Bill Mongan

Bill Mongan

Research Assistant at Drexel University

Greater Philadelphia Area

Current
Past
  • IT Consultant at CGI Consulting Group
  • Instructional Technology Consultant and Webmaster at Upper Darby School District
  • Web Application Developer at Boss Entertainment
  • Script Reviewer at Bergwall Productions
Education
  • Drexel University
  • Drexel University
  • Upper Darby High School
Connections
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Industry
Research
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Bill Mongan’s Summary

I am a software architect with paritcular interests in program understanding and legacy system migration. Commercially, I have experience in the financial and insurance industries, as well as K-12 instructional technology with regard to software development and IT management. Prior to my time working as a graduate student at Drexel University, I worked as a consultant for a number of clients in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Bill Mongan’s Specialties:

Financial, insurance, K-12, instructional technology


Bill Mongan’s Experience

  • Auxiliary Professor of Computer Science

    Drexel University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    September 2005Present (3 years 11 months)

    I am in instructor for several undergraduate CS systems courses, including CS281 and CS282: Systems Architecture I and II. This serves as a grounding for the remainder of the student's undergraduate curriculum. The course culminates in the development of a MIPS processor subset that executes a small binary program in VHDL.

    Other courses include: CS361 Concurrent Programming, CS370 Operating Systems, CS472 Operating Systems, ECEC 490 Special Topics in Processor Design and Computer Architecture, ECE-C355 Computer Organization, and a grad course in Machine Organization (CS680).

    I perform curriculum and course development activities for this track, including a hands-on FPGA/wiring lab course for processor design. I work with independent study students in advanced topics in CPU design, and with senior design capstone-project groups.

    Visit my web site at http://www.billmongan.com and click on the "Teaching" link.

  • Research Assistant

    Drexel University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 2001September 2008 (7 years 1 month)

    I am a research assistant with the Software Engineering Research Group (http://serg.cs.drexel.edu). In that capacity I specialize in software architecture, particularly Service Oriented Architectures and Multiagent Systems. I am working on a distributed service-based web portal (REportal - under development: http://reportal.cs.drexel.edu) to automate access to our body of research tools. I work with development and IT management platforms including J2EE, SQL, XML and scripting.

    I am also a technical writer for an ACIN project with the US Army RDECOM CERDEC. Particularly, I write on technical architecture and software engineering for the Agent Systems Reference Model (ASRM) and Agent Systems Reference Architecture (ASRA).

  • NSF GK-12 Fellow

    Drexel University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    June 2005June 2008 (3 years 1 month)

    I am an NSF GK-12 Fellow, using engineering as a context for teaching science, math, technology and engineering (STEM) disciplines to grade 5-8 students in the Philadelphia School District. There, I focus on computer engineering education, "how it works," and using programming/logic constructs to promote problem solving skills. I place heavy emphasis on the MIT Scratch programming environment for kids (http://scratch.mit.edu). I also teach an inter-disciplinary "emerging scholars" elective course for grades 5-8 on aeronautics.

  • Application Developer, IT Manager and Consultant

    David M. Banet and Associates

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Insurance industry)

    May 2001May 2005 (4 years 1 month)

    I developed customized software solutions to simplify business tasks as well as IT management tasks. Business logic software solutions include a payroll integration system to compute payroll benefit deductions, which were integrated with client proprietary payroll systems; and an XML-based electronic audit system. IT management tasks include development, deployment and maintenance of specialized web-based services for clients, including the HROffice management program. I also maintained a Windows network domain for the company, and wrote scripts to automate that maintenance whenever possible.

  • IT Consultant

    CGI Consulting Group

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Human Resources industry)

    April 2004September 2004 (6 months)

    I was contracted as a temporary IT Consultant during a particularly busy open enrollment period for the company. In this capacity, I served as an IT technician, assisted in the maintenance of their network domain, and provided advice and consulting to troubleshoot equipment on the floor. I wrote scripts to help automate this maintenance for the company.

  • Instructional Technology Consultant and Webmaster

    Upper Darby School District

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

    October 1998June 2003 (4 years 9 months)

    I designed, managed, and updated an original UDSD web site (http://www.udsd.k12.pa.us) as well as the UDSD instructional intranet (RoyalNet). I developed systems to automate content management.

    In this capacity, I also presented Act 48 training workshops on FileMaker Pro and Dreamweaver for district staff, teachers and principals, to maintain and add value to the production of these district-wide systems.

    I interviewed for a vacant UDSD school board seat in November, 2000, and served on the UDSD Technology and Grant Writing Comittee under the school board in March, 2001.

  • Web Application Developer

    Boss Entertainment

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2001December 2001 (1 year)

    I worked on a 1-year development project, in which I designed, developed and maintained an e-Commerce web site and a golf course management system in ASP.

  • Script Reviewer

    Bergwall Productions

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    January 1998June 1999 (1 year 6 months)

    I was a script technical editor/reviewer for Bergwall instructional computer videos.


Bill Mongan’s Education

  • Drexel University

    Dual MS , Computer Science and Math Secondary Education , 20052008

    Activities and Societies:
    Research assistant and NSF GK-12 Fellow (see employment section for more details)
  • Drexel University

    BS , Computer Science , 20012005

    Activities and Societies:
    Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society for the Computing Sciences
  • Upper Darby High School

    HS , 19962000

    Service award


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I am a complex-rated instrument private pilot, I have an active government security clearance


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