Personal:

  Objective:

• A mid-level to senior software engineer position in multi-tier application development, GIS, computer vision, AI or mixture of the above.

  Summary:

• Over 5 years of experience as a software engineer, over 3 years in a senior position.
• Involved in the full life cycle of application development: preparation of the initial offer, gathering user requirements, conceptual and physical design, development, quality assurance, deployment, post-production support and maintenance.
• Involved in development of all tiers in client-server and multi-tier applications: database, business logic and presentation on both Windows NT/2000 and different flavors of UNIX systems. Experience in building highly scalable load-balanced internet applications.
• Solid background in OOAD (Object Oriented Application Design) and CASE tools, UML.
• Actively involved in the development of applications based on different RDBMS-es like Oracle, SQL Server and Informix.
• Strong in Microsoft DNA/.NET platform, including COM/DCOM/COM+, C++, MFC, ATL, ODBC, ADO, ASP, scripting. Background and experience with Windows 2000 Server family and .NET enterprise servers including IIS, Commerce Server, BizTalk, SQL Server, Application Center. Experience in Java server-side technology including servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB on the Apache/Tomcat/JBoss platform. Experience in C development on UNIX platforms.
• Experience in browser client-side development with HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Background in XML and vast experience in the use of DOM, SAX, XSLT, schemas and Web services (SOAP).
• Experience in GIS applications (ESRI) - Arc/Info, ArcView, ArcIMS, ArcSDE. Interest and knowledge in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.

  Past experience:

• 2000 - 2001
  Emplifi - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (location Tulsa, Oklahoma)
  Software Engineer/Consultant - Design and development of multi-tier applications.
• 2000 - 2001
  Virtual Affairs - Amsterdam, The Netherlands (location Sofia, Bulgaria)
  Senior Software Engineer - Design and development of e-commerce and content management applications for the Dutch market.
• 2000
  Innex Project - Wien, Austria (location Sofia, Bulgaria)
  Project Manager - Team leadership, design and development of a prototype of a web-based project management system.
• 1997-2000
  GIS Invest - Sofia, Bulgaria
  Project Manager - Team leadership, design and development of GIS systems. Assistance in integration of GIS components in legacy systems, Internet-enabling GIS systems. Assistance with pre-sales and post-sales technical presentations to customers. Delivery of technical leadership presentations about ESRI technologies to customers and partners.
• 1996-1997
  GIS Invest - Sofia, Bulgaria
  Software Engineer - Development of GIS applications for governmental and institutional clients.

  Education and certifications:

• 1995 - 2000
  Sofia City Technical University, Bulgaria
  M. Sc. in Communication Technique and Technology.
  Graduation paper: GIS-enabled Expert System for aiding the design of communication networks.
• 1990 - 1995
  Electronic Systems College (ElSys), Bulgaria
  Computer Specialist.
  Graduation paper: Prolog interpreter + full featured IDE.
• 2001
  Microsoft Certified Professional
  MCP Developing Distributed Applications with Visual C++.
  MCP Developing Desktop Applications with Visual C++.
  Over 70% score on both exams.
  Looking forward to full MCSD certification.

  Technical environment: