Mirko Vidovic's Resume

P E R S O N A L - D A T A
Current address: Brungasse 14, CH-3011 BERN.
Phone: (+41)31-382-72-53(Home).
Married, no children, French Driving licence, French nationality, Swiss C Permit, Born on 1970 October 12th.
Internet coordinates: mirko@vidovic.org http://www.vidovic.org/mirko.
Keywords: Mobile, European, integrated...
E X P E R I E N C E

2005
to
now

Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation - I am currently working there as a Systemspezialist (level III). My duties consist of application and server management. As the B.I.T. is a federal office, I am then working with huge systems which deal with any Federal matter, such as Tax, Customs, Topography, Accounting and Transportation. The systems I administer are mostly Linux-based (even though I also happen to deal with AIX, HP-UX, Tru64 and Solaris). The applications they run can be based on any combination of PHP/MySQL, Apache, Samba, WebLogic, Tomcat, but also proprietary developments or Perl scripts. The position also involve many contacts and, because the managers often are military officers, rigorous discipline.

Keywords
: Administration, Linux, LPI-training, Apache, Weblogic, Tomcat, Perl and shell scripting, Troubleshooting, Team work, Samba, NTP, Pikett, Xen, VMWare ESX, Novell SuSe/Autoyast...
 

1999
to
2004

Die Schweizerische Post - I have been hired there as a Systemspezialist (level III). After a Sun Cluster 2.1 training at Sun's, I have been in charge of the following productive multi-million clients applications : Yellownet (e-Banking), E-Payment, BMZ/RVS (mail and packages track'n trace), Online shops, Home Page Post (Corporate site and intranet), Billing, computer security, research and development, inventory, trouble-ticket management, Postauto (public transportation) and many others.
My tasks consisted of systems purchase and installation, application setup, troubleshooting, performance tuning, Y2K testing, automation (scripting and monitoring), system hardening, backup, software patches, development support (PVCS/Ant/Java...), 24/7 support, inter-project communication and problem escalation.

Keywords: HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenLDAP, WebLogic, Vignette, Silverstream, Broadvision, Brokat, Reimer IPS, Windows 2000 server, Apache, Java, ISO-9001-certification, PHP, Perl, Python, Forth and shell Scripting, KDE/Qt C++ GUI Development, MacOSX ObjectiveC/AppleScript Development (prototyping), Developer support, Troubleshooting, Team work, Pikett...
   

1998
to
1999

American Management Systems - I worked in the String/Performance Tests Team where I was expected to get a complete third millenium telecom billing system up and running and to improve its performance until it met the client's requirements. This task involved 3 weeks of experimentation in HP's test laboratories, in Böblingen (Germany) where I developped a distributed Java-enabled monitoring language to access all the messages queues from a single browser window.
I also ported the complete system to HP-UX 11 after adapting and recompiling it to the newest HP ANSI C++ compiler : aCC. This involved much low-level work like libraries (RogueWave, Orbix...) recompilation. I also implemented changes in the build scripts in order to use new features (incremental linker, precompiled headers.
I finally maintained the event correction process within a development team and I developed an Intranet database monitoring application * to make my work easier.
* (I got a Technical Award in June 1999 for this tool.)

Keywords
: HP-UX 10 and 11 administration, Oracle Server v8 management, Java/Perl programming, C++ expertise, PVCS version manager, team work, online process monitoring...
  

1998

Alcatel Alsthom Research - As a member of the DSL development project, my work consisted of the maintenance of an HP-OpenView/Oracle Alarm management Application.
I also developped new software components and applications in C++, Pro*C and Java and have been granted the responsability to prepair the main application's migration to a later version.
In the meantime, I also developed the division’s Intranet.
I was a member of the Network Management Unit (150 people).

Keywords
: HP-UX v10.20, HP Open View, Oracle Server v7.3, Java, Corba-IDL, C++, Windows NT v4, Pro*C, PL/SQL, Interleaf, Pure DDTS, GDMO, ksh, team work, Intranet, CSS...
  

1997

CDSI - During the 5 months between August and December, I had to handle the complete realisation of CDSI's commercial Intranet from scratch. The application consists of 3 modules: a web-based user interface, a file manager and a secure bank communication module.
I managed a team of 4 persons: an administrative, a graphist, a developper and an analyst. I personally worked upon design, Java coding and NT+Linux administration. I realised the whole indexed files handling utility from scratch. It has been acknowledged as powerful, portable, secure and fast.

