Personal details
Education and Qualifications
Work Experience
Technical Skills
Additional Skills
Hobbies
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PERSONAL DETAILS
CATALIN GHEORGHE AMZA
Present address Leicester, United Kingdom
Permanent address Sector 1, Bucuresti, Romania
E-mail addresses
acata@dmu.ac.uk
amza_catalin@yahoo.com
acata@amza.camis.pub.ro


EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
September 1999 - present De Montfort University - Department of Engineering and Technology. Progressing toward a PhD Degree in Artificial Intelligence Testing (expected in September 2002).
September 1998 - September 1999 De Montfort University , Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering-Leicester- UK (Master of Science Degree in Human Computer Systems)
1993-1998 The ¨POLITEHNICA" University of Bucharest , Faculty of Control Engineering and Computer Science
(Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, GPA 10.00 on a scale of 10.00)
1989-1993 Computer Science HighSchool, Bucharest, Romania
(Bacalaureat Diploma, GPA 9.45 on a scale of 10.00)
Certificate of Assistent Computer Analyst, Programmer and Computer Operator, acredited by the Romanian Ministry of Education


WORK EXPERIENCE
September 2000 - June 2001 De Montfort University - Leicester, UK - Part-Time Lecturer for second year students. Teaching "Dynamic Web Publishing" - laboratory (BSc. Multimedia Computing) and "Multimedia Presentation" - laboratory (first year "Multimedia Computing").
September 1999 - June 2000 De Montfort University - Leicester, UK - Part-Time Lecturer. Enjoyed helping mature students with the "Advanced Interactive Systems" - laboratory (MSc. IT/Computing).
May 1998 -June 1998 Thorpe Kilworth Ltd. - Wigston, Leicester - successfuly designed and implemented an application for the integration of several databases into different Excel files.
March 1998 - September 1999 Laboratory Assistant at the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest,  Department of Material Science and Welding
January 1993 - March 1998 Managing my own Design and Printing company. Having my own company, helped me gained experiencein administrating the company funds, collecting debts , supplying necessary materials for it, developing my interpersonal skills.
1997-1998 Colaborating with the Department of Material Science and Welding ("Politehnica" University of Bucharest)
Developped a computer user-friendly software program which allows the user to control and move different modelsof ultrasonic actuators. The software and the motor prototype were presented at the International IT Exhibition in Brussels, 1997 as part of a COPERNICUS project.
1996-1997 Colaborating with the Department of Material Science and Welding ("Politehnica" University of Bucharest)
Succesfully created a computer simulation for three types of welding processes for their laboratory inonly two months. Acquired mechanical and physical knowledge.
1993-1996 ANDADA IMPEXIM SRL- Bucharest, Romania
Working as a computer programmer, I have succesfully managed to develop a Computer Assisted AccountingProgram , gaininig knowledge of financial and accounting procedures.
1990-1994 Freelance Desktop Editor (300-500 pages/month)


TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming C, C++, DBase, Assembler, Pascal, Visual Basic, Borland Delphi, HTML, Java, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XSL
Operating Systems Windows 3.11/95/98/2000/NT, Dos, Unix, Linux
Software packages Microsoft Office 97/2000 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage)
Graphics and Design AutoCAD, Corel Draw 8.0, Photo-Paint 8.0 , SPICE, Macromedia Director 8, Macromedia Flash 4
Hardware advanced knowledge about installation and use of PC hardware devices (video-, network-, modem/fax-, PCMCIA-, I/O- cards, motherboards, CPUs, memory modules, hard-disks, floppy and CD drives, power sources)


ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Full Clean Driver Licence


HOBBIES
Cars, Fishing, Sience Fiction, Music, Mobile Phones