
Developer & Entrepreneur, CTO at Motiviti
Slovenia

Developer & Entrepreneur, CTO at Motiviti
Slovenia
I'm a software and game developer, designer and entrepreneur with 10 years of professional development experience across different industries and technologies.
My company Motiviti develops casual and social games for the browser and devices (such as the iPhone and iPod Touch).
I have worked in different roles (from hardcore coding to management and back) designing, making and selling enterprise and consumer software for the web, the desktop, mobile and embedded systems.
real-time computer graphics, games, flash web telephony, augmented reality, iPhone, payment systems, embedded systems, SW design, touch-screen interfaces, call center software, UX, web development, linguistics
Favorite tools: Unity 3D, Flash, Java, C#, C++, web front-end languages (JS/XHTML), OpenGL, DirectX, iPhone, .NET, PHP (pragmatically).
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Motiviti is a developer and publisher of casual, multiplayer and social online games on the web and mobile phones.
Our main focus are original titles for the iPhone, multiplayer browser games and Flash mini games.
I design and develop games and direct technical development.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Family business that builds custom software for call centers, the insurance industry and embedded devices.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 9 months)
Call center software, embedded systems, payment applications (EMV, NFC, contactless), software development, trainings, self-service devices, system integration
R&D manager, software architect, software/web developer, trainer, presenter
Technologies: .NET, Windows Embedded, web technologies (PHP, JS, XHTML, AJAX, ASP.Net), Ingenico Unicapt32
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Production and system integration
Self-service kiosks and unattended payment terminals
Banking industry - POS terminals
System integration
Hired to manage software development, system integration and to evangelize and integrate Windows Embedded operating systems.
Focused mainly on the integration of hardware and software (incl. payment systems) into existing enterprise/bank/retail environments and on technical architecture.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Translation and Localization industry)
July 1999 — December 2006 (7 years 6 months)
Technical, legal, marketing & general translations, music lyrics
Translator and proofreader for Slovenian, English, German and occasionally Swedish and Croatian
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Designed, developed and presented (as part of a team of 4) a project competing in a software design competition with 16,000 participants worldwide. Won 1st place in EE in Greece and 4th place worldwide in Japan.
Ethnocon provides people on a variety of network devices with a conferencing service that incorporates voice, IM, video and real-time translation services, including E-picto, an innovative pictographical lingua franca.
Accomplishments:
4th-6th place, Imagine Cup - Software Design World Finals (2005, Yokohama, Japan)
1st place, Imagine Cup - Software Design Central and Eastern Europe (2005, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Windows Embedded Student Challenge World Finalist (2005, Redmond, WA)
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years )
Developed software for multimedia self-service and communication devices employing speech recognition and synthesis technology,
distributed systems for remote surveillance and maintenance systems and various Windows-based and Java client applications.
C++, MFC, ATL, COM+, Oracle, speech technologies
B.Sc. , Computer Science , 2000 — 2005
Commendation for special achievement from the Ministry Of Higher Education, Science and Technology
Gymnasium , Grammar School , 1996 — 2000
Graduated with honours (top 2% in the country), 2nd place at national German language proficiency competition, gifted student scholarship
games, high-tech, augmented reality, edutainment, advergaming, language acquisition, travel, music, jogging, cycling, guitar, writing
Demo scene, BEST (Board of European Students of Technology), Imagine Cup, Kiberpipa
2005, Yokohama, Japan:
Imagine Cup World Finals, Software Design: 4th-6th place
16.000 participants from 92 countries
2005, Thessaloniki, Greece:
Imagine Cup CEE Finals: 1st place
2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia:
Imagine Cup Slovenian Finals: 1st place
2005, Redmond, WA, USA:
Windows Embedded Student Challenge: World Finalist
2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia:
High school: graduated with honours as top 2% in the country
1999, Ljubljana, Slovenia:
2nd place at national German Language competition, national olympiad team member