Resume
Education
1998 – Present Ph.D. program, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
1993 - 1994 Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Dipl.Ing in Informatics (M.A. equivalent)
1987- 1991 Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
B.Sc. (with distinction) in Computer Science with concentration on Industrial & Embedded Systems, and Robotics
Teaching certification for high school level
Publications
Chung, L., Gross, D. et al. (1999). “Architectural design to meet stakeholder requirements.” Software Architecture. P. Donohue. San Antonio, Texas, USA, Kluwer: 545-564. (pdf )
Gross, D. and Yu, E. (2000). "From Non-Functional Requirements to Design through Patterns." Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'2000). (html)
Gross, D. and Yu, E. (2001). "From Non-Functional Requirements to Design through Patterns." Requirements Engineering 6: 18-36.
Gross, D. and Yu, E. (2001). "Evolving System Architecture to Meet Changing Business Goals: an Agent and Goal-Oriented Approach." Proceedings of the First International Workshop From Software Requirements to Architectures (STRAW 2001). (pdf)
Gross, D. and Yu, E. (2002). “Dealing with system qualities during design and composition of aspects and modules: an agent and goal-oriented approach.” Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering. pp. 1-8. (pdf)
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WorkGroup SG12/17. (2002). Draft Recommendation Z.151: URN- Goal-Oriented Requirements Language (GRL): International Telecommunication Union.
Posters and Presentations
Various posters and presentations at international workshops and to research partners including:
CASCON poster. (Fall 2005) IBM CASCON‘05, Toronto.
CSER poster. (Fall 2005) CSER, Toronto.
“Intentional Design, Research overview” presentation(Fall 2003) Early Requirements Seminar, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto.
“An agent- and goal-based abstraction for reasoning about concerns in software design” presentation (Fall 2003) Workshop on Aspect Orientation: Research and Practice, IBM CASCON’03.
“Dealing with system qualities during the design and composition of aspects and modules” presentation (2002) 1st International Work on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE’02) at ASE’02, Edinburgh, UK, October 2002
“Prototyping the intentional dimension - conceptual meta modeling in search of a research method” presentation (2001) First Intergalactic Tropos Workshop, Trento, Italy.
“Evolving System Architecture to Meet Changing Business Goals: an Agent and Goal-Oriented Approach.” (2001) First International Workshop From Software Requirements to Architectures (STRAW 2001) at ICSE’2001
“From Non-Functional Requirements to Design through Patterns” Presentation (2000) 6th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'2000)
“Reasoning about WML support architectures through stakeholders” presentation (1999) Mitel Corporation
“’OAMP’ and ‘Console’ project case studies modeling and analysis results” presentation(1998) Mitel Corporation
“Dealing with NFRs” Poster (1998) IBM CASCON’98
Various posters at CASCON and MICON and one presentation at MICON. (2000-2002) at Mitel Corporation (MICON)
Employment
2003-2004 Reviewed papers for conferences, workshops and a journal article, including CAISE’03, AI ’03, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (2004)
2004 University of Toronto TA for FIS1342S: Designing Information Systems Eric Yu
Spring 2003 University of Toronto TA for FIS1342S: Designing Information Systems
Eric Yu
Spring 2003 University of Toronto TA for FIS2103S: Information Systems for Knowledge Management Eric Yu
Spring 2002 University of Toronto TA for FIS1342S: Designing Information Systems
David Modjeska
2001-Eldama Systems Ltd, UK
• Technology & Strategic networking
• Researched and developed UK, US, European and International patent
• Promoted and connected company with strategic partners.
1994-1996 IBM La Hulpe, Belgium
• Consultant & Information modeling Researcher & Analyst
• Researched and developed object-oriented analysis methodology and information models for the insurance industry at the World-Wide Insurance Solution & Delivery Center.
• Developed and taught course to members of the technical Information Architecture staff at Generali Insurance / Germany.
• Consulted with IBM Portsmouth in evaluating their workflow management product using insurance information process models.
1994-1994 Softel - an IBM established company, Israel
• Strategic Networking
• Presented and promoted high-volume Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system at CeBIT – Germany’s largest computer exhibition.
• Connected company to strategic partners.
1991-1994 IBM Vienna Software Development Laboratory, Austria
• Advanced Technology Advisor
• Consultant & Information modeling Analyst
• Software Developer & Tester
• Technical Support
• Identified and conducted trials using emerging technologies to improve in-house development processes and to identify new product add-ons and strategies.
• Developed prototypes and consulted clients on integrating IBM workflow management product with insurance information models.
• Contributed to development and integration of the ISO9000 Advisory product add-on to the IBM workflow management product.
• Tested aspects of the multi-platform, multi-protocol workflow product.
• Taught course on Audio hard/software technology to the speech recognition software development group.
• Installed, maintained, and administered heterogeneous networks, servers and individual development environments for 160 in-house software developers.
Awards and affiliation
• Award for excellence, Jerusalem College of Technology
• University of Toronto Open Fellowship
• 2005- Chapter chair of Austrian Scientist and Researchers in America (ASCINA), Toronto
• 2002 ITU Study Group, Question 12/17 -Requirements Languages
Languages
English, German, Hebrew
Programming languages
C, C++, ADA, Smalltalk, MS-Visual Basic.Net, Perl, various assembly languages (Intel 8051 microcontroller, VAX, etc.)