Personal information

Surname(s) / First name(s)

Koval, Matej Ing. (equivalent of Master)

Address(es)

Slovak Republic, European Union

Telephone(s)

+421 908 190 372

Mobile: +421 908 190 372

Fax(es)

+421 52 439 8227

E-mail(s)

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Nationality (-ies)

Slovak

Date of birth

17.08.1982

Gender

Male

Desired employment / Occupational field

Information Technologies - software
Economy and Finance
Information Technologies - internet

Work experience

Dates

1/8/2006 - till now

Occupation or position held

ARIS Developer - web programming

Main activities and responsibilities

Java and J2EE development, ARIS Business Publisher, ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager software products, evaluation of new Java-based web technologies for the next versions of our software, new features, bug fixing, testing

Name and address of employer

IDS Scheer SDC Slovakia s.r.o.,

Juzna Trieda 125

040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic

Type of business or sector

Informatics – software

Dates

1/9/2005 - 1/8/2006

Occupation or position held

Programmer / Specialist

Main activities and responsibilities

Java and J2EE development

Name and address of employer

RWE Systems Slovakia

Juzna Trieda 6

040 01 Kosice

Type of business or sector

Informatics – software

Dates

1/6/2005 - 1/9/2005

Occupation or position held

Summer job

Main activities and responsibilities

improving English

Name and address of employer

Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom

Type of business or sector

Informatics – software, Informatics – system administration

Dates

1/6/2005 - 1/9/2005

Occupation or position held

Programmer, analyst

Main activities and responsibilities

Analysis of an old library information system and it’s rewrite to J2EE technology

Name and address of employer

Diploma thesis

Type of business or sector

Informatics – software

Dates

1/9/2003 - 31/3/2005

Occupation or position held

Webmaster

Main activities and responsibilities

Development and maintenance of a community web portal, programming in PHP, MySQL

Name and address of employer

Student organization PC Klub, Jedlikova 9,
Kosice, Slovak Republic, European Union

Type of business or sector

Informatics - software

Dates

1/6/2004 - 1/10/2004

Occupation or position held

Summer job

Main activities and responsibilities

improving English

Name and address of employer

Wisconsin Dells, WI, USA

Type of business or sector

Entertainment

Dates

1/1/2004 - 1/1/2005

Occupation or position held

JSP (Java server pages) Programmer

Main activities and responsibilities

Programming of web applications based on JSP, JavaBeans, externally (part-time)

Name and address of employer

ACASE s.r.o., Kosice, Slovak Republic, EU

Type of business or sector

Informatics - Software

Dates

1/9/2000 - 31/8/2002

Occupation or position held

Technician

Main activities and responsibilities

Maintenance of Local Area Network (LAN)

Name and address of employer

Student organization PC Klub, Jedlikova 9
Kosice, Slovak Republic

Type of business or sector

Informatics - Hardware

Dates

1/1/2003 - 1/1/2004

Occupation or position held

Programmer PHP/MySQL

Main activities and responsibilities

Creation of an maintenance of web portal for restaurants in the USA, contract programming

Name and address of employer

Pathox s.r.o., Kosice, Slovak Republic

Type of business or sector

Informatics - Software

Dates

1/1/2002 - 1/1/2005

Occupation or position held

Programmer, Developer

Main activities and responsibilities

Several smaller project, that you can find on address:
http://www.codegravity.com/projects/

Type of business or sector

Informatics - Software

Education and trainings

Dates

01/09/2006 – 01/05/2008 (2-year accredited class)

Training

Post-gradual study of Economy (Finance, Banking and Investments) – certificate

(Banking, Financial Maths, Taxes and Tax systems, Financial Markets, Accounting basics, Corporate Finance, International Finance Systems,
Investing, Civil Finance, Stock market, Derivatives, Insurance)

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Kosice

Kosice, Slovak Republic

Dates

23/07/2007 – 26/07/2007

Training

Java design patterns

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

Orientation in objects, GmbH.

