Premysl Brada -- Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION

EDUCATION

1994 - 1995 University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
MSc in Advanced Software Engineering (with Distinction)
Dissertation theme: Design of InFlight Entertainment System Using Booch

1988 - 1993 Zapadoceska univerzita (University of West Bohemia)
Plzen, Czech Republic
Ing. degree in Computer Science (with Distinction)
Dissertation theme: Analyzer Of Tracing Data

1992 Manchester Polytechnic
Manchester, United Kingdom
1-semester TEMPUS study stay, computer science course

1984 - 1988 Gymnazium ul. Pionyru (Grammar School)
Plzen, Czech Republic
secondary education
Final examination in Czech Language, Mathematics, Physics, Russian Language, Electrotechnics

WORK EXPERIENCE

2000 - present TrainTime, s.r.o.
Prague, Czech Republic
tutor and training assistant
object-oriented analysis and design, UML, CASE tools

1995 GEC-Marconi Software Systems (EASAMS Ltd.)
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
3 months work on the MSc dissertation

1992 BSSoft, Ltd.
Plzen, Czech Republic
programmer (database systems in FoxPro)

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

• "Modern methodologies and technologies in software engineering education" (curriculum development project sponsored by the Ministry of Education, 2004)
• "Software components development in distributed environments" (research grant project sponsored by the Czech Grant Agency, 1999-2001)
• "Verification of computation on a PC cluster" (part of the research project "Distributed computation in fluid mechanics", 1998)
• Gemini (research project to develop a distributed platform for dataflow-driven computations, 1996-1999)
• Regular supervision of 6-12 student team projects (teams of 5, duration 3 months)

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

 

Programming languages

Java, C, PHP -- profficient use

 

C++, Pascal -- good knowledge

lisp, Ada -- basic knowledge

Techniques and methods

Yourdon Modern structured analysis

Rational Unified Process

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

COCOMO

Software and CASE tools

WWW server administration -- profficient

Structured and Object Oriented CASE tools (AxiomSys, Rational Rose, Together) -- good knowledge

Visual builders (Delphi, Visual C++) -- basic knowledge

AWARDS RECEIVED

PUBLICATIONS

Research publications: see http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/~brada/research/

P.Brada: Kondenzovane HTML (in Czech). http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/~brada/KondenzovaneHTML/
(published e.g. in the Internet magazine CD edition)

P.Brada: Design of InFlight Entertainment System Using Booch. Master Thesis, University of Sheffield (UK), 1995

COMMAND OF LANGUAGES

MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES

• Active involvement in the Roman Catholic church (music at masses, prayer group ministry)
• Member of the Excalibur Alumni of the Czech Republic
• Member of "Domaslav" civic association

HOBBIES

• music (active)
• hiking
• photography (photo gallery accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/~brada/gallery/)

REFERENCES

Prof. Ing. František Plášil, DrSc.,
Department of Software Engineering,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University Prague
Malostranske nam. 25, Prague;
Czech Republic

Doc. Ing. Stanislav Racek,
Department of Computer Science,
University of West Bohemia
Univerzitní 22, 30614 Plzen;
Czech Republic

Dr. Siobhán North,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street
Sheffield S1 4DP
United Kingdom