Business Architect at SEP Bulgaria Inc.
Bulgaria
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- Business Architect at SEP Bulgaria Inc.
- Member of the Board of Directors at Electronic Frontier Bulgaria
- Board chair at P2P Conferences
- Past
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- Product manager, Internet infrastructure and payments at SEP Bulgaria Inc
- Member at Open Projects Foundation
- PHP Maniac at Software Technologies
- IT Manager at Partner24 Bulgaria
- Consultant at OpenIdeasCompany
- Web architect at NetInfo JSCo
- Web Application developer at WebGate JSC
- Web Developer at Xi-Tec Technologies Gmbh
- Radio Electronic War at Ministry of Defence of Bulgaria
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Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Summary
I am a professional, working in the field of the Internet. I have wide experience in the development of products and with the new trends of the global network: Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, social creation and management, the new media – blogs, corporative blogs, video and audio content, content combination. I also know that 10 is equal to 2 and programming in different areas is another of my strong sides. I defend the open source and free software principles as well as the Internet users’ digital rights. I have excellent organisational experience, which can be demonstrated by the eight big event I am organising.
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Specialties:
Open Source, Development, Publishing, IT Management, Free Software, Community Relations. FOSS, Politics, Digital Rights, Community management
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Experience
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Business Architect
SEP Bulgaria Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
A business architecture is an organizing framework of a business, and the documents and diagrams that describe that structure or the people who help build such a structure, respectively.
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Member of the Board of Directors
Electronic Frontier Bulgaria
(Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
My work in Electronic Frontier is mainly organising campaigns to protect the citizens’ digital rights in different ways:
- Cooperation with mass-media – I have spoken on most of the national TV and radio stations
- Work in the Parliament and European Parliament – I work with different representatives and political parties
- Web information – through Electronic Frontier’s web site and blogs. -
Board chair
P2P Conferences
(Internet industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
The WebTech conferences began in 2004, when I started with a lot of enthusiasm and little resources the first web–conference in Bulgaria. The events grew with time in relation to attendance, topics and speakers. We have had speakers such as Richard Stallman and Kay Arno – MySQL-vice president, people, developing programming languages and many specialists from Bulgaria and abroad.
In 2009 the event will include topics, such as mobile technologies, new media, web technologies, Web 3.0 strategies and investments.
Besides this conference I organised several BarCamps with different topics, visited by over six hundred people and I managed to connect investors with developers and their web deals are now a fact. -
Product manager, Internet infrastructure and payments
SEP Bulgaria Inc
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 7 months)
SEP Bulgaria is probably the most successful start-up in Bulgaria, regarding the innovation level and the portfolio of the used technology. I had the following responsibilities:
1. Organizing the company’s Enterprise 2.0 strategy and looking for ways to make many processes, applications and services work together.
2. Developing the API-part of an online payment system connected with the Bulgarian National Bank system for actual payments.
Implementation of different approaches for digital trading by means of the already existing electronic infrastructure.
3. Products development – increasing the OpenID security through the mobile telephone SIM card as a combination of elliptic curves and Diffe-Hellman algorithms and a product for issuing of digital signatures through several channels.
4. Presenting the above topics on a number of conferences. -
Member
Open Projects Foundation
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 3 months)
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PHP Maniac
Software Technologies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)
My responsibilities also included the rewriting of an open source maintenance system.
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IT Manager
Partner24 Bulgaria
(Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — March 2007 (8 months)
Organisation of the IT unit in the holding, possessing the first Bulgarian commercial product – itjobs.bg
- IT development strategies;
- Planning the IT expenses;
- Selection the staff for the unit;
- Leading several teams for development of the holding’s internal projects;
- Integration of a work optimization system;
- Call center software development, combined with Asterisk -
Consultant
OpenIdeasCompany
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — March 2007 (11 months)
I worked for a partner in Denmark, developing software for independent and automatic analysis of the network condition in middle and large companies. My tasks were:
- Architecture and design of the web-part
- Data base architecture
- Software architecture and development
- Management of the company’s office in Bulgaria after the end of the project in Denmark -
Web architect
NetInfo JSCo
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — May 2006 (2 years 3 months)
Netinfo is currently the largest web company in Bulgaria. My tasks there included:
- Development of advertisement software, showing positions in GBG.bg (the part, which is still available and beginning with “Today I must..” (“Днес да...”))
- Working on the Abv/ICQ welcome screen
- Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs European Issues web portal
- Development of internal systems for the gbg.bg, netinfo.bg, sportni.bg portals, as well as sites for events, connected to the sport portal, which has won a number of awards from BGSITE. -
Web Application developer
WebGate JSC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 7 months)
Architecture and development of the first Bulgarian commercial product itjobs.bg and its turning into a platform for the development of similar websites, initially applied in 5 different countries.
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Web Developer
Xi-Tec Technologies Gmbh
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Web Developer and web master.
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Radio Electronic War
Ministry of Defence of Bulgaria
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Military industry)
September 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 8 months)
Additional Information
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Interests:
Web 2.0, Politics, OpenSource, Free software, Digital Rights, New media and Nature.
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Groups:
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TEN - Top Executives Net -
eLiberatica - The Benefits of Open and Free Technologies -
Renewable Energy Network -
Venture Capital Cafe (+5000 Members) -
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers) -
Open Source Universe -
Global Private Equity & Venture Capital -
Community Managers -
biz BULGARIA -
Mobile Content -
Europe 2.0 - web 2.0, startups, funding, & entrepreneurship in Europe -
Open Rights Group
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Honors:
I have more than 30 lectures in different events, related to the Internet. I have one scientific report with subject Internet and Terrorism and a lot of elaborations with topics Social Management and Use of New Technologies in Business.
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Contact Settings
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