(aka. Radu, Monicsoft, Moon Steer)
Objective: keeping track of it all J
and trying to be exhaustive.
Nationality: Romanian
Birth-date: 29 Oct. 1971
Social status: married
Home address: Radu Luchian(ov), O.P.24, C.P.111, sector 2, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Current address: Radu Luchian(ov), Cognitive Science Dept., New Bulgarian
University, 21 Montevideo St., Sofia 1635, BULGARIA
E-mail: raduluc@zdnetonebox.com
Education:
- Fall 2000? to present: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; PhD in Cognitive Science expected in June 2005;
- Fall 1997 to 2000: New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria; MSc in Cognitive Science;
- Fall 1992 to 1996: American University in Bulgaria; BA in Computer Sciences (requirements not fulfilled) and BA in South-Eastern European Studies.
- Fall 1991 to 1992: "Dimitrie Cantemir" University, Bucharest, Romania, Hotel Management class.
- Fall 1986 to 1990: "Spiru Haret" Highschool, Bucharest, Romania; graduated third of class 1990.
Work experience:
- 1999: Project Leader at studioVISIA (managing teams of 3-4 members in creating Web-based presentations, optimizing the work-flow in the office);
- 1998-2000: research assistant for the Psychological Research Laboratory of the East-European Center for Cognitive Science (software maintenance, experiment design and data formatting, statistics, WWW design);
- 1997-1999: computing consultant for the Southeastern European Studies Center at the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (maintaining the dig database, suggesting web applications);
- 1996-1997: director of computing for the Struma Valley Project, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (created, tutored, managed and directed the Electronic Publishing Team; edited and implemented DTP, RDBMS, WWW and stand-alone multimedia projects);
- 1995-1996: webadmin in the AUBG Internet Team (extended the University site, helped members of the faculty and asministration to establish their on-line presence);
- 1993-1996: research assistant in the South-Eastern European Study Dept. of the AUBG (edited and implemented DTP, DBMS, WWW and stand-alone multimedia projects; helped preparing materials for class presentations);
- 1992-1993: student assistant in the Computer Science Dept. in AUBG (helped preparing materials for class presentations);
- 1991-1992: computer-service technician in the Earthquake Engineering Dept. of the Romanian Building Research Institute (INCERC, Bucharest); main project: analog-digital conversion of the seismic data and the automation of seismic data processing;
- 1990-1992: co-founder and co-director of Monicsoft C&L SRL (Romania) software/hardware system design, consulting - currently dissolved);
- 1990-1992: translator from English and French for the "Programs" Dept. of the Romanian Television (14 cartoon series: 273 episodes; two full-length animated motion pictures);
- 1990-1991: computer operator in the Earthquake Engineering Dept. of the Romanian Building Research Institute (INCERC, Bucharest); selected hardware for the needs of the Department; maintained data acquisition equipment; suggested improvements for field data acquisition;
- 1989-1991: simultaneous movie translation for the Romanian "Cinemateca" (national movie archive);
- 1989: freelance translating (English-Romanian, French-Romanian) and typing services.
Teaching experience:
- 1999: teaching assistant for the NBU course in Experiment Design (PSY201), New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria;
- 1998-present: training computer operators for running experiments on computers (handling hardware, MacOS, Windows, PsyScope, Word&Excel, text editing, data storage), New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria;
- 1996-1997: adapted tutorial (see below) for WWW Publishing/Maintenance for training student assistants of the BG-BIO Program, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (http://www.aubg.bg/proj/bio/);
- 1996: created (compiled), lectured and tutored a computing/multimedia/online publishing course for training student assistants for the Southeastern European Studies Center, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (http://www.aubg.bg/proj/sesc/);
- 1993: assisted teaching of the AUB100 course (DOS, Win3.1, MSWord, MSExcel);
- 1989: freelance tutoring (high-school level) Math and Physics;
Awards:
- 1997-1999: scholarship from the Open Society Foundation (Sofia) for MSc in Cognitive Science
- 1997: first prize for Bulgaria in a Global Inventory Project contest for a WWW site (leader of a design team of 5 students)
- 1992-1996: scholarship from the Soros Foundation for an Open Society (Bucharest) for BA in Computer Science
Language skills:
Romanian (native), French (fluent, translator diploma from the Romanian Ministry of Culture, 1990), English (TOEFL95: 653, translator diploma from the Romanian Ministry of Culture, 1990), Bulgarian (conversational), Italian (some).
Computer skills:
Operating systems: CP/M, VMS, DOS, Windows (2, 3, 95, 98, NT), UNIX (SystemV, BSD, SCO, Linux, XWindows, WebTen, Solaris), MAC OS/System 6-8, OS/2.
