Petr Přidal

Current

• Programming, administration and consultancy for Open-Source software at Petr Přidal - Klokan (Self-employed)

Past

• Web & eshop & SEO at Scootland s.r.o.
• GDAL2Tiles, Google Summer of Code 2007 at Google
• Development and administration at Gudthlandum Consulting, Norway

• Administration of UNIX servers (Linux, Solaris), networking, software development at Moravian Library Brno
• MPlayerOSX, Video Player for Mac OS X (Self-employed)

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Education

• Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze
• Masarykova univerzita v Brne
• Masarykova univerzita v Brne

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Recommended

3 people have recommended Petr

Connections

39 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Petr Přidal’s Summary

Programming, administration a consultancy for Open-Source software. Specialization: Internet and World Wide Web technologies, Data Exchange and Automation, UNIX and mutli-platform applications, GIS and mapping, design, SEO and Internet marketing.

Petr Přidal’s Specialties:

Programming (Python, C, Objective C, C++, Java), Web technologies (HTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript), Data exchange (XML, SOAP, XSLT), Multi-platform Deployment and Development (Linux/Mac/Win/Solaris), Open Source Development

Petr Přidal’s Experience

• Programming, administration and consultancy for Open-Source software

  Petr Přidal - Klokan (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  2002 — Present (6 years)

• Web & eshop & SEO

  Scootland s.r.o.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Automotive industry)

  March 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  http://www.scootland.cz/
  Corporate Identity & Design, Website with eshop & SEO (search engine optimization - first position on several important keywords), Automation (barcodes, stock state online, accounting data exchange), XML data exchange - SiteMap.xml for Google & Seznam.cz, XML export of eshop offer for Zbozi.cz).
  
  Technologies: Web 2.0, Python, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, CSS. Linux (development) and BSD (deployment).
  Design and implementation of internal language (with parser and compiler) for scooter spare parts compatibility. Import from MS Excel sheets. Integration with several Google Technologies (AJAX Search API, Feed API, Blogger.com, Calendar, Gmail, Google Apps) and with EditGrid.com.

• GDAL2Tiles, Google Summer of Code 2007

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  Project GDAL2Tiles, OSGeo.
  GIS and mapping, new open-source tool for library GDAL, Python, C++

• Development and administration

  Gudthlandum Consulting, Norway

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years)

  Information systems, data exchange, XML, SOAL, email robots, web crawlers. FileMaker database and Plug-In Programming (C++, multi-platform Win/Mac), Python project PyFileMaker. Administration of Linux Debian/Ubuntu and Mac OS X Server.
  MS Excel with Forms processing (XLS by Gnumeric, patches submitted to main tree), OCR (by Ocropus).
  
  Customers:
  
  MarineTrans AS, Purchasing System, Document Archiving System, Processing of MTML (Marine Transaction Markup Language)
  
  NaturKart DA, FileMaker Plug-In FMCartProj, cartographic coordinates conversion for FileMaker

• Administration of UNIX servers (Linux, Solaris), networking, software development

  Moravian Library Brno

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years)

  Development of public Kiosk enviroment for SunRay (Sun Solaris, C/C++, Gecko, QVWM), redisign of network infrastructure, administration of servers (Linux Debian, Sun Solaris) and network (firewalls, NAT, traffic shaping).
  Instalation and administration of Samba (with domain), OpenLDAP, Apache. Development of public WiFi interface.

• MPlayerOSX, Video Player for Mac OS X

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years)

  Port of MPlayer (video player for Linux) to Mac OS X, development of GUI. Binary package for end users. Over 3 milions of downloads! Now part of main MPlayer development tree.

Petr Přidal’s Education

• Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze

  PhD. (doctor), Cartography, 2010 (expected)

• Masarykova univerzita v Brne

  Mgr. (master), Applied Informatics, 2007

  Thesis: Processing and Digital Publishing of Historical Documents
  (published as ISBN: 978-80-7051-173-2, awarded a prize (2nd place) in The Czech National Competition for Best Thesis in IT of the year 2007 - http://www.diplomovaprace.cz/)

• Masarykova univerzita v Brne

  Bc. (bachelor), Applied Informatics, 2004

  Specialization: Databases
  Thesis: Python-based Web Application Servers

Additional Information

Petr Přidal’s Websites:

• My Website

Petr Přidal’s Interests:

Sports (trekking, mountaineering, water sports, skiing and snowboarding, badminton), traveling (Nepal, India, Syria, Iran, Canada, EU), music, dancing and culture.

Petr Přidal’s Groups:

ICA - International Cartographic Association Working Group for Cartographic Heritage,
OSGEO - Open Source Geospatial Foundation

•    Python Community member
•    Open Source member
•    Open Source Geospatial Foundation member
•    FOSS Professionals member

Petr Přidal’s Honors:

Czech IT Diploma Thesis of the Year 2007, 2nd place
Competition of programmers for Apple Computers, mujmac.cz, 1st place

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