Zub Mikhail

Childhood

I was born on January 7, 1989 in the city of Makeevka, Donetsk Region. My mother's name is Zub Marina, father's - Alexander Getman. I am an only child. My parents divorced a couple of years after my birth and I have stayed with my mother. I still have a lot of bright but fragmentary memories from childhood, without any chronology. I remember a lot of playing in the yard, I remember my toys and books. I was a sickly child and did not go to kindergarten, so in my mother's absence grandfather and grandmother were busy with my upbringing. Their lessons were not lost and I was been sent to school when I was 6 years old.

School

I went to comprehensive school #37 in Makeevka town. My first teacher was Ivanova Lyudmila. I ended up in a pilot class. As an experiment, we addtionally were taught computer science and sometimes were treated with sweets and marmalade for correct answers. We received badges with names to make it easier to get acquainted. All badges were lost in a few weeks.

Time passed quickly. There is no fourth grade in ukrainian schools, therefore from the third grade we moved immediately to the fifth. My new supervising teacher was Lisnyak Tatiana, a teacher of geography and economics. The classes were mixed, I had many new friends and acquaintances. A usual school life - lessons, recess, homework, games on the playground, friendships and fights.

I began to study English because of my mother's insistence. My first English teacher, who laid the foundation of my knowledge, was Babenko Nadezhda. It was hard at first, but I got used to it quickly and even liked the language. After Nadezhda moved to Kharkov, I continued to perfecting my skills with another great teacher - Vasilenko Lyudmila.

The high school passed more consciously. In grade 9 I started doing weightlifting in the gym near the school. During high school I received a speech experience on various conferences, meetings and social events. I have learned how to prepare and organize public presentations, and now I have no problems with making a presentation or a report. I have also participated in different school contests and have had prizes in computer science competitions.

I suppose my career was determined when my parents bought me a computer, when I was 12 years old. At first I only used it for games. Later I started to do little experiments. It was interesting to solve the problems that appear with all computers. My interest in computer science was noticed by Nellie Arkhipova, deputy headmaster of the school. There was a programming study group in the school where we studied the principles of algorithmization and wrote programs in Borland Pascal.

My university and profession decision was simple. Even before the high school I already knew that I had to be a programmer. Before school graduation I advanced in mathematics with a school teacher Rastorguyev Nikolai and studied computer science with DonNTU employee Merenkova Ludmila. They structured the chaos of knowledge which had accumulated in my head by that time. It was a very diccicult but interesting time

In 2005 I graduated with honours from school, and had already entered university.

University

In 2005, passing math and programming exams I entered the largest university of Donbass - Donetsk National Technical University on specialty "Computer systems and networks. Specialization: protection of information systems" to the budget form of training.

The first academic year was simple. The condescending attitude of professors to yesterday's schoolboys was felt. By the second year the real hard university life had started. All of the huge amount of knowledge we gained from professors finally came together in the fourth year.

All of us have had personal fantasies about the university, I guess, but the reality is different. Education was difficult. Sometimes it was interesting, sometimes not. But the tests have only hardened us. Looking back, I think that each of us knew exactly what we wanted from life.

During the study I graduated from the Military Department of Donetsk National Technical University with specialization in logistics, maintenance and repair of antiaircraft artillery pointing electronics, and was promoted to second lieutenant. The only pity is the ZSU-23-4, we didn't get to ride it.

After I passed the Final State Examination and received the bachelor's degree, I enrolled in graduate on the budget form. I chose Alexei Krasichkov, associate professor of computer engineering department, as my supervisor.

During graduation I completed a Java technology course. Classes were held by assistant professor Babkov Victor. I would recommend this course to anyone who is interested in Java technology. Believe me, it was very interesting. Personally, I want to continue to study the Java platform and pass SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer) exam.

The course includes such programs as:

• "Fundamentals of Java Programming Language" SL-110-SE6
• "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML" OO-226
• "Java Programming Language" SL-275-SE6

I decided to link the theme of my master's thesis with management of wireless data collection. There is no secret that the wireless becomes an essential part of our everyday life. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and WiMax are common and usual. However, there is enough room for wireless technologies implementation in civil and industrial area.

As a part of preparing to my master's thesis, I participated in the scientific and technical conferences for students, postgraduates and young scientists. The high interest the participants showed in these presentations shows the actuality of the chosen topics. Articles were published in the respective collections of articles and are presented in the "Library". My reports have won the first place in respective sections at the both conferences.

Future Plans

With big ambitions, we must work very hard to implement them. In our profession, the day when you say to yourself: "I know enough" will be the first day of the decay of your career. To be competitive we need to continually improve our knowledge and skills.

As a specialist I dream about interesting, useful and well-paid job to unleash my skills and talents. In DonNTU I received a good education in hardware and software design and engineering. So the area of embedded systems is the most interesting to me, as it requires great knowledge it requires great knowledge in both software and hardware engineering.

It should be noted that when there are several different operating systems on the market, the importance of code reuse increases. Therefore, I plan to continue to work with cross-platform development tools. Also I want to pay great attention to open source software and GNU\Linux. Perhaps I will participate in an international open-source project.

Also, I plan to continue the study of foreign languages - English or German. And, if lucky, to continue studying computer science in the EU.