Curriculum Vitae

Overview

A well educated, Technical Director with experience from technology startups and broad outlook of areas of the Software Development, IPTV and Computer Networks and ambitions to explore developments and advances in this or related areas.

Education

03/2004 -- 06/2009

Ph.D., Czech Technical University in Prague
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering
Thesis topic: "Large-Scale Distributed System for Multimedia Retrieval".

09/1997 -- 06/2003

Master of Science (Ing.), Computer Science, Czech Technical University in Prague
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Thesis topic: "Scheduling Strategies in Routers".

Work Experience

since 12/2007

Alnair a.s. -- nanguTV Platform, CEO
Defined a company vision and strategy. Designed a distributed, high-scalable and fault tolerant platform for IPTV and VoD Services delivery. Led preparations of customized solutions. Supervised and defined the corporate processes. Defined corporation business strategies. Led development and implementation team. nangu.TV platform is based on work of ITonis Inc.
http://nangu.tv

12/2004 -- 01/2009

ITonis Inc., Technical Director and CTO
Designed plaform now aquired by Alnair and shipped as nangu.TV. Led installations in the customers premises. Led and supervised technical aspects of negotiations of cooperation in China.
http://www.itonis.tv

06/2000 -- 01/2005

T-Systems PragoNET, Designer in department of the Network Development.
Designed IPv4 and IPv6 layer of the PragoNET's backbone. Led roll out of IPv6 and MPLS services into the backbone. Supervised AS peering and key application servers (name server, network management system servers, etc.). Designed and supervised realization of key customers' projects (e.g. National Trade Licences Registry, DHL Computing Center, Decentralized system for TLD .cz). Led integration with Deutche Telecom TGN.
http://www.t-systems.cz

Academia/University Related Experience

03/2004 -- 09/2011

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland, Researcher.
Participated in the expriment COMPASS namely at Central Data Recording (CDR) -- the crucial part of the date processing pipepline based on distributed multi-petabyte storage. Designed and implementated a new job submittion system for the hadron data production. Commited several improvements to the on-line monitoring system (COOOL).
http://www.cern.ch, http://wwwcompass.cern.ch

05/2005 -- 12/2011

Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA and RIKEN, Japan, Researcher.
Participated in the Joined Czech Group at BNL. Contributed to the PHENIX experiment by troubleshooting and tuning of the computational cluster management system (based on Condor) and vxWorks-based event catchers. Proposed optimizations of data processing and management in RIKEN.
http://www.bnl.gov, http://www.riken.go.jp

since 10/2002

Czech Technical University, Teacher.
Giving lecutres at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering and Department of Computer Science of Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Covered topics: Computer networks, IP protocols, Textual Information Systems, Information Retrieval.
http://ip.bobek.cz

01/2003 -- 10/2005

CESNET (Czech National Research and Education Network), Researcher.
CESNET is a member of European research network -- Geant, which is similar to the Internet2. Researcher at the ent-to-end performance and QoS group. Designed a distributed network performance mensurement system. Participated in international projects LOBSTER and European research activity JRA1.
http://www.cesnet.cz

07/2000 -- 01/2005

Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Information Centre of CTU.
Designed and built two independent clustes (AMD Athlon and Intel~PIII) for high-perfomance computing (especially material simulations) and education. Proposed and supervised deployment of IPv6 at CTU.

05/2002 -- 11/2004

Student Union of the Czech Technical University Prague, Technical Director.
Oversaw the global technical (especially networking) strategy of SU. Led negotiations with University bodies (e.g. rector, director of computing center).
http://www.su.cvut.cz.cz

09/2000 -- 04/2003

IEEE Student Branch Chairman

11/1997 -- 01/2003

Silicon Hill, Chairman.
Led the largest campus network build by students in Europe. Defined processes and formal regulations governing the SH.
http://www.sh.cvut.cz.cz

2000 -- 2002

OpenWeekend conference, Founder and Chairman
http://www.openweekend.cz

Other Relevant Experience

since 10/2004

Trusted Solutions s.r.o., Founder
Consultancy in topics related to computer science, IT with emphasis on computer networks, scalable systems, storages, software engineering and strategy.
http://www.trusted.cz

since 04/2001

Debian GNU/Linux, Developer.
Taking care about several packages (e.g. pimd, ARANyM, MongoDB).

10/2004 -- 05/2007

Ministry of Informatics Czech Republic, Member of board of experts.
Appointed as member of a board of experts KIVS infractructure (Communication Infrastructure for Public Administration). Appointed as member of a board of experts for European Goverment Communication Infrastructure -- IDAbc.

Personal Skills

Management

Experience with company and team leadership. Strong addiction for finding right solutions, architectures and design. Open-minded, strategic thinker.

Software Eng.

Experience with several software engineering methodologies, especially XP-like. Management of necessary processes -- version control, issue management, release and quality management, etc.

Networking

Content Switches, Routers, Ethernet Switches (mostly from Cisco Systems Inc.). Deep understanding of IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. Complex knowleade in IP routing (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, etc.), IP addressing, IPv6, VPN, IP security, IP Multicast, IP Multimedia and VoIP (e.g. RTP, RSVP), QoS (DiffServ, IntServ, algorithms, ...) as well as user-land protocols (such as http, SMTP, SNMP, IMAP, POP3, FTP, LDAP, DNS, AFS, NFS, Lustre, etc.).

Operating Systs.

Linux (especially Debian based distros, written kernel modules), IOS (Cisco Systems Inc.). Orientation in FreeBSD, Solaris.

Programming

Perl, Ruby, Bash (used C, C++, Assembler, Erlang, Java, SmallTalk).

Digital Media

Deep understanding of technologies related to digital media, such as MPEG2 standards, H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10), mkv, etc.

Language Skills

Czech native, English advanced, German basic.

Recognitions

2002

Recognition for Superior Contributions to the Activities of the Czechoslovakia Section IEEE

Activities and Personal Interests

photography, swimming, climbing, hiking, classical music, books, playing guitar, outdoor activities