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Curriculum Vitae		
Personal information		
Surname(s) / First name(s)	MILEV, Mladen Georgiev	
Address(es)	Rua da Bombarda 66 1-DTO, Lisboa 1100-101, Portugal	
Telephone(s)		Mobile:	(+351) 96-98-64-859	
		
E-mail	mladen.milev@gmail.com	Webpage:	http://mladen.sdf-eu.org/	
		
Nationality	Bulgarian	Residence:	Portugal	
		
Date of birth	09.10.1978	Gender: 	Male	
		
Desired employment / Occupational field	IT Consultant, Team/Project Leader
Senior Software Developer	
		
Work experience		
		
Dates	March 2006 to Present	
Occupation or position held	Team Leader and Senior Java Developer	
Main activities and responsibilities	February 2007 – present: Team Leader and Senior Java Developer.
-	Recruited 3 junior java developers and formed independent team of 4 (including myself)
-	Team task management. Daily guidance and support. Provided hands-on-job training.
-	Support of Project Leader in planning activities, effort estimation.
-	Programming in Java, Eclipse RCP, XML, managing and resolving trouble reports on daily basis.
-	System engineering activities, writing and reviewing technical specifications for future product versions and features.

March 2006 – January 2007: Senor Java Developer, part of Transnet project. Developing SURPASS TransNet 5.0 – new version of a Java application for planning and management of optical DWDM networks based on SIEMENS SURPASS hiT7300 and SURPASS hiT7500 optical switches. 
-	Java coding using RCP in Eclipse, working with XML 
-	Support of system engineers, defining part of the software design and delivering functional specifications
-	Assisting product builds, resolving pre and post build problems.	
Name and address of employer	Nokia Siemens Networks S.A. (former Siemens Com. AG) – Alfragide, Lisbon; Portugal	
Type of business or sector	Research & Development, Information and Communication	

Dates	October 2004 to June 2005	
Occupation or position held	QA, Java Developer for netBuilder1 project	
Main activities and responsibilities	-	Validation and certification of stable software releases, Java code inspection.
-	Planning of testing activities, creating software and hardware test scenarios, defining testing environment, research of available testing tools, producing reports and giving recommendations for improvement.
-	Working with Cisco, and Extreme spanning tree enabled switches, using STP, RSTP, MSTP, EAPS and other proprietary Siemens protocols
-	Designed and setup demonstrational environment of 7 Linux based PCs for the project’s demonstrational facilities in SIEMENS central office in Munich, Germany	
Name and address of employer	Siemens AG – Alfragide, Lisbon; Portugal	
Type of business or sector	Research & Development, Information and Communication	

		
Dates	October 2003 to September 2004	
Occupation or position held	Associated Researcher	
Main activities and responsibilities	-	Working on an international project in the field of 3D Computer Graphics using Java3D, responsible for development of distributed collaboration tool for 3D graphical representation of ship-building process. 
-	Simulation of ship manoeuvring in fluids. Advanced mathematical computations on embedded nVidia graphical hardware with OpenGL and Cg 
-	Automating ship-model building process in 3D Max Studio. Developed several scripts in MaxScript automating the building process.	
Name and address of employer	SAEN - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon; Portugal	
Type of business or sector	Research & Development, Marine Engineering	

Education and training		

Dates	September 2000 to September 2003	
Title of qualification awarded	Engineer - Master of Science in Computer Science & Technology	
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Thesis: Virtual Reality Applications Development in Naval Architecture
Main courses cover topics in:
-	Programming languages – C++, Pascal, Assembler
-	Computer Architecture of x86 series, Multi-user Operating Systems UNIX/OpenVMS/Linux
-	Network Programming, Computer Graphics, Data Bases	
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Department of Information System and Technology, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria	
Level in national or international classification	University Degree	

Dates	September 1997 to September 2002	
Title of qualification awarded	Engineer - Master of Science in Communication Systems & Technology	
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Thesis: Monitoring and Maintenance of Communication Devices through Intranet/Internet Based Remote Terminals via SNMP
Main courses cover topics in:
-	Communications systems, Mobile communications, Fixed Line Communication Systems
-	Network Topologies, Wireless Network Topologies	
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Department of Telecommunication System and Technology, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria	

Dates	26 to 30 November 2007	
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	MANAGEMENT SKILLS  –  (Course: 290)
-	Developed a proactive customer-focused approach
-	Enhanced leadership abilities by developing emotional intelligence
-	Communicate with, motivate and empower your team
-	Delegation of work to individuals and teams
-	Developing a management vision for success	
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Learning Tree International, NSN - Lisbon; Portugal	

