Professional Experience

September 2005 – current

Consulting projects: design and development of custom solutions, leveraging existing systems and frameworks

November 1999 – August 2005

Employer: World Bank

Location: Joint European Commission / World Bank Office for South East Europe in Brussels, Belgium

Title: Information Analyst

Main tasks and accomplishments:

  • Development of the joint European Commission / World Bank website on Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe (at that time hosted at www.seerecon.org). This work included organizing the website structure and navigation, programming database applications in Java programming language and in ColdFusion, writing Perl scripts, maintenance of mailing list/subscription mechanism, regular updates and addition of new documents, creation of graphics, editing of photographs, conversion and integration of audio files and reporting on website usage statistics. In this I worked in close consultation with internal (World Bank and European Commission) website editors, as well as in liaison with providers of external content from the UN mission in Kosovo, Secretariat for Regional Electricity Market, and the World Bank team working on Trade and Transport Facilitation Project in South East Europe.
  • Development of European Commission / World Bank website on Private Participation of Mediterranean Infrastructure (at that time hosted at www.ppmi.org).
  • Development of the Infrastructure Steering Group (ISG) database for Regional Infrastructure Projects in South East Europe. The ISG included European Commission, The World Bank, European Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Council of Europe Development Bank.
  • Processing information on donor financial pledges at the donors’ conferences and consultative group meetings on South East Europe countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia) and on Georgia, organized by the European Commission and the World Bank.
  • Processing information on donor financial pledges at the International Donors’ Conference for Iraq in Madrid in October 2003, organized by the Government of Spain.
  • Collecting and processing information on donor financial commitments and spending in South East Europe countries.
  • Support with databases and statistical analysis for the Joint EC/WB Office Annual Reports.
  • Good communication and coordination with the World Bank Web Admin Group, Information Solutions Group and the IT team for Europe and Central Asia region.
  • Implementation of standard World Bank technology and security policies, including the local network, server and all office hardware and software.
  • Support to European Commission staff in the office.
  • Assistance with budget planning for IT related issues.
  • Communication with local vendors for procurement and maintenance of hardware equipment and services.
  • Rollout of new enterprise desktop systems.
  • Creation or approval of final files for image setting in prepress/production of printed material.

April – November 1999

Employer: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Job title: Web Developer

Main tasks and accomplishments:

  • Development of the external website for the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Development of the OSCE Mission to BH Intranet
  • Information management
  • Development of content management system enabling knowledge sharing and fast information dissemination

December 1998 – November 1999

Founded "ARIPRO d.j.l. Sarajevo", small company for computer engineering and publishing.

Clients included private companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Austria.

December 1995 – September 1998

External consultant and independent desktop publisher in Vienna, Austria

Main clients:

Main tasks and duties:

  • Layout for various publications (books, catalogues, etc)
  • Development of programs/scripts for automatic data conversion between various formats (RTF, HTML, Ventura source code)
  • Image editing
  • Creating final postscript files for image setting in prepress/production of printed material

March 1994 – December 1995

Employer: United Nations

Job title: Translator and Interpreter

Worked for the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a translator and interpreter for English language in UNPROFOR HQ Sector South West in Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia and Herzegovina (HQ BRITFOR - 4th and 7th Armoured Brigade, British Army)