Vladimir Zlatanov

Current

• Senior Research Associate/Systems administrator at Cardiff University, Manufacturing Engineering Centre
• Independent programmer/volunteer at the internet

Past

• Technical Coordinator at FP7 Manufacturing Conference
• Technical Coordinator at I*PROMS Conference
• Technical Coordinator at 4M Conference

• Google Summer of Code 2006 mentor at Drupal
• Guest Editor at The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation
• Research Associate/Systems Administrator at Cardiff University
• Freelance IT consultant (Self-employed)
• Systems Administrator at Acvilon
• Systems Administrator at University of Rousse

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Education

• Rusenski universitet 'Angel Kanèev'

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• Vladimir Zlatanov's CV
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Vladimir Zlatanov’s Summary

Programmer turned systems manager turned programmer blended with a systems architect and a dollop of a researcher. Experienced in programming for the web, [web] system design and related disciplines

Vladimir Zlatanov’s Specialties:

networking, web services, knowledge management, systems administration, Python, PHP, lisp, scheme, functional programming, data mining, software design, web design

Vladimir Zlatanov’s Experience

• Senior Research Associate/Systems administrator

  Cardiff University, Manufacturing Engineering Centre

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  There are many facets to this position. Part of my job is to maintain and develop the IT infrastructure of two Networks of Excellence 4m (http://www.4m-net.org) and I*PROMS (http://www.iproms.org).
  
  Organise, evangelise, liaise with the technical support for the video/web conferencing networks of the projects. Design, development and maintenance of their web presence.
  
  As part of the job have been a Technical coordinator for the organising committees of the I*PROMS (2005-2009) and 4M (2005 -2009) conferences.
  
  Design and develop the 4m-association web presence (http://www.4m-association.org)
  
  Design, and maintain the websites of a number of collaborative research projects like:
  nanoaccess at Cardiff, EuminaFab Cardiff Hub,, Multilayer, Tai-Chi, Premi and others
  
  Design and/or maintain the websites of conferences:
  4M/ICOMM 2009 conference, FP7 Conference, INDIN 2009 (infrastructure maintenance) ...

• Independent programmer/volunteer

  the internet

  (Internet industry)

  1996 — Present (13 years )

  Free software programming for various projects. This is an umbrella position, for my free software involvement.
  
  various Drupal related odd jobs - template system, installer/package manager prototyping, a couple of now defunct modules, ...
  
  have been involved with drupal quite early - just check my drupal id (842), attended the first two DrupalCons '95 Amsterdam and Antwerp...
  
  support in forums and irc for a number of projects throughthe years

• Technical Coordinator

  FP7 Manufacturing Conference

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — 2009 (2 years )

  Part of the conference organising committee, responsible for all IT related requirements of the conference

• Technical Coordinator

  I*PROMS Conference

  (Internet industry)

  2005 — 2009 (4 years )

  Part of the conference organising committee, responsible for all IT related requirements of the conference - websites, paper submission and review, discussions...

• Technical Coordinator

  4M Conference

  (Internet industry)

  2005 — 2009 (4 years )

  Part of the conference organising committee, responsible for all IT related requirements of the conference - websites, paper submission and review, discussions...

• Google Summer of Code 2006 mentor

  Drupal

  (Internet industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  Mentored the Collaborative Editor drupal module project

• Guest Editor

  The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation

  (Internet industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Guest editor of a special issue of The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation (volume 19, Number 6, September 2006), IFAC

• Research Associate/Systems Administrator

  Cardiff University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 1999 — December 2003 (5 years )

  Research on a number of projects. Maintain the IT infrastructure of the MEC, CU

• Freelance IT consultant

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 4 months)

• Systems Administrator

  Acvilon

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

  January 1998 — June 1998 (6 months)

• Systems Administrator

  University of Rousse

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 4 months)

Vladimir Zlatanov’s Education

• Rusenski universitet 'Angel Kanèev'

  DiplEng , IT, Computer Science, Engineering , 1989 — 1994

Additional Information

Vladimir Zlatanov’s Websites:

• Vladimir Zlatanov's CV
• My Portfolio

Vladimir Zlatanov’s Interests:

distributed computing, self-organisation, online communities, human rights, digital rights, activism, open source, free software, wild wild web, knowledge discovery

Vladimir Zlatanov’s Groups:

4M, Drupal, I*PROMS, FSFE

•    Drupal
•    Functional Programming
•    Drupal Users Group
•    Cardiff Web Scene
•    Free Software Foundation - Europe

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