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Personal Information
Name: Bashar Altakrouri ( بشار التكروري )
Nationality: Palestine
Gender: Male

Profile

An enthusiastic and reliable computer engineer with excellent knowledge of computer hardware and software. I am able to work as part of a team or on my initiative and have good organizational skills. I am able to find a position within a computer related job, which will enable me to further develop my computer hardware and software skills.

Work Experience

• Infolab21 / Lancaster University.
  Research Associate

  February 2008 - Now
  Lancaster – Untied Kingdom
  Research associate at one of the top ranked institute in Britain in the ubiquitous computing field. This is a full-time job at the ALLOW - Adaptive Pervasive Work Flow project. The Allow project is funded by the European Community (the FP7-Programme) under the FET - Future and Emerging Technologies category.

• International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
  Research Assistant

  October 2005 - August 2008
  Luebeck - Germany
  Research assistant in the school, the main job is to work in media related projects such as the “Interactive spaces” project: a Multi-User Interactive Table-top for museums, "Port-net Project", ”GTZ-Tool for ICT development”, and “Competence Transfer”.

• International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
  Master thesis student

  April 2007 - November 2007
  Luebeck - Germany
  Ubiquitous Infrastructure For Contextualised Exhibition Services In this research thesis, a novel infrastructure, called Medient Infrastructure is designed, implemented and evaluated. Medient is aiming at enhancing the museum environment by providing visitors with personalised services on mobile and stationary devices based on the captured context.

• Educational Technology Expertise Centre / Open University of the Netherlands.
  Internship

  October 2006 - December 2006
  Heerlen - The Netherlands
  Campus Memories: Learning with Contextualised Blogging A mobile blogging model and architecture were developed based on mobile device in combined with identification tags “Semacode” and therefore leave “blog traces” in a physical environment. Campus memories is working prototype based JAVA technology was delivered. JAX-RPC web services, CLDC mobile programming, SOAP and XML protocols were the main technology elements. The results were published in the TENCompetence workshop in Manchester 11th 12th January 2007.

• International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
  Ubiquitous Computing project

  April 2006 - July 2006
  Luebeck - Germany
  eyeJOT Smart Campus ::Phase I eyeJOT is an interactive community bulletin system based on ubiquitous computing technologies. Users (students, faculty, etc.) can access their information about campus news, activities and a semester schedule. eyeJOT uses a combination of new technology as Bluetooth and SMS together with a new navigation metaphor combine distance and time. It provides detailed snapshots while at the same time providing overviews of life on campus.

• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
  Computer Laboratory Assistant

  August 2004 – October 2005
  Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
  Work as computer labs assistant. Such lab includes hardware education labs such as microprocessor lab, digital design lab, and so. Programming language labs such as C, Pascal, Object Oriented, Web Programming labs. Some other activates include network and computer maintenance.

• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
  Internet-Based Robot Control System Hardware Graduation Project

  March 2004 - June 2004
  Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
  Internet-Based Robot Control System Using MATLAB Hardware project. Skills Developed: Hardware control, web programming, data processing, and network.

• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
  Digital Signal Processing Center Software project

  September 2003 - February 2004
  Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
  Digital Signal Processing Center Software project. Skills Developed: Web programming, image and sound processing, web security issues, databases, and networks.

Skills

Skill Level Years practiced Last used Web 2.0 services using RSS, SOAP, XML, JAX-RPC. Intermediate Less than 1 years 3 months or less Ubiquitous computing projects Expert More than 8 Months 1 month or less Object Oriented programming using C++,VisualBasic.NET, PHP, and JAVA. Expert More than 6 years 2 months or less Database Systems as MS Access, and MySQL. Expert More than 4 years 6 months or less CDC AND CDLC Mobile programming using JAVA MIDlet. Intermediate Less than 1 years 3 months or less

Additional Skills

- Full clean driving license
- Good human communication skills.
- Able to control and manage a group of people during work times.

Languages

Language Level Years practiced Last used
Arabic Native - 1 month or less.
English Advanced More than 10 years 1 month or less.
German Intermediate More than 12 months 1 month or less

Education

DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst “German Academic Exchange Service” scholarship. April 2006- October 2007 I have been awarded one and half year scholarship by DAAD for further study and training in Germany. I was nominated as one of ten Palestinian students for this position.

• International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
  Degree: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Digital Media

  October 2005 - November 2007
  Luebeck, Germany
  A unique 24-month-long, postgraduate course Master of Science in Digital Media is entirely held in English. It combines a breadth of technological, economical and cultural aspects of New Media and finishes with a M.Sc. degree in Digital Media. This is not a program in computer science but its application in the media, among many other aspects. It places an emphasis on intercultural skills and interdisciplinary media competence.

• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
  Degree: Bachelors - Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Eng.Computer Systems Engineering Branch field

  September 1999 - June 2004
  Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
  Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Eng.Computer Systems Engineering Branch field with accumulative average of (88.2). I am one of the five first-class students in the College of Engineering and Technology.

• AL HUSSEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL.
  Degree: High school or equivalent - Palestinian Certification of general secondary education examination

  July 1999
  Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
  Palestinian Certification of general secondary education examination With accumulative average (89).

• AL HUSSEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL.
  Degree: High school or equivalent - Second secondary class

  July 1998
  Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
  Second secondary class with accumulative average (92.9).

Interests

- Reading (Technological books).
- Watching TV programs (Technological and natural programs).
- Using the internet for research and entertainment.

Community

- Community activities More than 100 Community-working hours inside and outside Palestine Polytechnic University campus.
- Participate in Crisis 2008.