Dates	January 2003 to July 2003	
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	SOCRATES - ERASMUS International Student. Academic training on "Virtual Reality Applications Development in Naval Architecture". Work involves knowledge of 3D computer graphics used for graphical representation of third-party data, distributed network programming with Java and RMI, extensive object oriented programming with Java and Java 3D library. 	
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	SAEN - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon; Portugal	
Level in national or international classification	Research & Development, Marine Engineering	

Dates	October 2001 to June 2002	
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Completed all 4 semesters of Cisco’s CCNA Network Administrator training course. Obtained working knowledge for administration and 24 hour maintenance of LAN/WAN networks, administration of Cisco routers and switches, setup and support of client and server-side software.  	
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Regional Cisco Academy - Varna, Bulgaria	

Dates	September 1992 to May 1997	
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Main courses cover the following subjects:
-	Languages: English, German, Bulgarian
-	Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, Sports, Art	
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	English Language School "Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov"  - Veliko Tarnovo  , Bulgaria	
Level in national or international classification	Secondary School	

Personal skills and competences		
Mother tongue(s)	Bulgarian	
Other language(s)		
Self-assessment		Understanding	Speaking	Writing	
European level (*)		Listening	Reading	Spoken interaction	Spoken production		
English		C2	Proficient	C2	Proficient	C2	Proficient	C2	Proficient	C2	Proficient	
Portuguese		B2	Independent User	B2	Independent User	B2	Independent User	B2	Independent User	B1	Independent User	
Russian 		C1	Proficient	C1	Proficient	B2	Independent User	B2	Independent User	B1	Independent User	
German		B1	Independent User 	A2	Basic	A2	Basic	A2	Basic	A2	Basic	
 	(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages	
Social skills and competences	-	Leader and Team player
-	Ability to work in multilingual and multicultural environment, distributed software development
-	Participating in team building activities	
		
Organisational skills and competences	-	Critical and analytical thinking
-	Working in strict time limits
-	Taking initiative 	
		
Technical skills and competences	-	Installation and setup of LAN/WAN networks, Administering Linux and Windows user stations
-	Configuring Routers and Intelligent switching devices (Cisco, Extreme)
-	Programming IC and PIC processors
-	Working with low voltage electronics	
		
Computer skills and competences	-	Working daily with Linux/BSD; proficient in MS Windows XP/2000/NT, DOS, Cisco IOS
-	Java/Swing/SWT/RPC, C++, XML, bash, MaxScript, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS
-	Eclipse, JCreator, NetBeans, Borland C++ Builder, .NET Studio, javac, gcc, Junit,
-	IBM Rational ClearCase, CVS, Subverion, MyLar
-	IBM Rational Project Manager, MS Project, GanttProject, MS Office 2003/XP/2000/97, OpenOffice 2.0/1.2, Gimp 2.6, Adobe Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Fireworks, FrontPage	
		
Other skills and competences	-	Ability to talk in front of public, present information to general public. 
-	Ability to apprehend fast new technologies
-	Ability to work under pressure
-	Corporal commanding skills, discipline and respect to rules
-	Cooking skills	
		
Driving licence	Category A – motorcycles above 50 cm3 and allowing speed above 60km/h
Category B – vehicles with up to 8 passenger seats
Category M – motorcycles up to 50 cm3 and allowable speed up to 60km/h 	
		
Additional information		
		
Military service	Mandatory military service of 6 months, from July 2005 to December 2005 in Bulgarian Armed Forces, division Bulgarian Air Force. Rank of corporal. General military training. Knowledge to maintain and use fire weapons.	
		
European Personnel Selection Office	September 2006 - EPSO/TA/IT/06 - Call for expression of interest to constitute a database of candidates to be recruited as temporary agents carrying out tasks in the field of information technology within the European Institutions.
European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO/F) announce that my application profile under candidate number 549601 has fulfilled all criteria and is included in the final EPSO database of eligible candidates for a period of 3 years.	
		
Voluntary activities	-	Member and co-founder of Free Software Association – Bulgaria (2002 - 2004)
-	Participating in localization of KDE and other software in Bulgarian
-	Participating in various free/open software events including OpenFest 2003, 2004
-	Giving lectures on free/open software development benefits	
		
Publications	-	"Open Source Business Model -- Benefits" - June 2002 , Business Software Magazine, Bulgaria
-	Various online media websites on topics related to Free Software and its conceptual benefits	
		
Awards	(1) - netBuilder project won an Innovation Reward granted by Siemens Worldwide and resulted in 6 inventions which are being issued as patents in the European Patent Office	
		
Inventions	№ 2005E07623 – “Inflate/Expand Figures for additional info in GUI” registered on 02 May 2005 (SIEMENS netBuilder team effort)	
		
Other	I do hold a certificate for European Citizenship with Portuguese Residence Address, since April 2007 (a.k.a. Residence Card)