About me

Personal information

Name, Surname: Arturs Aboltins
Date of birth: 26 June 1974
Sex: Male

E-mail aboltinsh(at)gmail(dot)com
Mobile phone: +371-26557340

Work experience:

03.2008 - now
Company: Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
Industry: Education
Number of employees: 1000
Position: Doctoral student
Duties: Integrated Circuit laboratory manager. Phi transforms research group. OFDM research group. Doctor thesis theme: Acoustic signal processing using phi functions.
Achievements: Phi transforms toolbox. OFDM synchronization model in Simulink.

11.2006 - 10.2008
Company: Hypercom Latvia Riga,Latvia
Industry: Finance, POS terminal production
Number of employees: 1000
Position: Software developer
Duties: POS application software development using C, C++, Assembly. Practiced embedded software development, international teamwork, software quality control.
Achievements: Auto rental and lodging application for Hypercom T4200 series terminal. Host message decoder written in perl.

01.2006- 11.2006
Company:Axia Broadcast Technologies,Riga,Latvia
Industry: Broadcasting studio equipment
Number of employees: 100
Position: Software developer
Duties:Development of voice over IP systems for broadcasting studios. Linux based software development using C,C++. Programs involved real-time audio processing and io, TCP/IP networking.
Achievements: Working version of PSTN-SIP-soundcard gateway.

09.2004 - 01.2006
Company: Lintech SIA , Riga, Latvia
Industry: information technology
Number of employees: 20
Position: Software developer
Duties: development of Amber Linux OS. Linux installation and administration. Linux-based internet cafe software development (Cedega - based windows game emulation environment, tweaking).
Achievements: Partially Linux-based internet cafe successfully running for 2 years.

10.1999 - 09.2004
Company: Lattelecom,Riga,Latvia
Industry: telecoms operator
Number of employees: 2500
Position: Sector manager in Network Management Center
Duties: Network management system development and maintenance
Achievements: Developer and project manager of Integrated switching network monitoring solution. Developer and project manager of Lattelecom televoting platform.

08.1997 - 10.1999
Company: Lattelecom, Riga, Latvia
Industry: telecoms operator
Number of employees: 3000
Position: Leading specialist in NMC engineering dept.
Duties: Alcatel 1000 S12 switching system operation and maintenance. Latvian telecommunication network digitalization projects.

12.1995 - 08.1997
Company: Lattelecom, Riga, Latvia
Industry: telecoms operator
Number of employees: 3000
Position: shift engineer in Lattelecom Network Management center.
Duties: Digital switch operation and maintenance tasks. Alarm monitoring, backups, CDR dump.

Education

09.1992 - 06.1998
Authority: Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
Specialty: Telecommunications
Degree: Master
Master thesis: “Telecommunication network management software”

09.1989 - 06.1992
Authority: Secondary school N1, Rezekne, Latvia

Skills and abilities

Language knowledge: Latvian (fluent), English(good), Russian(fluent)

Computers:
Operating systems:

• Professional in Microsoft Windows
• Developer in Unix, Linux

Programming languages:

• C(Professional),
• C++(Professional),
• HTML(Professional),
• CGI(Professional),
• Perl(Professional),
• PHP(Advanced),
• Assembler(Advanced),
• Matlab(Professional),
• Bash(Professional),
• Ruby(Novice),
• Javascript(Novice),
• Java(Novice),
• Oracle(Novice),
• Pascal(Novice),
• Python(Novice),
• Visual Basic(Novice),
• Delphi(Novice)

Databases:

• SQL(Advanced),
• Oracle(Novice),
• MySQL(Professional)

Software tools:

• SlickEdit (professional)
• Borland C++ Builder (professional),
• gcc (professional),
• subversion (professional),
• git (professional)
• Zabbix (professional)
• MS VC++ (trained)

Computer hardware:

• PC hardware (professional),
• Sun, SGI hardware (advanced)
• storage systems (novice),
• interfaces (advanced)

Telecommunications

• Alcatel 1000 S12 (professional),
• Ericsson AXE10 (novice)
• X.25 (advanced),
• SDH (novice),
• Ethernet (advanced),
• GSM (novice),
• TCP/IP (advanced)
• SIP (professional)
• IEEE 802.11 (professional)

Management skills

• Project management,
• Resources,
• time planning,
• critical paths,
• workgroup coordination
• Meetings organization and management,
• presentation skills

Other skills:

• Valid driving license since 1995.

Publications:

Synchronization and Correction of Channel Parameters for an OFDM-based Communication SystemA. I. Aboltins and D. I. Klavins, Automatic Control and Computer Sciences, 2010, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 160–170. © Allerton Press, Inc.

Синхронизация и коррекция параметров канала для системы связи основанной на OFDM, А.И.Аболтиньш, Д.И.Клявиньш, Автоматика и вычислительная техника – 2010. − No.3. − С.59-71.

Synchronization for OFDM-based communication system: a brief overview, Aboltins, A., Klavins D., 50. th RTU Scientific Conference, 2009.10, Latvia, Riga.

Būvējam OFDM sakaru sistēmu, A.Aboltins, Methodic paper on communication system modelling

MATLAB/SIMULINK Implementation of Phi Transforms – A New Toolbox Only or the Rival of Wavelet Toolbox for the Next Decade? Misans P., Aboltins A., Terauds M., Valters G. Nordic MATLAB User Conference 2008, 2008.11, Sweden, Stockholm.

Initial Implementation of Generalized Haar Like Orthonormal Transforms into FPGA-Based Devices - Part I: Signal Spectrum Analyzer Synthesizer Module, Misans P., Aboltins A., Terauds M., Valters G., RTU proceedings. Vol 8. , Telecommunications and electronics. (2008), Riga