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Rita Puzmanova PhD, MBA
independent specialist
Prague, Czech Republic
 

Rita Puzmanova is an independent networking specialist, writer, course developer and trainer. Since completing her postgraduate studies and working as an assistant professor, Rita has worked independently with two exceptions: working at ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute in Sophia Antipolis, a.k.a. French Silicon Valley) and consulting at systems integrator (Cisco Gold Partner). She also worked as a contractor of the European Commission responsible for an extensive European program aimed at restructuring national telecommunications sector.

Rita acted as a Certified Cisco Systems Instructor in 1994-1999 and as such has trained technical audience throughout Europe (in English, Spanish, Russian) to help them understand networking and router/switch operations, and to lead them to various certifications. Since then she has developed her own internetworking courses and has also become involved in an on-line education with her own "TCP/IP Specialist" web-based course offered via University of California, Los Angeles.

Rita holds M.Sc. (1989) in systems engineering (from Czech Technical University, Prague), Ph.D. (1992) in telecommunications (from Czech Technical University, Prague, with help of scholarships at Universidad de Valladolid and Politecnica de Madrid, Spain). Working independently does not mean that no management skills are needed, rather the contrary, which is why Rita has recently completed an MBA program with University of Calgary (Canada).

Rita has written a number of technical articles published in local and international print and on-line media. She is also an author of several books on networking and TCP/IP. The most recent one is "Routing and Switching: Time of Convergence?", published by Addison Wesley.

Rita is member of Communications and Computer Societies, and Standards Association of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and is active in Czech standardization committee on information technologies. She was also a founder and chairperson of the Czech Telecommunications Users Association.

Rita is multilingual, having studied and worked in many countries. She is interested in non-technical issues such as languages and translations, as well as creative thinking (she holds an Edward de Bono certificate on General Thinking Skills). Rita's great passion are her numerous cats that besides bringing pleasures help her become quite strong in veterinary science and art.


     

 Sandworm: a new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin’s most dangerous hackers
Greenberg A., Doubleday, New York, NY, 2019. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-385544-40-5)

“Digital security” has been a buzzword of the past decades. The vulnerabilities grow as fast as the digital networks and systems, or rather faster--all new technologies add to the long list of possible mean...

 

A survey of techniques for remote access to home networks and resources
Belimpasakis P., Stirbu V. Multimedia Tools and Applications 70(3): 1899-1939, 2014.  Type: Article

This paper was first published online two years ago (in 2012). The development and deployment of home networks supported by the boom of gradually higher capacity broadband Internet access have been extensive, hence the survey should no...

 

Optical fiber telecommunications: VIB (6th ed.)
Kaminow I., Li T., Willner A., ACADEMIC PRESS, Waltham, MA, 2013. 1148 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-123969-60-6)

The latest version of this complex overview of optical communications systems, technologies, and networks was updated for the sixth time in 2013. It consists of two impressive volumes. Part A, dedicated to components and subsystems, in...

 

Negotiating cultural encounters: narrating intercultural engineering and technical communication
Yu H., Savage G., Wiley-IEEE Press, Hoboken, NJ, 2013. 280 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-118061-61-9)

The narratives from various parts of the world in this tiny paperback demonstrate the issues that come with international/intercultural technical communication in the workplace. The narratives are presented as case studies. Each case, ...

 

Alan M. Turing: centenary edition
Turing S., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2012. 194 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-107020-58-0), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Alan Mathison Turing is now considered one of the greatest figures of the 20th century, yet his name was not recognized beyond mathematical circles until the 1970s, when his work on the breaking of the German Enigma code during World W...

 
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