Curriculum Vitae of Peter Barczikay

Curriculum Vitae

Personal details

Name:	Peter BARCZIKAY
Position:	Managing Director and Owner of RCS Ltd.
Date/place of birth:	May 22. 1964, Budapest
Address:	Úrbéres u. 62/A., H-1028 Budapest, Hungary
e-mail:	bpeter@rcs.hu
Nationality:	Hungarian
Languages:	English fluent, German basic

Education

Sept. 1978 - May 1982	High school on math faculty at Budapest
Sept. 1982 - Aug. 1983	Military service in Hungary
Sept. 1983 - May 1988	Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering M. A. electrical engineering
June 1988 - Aug. 1988	IAESTE trip in Spain; software development for Hewlett Packard
Sept. 1988 - June 1990	Research scholarship for Ph.D. at the Technical University of Budapest Physics Institute, granted by Videoton Ltd., Development of Magneto Optical Drive

Experiences

Oct. 1988 - Dec. 1990	Acoustic Research Laboratory of the Hungarian Academy of Science; Software development; I worked as a consultant in part-time Development of digital signal processing and speech processing and recognition programs
June 1990 - Nov. 1990	Videoton Ltd., engineering, Development of Magneto Optical Drive
Dec. 1990 - March 1992	Omikron Ltd, engineering, Development of medical measurement instruments
Apr. 1992 - May 1995	Real Time Devices Európa Ltd, managing director, shareholder (20%), Head of software development
June 1995 -	Robot Control Software Ltd., managing director, shareholder (100%), Software development

Courses

November 1995

Frost & Sullivan Basic and Advanced Project Management

Projects, research activities

Faculty of electrical engineering at Technical University of Budapest
I developed a graphics drawing program using windowing technique over a larger picture. The program was written in assembly language and run on C64 computer. Than I designed and built a fast hardware implementation computing FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation). This project got the first prize at the University's Scientific Conference in 1986. Finally I built a RAM drive for the C128 computer and wrote the necessary software modules to interface it to the CP/M operating system and the C64 Kernel.

Research scholarship for Ph.D. at the Technical University of Budapest, Physics Institute, granted by Videoton Ltd.
I worked in a team developing Magneto Optical Drive and CD player for the Videoton Ltd. My particular field was the driver circuits of the laser diode and the signal amplifiers of the photo detectors. I also developed a PC based automatic measurement system for laser diodes.

Videoton Ltd.
I continued the engineering job started at the Physics Institute of developing the Magneto Optical Drive.

Acoustic Research Laboratory of the Hungarian Academy of Science
I developed special Digital Signal Processing programs for acoustic measurements. First I wrote a program to measure and analyse the impulse response of loudspeakers. The program computed the Wigner Distribution of the impulse response. Than I developed digital filtering tools for reducing the noise of the speech for Speech Recognition. I took part in the final step of the Speech Recognition System 's development of revising the code and interfacing it to the MS-DOS operating system.

Omikron Ltd.
I developed a special electrical measurement system to investigate the melting of tablets. My second project was the development of Haemo Dynamic Monitoring system. I worked as the leader of a small team to develop the hardware and the software of this PC based measurement system. It collects samples of the ECG and blood pressure and computes the patient's important physiological values. The program has alarm, monitor and backup features and an easy-to-use graphical interface.

Real Time Devices Európa Ltd.
I worked as the managing director of the europian subsidiary and I was the leader of the software development of the company. We sold the RTD's products in Hungary and abroad. As part of my job I spent several months in USA working with American engineers and visited our distributors in Europe. We developed Data Acquisition and Control programs for the American company. The SIGNAL*MATH was the first program based on my previous experience and code written for the Acoustic Laboratory. It is an interactive digital signal processing program. We wrote TSR DOS drivers for all RTD boards and developed a new program called SIGNAL*VIEW for real time data acquisition and monitoring. Based on my previous contacts with the Acoustic Laboratory we developed together the Speech Corrector System for teaching children the right pronunciation. We also developed some medical acquisition and analysis programs for Omikron Ltd., some DSP boards and made custom designs for our customers.

