Who is Vlatko Zdrale

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Vlatko Zdrale

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Web Developer offering 5+ years of extensive experience in web standards and internationalization while embracing various aspects of web-based application development. Currently seeking an opportunity to apply previously acquired skills and expertise to achieve company goals. Experience in programming solutions that focus on HTML, PHP & MySQL, and relational database design. A dedicated technical professional with rare combination of creative and technical skills, possessing the following strengths:

• Ability to learn new programming languages and concepts rapidly to meet demands of business applications.


• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical proficiency.


• Responsible, persistent, and well organized.

KEY COMPENTENCIES

• Creation of dynamic data driven web sites including personalization, search, and commerce functionality.


• Ability to develop, coordinate, and facilitate projects from stage of concept to full implementation.


• Applies high level of motivation and organization to all professional endeavors.


• Works well independently and collaboratively within team-based environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Excellent knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming and software development life-cycle, 15+ years of (general) programming experience, proposal and estimate writing.

Programming Languages	Operating System (installing & maintenance)
PHP 4 & PHP 5 & MySQL JAVA (Sun Java Developer Kit) C/C++ (Borland C/C++/Builder, Visual C++ Pascal (Borland Delphi, Borland Turbo Pascal) CCOBOL, Basic, Assembler	Windows 9x/NT/2000 MS DOS C/C++ (Borland C/C++/Builder, Visual C++ Linux Mikrotik router OS
Web Programming	Networking
HTML/CSS expert PHP & MySQL expert JavaScript & AJAX Making Java Applet-a skills Excellent knowledge of difference between browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera...	Installing & maintaining of LAN, WAN & WLAN, UTP cabling TCP/IP network protocols Network services: Telnet, FTP, SMTP, DNS… Apache web server, IIS setup/configuration
Web design	Hardware
Web interface Design: excellent knowledge of Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, PaintStar...	Building, maintaining & upgrading PC systems Excellent knowledge of PC hardware, architectures and families of processors
Databases	Multimedia
MySQL MS SQL Server Access	Digital sound editing: SoundForge, CoolEdit, Cakewalk, Audacity etc. Digital video editing (Adobe Premier, ...) 3D computer animation (3D MAX,...)

EDUCATION

B.S. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
Organizational Engineer (Information Systems), Degree Awarded January, 2006.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TISHMA Investments, Schaumburg, IL Network Engineer Installed, configured, maintained LAN, Internet connections, and related computing environments, including hardware, system & applications software, and all configurations. Maintained network hardware and software and monitored network to ensure network availability, performed necessary maintenance to support network availability. Diagnosed hardware and software problems, and replaced defective components. Planed and implemented network security measures in order to protect data, software, and hardware. Performed data backups and disaster recovery operations.

March 2006 – Avgust 2006

SRB doo, Belgrade, Serbia Web Programmer – Systems Engineering Designed and implemented solutions for accounting web applications Contributed technical expertise to all projects while actively being engaged in the managing contractor programmers and designers. Deployed, tuned and optimized web applications to ensure high performance, and effectiveness. Developed easy-to-understand documentation. Developed and designed browser / platform independent web-based software components and application prototypes.

2001 – February 2006