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Ability to reach goals: Persist until the goal is achieved and if there
are obstacles in the way, enjoy problem solving to find ways over, under, around or
through them.
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Teamwork: Able to collaborate with team members and other teams. Open to new ideas and to sharing knowledge, best practices and opinions.
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Communication: Effective communication and interpersonal skills. Worked and communicated in a global team. Able to facilitate meetings and brainstorming sessions.
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Problem solving: Analytical, logical thinking, thorough in every activity. Proactively combined analytical skills with creative thinking to identify areas of opportunity.
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Flexibility: Able to adapt and make decisions on the spot. Frequently performed in stressful situations. Eager to learn, have the ability to apply new knowledge promptly.
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Devoted to quality: Strong grasp of software engineering techniques, being committed to high standards of excellence, quality and detail oriented, yet able to deliver on time.
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Leadership: Ability of distributing tasks between engineers, estimating resource needs, motivating by delegating ownership, keeping the team focused and moderating team meetings.
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2006-2010 |
Sr. Software Engineer |
Interactive Brokers Group – Hungary, US and Switzerland |
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Designed and developed an automated system for processing customer elections on voluntary
corporate actions. Took part in the whole life-cycle of the project: requirements analysis,
specification, design, implementation, documentation, support. Coordinated between several
teams, defined the subsystem interfaces and implemented the back-end.
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Developed a DVP (Delivery vs. Payment) and PTA (Post-Trade Allocation) system that
enabled the company to become a prime broker. 1 year after going live, IB got 2nd place in
the Best Commodities Prime Broker category (Trader Daily Magazine). Took part in design,
development and provided continuous production support. Implemented transfers for US and
Canadian clearing houses, customer-facing and back-office UI, netting (to reduce fees), re-
designed the state machine to accommodate manual transmission after automatic cut-off time,
changed from file-based transmissions to event-driven MQ protocol. Led a team of 3 software
engineers located in Saint-Petersburg.
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Improved the Credit Manager (customer equity and margin calculation) and Commission
Assessor (commission calculation) systems written in C++. These applications have to be
extremely fast, so the 200 instances run in a managed load-balancing scheme, all data being
loaded in memory at startup, with occasional sync messages coming from the Clearing DB.
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2001-2005 |
Software Engineer, Team Leader |
GE Healthcare Technologies – Hungary |
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Designed and developed safety critical, highly reliable, diagnostic imaging X-Ray systems (AdvantX and Innova), as part of a global team. Collaborated with engineers in France and India on a daily basis and did three successful assignments in Buc, France.
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Led teams of 3-5 engineers throughout the full lifecycle of several projects and participated in the leadership of a team of 11 software engineers. By reacting fast to solve problems and by constantly delivering new features we have been able to keep our customers happy.
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Increased FDA compliance of many documents. Consistently applied CAPA (Corrective Action – Preventive Action) methodologies for fixing issues. As a result my team steadily increased the audit score from 80% in 2002 to 95% in 2005.
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As a member of the technical leadership team, improved software development and configuration processes, reviewed designs, code, test plans and related documentation. Shared best practices by developing common tools and publishing a list of HowTos.
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Granted company awards three times: leadership in the development of the SubPACS project, Design for Six Sigma (DFFS/sw) Green Belt certification and participation on the 5th Six Sigma Fair with the AutoDSA project.
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1999-2000 |
Software Engineer, Team Leader |
EuroTrend Ltd – Hungary and Romania |
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EuroTrend Ltd. is a software company that does custom development of Oracle database systems for customers active in various market sectors.
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Found a business opportunity through personal contacts for development of a system that covers all the distribution, warehouse management, accounting and financing processes of the electronic component retailer VitaCom Electronics, Cluj-Napoca. Member of the requirement analysis and design team. Led the team of 6 engineers responsible for translating the system to Romanian. Communicated directly with the customer throughout the whole project lifecycle.
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Developed enhancements for a distribution, warehouse management, accounting and financing system for the international pharmaceutical wholesaler Medimpex Trading Co, Budapest.
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Designed and developed a travel insurance system for QBE Atlasz Insurance Co, Budapest. Member of the team responsible for documenting the software and communicating with representatives of the customer.
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2000 |
Software Engineer |
Lemnconfex Ltd – Romania |
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Designed and developed a Microsoft Access-based application that allows automatic placement of custom size panels on fiberboard sheets. Automating this task allowed the company to use as few fiberboard sheets as possible for any given combination of panels.
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1997-1999 |
Software Engineer |
Praemium Ltd – Romania |
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Designed and developed a database system for the plastic product manufacturing company qTec Quedlinburg, Germany. The multi-user system supported the processes of raw material procurement (Just In Time method), production, warehouse management and retailing.
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As a member of the team responsible for requirement analysis, design and development, I communicated directly with the customer and wrote user documentation in English and German.
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Designed and developed a warehouse management system using object-oriented and multi-tiered development methods.
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Improved a multi-user price-analysis application written in Microsoft Access.
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1996-1997 |
Software Engineer |
Elite Promotion Ltd – Romania |
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Designed and developed the e-commerce web site of the company, featuring the digital version of the 130 page catalog of promotional gifts, allowing customers to place orders over the Internet.
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Designed and developed a database containing diverse data about thousands of companies. The corresponding application automatically sent promotional materials over modem-to-fax connections during the night.
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Technologies |
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OO Analysis and Design: UML, design patterns, refactoring
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Java: Swing, EJB, Java Servlet, JSP, J2EE
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Internet: HTML, XHTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, Flash, HTTP, CGI, ISAPI
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Data management: Oracle, client-server and multi-tiered architectures
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Development Environments and Tools |
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CASE tools: Rational Rose, Borland Together, Oracle Designer
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Configuration Management: ClearCase, CMS, cvs, git – integrator level
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Java: Eclipse, CodeGuide, JBoss Server
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C++: Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++ Builder, GNU tool set
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Pascal: Borland Delphi
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Visual Basic: VBA in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access
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Script languages: awk, bash, Perl, Tcl
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CORBA: VisiBroker
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Data Management: Oracle Developer, Microsoft Access, Visual FoxPro, CA Clipper
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DBMS: Oracle, Informix
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Office tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
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DTP: Adobe PageMaker, Quark XPress, Corel Draw
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Operating Systems |
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MS Windows 9x and NT-based series
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Red Hat Linux
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Some knowledge of SunOs and Solaris
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Some knowledge of VRTX and VxWorks real-time operating systems
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Róbert MIKES