User:Orlando mcallister

Orlando McAllister (born in The Republic of Panama, March 20, 1953). Migrated to the Ocean-Hill Brownsville section of Brooklyn in 1959 at the age of six. Currently he is department head (Communications and Mathematics) at the college level hiring adjuncts and advising undergraduate students in the Liberal Arts curriculum.

Mr. McAllister has been recognized by Worldwide Who's Who for his contribution in the areas of teaching mass media literacy and excellence in musical performance on flute. In addition, he is a social archivist, cameraman, and video editor for the United Nations & Global Affairs Committee dedicated to humanistic service and mathematical traditions in promoting United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. He is a seasoned educator and administrator guiding students through the curriculum at a local college in the Bronx, as well as mapping out their career paths after graduation. He supervises adjuncts in the areas of Communication, Career Guidance, & Mathematics. In addition, he spearheads a student-centered course development process in the non-traditional approach to higher adult education in the philosophical tradition of John Dewey, eminent social and educational Reformist. Aside from his dedicated service to the College of New Rochelle, he spends much of his time in his community mentoring young high school students in science and mathematics. Prosperous in his field, he attributes his success to self-directed learning and a desire to achieve excellence and to share the knowledge and wisdom that he has gained with others.

Mr. McAllister earned a bachelor's (The City College of New York) and master's degree in Computer Science from the City University of New York after transferring from Howard University in Washington, D.C. as an electrical engineering major on a full time baseball scholarship. Keeping cognizant of the changes in his industry, he retains affiliations with the Union of Concerned Journalists, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Mathematical Society of America, Professional membership in the Institute for Electrical, Electronics and Engineering (I.E.E.E.) – Computer Society (92412506), the National Communication Association and the Writer's Guild of America. His eminence has earned him an Isaac Lieberman Public Service Award for being one of the top 16 finalists as a Civil Servant in the City of New York in 1988. His musical, screen writing, and acting talents can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/orlandomcalister.

Motto: “To enhance the lives of the students that I teach and the teachers that I supervise on a daily basis.”

Prof. McAllister is currently teaching an advanced level Telecommunication course and Statistics and exploring mathematical algorithms that would speed up global packet switching transmission. He is also evaluating and investigating the design of the early processor chips of the 70's to ascertain whether alternative approaches could have been taken in the re-design and re-development of microprocessor architecture.

Virginia Electric & Power - Howard University, Internship June 1973 – January 1975 (1 year 8 months) Maintained consistency in power distribution flow within a 37.5 Kvolt substation step down voltage design. Assigned work crews to implement or repair 3 phase transformer banks on poles for residential and commercial usage of power.

City University of New York City College Master Thesis - Space Habitat Design - Triangular structure with spheres attached to the three vertexes; with fully functional hydroponic areas for oxygen support, and other amenities for further exploration to outer reaches of our Solar System. Won recognition from NASA Space Engineer Harold Burg in 1988.

Significant courses taken at The City College of New York: Discrete Mathematics I, II, Pascal Programming Language, Assembler Language Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Database Design

Significant courses taken at Howard University Network Analysis I, II,Calculus I, II, III, Engineering Mathematics,Electro Magnetic Field Theory I, II Thermodynamics I, II, Network Analysis I, II, Differential Equations I, II Seasonal Sport Baseball

Publication: On Doing Math Well

March 20, 2011 On 'Doing Math Well' is essentially a basic math primer for adults who have been told that math is just too hard to perform. The book includes a short history of the roots of mathematics from ancient cultures; it evolves to applying specific techniques and rules that increase mental agility in computation and further trains the mind/brain in becoming a sort of organic calculator without the use of pencil/paper and calculator.