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!!!Korica, Petra

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~* 28. 9. 1982, Zagreb (Kroatien)

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__ Dipl.Ing. Cand. Dr. Petra Korica, Bakk. techn.__

Informatik, Kroatien


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Email:  pkorica@sbox.tugraz.at.

!Education

Born Sept. 28, 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia
	
Doctoral School "Computer Science", Graz University of Technology, June 2009 – candidate 2013/2014, Thesis: Intelligent Systems Through Combination of Artificial Intelligence, Community Knowledge and Human Reasoning\\



Master studies "Software Development and Business Management", Graz University of Technology, March 2006 – June 2008, with distinction.

Master thesis: Analysis and Synthesis of Facial Expressions with Self-made Robotic Face FLEA, User Interface Design for Interaction with robots

Bachelor studies "Software Engineering and Knowledge Management", Graz University of Technology, October 2002 – February 2006

Bachelor thesis: Road Traffic Regulations and Visual Languages

Business studies, Karl Franzens University Graz, Feb. 2002 – Oct. 2004 (during last year of school, enabled by a scholarship for gifted pupils)

Handelsakademie Grazbachgasse, Graz

Osnovna Skola Ivana Gundulica, Zagreb

!Languages

Croatian (mother tongue)\\
German, fluent\\
English, fluent\\
French, fluent\\
Russian, beginner\\

!Experience

Account Techology Strategist in Enterprise and Partner Group (July 2013 – to present)
Microsoft Hrvatska d.o.o. \\
Senior IT Operations Consultant (September 2012 – July 2013)\\
Consulting large clients on their processes and technology based on ITIL and MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework) at Microsoft France Services\\
Architect Evangelist Infrastructure (October 2010 – September 2012)\\
Marketing, Developer and Platform Evangelism Group (DPE) at Microsoft Austria\\
Specialist Business Intelligence in Sales Microsoft Austria (January 2009 – October 2010)\\
Technical pre-sales role selling Microsoft solutions for Business Intelligence and SQL Server\\
Founded and led SQL User Group Austria to support customers, help partners, and develop new leads\\
Austrian Railways (May 2008 – December 2008)\\
Systems Developer in new10 (Graz) working on a project for Magna Steyr (J2EE Portal administrator and developer) (April 2007 – April 2008)
Developed a plan and helped manage the migration of the main intranet portal of Magna Steyr with 30.000 users to a new modern architecture.\\ 
Technical integration and software engineering in the working group "Social Learning", Central Informatic Services, Graz University of Technology (October 2006 – April 2007)\\
Introduced a new university-wide(approx. 9.000 users) eLearning platform "TU Graz TeachCenter"\\
Software Engineer on CAMPUSonline, Central Informatic Services, Graz University of Technology (March 2005 – October 2006)\\


!Special knowledge

Programming languages: C#, C++, Java, C, F#\\
Database design and development: Microsoft SQL Server (database engine, datawarehouse), Microsoft Excel PowerPivot, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, MySQL\\
Web development: HTML 5, ASP.NET, JSP, Ajax, Java Script, PHP, CSS, FLASH, Apache Web Server, IIS\\
User Interface Design\\
Cloud platform: Windows Azure, SQL Azure, SQL Azure Reporting Services, Amazon Cloud, Google App Engine\\
Developing environments/IDEs: Visual Studio, Expression Web, Eclipse, Anjuta, Rational Rose Photoshop\\
Robotics: human robot interaction, robot vision, localisation, navigation\\
Artifical Intelligence\\
Information Retrieval and Search Engines\\
Computer Vision\\
Operating systems: Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7), Windows Server, Solaris, Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian)\\
J2EE technologies\\
LDAPv3, Active Directory\\
Virtualization: Hyper-V and VMWare\\
Network knowledge: network architectures, load balancing\\
Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Server\\
MicrosoftOffice 365, Google Apps\\

!Certifications

ITIL v3 Foundations Certificate\\
ITIL v3 Service Lifecycle - Operations\\ 
Microsoft Certified Technology Speicalist: MS Office SharePoint Server 2007,Application Development\\
Microsoft Certified Technology Speicalist: MS Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuration\\
Microsoft Certified Technology Speicalist: MS SQL Server 2008, Database Development\\
Microsoft Certified Technology Speicalist: MS SQL Server 2008,Implementation and Maintenance\\
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Application Development Foundation\\

Successful participation in RoboCup@Home world championship competition at RoboCup 2007 in
Atlanta, 2009 in Graz and 2nd place in RoboCup@Home competition at German Open 2007 in Hannover, Germany

Styrian schoolarship for gifted pupils (enables pupils to study at an university before school leaving examination)

!Reference projects

Development of robot "FLEA" (hardware and software in C++) with a humanlike functional robotic head with 13 degrees of freedom, facial expression recognition system with C++ and recognition of seven basic facial expressions (please visit http://www.flea.at for additional information)

Numerous Publications and given talks and references available upon request



!Interests

Charity work (Member of Kiwanis)\\
Sports (Marathon running, Yoga, Diving, Snowboarding)\\
Psychology\\

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