Employee Spotlight: Dung Vu
Dung Vu is a Programmer Analyst in the Enterprise and Cloud Services (ECS) department in ITS. ECS is the central resource for server support for CSUSB providing efficient and effective utilization of resources throughout the IT division. They’re responsible for the system administration and maintenance of the hardware and software supporting the campus central servers and system maintenance. ECS provides services in software installation, configuration, maintenance, file backup and recovery and report processing.
As a Programmer Analyst, Dung is responsible for system and database administration. He is part of the Onbase team taking care of Onbase, a centralized Enterprise Content Management (ECM) that securely archives documents in electronic forms for the whole campus making them available anytime and anywhere. Onbase provides workflow automation and procedures can be web-based, paperless, and complete in a timely manner since the process can be automatically coordinated and monitored.
One of the features that makes Onbase at CSUSB unique is that it’s securely open to Internet users, who can submit and approve workflow forms virtually from anytime and anywhere. Its security goes beyond Onbase in that it just relies on regular authentication-authorization. The Onbase team has modified its architecture to allow Internet users to safely access the Onbase, while authorized personnel can securely access sensitive documents.
Dung is proud of administrating the System and Databases of the centralized Event Management that integrates Events and Academic scheduling with no-less security requirements. Onbase System, is growing fast as more departments are requesting to have their documents go electronic, and more workflow processes have been developed.
Dung has been working for CSUSB for over twelve years after graduating with M.S. degree in Computer Science from the California State University San Bernardino in 2004. During his study in the M.S. program, he worked as a Teaching Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant, and actively participated in research and software development. He has developed Graduate Student Database Management System in MS Access, and then transformed it into a web-based system. This system has been further developed by other graduates and is currently in use.
In his final year of his M.S. study, he joined the professors in the Department to build a complex system including a secure database to save sensitive information, and a sophisticated web-based software. The SEC (Securities Exchange Commission)-approved system specified by Active Capital did not only help entrepreneurs complete legal disclosure document (U7) using a complex on-line questionnaire, but also assisted in matching entrepreneurs and investor angles nationwide. His knowledge and experience were advanced with multiple responsibilities: Software Developer, System and Database administrator. He was also Microsoft certified System Engineer and Microsoft Certified Database administrator.
While working at CSUSB, Dung continued to study at the University of California Riverside (UCR). He graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at UCR in 2014 where he researched Efficient and Scalable Core Scheduling for Multi-Core Systems. He has published several papers among top-tiers international conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo ICME (2012,2014), International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2010, IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2012.
Dung has been awarded several awards for his research work in Cal State San Bernardino and the University of California Riverside, Travel Grant Award 2012, 2014, Ph.D. Forgivable Loan Scholarship recipient 2006, California State University Outstanding Graduate Student, Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship 2001-2002. He has even been offered an interesting position as a part-time lecturer for Computer Science courses in the Department of Computer Science at CSUSB.
For Dung, CSUSB has become his longest workplace and he enjoys working, learning, and hopes to make meaningful contributions for years to come.