Channel 4, CBS affiliate, Team Report, aired at 6'O clock news.  1998.

"Morality and Society," a 30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate, 1997.

"Responsibilities of the Parents in their Children's Education," a  30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate, 1995.

"Border Health Issues and President Clinton's Health Reform," a 30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate. 1994.

"NAFTA and its Effects on Education," a 30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate.  1993.

"NAFTA, My Reaction," a Front Page News Article with my Picture, The McAllen Monitor, McAllen. 1992.

"India Sangeeth," Hosted a one Hour Radio Program, Local NPR station.  I established this Radio Program which continued for 4 years.  India Association of the Rio Grade Valley. 1993.

"Status of Medical Technology," Channel 5 news, 10PM.  1988

"Diabetes in South Texas, " 30 minutes  Live Radio Program, KVLY, 107, 1988.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE – MOST RECENT

 

Department level

1.    Chair, C.S. Promotion and Tenure Committee (2014-15)

2.    Co-chair, Lecturer evaluation Committee 2015.

3.    Member, C.S. Promotion and Tenure Committee.

4.    Chair, C.S. Promotion and Tenure Committee. 

5.    Chair, Faculty Search Committee. A very active work-intensive committee.  Met with candidates, took them to Dinner, etc.

6.    Chair, Facilities Committee

7.    Member Annual Evaluation Committee (Merit Committee)

8.    Member, Scholarship committee.

9.    Member, Graduate Committee

10.  Member, Strategic Committee

11.  Presented new courses to the University Curriculum Committee.

12.  Participated in strategic Planning retreats.

13.  Participated in advisory committee meetings.

            College Level:

14.  College Promotion and Tenure Committee.  Chaired it two years.

15.  Member, College Council

16.  Member, College Strategic Planning Committee

17.  Main speaker, Dr. Hashim Mahdi, Memorial Service.

18.  Computer Engineering Departmental meetings.

19.  Member, College Facilities Committee

20.  Worked with the Chair of Electrical Engineering department to propose a new degree program in Computer Engineering.  It was approved and now we have a new degree in that field.

             University level:

21.  Chair, University Tenure and Promotion Committee, UTRGV 2014-16.

22.  Advisor, Chi Alpha, Student Organization, 2012-2016

23.  Member, Academic Administration Working Groups, Planning Groups for new UT-RGV, 2013-2014.

24.  University level appeals committee, Promotion and Tenure. 2012-2014 (Chair 2012-13)

25.  Member, Pool for University Tribunal, 2012-2014

26.  Faculty Class Marshall, UTPA Graduation, Spring 2014

27.  Chair, Core Curriculum Committee 2012-2013

28.  University Tenure and Promotion Committee 2013

29.  Faculty Marshall, Graduation Spring 2013

30.  Dean’s Selection Committee, College of Health Sciences.

31.  Attended AAA meetings to serve on the search committees.

32.  Faculty Marshall, Graduation 2010

33.  Grand Marshall, Graduation 2009

34.  Vice-Chair, University Curriculum committee.

 

A.   Professional activities.

 

1.    2013-2016 Editor, SciTechnol- Journal of Computer Engineering and Information Technology.  http://www.scitechnol.com/editorialboardJCEIT.php

2.    Consulted Atlas & Hall, an Attorney Firm regarding Load Balancing and VPNs

3.    Consulted Bettcher Manufacturing regarding ERP/MRP software QAD and Plex

4.     Served as the external reviewer for Tenure and Promotion for Texas A&M University Corpus Christi.

5.     Session chair for Computer Educators Conference, Austin, TX 2008.

6.     Session chair for ASEE 2007, South Padre Island.

7.     Reviewed 17 grants over a 6 year period for Minority Health Research and Education Program, Texas Coordinating Board, 1999-2005.

8.     Coordinated TCEA programming contest. 2002.

9.     Section Coordinator, Wokload Characterization, IEEE, Austin, TX, 2001.

10.   Area Coordinator, National Association of Hispanic & Latino Studies, 2000-present.

11.   Session Moderator, National Conference of National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Session #87, Houston Texas, February 2000.

12.   Scientific Section Chair, American Society of Engineering Education, Annual Conference of the Gulf Southwest Region, Dallas, TX, 1999.

13.   Panelist, One America In the 21st Century: The President's Initiative on Race, Directed by Mr. William Leftwitch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity, October 4, 1999.

 

B.    Community activities.

1.    Vice-President, Mar Thoma, Christian Church RGV. 2012-2016

2.    Involved with Indian Community to start a cultural organization called Thanal.  The news has appeared in Indian newspapers.

3.    Executive member of MARV, an Indian cultural organization. 2010-2014

4.    Active in the Indian community organizations.

5.    Served as a Deacon for First Assembly of God, 2010-2013

6.    Served as board member of the RGV Food Bank.

7.    Served as board member for Habitat for Humanity.

8.    Served as board member for the Comfort House, McAllen, TX.

9.    Served on the Board of Governors of the McAllen Medical Center for 11 years.

10.  Member, 6 years, Rotary Club of Edinburg. 1999-2005.

11.  Teach and preach at local churches for over 25 years.

12.  Consulted hundreds of local businesses for computer programming, networking, router configuration, SQL servers, etc.

 

 

 

 

Honors

 

Met the 14th Dalai Lama

Met President Clinton at a local dinner event 1996.

Leadership Award, Athletic Students nominated award, University of Texas Pan American, Athletic Department, Honored During the Half-time of February 27 Basket Ball Game, February 2000.

Invited Guest at White House Community Empowerment Conference, President Clinton and Vice-President Gore attending.

Nominated to Governor George Bush for state level committees by Republican Party Chairman.

Invited to attend the inauguration ceremonies for Governor George Bush, 1996 and 1998.

Invited to run for the US congress by the Republican Party Chairman (declined!)

Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Texas Pan American - 1983.