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Chandresh Shah, M.S.

Director Technical Services
New York State Psychiatric Institute
  • Mr. Shah supervises a staff of eight people, including the Network Administrator, Web Administrator, web Developer, GroupWise Administrator, PC Technicians, Help-Desk Coordinator, data entry , Security Officer.


  • Mr. Shah is also Director of Web Services for RISC Group.

  • He was project manager for the Institute’s new building project. Mr. Shah designed the Gigabit/Fast Ethernet/Ethernet backbone for the Institute’s new headquarters and is project leader for the design and implementation of a SNMP bases distributed Network Management System. Mr. Shah’s role is to evaluate, Recommend and implement new Technologies. Mr. Shah is actively involved in Design and Implementation of Storage Area Network for MRI.


  • Integrated a network with an environment of Windows NT/2000/2003 servers, Linux/Unix (HP Sun Solaris, Red Hat) servers, IBM RISC servers and 2500+ Workstations and 500+ Macintosh computers.


  • Mr. Shah has designed and implemented a variety of research and administrative web sites. He is also responsible and a key helper in developing protocols and modules for Web Based Data entry system SWIM. The SWIM was and is used by various NIH/NIMH funded projects at Institute and Columbia University. SWIM stands for Scientific Web based Information Management.


  • Education: BS. In Electronics Engineering and MS in Computer Engineering.


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