Genc B. Kastrati

Current

• Web Officer at The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Past

• Co-Founder / Developer at Toka Systems
• Assistant to Director / Web Developer at Swiss Silicon Valley Association
• Web Developer at Complex AI

• IT Support / Lab Assistant at Webster University
• IT Support at LKM Associates Geneva
• Interpreter English - Albanian at Office for Non-Residential Affairs, Kosovar Government
• Web Developer / Co-Founder at INIT Productions
• Interpreter / IT Support at The Balkan Sunflowers
• Interpreter Albanian-English-Serbian at United Nations
• Web Developer at Regi Cosmetics

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Education

• Webster University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Genc B. Kastrati’s Summary

Web Developer/Programmer with long experience, particular interest in user interaction, content management systems, maps and statistics. Experienced in network administration and infrastructure, information analysis and design. Interested in the business and market trends on the Internet

Programming: C#, PHP, ASP, Perl, JS, and Visual Basic. Bits of: Java, C++ and C. Worked with: AJAX, web services and utilizing various frameworks, multi-language web sites, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Apache (LAMP in general) and a number of other applications/services, user interface design and interaction.

Human Languages:
Albanian (mother tongue), Croatian (mother tongue), English (fluent), Italian, French. Ability to read the Cyrillic alphabet and get around with Russian and Ukrainian. Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian are written in Cyrillic.

Genc B. Kastrati’s Specialties:

PHP, Perl, MySQL, GNU/Linux, C#, VB, system analysis and design, foreign languages.

Genc B. Kastrati’s Experience

• Web Officer

  The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; International Affairs industry)

  February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)

  Responsible for the general maintenance of the Global Fund's website. Took part in analysis, design, implementation and testing of new services, sites and subsites. Involved with deployment of Google Mini search appliance, WebTrends statistics server, subsites in ASP.NET, and other tasks. Also took part with creative advice and support for various needs (online communities, communication strategies, IS implementation, inter-team communication).

• Co-Founder / Developer

  Toka Systems

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Toka System is a startup that develops and maintains a number of services. One is currently up and running, Rrethi.com (http://www.rrethi.com) launched in June 2007.
  
  Pr-Tech (http://www.pr-tech.net) launched in 2004 is now discontinued.

• Assistant to Director / Web Developer

  Swiss Silicon Valley Association

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2006 — January 2008 (2 years )

  Assist the Director during field trips to different technology centers around the world (Silicon Valley, Sophia Antipolis, Bangalore, Shanghai, Google, Apple etc) and maintain the associations website.

• Web Developer

  Complex AI

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  March 2005 — June 2005 (4 months)

  Worked on a project to develop a web based access management system for a wireless network. The system was developed under PHP, Perl and OpenLDAP providing a user-friendly interface for the staff.

• IT Support / Lab Assistant

  Webster University

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2002 — May 2005 (3 years 5 months)

  IT support on campus, managed 80 workstations and 8 servers.

• IT Support

  LKM Associates Geneva

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 3 months)

  Technical support and maintenance of small network (clustered).

• Interpreter English - Albanian

  Office for Non-Residential Affairs, Kosovar Government

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; International Affairs industry)

  November 2002 — November 2002 (1 month)

  Interpreter at the First Conference for Investment in Kosova. Hosted by the Prime Minister in Olten/Switzerland.

• Web Developer / Co-Founder

  INIT Productions

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  May 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  Established the first web development company in Kosova. During its first months of business, the company acquired a strong client base (1 TV/Media network, 1 Political Party and numerous restaurants and bars). The company eventually moved to media production after leaving for university.

• Interpreter / IT Support

  The Balkan Sunflowers

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Program Development industry)

  June 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 3 months)

  Interpretation on the field and during meeting sessions, as well as IT support (also minor web development).

• Interpreter Albanian-English-Serbian

  United Nations

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Law Enforcement industry)

  November 2000 — May 2001 (7 months)

  United Nations Police Mission - served as interpreter for Albanian, English and Serbian.

• Web Developer

  Regi Cosmetics

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Chemicals industry)

  January 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 7 months)

  Create and maintain website. Also deal with the small IT infrastructure at the offices of the company.

Genc B. Kastrati’s Education

• Webster University

  Computer Science 2001 — 2005

  Graduated with Honors in Computer Science and won the Student Leadership Award.

  Activities and Societies:

  Established the Computer Science Museum of Webster University. Currently the curator of the museum.

Additional Information

Genc B. Kastrati’s Websites:

• My Website

Genc B. Kastrati’s Interests:

technology, linux, information systems, information analysis, sciences, music/guitar, photography and cinema...

Genc B. Kastrati’s Groups:

Swiss Silicon Valley Association

•    Webster University Alumni Association
•    J. Boye
•    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Genc B. Kastrati’s Honors:

Honors in Computer Science by Webster University
Student Leadership Award

Genc B. Kastrati’s Contact Settings

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