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Roles

As a Computer Science Department faculty member I have responsibilities in addition to teaching. Sometimes they are assigned to me by the department, while other times I have created roles for myself.

• Founder and Coordinator - CS Game Programming Specialization
  • Responsibilities include designing the specialization curriculum requirements, adapting it to the changing technologies available, and advising students intereseted in and working through the program.
  
  
  
• Founder and Coordinator - SBU Game Programming Competition
  • Responsibilities include creating the event rules and regulations, maintaining and updating online content, selecting event finalists, and organizing all aspects of the event presentations and ceremonies.
  
  
  
• Course Coordinator - Responsibilities include setting course objectives and creating course content.
  • CSE 214: Computer Science II
  • CSE 301: History of Computing
  • CSE 380: Computer Game Programming
  • CSE 381: Advanced Game Programming
  
  
  
• Faculty Advisor
  • ColorStack
  • Stony Brook Computing Society
  • Stony Brook Game Developers
  • Student Blood Drive Committee
  
  
  
• Member
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  • Faculty Search Committee

Courses Taught at Stony Brook University

CSE 101	Computers and Information Technologies	Fall 2003, Fall 2007
CSE 102	Web Design and Programming	Fall 2004, Spring 2011, Summer 2016
CSE 114	Computer Science I	Fall 2002 - Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Fall 2009 - Fall 2010, Spring 2015
CSE 214	Computer Science II	Spring 2008 - Fall 2009
CSE 215	Foundations of Computer Science	Summer 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
CSE 216	Programming Abstractions	Summer 2020
CSE 219	Computer Science III	Fall 2004 - Fall 2007, Spring 2010 - Fall 2019
CSE 220	Computer Organization	Fall 2008
CSE 300	Writing in Computer Science	Summer 2005, Summer 2021
CSE 301	History of Computing	Spring 2005 - Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2011, Summer 2013, Summer 2014
CSE 308	Software Engineering	Spring 2012 - Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
CSE 316	Fundamentals of Software Development	Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
CSE 333	User Interface Development	Fall 2001, Spring 2002
CSE 380	Computer Game Programming	Spring 2004 - Spring 2022
CSE 381	Advanced Game Programming	Fall 2005 - Fall 2023
CSE 390	Advanced Programming Techniques	Fall 2013
CSE 393	Computer Music	Fall 2014, Fall 2015
CSE 416	Software Engineering	Spring 2020 - Fall 2023
ISE 208	Intermediate Programming	Spring 2009
ISE 390	Dynamic Web Development	Summer 2013
ITS 102	Games in Total	Spring 2012
ITS 102	3D Modeling for Games	Spring 2013 - Spring 2022
SBU 101	Introduction to Stony Brook	Fall 2023

Courses Taught at SUNY Korea

CSE 214	Data Structures	Fall 2017, Spring 2018
CSE 219	Computer Science III	Fall 2017, Spring 2018
CSE 328	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics	Spring 2018
CSE 380	Computer Game Programming	Fall 2018

Courses taught for Northrop Grumman's Information Systems Engineering Program

CSE 500	Patterns in Programming	Fall 2004
ISE 503	Data Management	Fall 2003
ISE 504	Analysis, Modeling, and Design	Spring 2004

Consulting

• Goldman Sachs New York City, NY (Summer 2008) - Taught a series of courses in Web development using Java
  
  
• Advanced Acoustic Concepts Hauppauge, NY. (Spring 2005) - Taught a series of courses on advanced Java programming concepts (IDL & CORBA, multithreading, etc.)
  
  
• Levittown Union Free School District, Levittown, NY (Dec. 2002, May 2003) - Taught a series of introductory Java programming courses to high school Java instructors
  
  
• Computer Associates, Islandia, NY (Jul. 2002) - Taught a "boot camp" segment on Java user interface programming
  
  
• Teledata Communications Inc., Bay Shore, NY. (Apr. 2001) - Taught a series of introductory tutorials on efficient Java programming using Borland's JBuilder IDE.
  
  

Previous Employment

• Teaching Assistant++: Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. (2001 - 2002) - Taught two semesters of CSE 333, User Interface Development, while completing my Master of Science degree.
  
  
• Teaching Assistant: Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. (2000 - 2001) - Worked as TA for CSE 333, User Interface Development, for which I won an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, and CSE 390, Advanced Software Development.
  
  
• Process Engineer: Mini-Circuits Labs, Brooklyn, NY. (1996 - 1999) - Improved processes for making and product designs of RF circuits.