Robot Control Software Ltd.
I am the owner and the managing director of the company and I am the leader of the software development team. I keep it very important to take part of software development and to leave the administration to someone else. I took part in the following projects in the last years:

Development and port of QDiagem from QNX to UNIX, X Window running on workstations (DEC Alfa, Sun) for Ask Ltd, Hungary. QDiagem is a SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) program originally developed for QNX and QNX Windows. This was a C/C++ project.
Special printer drivers for barcode printers for Episys Ltd., United Kingdom. Episys provides an MS Windows program for designing and printing bar-code labels. Bar-code printers have special commands to print the bar-codes quickly and efficiency. A special DLL was developed to transform the label designed by WYSWYG program to printer specific commands. The drivers were written in C++, but the setup program was developed by Delphi.
Industrial data acquisition system collecting measurement data in heating centers for Procom GmbH., Germany. This program was written in C and it is running under QNX. The program originally was developed by another software team and we took over the development and maintainance of the system later. Some communication modules were developed (P90, K-Bus) and some changes were made in the system as it was required by new customers.
Automatic warehousing system for a German company. This program is developed by another Hungarian software team. We developed the graphical user interface and we also took part in the development of the real-time simulator software. This program was developed in C/C++ and it is running under the QNX operating system. The graphical user interface is running under Photon, the state of the art graphical windowing environment of QNX. (QNX is a real-time UNIX designed for IBM PCs and embedded applications, the API of Photon looks very similar to X Window.)
Brake designer application for Continental-Teves. The data of vehicles, brakes and their components (booster, main cylinder, regulator, ABS, EBV) are stored in an Oracle database. The user can set all input data through input masks or forms, start a calculation and display the results graphically or in tabular form. The computations are fairly simple, but the whole application contains a lot of different calculation. A server application provides access to the database through the company's Intranet network. The client program is a standard internet browser. The calculations are done by a C++ program, which is executed on the server. The reports are displayed on the client side by the internet browser again. The diagrams are displayed by Java applets. This is a very complicated application, where a lot of different tools are used: C/C++, Java, HTML, server and client side java-scripts, ODBC, SQL, various Oracle tools.
Freezer Control Program for Sy-Lab, Austria. The user interface and control program of the freezer are developed for Microsoft Windows NT, in Delphi 5. The user can define a "program" to control the temperature of the chamber. When the "program" is running, the software controls the temperature of the chamber while it monitors both the sample and chamber temperature. The program has an old version running under DOS. The user interface is completely redesigned in the new Windows version. An Inventory Control System was also developed for manage the inventory of frozen samples. All information of samples and the hierarhical structure of the inventory is stored in database. The samples can be stored, moved and get, while the storing positions can be selected graphically. The program is very flexible and configurable for different requirements.
Mason, a small utility program for processing Bison input files.This utility was developed for Ericcson and it is used in the development of TTCNv3 compiler. The program reads and analyzes Bison input files, creates the necessary data structures and actions (C codes in the Bison input file) for preparing the compiler generated by Bison to build the Abstract Syntax Tree of the TTCNv3 input file. Some additional function is also generated for constructing, destroying and dumping the Abstract Syntax Tree.
QuickBell, an Internet Server application.We worked together with Lufthansa Systems Hungaria Ltd. on this relatively big project (10,000 man-hour). It is a client-server architecture, but the client program is able to provide most of the server's task locally, when the server is not available. The server runs on a powerfull Sun machine, while the client runs under Microsoft Windows. Both programs are written in C++ using our multi platform programming know-how and libraries (rMPL and rLib). The object oriented data structure is stored in Oracle database on the server side while ADO is used on the client side. A simplified version of Property Stream Library (OopsLib) was used and adopted to store the class hierarchy in database tables.
The application downloads information from the internet with several protocolls (HTTP, FTP, POP3, IMAP). The server and client program communicate through the internet using both UDP and TCP/IP protocoll. The multi-threaded architecture makes the situation even more difficult in multi-platfrom environment.
Integration test of an embedded ADA system.We took part in the integration test of an embedded software running on a tripicated Motorola (68025) computer board. The software is written in ADA language and designed according to the highest safety regulation for trains. Our task was to read and understand the documentaion, build test cases for integrating the software and execute the tests both in host and target environment. We developed a special test environment, because VectorCast (the testing tool used for the module tests) was not good enough for our purposes.

I take part in development of all parts of rIDE (e.g. rMPL, rLib, OopsLib, rLogin) and I am the leader of the development team.

Professional interest

Since the university years I worked on the field of digital signal processing, process control and data acquisition as programmer, system designer, and project manager. I have a lot of practice and experience in developing programs in assembly, Pascal and C/C++ under DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, QNX, UNIX, Photon and X Window on IBM PC/AT compatible computers, DEC and Sun workstations. I have several years of experience in managing small companies at Hungary including development, manufacturing, import and export activity.

Now I am working hard to develop the products and services of my company, the Robot Cobtrol Software Ltd.

Additional information

My favourite occupations apart from the electronics are mountaineering, skiing and travelling. I married in 1996 and I have 2 daughters borned in May, 1997 and 1999.

Budapest, November 15. 2001.

Robot Control Software Ltd. Úrbéres u. 62/A., Budapest, 1028 Hungary; Tel/Fax:+36-1 275-8059 Mobil:+36-20 801-7051