Personal Information
Name:
Ivan Vlaevski
Birthday:
28 November 1972
Place of Birth:
Sofia
LinkedIn
https://bg.linkedin.com/pub/ivan-vlaevski/37/31b/125
E-mail:
ivlaevski@gmail.com
Mobile:
+359 878799313
Communication skills
- Team spirit;
- Good ability to adapt to multicultural environments gained through my work experience in German, French and American companies;
- Good communication skills gained through my experience as an analyst, architect and developer.
Organizational skills
- Good at meeting deadlines and managing people’s time, gained through my years of learning how to properly assign tasks, allocate resources and complete a project.
- Leadership, gained by being responsible for teams with up to 12 developers
Business skills
- Gained experience with Business process improvement, Requirements gathering, Iterative development, Project cost planning, Collaboration tools, Market research, Risk mitigation and management, Results-oriented solutions
- Effective multi-tasker
Agile Skills
user observations, problem interviews, competitor analysis, business modelling, product road-mapping, user stories, scenarios, design sketches, product demos, user tests, metrics and analytic and release planning
Cloud Platforms
Azure, IBM Cloudant, AWS
Languages
C#, JavaScript, JAVA, VC++, XML, HTML, XSLT, PL\SQL, LINQ, CSS, (Pascal, Visual Basic, PHP, JQuery)
Frameworks
Windows 10 UWP, Angular JS, Windows Phone 7,8, Spring, Hibernate, jQuery, WinRT, .NET Framework (ASP.NET, WCF), Silverlight (Web & Phone), AJAX, COM/DCOM, Win API
Concepts
Agile Scrum, OOA/OOD (UML), Multi-tier and Multi-threading architecture, Agile software development, PCI Compliance, DAO, RDO, RDS, HTML5, Kanban
Software
Visual Studio (98, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015), NetBeans, Windows 10 SDK, Windows Mobile SDKs, Windows Phone 7 SDKs, Expression Blend 4, IIS 6 & 7, MS Team Foundation Server, CVS
Databases
Oracle 10/11/12, Microsoft SQL Server 2008\2012\2014\2016 Express, mySQL
Systems
Windows (98, XP, 7, 8, 10), Windows 2003\2008 Server, Windows Mobile 6.0 & 6.5, Windows Phone (7,8,8.1,10)
Communication
English, German
Work History
From 06/2020
Head of Software Engineering Department and Manager of Architecture
KPMG ITS OOD – Sofia, Bulgaria
- TBD
From 04/2017
Platform Architect
KPMG ITS OOD – Sofia, Bulgaria
(first 6 months working through BulPros employment)
- Design and document a new ALM process for multinational teams developing micro-service applications as CI\CD;
- Prototype Micro-service solutions for different domains;
- Design, document, and implement Test Data Management for Test Automation;
- Research and develop decision matrixes for choosing ESB, frameworks, tools, and libraries.
- Creating PoC solutions
- Documenting researches, decisions, solutions and spices on a daily basis into guidelines and company standards.
- Introduced new technologies, tools and frameworks into the company
- Training developers and QAs on workshops
- Help with development and bug-fixing
11/2015 to 04/2017
Senior Developer & Team Lead
Strypes – Sofia, Bulgaria
- Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product requirements and use cases.
- Developed and evolved the consumer-facing, multi-channel roadmap for desktop, mobile and mobile web applications.
- Collaborated with the sales, marketing and support teams to launch products on time and within budget.
- Partnered with the marketing team to translate product features into customer value propositions to be used in consumer messaging.
- Gathered detailed use cases and requirements through regular on-site visits, virtual meetings and customer advisory board sessions.
- Led bi-weekly Scrum planning meetings to develop team strategies and define project goals.
- Led communication with stakeholders regarding product goals and progress made.
- Translated technical specifications into detailed product requirements.
- Coached and mentored new staff members, including conducting performance reviews.
- Tested and implemented new technology-based global projects such as
- GSOP – network of car charging stations managed in Azure
- EViCT – Visualizing knowledge graph of enterprise characteristics, materials, attributes and value parameters. Allow user to interact with it in order to search relations.
- G2S – Text recognition solution with adaptable terminology dictionaries.
02/2015 to 11/2015
Product Owner
Object Systems International – Sofia, Bulgaria
- Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product requirements and use cases.
- Collaborate with the developer team Manage stakeholders
- Established criteria for each milestone within the product roadmap as a means to measure developmental progress.
