Robert Mikes

Worked on the introduction to Germany of the Topaz global order management, routing, execution and trade support platform as the developer responsible for automating the migration of orders and positions from the legacy systems, but also had Business Analyst and Project Manager responsibilities: liaised between business users and developers to analyze requirements and develop technical solutions, prioritized tasks, tracked deployment of changes into production, investigated issues.

Member of the global team that automates the clearing operations of the brokerage business. Designed and developed back‑end systems with Eclipse under Linux: stand‑alone Java applications running under Linux and J2EE servlets running on JBoss. Specified, designed and tested subsystem interfaces and front‑end UIs. Supervised three developers located in St. Petersburg, Russia. Fast‑paced development environment, several production releases in a day were commonplace.

Developed safety‑critical software for interventional vascular X‑Ray machines (AdvantX and Innova) as a member of a global team. Programmed mostly in C++ under UNIX, applications running under UNIX (SunOS, Solaris) and real‑time OSes (VRTX, VxWorks). 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. Very controlled environment, every change was to be documented and tested, release cycles of 6‑12 months.

eveloped an application in Microsoft Access that allows automatic placement of custom size panels on fiberboard sheets (the NP‑Complete 2‑dimensional „cutting stock” problem). Automating this task allowed the company to use less fiberboard sheets, while also generating less waste.

eveloped custom Oracle database systems for various industries: distribution, warehouse management, accounting and financing system for pharmaceutical wholesaler Medimpex and electronic component retailer VitaCom Electronics; travel insurance system for QBE Atlasz.

Developed a database system for supporting the raw material procurement (Just In Time method), production, warehouse management and distribution processes of plastic product manufacturer qTec Quedlinburg, Germany.

Designed and developed an e-commerce web site and a direct mail system.

Project leader in the development of the university’s e-learning system. Thesis: “Designing the Conceptual Model of Databases Using UML”

High school graduation with specialization in Computer Science.