Resume of Gábor Szabó
http://www.szabgab.com/

Personal information

Name: Gábor Szabó
Born: 1967, Budapest, Hungary
Address: 23 Migdal HaLevanon Street, Apartment 18, Modiin 71700, Israel
Phone: +972-(0)54-4624648
E-mail: gabor@pti.co.il
 

Qualifications

Tools and Technologies I have several years experience in all of the following fields:
  • Perl
  • SQL (various databases)
  • Apache
  • Linux
  • MS Windows
Fields I have been working and provided services in the following fields:
  • Configuration Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Web Development
  • Database Access

Work experience

1998-present Perl developer and trainer, Owner of Perl Training Israel (http://www.pti.co.il/)

Large Customers


Self initiated projects
  • Leader of the Israeli Perl Users Group http://www.perl.org.il/
  • Organizing Perl Conferences in Israel http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/
  • Maintenance of PerlTraining.org - the directory of Perl Training companies throughout the world. http://www.perltraining.org/
  • Traceroute and Speed-Meter Gateway system http://www.tracert.com/ for monitoring performance of web sites and helping resolve technical problems in the Internet. In the best times there were more than 50 measurement points installed worldwide.
  • Development of a distributed database of Internet Service Providers called EUISP with 6 mirrored sites of the site in 6 countries: USA, Australia, Spain, Finland, Hungary and Israel. (Not available anymore).
  • Hypolit, an automated, multi-server, add-based free web hosting site. (Not available anymore)

 
11/2000-12/2002 Perl Trainer at Interbit (http://www.interbit.co.il/)
Ocassionally teaching a course called "Programming Perl".
 
5-9/2000 Infrastructure Manager at Goldnames (http://www.goldnames.com/)
  • Setup and administration of the internal infrastructure of the company's computer systems with 60 Win2000 clients, 2 NT 4.0, 10 Linux and a SUN server. Rebuilding the Intranet and improving security.
  • Setup and monitoring 3 versions of the website at various complexity levels: small and static; multilingual with 7 languages on a dedicated server; two-tire system with Linux web and application server (JSP with Jakarta) and Oracle database on SUN/Solaris.
  • Development and maintenance of a system to hold 35.000 domain names and related websites, increasing the daily hit rate by 50% within one week.
  • Development of various tools for fast website development including and editor for the 35.000 domain names. This provided the company's business team with the capacity to independently make rapid changes to the splash pages.
  • Providing various statistics on the performance of the companies different websites.
  • Introducing automatization in several parts of the development.
  • Training employees and teaching web programming languages (HTML, CGI, Perl, PHP).

 
1997-1998 Application and Integration Engineer at Phasecom Ltd. (today Vyyo http://www.vyyo.com/)
  • Evaluating third party technology in order to include them in the networking side of the product.
  • Writing Application Notes for the different systems.
  • Training the Marketing and the Support team of those implementations. Working with switches, routers, VPN Data Encryption (RedCreek, VPNet) and Quality Of Service (Packeteer, BandWiz, Allot) devices. Accounting information, SNMP managers.
  • Designing and developing an asynchronous, telco return system for Phasecoms' cable modem system.

 
1996-1997 System engineer at AgentSoft (http://www.agentsoft.com/)
  • Design, setup and maintenance of the companies computer infrastructure from scratch.
  • Installation WinNT 4.0 domain based network with Win95 clients. Adding UNIX and Macintosh to the system for portability testing.
  • Evaluating and setup of version control system and bug tracking system.
 
1994-1996 Developer and System administrator at Netmanage (http://www.netmanage.com/) in Jerusalem
  • Development: Worked on hypertext (SGML) creation, compilation and viewing system. Wrote part of a compiler to translate between two markup languages.
  • Worked on the development of a file mirroring software based on FTP written in C++, part of the Chameleon suite.
  • Created several internally used interactive Web-pages using shell scripts and Perl. (used C, Object Oriented LISP, AWK, VB)
  • System administration: Lead the transition from a badly designed Novell network to an NT domain cross-connected with other offices worldwide.
  • The administrated local network was composed of several Intranet servers and more than 50 PCs each of them configured for three operating systems. Installation of Intranet.
  • Automatization (build and bug tracking system): Implemented some major improvements to automate the time consuming tasks of the distributed build system and to improve the working environment of the engineers. Improved the common bug tracking system (DDTS now ClearCase) and the common version control system (PVCS) used by the company.
 
1993-1994 Project at the R&D center of Digital (http://www.digital.com/) in Jerusalem, writing scripts in C--
 
1991-1992 Translations from Hebrew for the Hungarian Television (http://www.mtv.hu/).
 

Education

1997 MBA in Finance and Information Systems (IS) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1993  BSc. in Computer Sciences and Business Administration at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://www.huji.ac.il/).
 

Languages

Hungarian (mother tongue), Hebrew (fluent), English (very good).