User:Akouyate

Personal Web site: www.kouyate.com

Alain has more than 15 years of experience in designing and implementing solutions for mission critical initiatives such as web portals, automation of complex manual process, client/server applications, database technology, middleware technology, software engineering, and software process improvement. He is well versed in Object Oriented methods, J2EE, RDBMS,Legacy Integration and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Data Mining techniques. Alain has successfully managed and/or architected large and complex projects within the financial, manufacturing, education and government areas.

Alain has a B.S. in Information Systems from Howard University and an M.S. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has held positions as software developer, software designer, technical lead, software architect, enterprise architect, and project manager.

Alain spent a number of years designing and developing large scale cross-platform, multi-tier web and client/server products, involved from product strategy and technical design through development and product release. Since 1996, he has focused most of his time architecting web-based solutions in the areas of collaboration, financial, and e-commerce. He has also participated in several enterprise architecture framework projects.

Recently, Alain has focused on integrating very diverse technologies to offer an end-to-end solution to the problem of credentialing and adjudication ofapplications. As such he has integrating workflow, analytics and data mining, web-based application and document management features into a single fully integrated platform.

Alain is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Master of Information System Management (MISM) program and was a lecturer for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Certificate program. In the role of teacher, both in academics and in the industry, Alain becomes a perfect mentor to less experienced architects and developers.

Finally, Alain is the co-founder of two start-up companies which operate in West Africa and provide ISP, Cyber-Cafe and Satellite Link Services. The two companies are: NETLOGY and GuiNetS

Alain is an accomplished Taekwondo practitioner. His web site (www.kouyate.com) says the following:

'''I begun practicing Taekwondo at the age of 15 in my native home of the Ivory Coast (West Africa). I took lessons under many different instructors with the insatiable thirst of learning more and more. I subsequently came to the US to pursue my academic studies. I also continued to learn from many different schools and masters. I spent the most time and the most intense years of my training at Howard University where I laid the final foundation for my understanding of teakwondo sparring.'''

Some of Alain's athletic accomplishments between 1983 and 1993 are:

* Jhon Rhee Est Coast Championship - Gold * Washington, DC USTU State Championship - Gold * US Open - Gold, Silver * Ivory Coast National Championship - Gold * US Collegiates - Gold * World University Championship - Silver * 1988 Seoul Olympics * Pennsylvania State Open - Gold * US-Mexico Friendship Championship - Gold, Silver * and some others that I don't remember....