Curriculum Vitae

by vlado on Fri, 2009-10-02 13:15

Summary

Programmer, turned systems manager, turned programmer blended with a systems architect and a dollop of a researcher. Experienced in programming for the web, (web) system design, web site maintenance, general unix system administration, network management Fluent in English, Russian, Bulgarian

Skills

networking, web services, knowledge management, systems administration, PHP, scheme, functional programming, a bit of haskell & erlang, data mining, software design, web design, Drupal, linux, UNIX, ... Should stop here - encountered a lot, forgot even more, but I do know how to revise fast, if really required.

Experience

Freelancer

drupal development, project management, web development, web design, entertainment, other programming, teaching, mentoring

2010 –

Snowed under, will fill, in the meantime look at my portfolio

Senior Research Associate

project management, web development, web design, systems administration, conference management

Manufacturing Engineering Centre
Cardiff University January 2005 – December 2010
(5 years)

There are many facets to this position. Part of my job is to maintain and develop the IT infrastructure of two Networks of Excellence 4m and I*PROMS.

Organise, evangelise, liaise with the technical support for the video/web conferencing networks of the projects.
Design, development and maintenance of their web presence.
As part of the job have been a Technical coordinator for the organising committees of the I*PROMS (2005-2009) and 4M (2005 -2009) conferences.
Sit on the organising committee of IPROMS Conference (2005-2009)
Design and develop the 4m-association web presence (http://www.4m-association.org)
Design, and maintain the websites of a number of collaborative research projects like: nanoaccess at Cardiff, EuminaFab Cardiff Hub,, Multilayer, Tai-Chi, Premi and others
Design and/or maintain the websites of conferences: 4M/ICOMM 2009 conference, FP7 Conference, INDIN 2009 (infrastructure maintenance) ...

Research Associate/Systems Administrator

project management, web development, web design, systems administration

Cardiff University Jan 1999 – Dec 2004
(5 years)

Research, development and system support of/in a number of projects.Lead the team maintaining the IT infrastructure of the MEC, Cardiff University

Systems Administrator

Acvilon Jan 1998 – June 1998

Design, develop and maintain the infrastructure of a privately held small internet service provider.

Systems Administrator

University of Rousse Sep 1996 – Dec 1997

Systems administration, class support, teaching.

Assorted other jobs

Technical Coordinator

I*PROMS Conferences 2005 - 2009

Part of the conference organising committee, responsible for all IT related requirements of the conference - websites, paper submission and review, discussions...

Technical Coordinator

4M Conferences 2005 - 2009

Part of the conference organising committee, responsible for all IT related requirements of the conference - websites, paper submission and review, discussions...

Technical Coordinator

FP7 Manufacturing Conferences 2007 - 2009

Part of the conference organising committee, responsible for all IT related requirements of the conference

Guest Editor

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence September 2006

Guest editor of a special issue of The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation (volume 19, Number 6, September 2006), IFAC

Programmer/volunteer

Alter ego 1996 – Present
(13 years)

Free software programming for various projects. This is an umbrella position, to tick my mostly silent involvement with free software.

Google Summer of Code 2006 mentor for Drupal - mentored the Collaborative Editor drupal module project
various Drupal related odd jobs - template system, installer/package manager prototyping, a couple of now defunct modules, ...
have been involved with drupal quite early - just check my drupal id (842)
support in forums and irc for a number of projects throughout the years

Education

Rusenski universitet 'Angel Kanchev' 1989 – 1994

MEng, IT, Computer Science, Engineering

The degree courses include modules in mathematics, physics, materials, programming, operating systems, electronics... The course finishes with a degree project and a viva.

Excellent grades (Viva 6.00 out of 6)

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