Andres A. Folleco, PHD
Andres A. Folleco, PHD
Andres A. Folleco, PHD
EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Research Faculty-Assistant Professor: 08/03 - Pres, FAU, College of Engineering & Computer Science
• Visiting Assistant Professor: 01/02-08/03, FAU, Ocean Engineering – SeaTech campus
• Research Scientist: 9/99-12/01, FAU, Ocean Engineering – SeaTech campus
• Adjunct Professor: 1/92-12/02, Nova Southeastern University, Computer and Information Science
• Technical Staff Member: 12/97-9/99, Network Storage Processors, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• Software Engineer: 12/93-12/97, Massively Parallel Storage Processors, Encore Computer Corp.
• Senior Staff Engineer: 7/91-12/93, Electronic Access Control Systems, Casi-Rusco, Inc.
• Senior Programmer: 9/88-7/91, Investment and Analysis, First Boston Corp.
• Technical Staff Member: 9/86–9/88, Investment and Analysis, Dillon Read Inc.
• Programmer Analyst: 5/86-9/86, Investment and Analysis, Salomon Brothers Inc.
• Civil Engineer: 04/82-5/86, Consulting Engineers, Goodkind & O’Dea, Inc.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
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DEVICE AND KERNEL DRIVERS:
• Cluster manager for Ultra-Sparc/PCI bus based dual nose storage controller
• Kernel RPCs for communication protocol to NVRAM write cache and Veritas volume manager and File
system
• Video drivers for XFree86 windows server, replaced costly SCO Unix X server
• Dual node shared memory driver for PCI/VME buses on a Quad Intel architecture
• Driver for Universal Bridge chip connecting PCI and VME data buses
• Driver stream for RAID recovery, X.25, serial, and PCMCIA-II modem/LAN enablers
• Socket, TLI, RPC, and NFS client/server multi-threaded services
• Thread synchronization using semaphores, shared memory, stream pipes, msg. queues, spin/sleep locks,
mutex locks, and conditional variables
• Protocol for serial connections to console ports and video cameras feeds for restricted access control
Operating Systems:
• Real-time embeddable QNX 4.25, and Neutrino 6.1
• Devian Linux, Red-Hat Linux, Mandrake Linux, uCLinux for Motorola Dragon-Ball embeddable processors,
Solaris 2.6 – 2.8 (32/64-Bit Symmetric Multi-Processor), Unix AT&T System V, Release 3 and 4 (Symmetric
Multi-Processor), SCO, and UnixWare
• MS/Windows XP, Vista, and NT 4.0, AIX 3.2 for RS/600 IBM Workstations
PowerMax OS 4.9 for Power Hawk Servers. (based on Symmetric Multi-Processors using PowerPC )
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• NFS, Samba, and NetServer Berkeley/TLI Sockets
• RF Socket master/slave system that uses FreeWave 940MHz RF modems
• Kernel Level Socket and Streams drivers for Fault Resilient Solaris Cluster System – 64bit SMP
• SLIP and PPP serial drivers
• Fibre Channel (FC-AL, SCSI-3) kernel level driver and Solaris interface for the A-5000 SANs product
• PowerMax OS SNMP
TEACHING (at FAU, NSU, Unix/Linux User Group, and Sun Microsystems Inc.)
• Introduction to Neural Networks (JOONE–Java based and MATLAB toolsets)
• Evolutionary Computing (Proposed & developed New course)
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• Stochastic Models for Computer Scientists
• Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis
• Structured Computer Architecture
• Introduction to Logic Design
• Engineering Data Analysis
• Advanced Engineering Analysis I
• Real Time Ocean Systems (Proposed & developed New course)
• Ocean Eng. Senior Design Project
• Advanced Unix and Kernel Internals
• Kernel Device Driver Development for Solaris OS
• Data Communications and Networks
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Proposed & developed New course)
• C/C++ Introduction and Advanced Programming Applications
• Discrete Event System Simulation (Proposed & developed New course)
• Computer Access Control and Security Systems
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
1. Currently there are four journal articles under review
2. A. Folleco and T.M. Khoshgoftaar, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, June, 2006
3. F. Song, E. An, A. Folleco, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, April, 2003
Conference Articles
1. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, A. Napolitano, International Conference on Machine Learning, November, 2008, in
review
2. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, L. Bullard, 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering, Redwood City, CA, July, 2008. (invited to extend into Journal article)
3. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse, L. Bullard, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and
Integration, Las Vegas, NV, July, 2008.
4. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse, L. Bullard, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong
Kong, June, 2008
5. T.M. Khoshgoftaar, C. Seiffert, J. Van Hulse, A. Napolitano, A. Folleco, IEEE International Conference on Machine
Learning and Applications, Cincinnati, OH, December, 2007
6. C. Seiffert, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse, A. Folleco, , IEEE International Conference on Reusability of Information,
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Las Vegas, NV, August, 2007
7. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse, Proceedings of the 13th ISSAT International Society of Scientific and
Applied Technologies, Seattle, WA, August, 2007
8. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse, C. Seiffert, 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering, Boston, MA, July, 2007
9. T. M. Khoshgoftaar, A. Folleco, J. Van Hulse, L. Bullard, IEEE International Conference on Reusability of Information,
Waikoloa, HI, September, 2006
10. Q. Luo, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, A. Folleco, IEEE International Conference on Reusability of Information, Waikoloa, HI,
September, 2006
11. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse, L. Bullard, 12th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality
in Design, Chicago IL, August, 2006
12. A. Folleco, T. M. Khoshgoftaar, 11th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, St. Louis, MO,
August, 2005
13. T. M. Khoshgoftaar, A. Folleco, 10th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, Vegas, NV,
August, 2004
14. P. Beaujean, A. Folleco, F. Boulanger, S. Glegg, Proc. Of MTS/IEEE Oceans ‘03, San Diego, CA, Oct 2003
15. F. Song, A. Folleco, E. An, Proc. Of MTS/IEEE Oceans ‘01, HI, September, 2001
16. B. Duprire, A. Folleco, S. Smith, 12th International Symposium of Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, NH,
November, 2001
17. B. Duprire, A. Folleco, S. Smith, 9th International Python Conference, San Diego, CA, December, 2001
Book Chapter
1. A. Folleco, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse, Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design, Springer Series in
Reliability Engineering, April, 2007
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