Mirko Vidovic

Current

Portal & Middleware Manager at Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police
CTO at Callet & Vidovic

Past

Translator at Watching America
System Administrator at Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation
CEO at eQ R&D, Corp.

System Administrator at Die Schweizerische Post
Senior Developer at American Management Systems GmbH
Senior C++ Developer at AMS
Consultant at Alcatel Alsthom Research
Java Developer at CDSI
External Consultant at Redwood

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Education

Université de Bourgogne
Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)
Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)

Externat de la Trinité, Lyon 6ème

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Connections

169 connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Mirko Vidovic’s Summary

I have been using computers from 1982 and I always kept my motivation when it came to dealing with new technologies. I remember browsing the Usenet comp.* newsgroups as soon as 1992. The following year, I installed Linux for the first time (this was a Sunsite/FTP mirror on a CD and I had to rawrite it onto enough floppies to get it ready for installation). I began designing web sites as soon as 1993 in HTML in 1993, and in Java as soon as 1995. I also worked as a computing teacher and in the print industry. I also have a strong background in Lingo which I taught to young professionals in 1996. In 1997, I migrated the Ecco website to reflect its new Adecco brand. In 1998, I was working in the very Alcatel Alsthom Research group which announced DSL. I then left to Germany where I worked in the performance team optimizing Mannesmann's Arcor billing system before leaving to Switzerland where I now work as System Administrator, Troubleshooter and Network Services integrator. In parallel, I work as a journalist, as a movie maker and as a musician with both small Gregorian vocal ensemble, rock bands, electronic acts or massive orchesters. I now speak 3 languages, have lived and worked in 4 countries and just couldn't live without an highly dynamic work environment: No matter the stress, the routine is worse.

Mirko Vidovic’s Specialties:

Troubleshooting, performance testing, hack, Internet, media contents, event organisation and support...

Mirko Vidovic’s Experience

Portal & Middleware Manager

Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police

(Government Administration industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

I am leading the Team in charge of the productive maintenance of the Interpol/Schengen Polizei/Swiss Fedpol Portal. It currently consists of a network of heterogenous systems and applications, mostly JBoss, Glassfish or WLS-based.
We are also in charge of the Service-Level Reporting and refer directly to the management. This is a very critical position.
CTO

Callet & Vidovic

(Online Media industry)

November 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

My wife and I incorporated in order to get a legal structure which allow us to propose our services in various services, from anything Internet-related to other media-related services. As of yet we've worked a lot with photo and video, recording concerts and putting these onto DVDs.
We also sold many quality web sites to various organisations or companies which we backup and monitor in real-time from our private network.
We recently began creating promotion movies for small structures which otherwise had not been able to afford these.
Translator

Watching America

(Online Media industry)

August 2008 — March 2009 (8 months)

The American people are seen as often over-informed but rarely from outside, which make them vulnerable to partial thus bogus approaches. I like the idea of filling this important gap in public information which is the reason why I applied to contribute to this excellent initiative by translating either German or French press articles dealing with American matters as seen from abroad.
After Obama was elected, I chose to wait and see until he would give a clear direction to his politics.
System Administrator

Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation

(Government Administration industry)

January 2005 — October 2008 (3 years 10 months)

I have been working there as a Systemspezialist (level III). My duties consisted of application and server management. As the B.I.T. is a federal office, I was working with huge systems which deal with any Federal matter, such as Tax, Customs, Topography, Accounting and Transportation. The systems I administer were mostly Linux-based (even though I also happen to deal with AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Windows Server and Solaris). The applications they ran could be based on any combination of PHP/MySQL, Apache, Samba, WebLogic, Tomcat, but also proprietary developments or Perl scripts. While occupying this position, I developed numerous Perl scripts or Ajax applications in order to enhance my group's productivity these were warmly received by their users who qualified them as elegant, secure and "a joy to use". That job also involved many contacts and, because we often happen to deal with military officers, rigorous discipline.
CEO

eQ R&D, Corp.

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

January 2001 — December 2004 (4 years )

eQ R&D was a great company. Based in Bern, Switzerland and funded by myself, it had its merchandising and logistics in France and Macedonia and its labs in Tomsk, Russia. We worked on many hardware and software projects and also spawned the CACKO Linux project to which I also contributed by developing Qt/C++ software.
Among thhe hardware projects, a lot were about ARM-based embedded systems which assembly language I have been practising since the Acorn years, in 1995.
System Administrator

Die Schweizerische Post

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1999 — November 2004 (5 years 3 months)

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.
Senior Developer

American Management Systems GmbH

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Program Development industry)

June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

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.
Senior C++ Developer

AMS

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Program Development industry)

June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Convenience re-post: See American Management Systems GmbH...
Consultant

Alcatel Alsthom Research

(Telecommunications industry)

January 1998 — May 1998 (5 months)

As a member of the Network Management Unit, working on a subproject of the DSL 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 worked on my group’s Intranet.
Java Developer

CDSI

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

August 1997 — December 1997 (5 months)

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.
External Consultant

Redwood

(Internet industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year )

Mirko Vidovic’s Education

Université de Bourgogne

CAPET , computing and accounting , 1992 — 1993

I ranked 10th out of 800 and got to be a teacher.
Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)

Master MIAG , Accounting, Economy, Computing , 1990 — 1992

Redactor of "la PAO", the local journal
I also participated actively to "La Cordée des Miages", a 3000m high walk which we organised and for which we gathered many sponsors including "La Région Rhône-Alpes"

Activities and Societies:

Member of MIAG'Impact, organisers of les "Journées Nationales des MIAG",
President of the "Association des Miagistes Lyonnais", organisers of many events
Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)

DEUG A , Physics, electronics, computing , 1988 — 1990
Externat de la Trinité, Lyon 6ème

Bac C , Math, Science , 1985 — 1988