Tadej Gregorcic

Current

• CTO, Co-founder at Motiviti
• Tech Lead at Marand

Past

• CTO at GRECO, d.o.o.
• R&D Manager at Kiomatic Group
• Freelance translator (Self-employed)

• Senior software developer at WideLabs d.o.o.
• Natural Language and Speech Technology at Ethnocon

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Education

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor
• II. gimnazija Maribor

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Motiviti.com
• Follow me on Twitter
• My blog

Tadej Gregorcic’s Summary

I'm a high-energy software developer and entrepreneur with solid experience across different industries and technologies.

Current focus: casual games (iPhone, Flash, browser), advergaming, educational entertainment (edutainment)

I've held senior technical and management positions designing, making and selling software for the web, the desktop, mobile and embedded systems.

Tadej Gregorcic’s Specialties:

real-time computer graphics, games, flash web telephony, augmented reality, 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)

I speak Slovenian, German, English, Swedish, Croatian and Serbian and am (when time permits) working on my Spanish, Finnish and Mandarin.

Tadej Gregorcic’s Experience

• CTO, Co-founder

  Motiviti

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

  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.

• Tech Lead

  Marand

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

• CTO

  GRECO, d.o.o.

  (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

• R&D Manager

  Kiomatic Group

  (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.

• Freelance translator

  Self-employed

  (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

• Senior software developer

  WideLabs d.o.o.

  (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

• Natural Language and Speech Technology

  Ethnocon

  (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)

Tadej Gregorcic’s Education

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor

  B.Sc. , Computer Science , 2000 — 2005

  Commendation for special achievement from the Ministry Of Higher Education, Science and Technology

  Activities and Societies:

  Microsoft Imagine Cup, Board of European Students of Technology

• II. gimnazija Maribor

  Gymnasium , Classic , 1996 — 2000

  Graduated with honours (top 2% in the country), 2nd place at national German language proficiency competition, gifted student scholarship

  Activities and Societies:

  Language and Science Activities and Competitions, performances (acting)

Additional Information

Tadej Gregorcic’s Websites:

• Motiviti.com
• Follow me on Twitter
• My blog

Tadej Gregorcic’s Interests:

games, high-tech, augmented reality, edutainment, advergaming, language acquisition, travel, music, jogging, cycling, guitar, writing

Tadej Gregorcic’s Groups:

Demo scene, BEST (Board of European Students of Technology), Imagine Cup, Kiberpipa

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    MobileMonday
•    International Network of Social Entrepreneurs
•    Demoscene
•    FREE ONLINE MMORPG & MMO GAMES | MMO hub.org
•    Casual Games
•    Game Developers
•    GoBigNetwork Startup Community
•    Demoscene [www.scene.org]
•    iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
•    The Long Now Foundation
•    BEST Alumni
•    Unity
•    Polyglot-Multilingual Professionals (350+ Members)
•    Flash Game Developers
•    Imagine Cup Alumni
•    Slovenian Internet Professionals
•    Browsergame Developers

Tadej Gregorcic’s Honors:

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

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