- Develop the production road map
- Describe the user experience and product features
- Decide what to do next. Set the Sprint goal. Detail stories.
- Collect and analyses data to validate the goal.
- Update UX/feature description and business model
- Track the project progress (time and budget)
- Coordinate the product launch
- Lead communication with stakeholders regarding product goals and progress made.
- Translated technical specifications into detailed product requirements.
05/2014 to 02/2015
Unit Manager
Object Systems International – Sofia, Bulgaria
Duties: Manage work in several projects and be personally responsible for developers and work progress in those teams.
Product descriptions:
- Insurance Claim Management System
- Loan Management System
- Email Campaign Manager
- Android E-book Reader
Technologies: Company made a sharp turn to JAVA development. All web-based development is Spring with Hibernate.
08/2012 to 05/2014
Architectural Design and Developer
Object Systems International – Sofia, Bulgaria
Duties: Working alone on several projects as universal developer and designer.
Product descriptions:
- Recruitment Management System – back office
- Recruitment Management System – front end
- Campaign Manager
- Company Website
- Call center service
Technologies: Inherited projects are developed with Delphi, Xml, XSLT and Java Script. All new projects are developed in different technologies, like Silverlight, LightSwitch, MVC with ASP.NET, WordPress and PHP.
09/2009 to 08/2012
Dedicated Developer and Subject Mater Expert
Object Systems International – Sofia, Bulgaria
Duties: Architectural design and development of specific modules for a key client. Like PCI Compliant Payment Gateway module, Appointment and Marketing Campaigns modules, and real-time synchronization module. Developing new functionalities and support for existing code. I work in a team with one Oracle expert.
Product descriptions:
- Travel Club Software – customized for one client.
Technologies: Bigger part of development and support was made in Delphi. The latest modules are developed in C# as Windows Services
02/2006 to 09/2009
Developer
Object Systems International – Sofia, Bulgaria
Duties: Developing new functionalities and support for existing code. I work in a team of 2 to 5 developers and one or two quality assurance experts. Each change was UAT by the client before delivery in production.
Product descriptions:
- Travel Club Software – specifically designed to facilitate the diverse aspects of a travel club organization, no matter large or small. It is a web-based SAAS in CLOUD.
Technologies: The core is a multi-layer application; build 2003 with Oracle database, ISAPI extension for IIS 6 (Delphi) and client side with AJAX variation build in JavaScript using XML/XSLT.
08/2003 to 02/2006
Various positions
IGE+XAO – Sofia, Bulgaria
Duties: As a Team Leader I was responsible for teams from 3 to 6 developers and projects with high priority for the company. Starting with developing of VBA Macros-es for “SEE Electrical” API, used for various projects in AIRBUS France, my teams have worked on different CAD related applications in 2D and 3D.
Technologies: VBA for “SEE Electrical” API Delphi for “SEE Electrical” components VC++ for Dassault Systemes – CATIA Node graph architecture for harness design in 2D and 3D.
09/2001 to 07/2003
Software Developer
APIS Hristovich Ltd., Sofia – Sofia, Bulgaria
Duties: As subcontractor, I have analyzed, engineered, designed and organized the development of program components and solutions.
Technologies: Delphi 1 for 16 bit windows 3.1 and Delphi 4 for 32 bit versions. In addition – all projects should work in both environments as fast as possible
05/2000 to 06/2001
Developer & Project Leader
Webtech Ltd. Bulgaria, Sofia
Duties: Developing WEB base applications using ASP, HTML, WAP, Etc.
Own company
Vlaevski LLC
From: 2010
Position: CEO
Projects:
– over 100 web-sites in PHP, ASP.Net and Java Script.
– Online education portal
– – Style 21
– Business Management System Framework
– – Apolita
– – Best Wash
– Targeted Social Network
– – Acorn
– Windows Phone Apps and Games
– – Coin Grabber
– – Medical Band Alert
– – Weather Forecast with Star Wars quotes
Technologies:
– Online education portal
– – ORACLE, Silverlight, ASP.NET
– Business Management System Framework
– – mySQL, PHP REST JSON API
– – HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Angular JS, Kendo UI
– Targeted Social Network
– – mySQL, PHP REST JSON API
– – HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Angular JS
– Windows Phone Apps and Games
– – Windows Phone SDK and Microsoft Band SDK
Education
University Name:
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Department:
Transport technique and technologies
Degree:
Engineer at transport technique and technologies
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Education period: 1993 – 1998
High school Name:
Exemplary technical school for power engineering
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Education period: 1988 – 1993
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