Curriculum Vitae

(sorry that it's white, have to fix it ;) )

Personal Information:

Name:	Todor Petrov
Surname:	Dimitrov
Date of Birth:	24th January, 1978
Place of Birth:	Sofia, Bulgaria
Marital Status:	Married, one boy born @ 2006 ;)
Nationality:	Bulgarian
Languages:	Bulgarian (mother tongue), Hungarian (mother tongue), English (excellent), German (basic)
E-mail:	todor_p_dimitrov at yahoo
Phone(s):	+359/886 (ask) (Bulgaria) +36/20 (ask) (Hungary)

Education:

• 2005 June: MSc degree in Informatics and Computer Science at the Budapest University of Technology
• 2004-2005 MSc thesis (in english) at the Technische Universität München, with the help of the Erasmus Programme -
  "Dynamic Channel Allocation for Mobile Communication Networks" (4g). Graded 1.3 on german scale (excellent)
• 1999-2005 Student at the Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, specialization at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics. GPA 3.9 on 1 to 5 scale (very good).

Professional:

• 2005 June - current: working for Digitania (a Telenor company) in Hungary, as a system engineer. Maintaining the core platform providing services
  to hundreds of B2B and B2C partners in more than 14 countries. Main responsibilities:
  • Planning and coordinating the improvement of Digitania platform's stability and performance
  • Creating and maintaining a custom system-wide monitoring and alerting system, with already proven efficiency.
  • Maintaining and upgrading as requested by all new standards the 'MT' based sms protocols and logics towards all mobile operators in Hungary.
  • Planning and coordinating the technical background of some B2B/B2C services
  • Creating all online statistics for all B2B/B2C clients
  • Doing all above with near-to and in-fact 0% errors. Sometimes with very short and hard deadlines - in this business sector it is a must anyway ;)

Skills:

• Leader personality, social, positive, responsible, creative out-of-the-box ;)
• Brainstorming and optimizing over new projects and complicated problems - all the time at work
• Programming: all needed when needed ;) Mostly php, sql, perl. Rarely c, c++, java. Others like prolog, sml, tcl, etc. studied and used, but never at work.
• Database - administration, optimization and SQL when needed: Oracle (10g) tuning and dataguard,Mssql,mysql
• Optical networks: I tutored the SDH lab courses at the TechnischeUniversität München (2004/2005 winter)
• Some brainbench.com certificates I have (done for fun), the full list (over 15 certificates) and details can be found here

Other exams:

• English, TOEFL 273 points (out of 300), 2003.
• English, GRE general, 1200 points (780/800 math, 420/800 verbal), 2003.
• Superior hungarian language exam (spoken and written), 2000.

Hobbies / free time:

• IT - Web and IRC related (rarely):
  Administrator and one of the founders of the bulgarian chat network 'shakeit' (separated from another already-getting-lame network at 2004 with ~100 users then), having today over 5000 users peak. Supporting some of the hub servers (uptime, security). Webmaster for the network's forum and help site, also helping for the network's main site and our php-webchat, having the biggest number of webchatters in Bulgaria and probably in the world (main author - Dzver, respect). Author of several custom network-related ircd patches and upgrades (hybrid-7 based), including our custom logic and implementation of the anti-spam system, which is nearly 100% efficient. Author of several hybserv patches included in its official release (Hybserv2 contributors list).
  Interested in neural networks as studied and as a hobby.
• non-IT (most of the time): pubs, driving (doors _ahead_ included), basketball, windsurfing, snooker, tablefoosball, darts, guitar, Ross Jeffries' *, shortly - social drifting ;)