Programming Languages: BASIC (native :), Assembler (Z80,I8086) (some), LOGO (some), FORTRAN (fluent), Prolog (fluent), Pascal (fluent), CommonLISP (some), C (fluent), ADA (some), C++ (fluent), perl (fluent), JavaScript (fluent), sunJava (some);
markup languages: RTF (some), HTML (native), XML(some), TEX (some);
modeling language: VRML (fluent).
Operating Experience:
- TE: vi, pine, Notepad, BBEdit2-5, NoteTab2-3.5;
- WP: MSWrite, WordStar2-4, MSWordPad, WordPerfect3-7, ClarisWorks1-5, MSWord1-8;
- DTP and Imaging: TEX, FrameMaker(4-5.5), PageMaker4-6, Acrobat 2-4, Photoshop2-4+KPT1-5 etc., Bryce1-3, Streamline, Illustrator 6-8, CorelDraw/Paint 7, FreeHand4-8, Fireworks1-2;
- Spreadsheet: Lotus 1-2-3, MSExcel1-7;
- DBMS: Oracle7-8, MSAccess1-2, FileMaker1-4, 4thDimension2-3.5, Approach2;
- CAD/CAE: AutoCAD9-14, DesignCAD 2D/3D, MiniCAD6, SAP, CASE;
- Multimedia: Flash2-3, Director5-6, Astound2, SoundEdit16(1-2), Deck II, CakeWalkPro(3-5), CoolEdit(2-96);
Internet technologies: TCP, TCP/IP, mail (SMTP and NNTP over POP3 or SLIP), telnet, ftp, irc, icq, I-phone, HTTP1, HTML1-4, VRML1-2, CGI using C, perl and Unix shell(s);
- servers managed: ftpd, httpd, Apache, WebTen, Xitami.
Some projects:
- "Lasers in calibration" courseware: presentation for a Physics experiment; on ZX Spectrum+ (8-bit computer) - Z80 assembler and SuperBasic;
- "MonPlot" high school graduation Project: hardware (mechanics + 8bit parallel interface) and software (Z80Assembly driver and LOGO-like user interface implementing three graphic primitives - point, line, circle) for an X-Y plotter with three pens; on ZXSpectrum+ - Z80 assembler and SpectrumBasic;
- "PresentaTHOR" authorware: three-part project: 3D object editor, 3D object browser (wireframe or Z-buffer flat rendering) and presentation manager; applied in a psychological experiment by Anthony Birch (replicating on-line and exploring Meizer and Shepard's (1974) experiment on mental rotations) (tbirch@luminet.net); on PC-compatibles - TurboPascal;
- "Z Big Dig Database": An expert system/database for Field Archaeology (finds recording and analysis) of any period, with application on the Bronze Age site of Kamenska Chuka (mark@nws.aubg.bg); on Macintosh - FileMakerPro;
- "James Harvey Gaul - In Memoriam": Layout design, raster and vectorial image editing and conversion for collection of articles on the archaeology or South-Eastern Europe and adjacent areas; on Macintosh - FrameMaker;
- "HYMNS": expandable, flexible, OODB-oriented WWW authoring tool; on UNIX - perl and httpd;
- "MneMonic": hybrid (symbolic-connectionist) neural network applicable as intelligent (text-oriented) human-computer interface (PIM functionality, high-level multimedia/file manager, grammar and logic checker, knowledge base tutor/trainer) - under development; on PC-compatibles - Borland C++;
- "MonDoc": scalable editor for cognitively accessible documents (structurally compressed redundant hypertext); on virtually any system - HTML, JScript;
- "MoStaCon": expandable data formatting and statistical package; on virtually any system - HTML, JScript, perl;
- (for other projects, see my WWW page: http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/personal/radu/port.html).
Special Interests:
Reading, the process of Learning, Programming, Role Playing, gaming (Strategy and Adventure), Shotokan, Swimming, Mountain climbing, Electronics, Aero- and Hydro-model making, Physics, Writing, Comics, Cinema, Music, Photography/Imaging, Organic Chemistry, Philosophy, Traditional medicine(herbal and massage).
References:
Academic reference: Cognitive Science Dept., New Bulgarian University, 1635 Sofia, Bulgaria
(office@cogs.nbu.acad.bg)
Employment references: use the above, OR: Mr. Mark Stefanovich, AUBG, Blagoevgrad 2700, Bulgaria
(stefcho@eudoramail.com)
Personal reference: Mr. Anthony Birch, 457 Chatfield St., Winona MN 55987-4507, USA
(tbirch@luminet.net)