Keywords
: Java, Applets, Servlets, HTML, Windows NT v4, Linux, Apache, IIS3, SQL Server, Javascript, VBScript, ASP, bash, design, team management...
  

1996
to
1997

C2H / Cyber[Line] - From May 1996 to August 1997, I have been in charge of Cyber[Line] handling of Internet and Intranet activities. I then developped many Internet and Intranet sites such as Adecco's, Boiron's, Axor's, Jet Services'...

Keywords
: Java, Applets, HTML, Windows NT v4, Linux, SCO*Unix, Cosmos Web Server, Apache, IIS3, Index Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Javascript, VBScript, ASP, Photoshop, bash, design, projects realisations, cooperation with clients, referencing sites...
  

1996

Graphi*TY - I have joined Graphi*TY, from February to May 1996 in order to realise for them 2 multimedia projects : the realisation of multimedia devices for Lyons' Planetarium and a multimedia billing program for Radiometer (Copenhague).

Keywords
: Macromedia Director v5, MacOS v7.5, Windows95, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visual Basic v4, Graphic Design, 4D SGBD, Multimedia prototyping and programming...
  

1995
to
1996

GRIM*EDIF - I joined GRIM*EDIF from November 1995 to January 1996 in order to teach Director and Photoshop to professionals.

Keywords
: Organisation, training, group management, Macromedia Director v4, Photoshop v3, Windows for workgroups, Macromedia Authorware...
  

1995

Conseil Régional Rhône-Alpes - From August to October 1995, I have been contacted by Manpower in order to integrate AROM (Association Rhône-Alpes des Olympiades des Métiers). My mission consisted of managing the visual communication of the event. I had to realise all the signs with the sponsors logotypes and to interact with the printing company (REGMA) to get them ready. I also created some of the event's ads.
I was also in charge of the systems' maintenance which wasn't so easy as, in the 40,000 m2 of Eurexpo receiving 100,000 people a day, I had to be able to fix any problem occuring on any of the 200 hundreds PC which I had previously networked together with Windows NT Server v3.51.
This event happened to be very intensive (with sometimes 22 working hours a day) but it was worth joining.

Keywords
: Visual communication, event organisation, great scale maintenance, critical tasks performing, big budget organisation, third party communication, orders handling...
  

1992
to
1995

Éducation Nationale Française - I'm a diplomed teacher. I've taught at post-graduate levels. My classes where about financial computing, data handling, computer architecture, logical calculus and Boole algebra, computer science related law texts, MERISE, NIAM and SADT design and conception, COBOL, Basic and Pascal programing, Unix, OS/400, MVS, DOS, Windows, Novell environments, Excel, Word and Access softwares...
I was also in charge of my school's computers which consisted of one hundred PCs, an AS/400 and an IBM/9370 computer.

Keywords
: Teaching, maintenance, COBOL, MERISE, NIAM and SADT design, Office programs, Unix, MVS, OS/400, organisation of classes...
  

1992

GIMEL-Lavergne SA - During my second Master year, I had to spend 6 months, from March to August 1992 in a company. I have then worked at GIMEL-Lavergne SA where I was charged of the design and the updates of a professional software: Multibat.
Multibat is aimed at construction-material vendors. It was developped under VMS on a Vax 3400, the used language was DIBOL (Digital Business Oriented Language).
I had to get used to these working conditions in 3 days before starting my developments.

Keywords
: Adaptability, VMS, Vax, DIBOL, professional financial computing...
  

1991

INSERM - During my first Master year, I had to spend 4 months programming for professional purposes. I then joined the INSERM team who needed a developper in order to realise the software interface for an electronic device collecting vectocardiogram data. I realised the whole interface in Oracle/Pro*C under DOS.

Keywords
: Scientific data handling, Oracle, DOS, Pro*C...
  
E D U C A T I O N

1993

Teacher in financial computing at post graduate level. Rank: 10th on 800.
Dijon University
 

1992

MIAG (Mastère d'informatique Appliquée à la Gestion): Master in finance and computing. Honors: AB.
Lyon 1 University
 

1990

DEUG A in electronics and fundamental physics with acoustics as an option
Lyon 1 University
 

1988

Baccalauréat Mathematics & Physics, with optional languages: German and Russian.
Lyons
 

Keywords
: Straight studies, professor, Master in financial and computing, Degree in electronics and fundamental physics (option: acoustics), various specialities...
J O U R N A L I S M

Cuk (CH)

Cuk.ch - Afew contributions to this community web site. Mostly Apple-related product reviews.
Cuk.CH, October 2005 to March 2008.
 