Kosice

Dates

19/12/2005 – 20/12/2005

Training

XML processing in Java

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

Unicorn s.r.o.,

Prague

Dates

7/11/2005 – 9/11/2005

Training

Object-oriented analyzis and desing in UML

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

LBMS s.r.o.,

Prague

Dates

31/10/2005 – 1/11/2005

Training

JavaServer Faces

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

TrainTime s.r.o.,

Prague

Dates

17/10/2005 – 19/10/2005

Training

Hibernate persistence in Java 5

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

CIS, s.r.o.,

Bratislava

Dates

10/10/2005 – 14/10/2005

Training

Microsoft SQL Server

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

GOPAS,

Prague

Dates

26/9/2005 – 30/9/2005

Training

HTML, Servlets, JSP

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

Computer Information Systems,

Bratislava

Dates

1/9/2000 - 31/8/2005

Title of qualification awarded

Software engineer, Title: Ing. (Equivalent to Master)

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

Information systems and technolologies

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

Technical University Kosice,
Letna 9/A
040 01 Kosice, Slovakia, EU

Level in national or international classification

ISCED 4

Dates

1/9/2002 - 1/9/2004

Title of qualification awarded

LAN, network administration, routing basics

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

LAN

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

Cisco Systems

Dates

1/9/1996 - 31/8/2000

Title of qualification awarded

High school

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

General + programming basics

Name and type of organisation providing organisation and training

Grammar School

D. Tatarka street, Poprad

Slovakia, European Union

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue

Slovak language

Other language(s)

Self-assessment

Understanding

Speaking

Writing

European level (***)

Listening

Reading

Spoken interaction

Spoken production

English

C1

Proficient user

C1

Proficient user

B1

Independent user

B1

Independent user

B2

Independent user

Polish

C2

Proficient user

A1

Basic User

A1

Basic User

A1

Basic User

A1

Basic User

German

A1

Basic User

A1

Basic User

A1

Basic User

A1

Basic User

A1

Basic User

Social skills and competences

Flexibility

Ability to work effectively within a team

Openness

A sense of humour

Organisational skills and competences

Experiences to work within a team

Guidance and responsibility

Technical skills and competences

Programming and Software Development – advanced
Internet (e-mail, www) – advanced
UNIX/Linux user – intermediate
Computer System Administration – advanced
MS Windows user – advanced
Office tools – intermediate
3D modelling – intermediate

Computer skills and competences

Java experiences – advanced

• JavaServer Pages (JSP) – advanced

• Spring Framework - intermediate

• Struts Framework – advanced

• JSF (JavaServer Faces) – advanced

• Hibernate – intermediate

• IceFaces - advanced

• Ant, Log4j – intermediate

• AJAX - basics

• Facelets - basics

• GWT (Google web toolkit) – basics

• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB 2.0) - basics

• Jboss Application Server - intermediate,

• Apache Tomcat Server - advanced,

• Java Design Patterns - basics

• BEA Weblogic Server – basic

• Eclipse IDE / Exadel Studio Pro – advanced

• IntelliJ IDEA – advanced

   

   

Joomla CMS - module and component programming – advanced

PHP programming – advanced

HTML – advanced

Javascript – intermediate

CSS - advanced

XML – advanced

MySQL programming – advanced

PostgreSQL – intermediate

Oracle – basics

Informix – basics

C++ programming – intermediate

OpenGL – basics

Java Projects

• ARIS Business Publisher maintenance and development, new features, bug fixes

   

• Evaluation of new Java-based technologies for the new version of ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager – Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Icefaces, ...

   

• Maintenance and development of the ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager application, GUI framework, report framework, new features and bug fixing

   

• Migration of application written for Weblogic AS to JBoss. Conversion of deployment descriptors and other specific issues.

   

• FaceRSS - easy to use, custom JSF component displaying the rss feeds on webpages other smaller projects

   

Open-source projects

JoomlaWatch - http://www.codegravity.com/projects/joomlawatch

an AJAX component and module for Joomla CMS that allows you to watch your website visitors and bots in real-time from the administration menu. Specially their IP addresses, countries they come from, geographical location on a map, which pages they are viewing, their browser and operating system, it creates daily and all-time stats from these information plus unique, pageload and total hits statistics. Furthermore, you can block harmful IP addresses, see blocked attempts stats, evaluate the trend charts, and create goals based on many parameters. In the frontend, it can show the top countries information and visit counts for certain periods of time. (Used approx. by 20 000 users worldwide)

MathGuard - http://www.codegravity.com/projects/mathguard

a free PHP class that everyone can use as anti-spam protection for the website forms. It's also a suitable solution when there is no PHP GD support from the webhosting company. 

www.CodeGravity.com website – (approx. 44000 unique visitors/month) - web programming articles, useful tips, freelance programmers database, open projects, webmaster resources

Other smaller projects at: http://www.codegravity.com/projects/

Artistic skills and competences

A sense of aesthetics, art

I come from a family that both parents are fine-artists (jewellery / sculpture)

Other skills and competences

playing guitar, swimming, cycling, martial arts (aikido, ju-jitsu)…

Driving licence

Yes

Additional information

Desired location:
Slovak Republic, Kosice, Bratislava
Europe, other
Abroad, other

(English-speaking countries/companies preferred)