R. Hope Ishak, Ph.D, MS, BE

RESUME

EDUCATION

• PhD in General Psychology focus on Education, 2012, Walden University, Minnesota.

• Master of Science in Engineering Management, 1989, Santa Clara University, California.

• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada.

PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS

• Dissertation using quantitative methods titled “Relation of Achievement to Religious

Participation: A Study into National Longitudinal Survey of Youths”.

• Multiple publications on the subject of perception and cognitive psychology.

• Obtained patents on the subject of concurrency during restructuring of B-trees.

• Multiple publications on the subject of concurrency control for database management systems and the subject of distributed print administration.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN & WRITTEN

• English, French, and Arabic

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Expertise in teaching cognitive psychology, research methods, and perception at University of California, Santa Cruz

• Expertise in teaching database language and administration

• Developed and delivered graphics training

• Taught electronics and digital design courses at the community college

• Expertise in statistics and data analysis, working on quantitative method dissertation,
• Expertise in research and data analysis using SPSS

• Expertise in programming C, C++ , Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and in Java design

• Expertise in system security and availability

• Expertise in Software development life cycle from concept, investigation, project planning, design, code, quality, test planning to release.