Hi, My Name is Tomislav and I am from Zagreb, the Capitol of Croatia. I consider myself a serious computer addict. On this website you’ll find some info regarding my professional orientation towards software engineering, web application development, databases and other IT related areas. Even if I have some expirience in open source domain, I’m stick to proprietary Microsoft’s technologies since I’m trying to make a decent living out of it. Nevertheless I think that Microsoft’s intentions and directions are very interesting and that the best things are just yet to come. Here’s also free stuff to download such as tutorials, images, programs and even music in music portfolio section. Well I hope you’ll find it usefull, be free to check it out (e.g. subscribe to RSS), drop a line of comments if that’s comfortable with you and most of all, enjoy your stay.

Education:

• Academic Degree: Master of Profession at Faculty of Traffic Engineering, University of Zagreb (Thesis: “Distributed information system for GPS tracking using web technologies”)
• High School Degree: Baccalaureate (Bac) for Mathematics and Computer Sciences at High School (Gymnasium) Nikola Tesla
• Completed IT Courses: Visual Basic Programmer, Microsoft Office Administratior
• Attended Seminars, Trainings and Conferences: Visual Studio 2008 Workshop (Redmond), MSDN events, Developer Days, WinDays 
• Self-education: Books (lots of them), self-training using web-casts, tutorials, MOCs 

Expirience in IT domain:

• 15 years of active programming and using RAD Tools & Application Frameworks
• 8 years in custom application development, web development and authoring
• 6 years in enterprise solutions development (OLTP, ERP, Integration)
• 7 years in and relational database design and administration
• 6 years in IT tutoring & Consultation
• 6 years in freelance technical writing (IT journalism)
• 2 years in Project Management and Developement Team Leadership

Known Technologies and Tools:

• Enterprise oriented technologies: Microsoft .NET ®
• Web technologies: ASP.NET, Classic ASP 3.0, AJAX, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP
• IDE’s: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - 2008
• Programming languages: Visual C#, Visual Basic 6.0, JavaScript
• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2000-2008, mySQL
• Server technologies: IIS 5.0 - 7.0, Microsoft Application Center 2000
• Web authoring: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
• Content Management Systems: DotNetNuke, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Custom

IT Certificates:

• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for .NET
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) for .NET
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for Visual Studio 6.0

Languages:

• English (Proficient User),
• German (Basic User)

Employment:

In2 d.o.o. informacijski inženjering (2002-present)
In2 d.o.o. is leading regional enterprise software company,  Microsoft Gold Partner with six areas of compentency, Oracle partner and IBM partner. Company is recognized as one of the biggest software producer in Croatia. I work as a Software Engineer, Senior Developer, and more than often as a Consultant, Mentor & Team Lead in Microsoft technology department, working on Enterprise scale projects and ERP/OLTP solutions.

Pc Chip IT Magazine (2001-2008)
PcChip is one of the best selling magazines about IT trends, software, hardware, internet and gaming in Croatia. I worked as freelance technical writer/journalist and during that time I wrote more than 70 articles about programming, office computing and web development.
Click here for the list of all published articles …

Zagreb City Municipaltiy (2002)
I worked for eight months in ITC deparment at Zagreb City Municipality. My particular duty was to design and develop intranet portal based on open-source web oriented technologies such as PHP and mySQL. Main features: basic CMS capabilites, news, knowledge base, manageable download pages for documents and application forms, yellow pages, loose integration with few other web-apps, LDAP authentication system based on Novell Netware etc.

Proanima IT education center (1997-2001)
Job description: IT tutoring in programming (Visual Basic, Ms Access), web development (ASP, IIS) and Ms Office Suite (Word, Excel), Workstation hardware/software maintenance, consultation, developing seminars, tutorials and authoring verified educational programs. I also worked in primary school as tutor/trainer for school childern, tutoring IT/computer related educational programs.

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• PcChip Articles