Cyberbrain (F)

L'Écho du Village Numerous contributions to both the paper and the web edition of this French magazines since 2001.
L'Écho du Village : Issue 15, 16 and 21 (paper edition), since October 2001.
 

ACBM (F)

Le Virus Informatique, Les Puces Informatiques, Pirates Mag Generalised contribution to these French magazines since the beginning.
Le Virus, Les Puces, Pirates : From Issue 1 onwards, since January 1997
 

Nexus (GB)

ARChimedes World - Specialised in Acorn computing, David Watkins, editor of ARChimedes World ordered me a long article describing the first French Acorn Club: ARMada.
(Click here to read it as sent to the editor)
Volume 15, issue 4 : April 1998
 

No'MAD (F)

STraTOS is specialised in Atari computing. I have contributed to their latest issues, writing about Computer Aided Music and Acorn computing.
Issue 3 - December 1997
 

IDG (F)

Le Monde Informatique I had to prepair a little speech for an article concerning Web sites referencement.
no710 - 21 février 1997. Interview by Cyril DHÉNIN (cyril.dhenin@lmi.fr)
 

Excelsior (F)

Science & Vie Micro I sent this article to SVM one month before, as I saw they made an enormous mistake concerning Acorn computers: According to them, Acorn would stop its developments. This lie would prevent potential ARMada members to subscribe. They published it in first page and even proposed me a permanent work with them.
May 1996, p24.
 

Posse Presse (F)

Login (Dream) During the Summer 1999 I got in charge of the BeOS C++ programing columns.
From issue 63 (9/99) onwards.
 
Keywords: Humour, argumenting, pertinence, precision, contacts...
O T H E R - A C T I V I T I E S

Technical

I am C&V's CTO. I maintain systems (MacOSX, Linux and also Windows*.*), code (web sites, PHP/MySQL, Perl...) and also perform many design (graphical...) and media related tasks (Movie edition, DVD Authoring).
Media, Internet, Hosting, Video, Authoring
 

Group

I am the creator ot the GNUArt web site. This consists of a Free (as in speech) Art-distribution channel. I wrote its charter with the kind help of the Free Software Foundation's manager : Richard Stallman.
GNUArt has been acclaimed by the French press since its opening, on January 1st 2001.
GNU General Public License, creativity, contacts.
 

Media

In 2005, I began producing my own movies, mostly live concerts which I record on several camcorders before mounting the synchronized captures and authoring these on DVD. For these, I use Apple's Final Cut Studio suite. I then package the cut movies into attractive, interactive DVDs and organize their distribution.
Video, Live events, Authoring, HDV, packaging, distribution.
 

Music

As a composer, I've made all the musics and most of the sound effects of the game "ETERNAL DESTINY" (Acorn/RiscOS).
I've also created the official anthem for the BSA (Bidouilleurs Sans Argent) You can find it on their website. I've been described as "extraordinaire" by Acorn User (Group IDG, UK) and RXN (Web E-zine). I've also worked a lot in my personal studio or with my previous bands. Some of my tunes were published by ARChimedes World and Acorn User as MIDI or SoundTracker files, some other by L'Écho du Village on their cover CD, most of the others are published in the GNUArt Gallery.
I am currently learning the double-bass and I contribute to many choirs, which led me to interpret Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in Bern and Interlaken's casinoes.
Computer Aided Music, Live performing, group coordination, creativity.
 

Group activities

I created the ARMada in Spring 1995. I invested my own time and money in the creation of our magazine, with some friends, we sent it to some people who had Acorn machines at home and it was immediate success.
I've actually become the privilegied contact of Acorn professionals in France and I represent all the French speaking Acorn Users worldwide.
ARM-Acorn developpers artists, 100 members, one monthly magazine. The first French speaking Acorn club, worldwide coordination (Canada, Belgium, Tunisia, Switzerland, France...).
 

Writing

I published 2 novels. A crime story which I initially began as an episodic contribution to the LW12/640 Zine, and a Science-fiction thriller. These are available on Amazon or Lulu.com
 

Sport

I practise Swimming, Pilates, mountain bike and trekking.

 

Languages

French (mother language), English (with permanent contacts), German (work language), Bärndütsch (other work language), Russian (learnt for 3 years).

 

Keywords
: Creative, passionate, open, sense of contact and organisation...