Samuel Rostam is a senior technical advisor and an adjunct professor at New York Tech's Vancouver campus, teaching cybersecurity as well as developing for the big data program. His industry clients include large enterprises and government agencies in the U.S. & Canada.
In previous positions, his primary role has been as an enterprise systems architect with experience in distributed systems integrations and cloud computing. He worked as a senior architect with the enterprise services group at Sun Microsystems, providing expertise to U.S. and Canadian agencies with modernizations and integration architecture across several industries. Additionally, for over six years as a trusted advisor to the Washington state government, he was a technical lead for the modernization of a major offender management system (OMNI) leveraging complex integrations, Web/APIs and Java Enterprise platform.
Samuel is a certified architect in areas that include cloud, SOA, and blockchain. As a certified technical trainer, he has conducted over 100 global technical training certification workshops and bootcamps for large enterprises and industries, applying best practices and design patterns. Topics include solution architecture, business architecture with BizBok, TOGAF, Java Enterprise, machine learning, AI, big data science, SOA Governance/Analysis, and vendor-neutral cloud architecture with design patterns.
Recent Projects and Research
- Big Data Analytics and IOT
Selected Publications
- Industrial Analytics with IoT-A Game Changing Opportunity, BCNET Connect, Higher Ed & Research Tech Summit, Vancouver, BC, April 2022.
- Bigdata, ML & AI Fundamentals for Managers – A pragmatic view beyond hype!.
- AI@Enterprise Summit 2021 – Jun 10, 2021.
- An Introduction to Semantic Web, SOA/Cloud International Symposium, London, UK – Sep 1, 2012.
- Semantic Web and Analytics, An overview -Cloud Expo 2012 – Santa Clara, CA, USA, Nov 2012.
- Agile IT with Microservices – Design Principles & Patterns – BCNET Conf. Vancouver, BC April 2017.
- Enabling DevOps – on Premise or Cloud using Open Source Jenkins Automation Platform – BCNET Conf. Vancouver, BC April 2017.
- .NET vs. J2EE: Two Visions for e-Business, BC's Advanced Networks Conference (BCNET), "The Future of Internet Innovation," Vancouver BC, April 22, 2003.
- Efficient Object-Oriented Execution Strategies for Parallel Computers, IEEE 1995 Pacific Rim Conference on Communication, Computers, and Digital Processing – Victoria, BC, (With Dr. Ito – UBC).
- Mesh-like Array Processor with Fully Connected Rows and Columns, IEEE 1989 Pacific Rim Conference on Communication, Computers, and Digital Processing – Victoria, BC, (with Dr. Rick Hobson – SFU).
Professional Honors and Awards
- Rotary Club International – Distinguished Service Citation, 1997 – The Rotary Club of Meadow Ridge, BC, Canada
- AWS Educate Cloud, Ambassador, 2021
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- Cloud Security with design Patterns – INCS 810
- Operating Systems Security – CSCI 620