Engineering Technology Center

The Engineering Technology Department operates a full scale software development and operations laboratory. The laboratory has the ability and experience to;

Map business processes
Develop full-scale software systems
Perform high-end software testing
Deploy and deliver full software systems
Perform maintenance and support for software systems

The laboratory is a production software shop that has the purpose of supporting research efforts that require production level software. The lab’s full-time staff are;

• Dan Burroughs – Development and Project Management
• Kunal Motwani – Development and Project Management
• Carlos Martinez – Development and Deployment Specialist
• Damir Krimer – Maintenance, Support, and Development Engineer
• Brad Mundt – Development and Testing Engineer
• Eduardo Rocha – Maintenance and Support Engineer
• Karla Alvarado – Business Process Engineer
• Harish Ramakrishnan – Software Development Engineer
  

In addition to the full time staff we also draw from a pool of talented and expert faculty at the University of Central Florida. The lab has completed many large and small software projects some of which are highlighted here.

 

Florida Integrated Network for Data Exchange and Retrieval (FINDER): http://finder.ucf.edu/ - This project started in 2002 and installed the first version of FINDER in October 2003 connecting 5 law enforcement agencies in a federated peer-to-peer data sharing system. The system now has users from nearly every major law enforcement agency in the state of Florida and is in release version 4. It provides simple seamless query capability of hundreds of data sources and has provided a key role in solving hundreds of crimes.

Seminole County Integrated Network (SCINET): http://www.seminolesci.net - The SCINET project started in June of 2003 with the goal of analyzing government business process, providing recomendations for process improvement, and software development to support the process changes. Since then analysis and refinement of hundreds of processes has taken place along with the supporting software development saving Seminole County millions of dollars in simple efficiency improvements annually.

Central Florida Crimeline Warrants: http://www.cfcrimelinewarrants.com
- The crimeline warrants project objective was to provide a simple web interface to view active warrants to support the mission of Central Florida Crimeline. The active site is a complex software rquiring active synchronization with the agencies wishing to post warrant information, and has had thousands of users.

Orange County Crimenet:
- A simple request from the sheriff's office after watching the TV show "The District" and seeing the analysis and briefing software used on the show resulted in OCSO Crimenet. This software in active use by the OCSO provides mapping (using ESRI tools), analysis and efficiency tools (written in .NET) to increase the effectiveness of the Sheriff's Office.

UCF Assessment and Program Review: http://www.assessment.ucf.edu/
- This software written in .NET was designed to streamline and improve the assessment process at UCF. It includes complex state-based workflow and implements some software advances such as non-programmatic interface control and automated video based embedded training. All utlizing a custom AJAX engine for a seamless user interface experience.