| Ivan
Penkov Druzhba-2 apartments, Bl.24 Entr.2, Floor 1, Apt.3 Dobrich 9300, Bulgaria |
Cellular: +359 48 966 214 URL: http://www.geocities.com/ivan_penkov/ E-mail: [email protected] |
| Experienced Java Programmer |
| OBJECTIVE | Creative Team Leader and Developer with International Software Company background and a passion for new technologies, pursuing a career with an Internet or e-commerce company. Skilled at building strong team environments. |
| TARGET JOB | Desired Job Type: | Employee |
| Desired Status: | Full-Time |
| Site Location: | No Preference |
| Description of my perfect job: High-tech company with strong team relations and clear objectives. |
| Career Level: | Mid Career (2+ years of experience) |
| Date of Availability: | Immediately |
| Travel: | Less than 25% |
| TARGET COMPANY | Company Size: | No Preference |
| Category: | Internet/E-Commerce |
| Description of my ideal company: Software company with challenging goals, dealing with new technologies. |
| TARGET LOCATIONS | Relocate: | Yes |
| Bulgaria | Canada | Germany |
| UK | US |
| WORK STATUS | Bulgaria | I am authorized to work in this country for any employer. |
| US | I am authorized to work in this country for my present employer only. |
| Canada | I require sponsorship to work in this country. |
| Germany | I require sponsorship to work in this country. |
| UK | I require sponsorship to work in this country. |
| EXPERIENCE | 10/2000 - Present | WebMessenger, Inc. | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Java Programmer |
| Working on E-Commerce project (Music sales online) using Oracle E-Commerce Suite, Oracle JDeveloper & Java servlets technology |
| 5/1998 - Present | Cyberfort, Inc. | Houston, TX |
| Executive Vice President |
| Managing over 30 programmers, web designers & developers (Java, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, C/C++). Senior developer and team leader. Web Promotion and Finance. |
| 1/1997 - Present | Macropoint, Ltd. | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Owner and President |
| Managing over 10 programmers, web designers & developers (Mostly C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript). Senior programmer and team leader. |
| 1/1997 - 1/1998 | Intransco, Inc. - Sofia Branch | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Web Promotion Team Leader |
| Design, development and promotion of the company web sites. Achieve to rank the company websites on the top 10 positions on most of the major search engines. Senior developer (C, HTML & JavaScript) |
| 6/1994 - 1/1997 | Nisoft Publishing | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Vice President |
| Managed over twenty translators and desktop publishers. Cooperation with ZiffDavis, MacMillan Publishing (later Paramount) and Microsoft Press for a number of titles. Over 50 computer titles were printed in the period 1994-1997, covering the range from new users to advanced programmers |
| 6/1993 - 3/1994 | TechnoLogica, Ltd. | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Programmer |
| Participated in building of a Distributed Multimedia Information System for the Technical International Fair in city of Plovdiv. C/C++ & DB/2 under the OS/2 operating system |
| PUBLICATIONS | 1994 | Mouse Publishing | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Graphics File Formats, ISBN 954-8581-02-7 |
| Covers the encoding, decoding (RLE, LZW) and visualization for numerous graphics formats: PCX, GIF, TIFF, BMP, ... with working C code |
| EDUCATION | 11/2000 | University of Sofia | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Master's Degree |
| Faculty of Mathematics & Informatics, Specialization: Information Systems & Databases |
| 7/1995 | University of Sofia | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Bachelor's Degree |
| GPA: 5.50 (excelent) by the Bulgarian grade scale (2-6, 6 is the maximum) |
| 5/1991 | High School of Mathematics | Dobrich, Bulgaria |
| High School or equivalent |
| Computer Science. GPA 5.50 (excelent, according to Bulgarian grade scale 2-6). Achieve to graduate in 3 years - normaly is 5 |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1/1997 - 12/1998 | FreeBuilder Project | Member |
| SKILLS | Skill Name | Skill Level | Last Used | Experience |
| Java | Expert | Currently used | 3 years |
| Java Servlets | Expert | Currently used | 2 years |
| JSP | Intermediate | Currently used | 1 years |
| C++ | Expert | Currently used | 5 years |
| C | Expert | 1 year ago | 10 years |
| Pascal / Object Pascal | Expert | 2 years ago | 10 years |
| PHP | Expert | Currently used | 2 years |
| Prolog | Intermediate | +4 years ago | 1 years |
| Lisp | Intermediate | +4 years ago | 1 years |
| JavaScript | Expert | Currently used | 4 years |
| Basic | Intermediate | +4 years ago | 3 years |
| HTML | Expert | Currently used | 4 years |
| MySQL | Intermediate | Currently used | 1 years |
| PostgreSQL | Intermediate | Currently used | 1 years |
| Oracle 8i | Intermediate | Currently used | 1 years |
| Sybase | Intermediate | 1 year ago | 1 years |
| SQL | Expert | Currently used | 8 years |
| CGI | Expert | Currently used | 3 years |
| PGP | Intermediate | 1 year ago | 1 years |
| Java RMI | Expert | Currently used | 1 years |
| Linux Administration | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
| Project Managment | Intermediate | Currently used | 2 years |
| XML | Expert | Currently used | 1 years |
| XSL | Expert | Currently used | 1 years |
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| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | - Brainbench Certification: http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=132910 - Maximum Grade Equivalent for admission exams in University of Sofia - (1991) 4-th place in the Bulgarian National Programming Contest - (1991) 6-th place in the Bulgarian National Computer Science Contest - (1990) 5-th place in the Bulgarian National Mathematics Contest - (1989) 2-nd place in the Bulgarian National Computer Science Contest |
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