Prague College

Jorge Carrillo teaches in the HND Computing Programme, he focuses in IT Security, IT process improvement and IT Systems analysis and design. Jorge obtained his PhD in applied Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno; after his graduation he was involved in delivering IT security reviews across Europe, improving IT processes and reducing operational risk.Currently, he is responsible for the IT Risk Management and IT Policies processes for GE Money Bank Czech Republic.

Jorge has shared his thoughts about IT Security and IT trends with the Czech Media in the last 3 years and has been recognized as a certified professional for the last 7 years; becoming an active member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and participating as speaker in several academic and professional seminars. Jorge says: "Graduates are the future - let's be prepared today to solve tomorrow's real world problems"

Talks, papers and contributions: http://www.e-jorge.com/contributions.html

 

 

Radek Honzik has joined the Prague College staff in 2012. He has been teaching advanced databases with the added focus on the logical structure of the programming and query languages. He has obtained two master degrees and a doctorate (Ph.D.). The first master degree is from General Mathematics and the English language, and the second one from Logic and Computational Linguistics.

He earned his Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. His dissertation dealt with problems in abstract mathematics (set theory). His research interest include advanced topics in set theory (his papers were published in several impacted mathematical journals).

Publications (research):

• Easton's theorem and large cardinals (joint with Sy D. Friedman), Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 154(3), pp 191-208, 2008
• Global singularization and the failure of SCH, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 161(7), pp 895-915, 2010
• A characterization of lifting generics for Sacks-like forcings, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Mathematica et Physica, 51, pp 49-55, 2010
• A definable failure of the Singular Cardinal Hypothesis (joint with Sy D. Friedman), to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics
• Easton's theorem and large cardinals from the optimal hypothesis (joint with Sy D. Friedman) (revised), submitted
• Fusion and large cardinal preservation (joint with Sy D. Friedman and Lyubomyr Zdomskyy), submitted
• Supercompactness and Failures of GCH (joint with Sy D. Friedman), submitted

Publications (general audience)

• Quick guide to independence results in set theory, Miscellanea Logica VII, pp. 89-131, 2009
• How many numbers there are?, Prague College Research Bulletin, 2010/2

Dr. Laban Mwansa has vast international experience in computing ranging over 20 years. He has lectured and offered IT consultancy services in various industries and universities in Zambia, South Africa and the Czech Republic. He works as a Telecommunications consultant/trainer for Telco mobile operators, and his research interests are in Peer-to-Peer distributed systems and Networks.
He has published many scientific articles and has presented at international conferences. Some of Dr. Mwansa’s publications are referenced in the Web of Science (WoS), a U.S. database of quality papers and the Scopus (European database “equivalent” to WoS).
Dr. Mwansa earned his PhD from the Czech Technical University in Computer Science and Engineering.  He enjoys transferring skills to students and helping to shape their career development.
Some publications include:

• Ensuring fault tolerance in generic network location service In Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Modeling and Simulation. Brussels: European Council for Modeling and Simulation, 2008, vol. 1, p. 254-260. ISBN 978-0-9553018-5-8.
• Investigating generic network location service based on DHT technology (Paper in Conference Proceedings) In Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Software Engineering in east and south Europe. New York: ACM, 2008, p. 43-49. ISBN 978-1-60558-076-0.
• Generic Network Location Service (Online Paper) South African Computer Journal - SACJ [online]. 2010, no. 46, p. 49-58. ISSN 1015-7999.

Hobbies and interests include research, traveling, golf, rugby, football and cricket.

George Coppedge currently teaches graduate and undergraduate Information Technology courses in Prague.  He has been teaching university-level courses since 1994.  He has also worked as a corporate trainer in the US. His courses emphasise practical PC skills, which significantly enhance students’ marketability to employers.

Prior to teaching, he held a series of steadily increasing positions of responsibility in IT, starting as a junior programmer and leading up to be a professional services systems integrator.
His business background and professional IT experience have combined to produce a realistic and results-oriented philosophy that students welcome and appreciate. He has been officially recognised by students for his teaching skills.
He has also designed and conducted several computerised competitive business simulations covering industries such as wireless telephones and commodities trading.

 

 

 

 

 

Joel Imhoof has worked in sales, public relations, and advertising both in the USA and in the Czech Republic. He is a founding partner of Language & Skills, a network of teachers focused on delivering high-end hard/soft skills seminars. These experiences have provided him with valuable insights into the art of poignant communication using a variety of creative methods- assets he now brings to bear as a teacher.

Joel holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from the University of North Texas. He has studied abroad in both Guatemala and England and has been based in the Czech Republic for the last 9 years.

Joel is a certified Czech/English translator, a cautious rock climber, and a dismally land-locked SCUBA diver.

 

 

Dusan Veljkovic is a software engineer who comes to Prague College with a wide range of professional teaching experience in the areas of operating systems, programming languages, and research projects.

He also has an extensive business background, working in IT sales and consulting in Prague since 1992. He is the author of two technical books, Programming Language BASIC and Basic Algorithms for Programming, published by Tehnicka knjiga and the Ministry of Education in Belgrade respectively.

Prior to coming to Prague, Dusan Veljkovic was a lecturer at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies in Belgrade and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Belgrade, where he taught operating systems.

 

 

 

David graduated from Czech Technical University, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering. He started to work in IT professionally about 15 years ago. He started as a developer writing code in Delphi, Visual Basic, C#  and then became a team leader of developers.

That soon changed into consulting customers' needs and project/ account management. He found sales and marketing appealing and stayed with them till today doing the same under different position names. He is currently working as Business Development Manager in Sprinx Systems, LLC.

David teaches Networking Technology and End User Support at Prague College.