CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: István ELEK
BIRTH-DATE, PLACE: 10th of December, 1956, Budapest, Hungary
EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY: Scientific University of L. Eötvös (ELTE), Geophysical Department, from 1976 till 1981, Degree: M.Sc.
POSTGRADUATE:
* Theory of the robust statistical estimations (1984, Miskolc, NME)
* Training in USA for two months concerning to the software development in oil industry /modeling, GIS, statistics/ (1986, Occidental)
* Programming in C language (1988)
* English on Business (European Business School, London, 1989)
* Development, organization and implementation of object-oriented GIS by SYSTEM 9 (1992. PRIME Computervision, Zurich)
* Image processing course on satellite images (ER Mapper Europe, London, Stuttgart, 1996)
* ISO 9001 course (SENZOR, Siófok, 1998)
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY:
* Dr. univ. of geophysics, (1988, ELTE, "Geophysical Applications of Principal Component Analysis")
* I won the second prize of a competition of the Hungarian Scientific Academy for my activity and publication in multivariate statistics segmentation and their applications (in this topic I published papers in an American journal, GEOBYTE 1988. and 1990.).
* Regarding my publications about the applications of multivariate statistics in well logging my methods are cited and mentioned many times in several papers and books, such as "Geologic Log Analysis Using Computer Methods" by John H. Doveton, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, Published by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
* Ph.D. of GIS, (2001, ELTE, "An application of Geographical information systems in oil industry")
LANGUAGE: English and Italian
PROGRAMING LANGUAGES:
FORTRAN 77, TURBO PASCAL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, HTML
PRACTICE IN GIS SOFTWARE: MapInfo, Vertical Mapper, Arcview, MapObjects, SYSTEM 9, ER Mapper
DRIVING LICENSE: since 1974
EMPLOYMENT:
1981 - 82: VITUKI (Hungarian Water Research Center) as a scientific assistant investigations of soil-mechanics, and modeling
1982 - 1990: SZKFI (Hungarian Hydrocarbon Institute) as a research fellow
activity:
* data processing and interpretation; software and method development regarding to multivariate statistical methods, time-series and trend-analysis, solution of not-well-defined problems and graphical programs
* numeric modelling of electromagnetic vawe propagation in layered materials
* the investigation of expert systems. I and my colleagues developed a geophysical expert system.
* I have been dealing with sale of our own programs. Some of our programs were sold successfully for Eastern-European countries.
1990 - : GEOMETRIA GIS Systems House Ltd. as a project manager
activity:
* subject: constructing plans of geographical information system, and making management, railway information system for MAV, utilities: Electricity works of Budapest, Water works of Budapest, education of GIS.
1991 - 2003 : ISIS Ltd. as a president
activity:
* I prepared the long term strategy plan and the detailed system plan for the National Authority for Nature Conservation for EC PHARE office..
* I was the project manager of a GIS project for the National Authority for Nature Conservation.
* I was a project manager of a GIS project for Ministry of Labour Issues targeted handling of unemployment.
* Based on my system design a decision support system was introduced in the Ministry of Interior
* I was a system planer and project leader for an agricultural GIS project handling soil information.
* I prepared the sytem plan for the geogrphical information system of Törökbálint city focused on land registration and facility management.
* We developed a electromagnetic power field analysing system for mobil phones in Westell 900 GSM.
* I was the project manager and the system designer of the information system of MOLs foreign concession activity on the oil researche for three years.
* I was the project manager and the system designer of the information system of MOLs activity Turkey.
* I have been the project manager and the system designer of the information system for Syrian oil researche of MOL.
* I have been the leader of the ISO 9001 quality management system at ISIS
* I made some Microsoft Visual Development Studio application with ESRI MapObjects and Mapinfo MapX for local governments and Ministry of Environment
* I made the Nature Conservation Index for Ministry of Environment, that is an integrated Visual Basic application including 2 GB data (photos, maps, descriptions) on every national park and protected area in Hungary.
2003 - : University of Eötvös Loránd, Department of Cartography