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 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 (5 years 1 month)

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 (14 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

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Vladimir Zlatanov’s Interests:

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