Resume (CV)
Tadej Gregorčič | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Contact
Mobile: +386 31 340981 | Skype: tadej_gregorcic
February 08 to Present: COO and Founder / Motiviti d.o.o.
Keywords: web technology, marketing, operations, branding, system integration
January 05 to Present: CTO / R&D Manager, GRECO d.o.o. / Kiomatic Group
Keywords: software, management, system integration, embedded systems, technical training, SMB, enterprise, banking, kiosks, payment, web applications, C++, C#, .NET, Windows Embedded, AJAX, Flash, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PHP
I managed a team of developers and actively developed software for Windows systems, Windows Embedded platforms (Embedded CE, XP Embedded), Ingenico’s Unicapt32 EMV payment application platform and the web. Trained technical and sales teams in Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows XP Embedded. Designed software architectures, interfaces between various devices, card payment host systems, retail platforms. Designed software and hardware architectures for unattended payment systems at petrol stations, banks, transport systems, and others. Designed web applications and web sites, wrote copy, prepared sales presentations. Coordinated company re-branding. Designed a knowledge base and sharing system that optimizes R&D, sales and operational performance. Designed and co-developed a pioneer integrated fuel dispenser with a payment and advertising function. I designed and developed a document management software package in use in a large insurance company, two call center software packages and an unattended device (kiosk) application for web surfing, payment and advertising. I designed or co-designed all database architectures at the company, using Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
- Supervised the R&D that resulted in a pioneer unattended payment terminal EMV bank certification (Activa, Slovenia / Ingenico i9400 payment terminal)
- Brought numerous software packages to 1.0 as developer or development manager
July 00 to January 05: Senior software developer, WideLabs d.o.o.
Keywords: voice technologies, software development, kiosks, complex client-server architectures
Designed and developed complex remote management and surveillance system for unattended devices in C++ and MFC under Windows 2000. Developed interfaces for various devices and software systems. Integrated and enhanced voice recognition and text-to-speech technologies. Developed a map and location system for device surveillance. Designed and developed games for gaming machines.
- Developed vital software parts of first multimedia phone booth in Slovenia (Telekom Slovenija, APC Interactive)
July 1999 – December 2005: Freelance translator
Keywords: translation, proof-reading, desktop publishing, song lyrics
Independently financed my education by doing translation work. Translated technical and general documents from and to German, English and Slovenian for agencies in Europe, Russia and Canada (for end customers Panasonic, Buderus, Telekom Slovenija, Husqvarna, etc.). Translated and arranged song lyrics for a rock band (Granna) from Slovenian into English. Overseed and coordinated large desktop publishing, translation and proof-reading project for International Masters Publishers (Prague, Czech Republic).
Education
2008 – B.Sc. in Computer Science (software development) at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Maribor, Slovenia)
2000 – II. gimnazija Maribor (grammar school), graduated with presidential honours
- 2005 – 4th place at Imagine Cup software design competition in Yokohama, Japan (1st place Central and Eastern Europe in Thessaloníki, Greece, 1st place at national in Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- 2005 – Windows Embedded Student Challenge World Finalist (30 teams amongst 300, Redmond, Washington)
- 2005 - Selected to 43 of the country’s most accomplished students
- Zois gifted student scholarship throughout grammar school and college
- Average university grade 9.41 (1- lowest, 10-highest), 40 courses over 4,5 years
- 1999 – 2nd place at National German Language Proficiency Competition
Technologies and Programming Language Experience
Languages: C#, C++, C, Java, Lisp, Flash/Actionscript, ASM, Ruby, SQL
Web: (D)HTML, Javascript, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, CSS, Wordpress, Ajax, JQuery
Frameworks: .NET, .NET Compact Framework, MFC, ATL
Specialties: 3D engine programming, OpenGL, DirectX, Flash, speech recognition and synthesis technologies (Philips, Microsoft, L&H), translation systems (Systran)
Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio, Subversion
Other tools: Photoshop, Visio, VMWare, Virtual PC, 3D Studio MAX, Lightwave
Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, ADO.Net, OR Mappers
OS: Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, XP Embedded, Embedded CE 5.0/6.0, Ubuntu Linux, Debian, Red Hat, MacOS X
Hosting Services: Amazon EC2 and S3, dedicated servers, virtual server images
Language Proficiency
I speak Slovenian, English, German (very well), Croatian, Serbian (business level) and Swedish (normal conversation, not much professional experience), I understand Spanish, Norwegian, written Danish and Icelandic and I am currently learning Mandarin Chinese and Finnish.
Other Interests
Studying natural languages and researching linguistics, writing, poetry, reading, jogging, cycling, roller blading, playing guitar and traveling the world (I’m especially in love with big cities).
I am also very interested in cultural anthropology, marketing and science.
