Rossen Zhivkov

Current

• Freelance SharePoint Consultant / Trainer (Self-employed)

Past

• MCT and Consultant SharePoint / Solutions Development at ITCE Ltd.
• .NET Engineer at ITCE Ltd.

Education

• Nov Bulgarski Universitet
• Sofiiski universitet Sv. Kliment Ohridski
• Math and Science High School - Montana

• Private School Europe

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Rossen Zhivkov’s Summary

Rossen Zhivkov is a:
- freelance consultant and trainer for SharePoint Server 2007
- solution architect and developer for SharePoint / .NET
- certified technical trainer - Customized and Microsoft Official Courses
- presentator at technology events
- consultant in SharePoint pilot, proof of concept and complete solutions

Professional experience and specializations:
- portals, collaboration and teamwork solutions with SharePoint Server 2007
- workflows and document management with WF and SharePoint 2007
- custom ASP.NET web sites / .NET WinForms solutions design and development
- eLearning solutions
- enterprise project management solutions using Project Server 2003
- business processes integration and automation with BizTalk
- InfoPath electronic forms development
- enhancing corporate security with RMS
- SQL Server 2005 performance auditing and enterprise clients support

Presentation & Training exerience:
- deliver the international 4-day Microsoft Touchdown training event for SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 for Microsoft Bulgaria
- deliver SharePoint trainings for Microsoft Serbia & HP Global Delivery
- present SharePoint at Microsoft Days and .NET User group
- deliver SharePoint 2007, SQL Server 2005 and .NET development and administration Microsoft Official Courses

Contact me at rzhivkov@gmail.com if:
- you look for SharePoint support or services
- you are going to implement SharePoint / .NET project
- you need SharePoint trainer
- you want to outsource part of your SharePoint development
- or you just want to network

Rossen Zhivkov’s Specialties:

SharePoint Server 2007 Expertise:
Workflows & Business Processes, ECM Document&Records Management, Forms Server, Excel Services, Web parts, Object Model, WCM, Security, BDC

Microsoft Technologies:
SQL Server 2005, BI, Data Mining, BizTalk Server, RMS, Project Server, TFS

Development:
.NET 2.0, C#, ASP.NET, WinForms, XML, WF, WCF, InfoPath, Excel automation
MSF, OOP, Algorithms

Soft skills:
Training, Presentation, Consulting, Presales

Rossen Zhivkov’s Experience

• Freelance SharePoint Consultant / Trainer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Implement and architect SharePoint 2007 solutions for corporate clients
  SharePoint / .NET development outsourcing
  Provide consultancy services to companies
  Deliver SharePoint and .NET courses for Training Centers and Microsoft
  Implement SharePoint pilots and proof of concept projects

• MCT and Consultant SharePoint / Solutions Development

  ITCE Ltd.

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  Technology consultant and MCT trainer for the followin technologies: SharePoint 2007, SQL Server 2005, IIS 6.0 and Visual Studio
  - Lead Microsoft Technical training in these technologies
  - Implement customized solutions based SharePoint 2007 and .NET
  - Provide support for corporate clients for SQL Server 2005
  - Deliver presentations in Microsoft Days events and the .NET user group
  - Presales support for SharePoint and .NET solutions
  - Implement proof-of-concept and pilot projects for MS Technologies
  - Mentor associate consultants
  - Co-founded the Bulgarian SQL&BI user group

• .NET Engineer

  ITCE Ltd.

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — August 2005 (8 months)

  Develop custom .NET solutions with Excel Automation
  Develop ASP.NET web sites for corporate clients
  Develop e-Business applications based on BizTalk Server 2004
  Develop InfoPath forms with .NET scripting
  Write techical documentation

Rossen Zhivkov’s Education

• Nov Bulgarski Universitet

  Computer Programming 2007 — 2009 (expected)

• Sofiiski universitet Sv. Kliment Ohridski

  Informatics 2003 — 2008

  Received admission to university without exam from National Olympiad in Informatics, 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  .NET Framework, Network Security, Internet Programming, Object oriented programming, Data structures

• Math and Science High School - Montana

  Mathematics, English, Informatics 1997 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  National olypmiads in Informatics and Physics,
  Development contests in programming (Delphi and C++) - LISH,
  Contests in matematics
  School newspaper

• Private School Europe

  English 1999 — 2001

  Took FCE First Certificate of English

Additional Information

Rossen Zhivkov’s Interests:

Personal Development, Health, Yoga, Meditation, Mind, Norbekov, Speed reading, Memory Training, Paneuritmia, Presentation skills, Sales skills, Management skills, Physics, Self-business

Rossen Zhivkov’s Groups:

.NET User Group, SQL & BI User Group, Microsoft Certified Trainers member

•    Microsoft Certified Trainers
•    Enterprise Architect User Group
•    Outsourcing Eastern Europe, Russia and former CIS countries
•    BASD
•    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 1400+ members
•    Sharepoint Experts
•    SharePoint Users (2100+ members)
•    SofiaDev .NET User Group
•    Bulgarian IT Professionals
•    Certified IT Practitioners

Rossen Zhivkov’s Honors:

Microsoft Certificates
- MCT
- MCSD.NET
- MCPD: Windows,Web,Enterprise Applications Developer (Charter member)
- MCTS: SharePoint Services v3, Configuring
- MCTS: SharePoint 2007, Configuring
- MCTS: SharePoint Services 3.0, Application Development (Taken at beta)
- MCTS: SQL Server 2005
- MCTS: Workflow Foundation (Beta)
- MCTS: Windows Communication Foundation (Beta)

Go to https://mcp.microsoft.com/authenticate/validatemcp.aspx to see my MS transcript: Transcript ID = 745278, Access Code = 13572468

Cambridge English Certificate - FCE

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