CV for Jure Cuhalev

Jure Cuhalev

Currently located in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but open to moving anywhere in the world.

Social media profiles

• Twitter: twitter.com/gandalfar
• Personal blog: http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jurecuhalev
• FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/jure.cuhalev

HIGHLIGHT OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Responsible for creating and managing Online Communities for companies and non-profits.
• Responsible for event organization and running community driven events like BarCamps (100+ participants), Hack/Developer Events (20+ developers) and on-going weekly events (40+ people).
• Experience in Usability and User Experience design.
• Ability to develop in Python (Django) and JavaScript (jQuery) as well as design RESTful API’s.
• Knowledge of surveying and survey methodology.
• Worked with and founded a number of Open Source projects. Understanding of social dynamics involved.
• Responsible for presenting projects at conferences and community events.
• Excellent IT knowledge of Windows, Linux and OS X.
• Experience with current social media networks such as Twitter and FaceBook and the tools around them.
• Ongoing testing and experience with latest developments in “Web 2.0″ space, esp. blogging and social media.

RELEVANT SKILLS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Organized global community of bloggers (30k+) for Zemanta as well as presented company at a number of different international conferences and events. (2007 – present)
• Co-founded and co-organized BarCampLjubljana1 and BarCampLjubljana2 (2009), both had 100+ participants
• Founded and organized WebCampLjubljana (2009), one day event with 150+ web experts
• Designed UX and implemented initial fronted widget for Zemanta. (2007-2008)
• Teaching assistant at ECPR Summer school (2006, 2008)
• Managed a team that developed biggest Slovenian car-pooling community – Prevoz.org (2004-present)
• Responsible for community management and feature design for Slo-Tech, biggest Slovenian IT community/forum (2001-present)
• Founder of Kiberpipa’s weekly Open Source lectures. Presented numerous times as well as organized for 2 years. (2004-2006)
• Developed localized LiveCD based Linux distribution for Slo-Tech (2002-2004)
• Developed Python based GUI interface for creation of LiveCD’s within the Morphix Open Source project (2003-2004)

HONORS

• 1st place, best Open Source application, Slovenian Ministry for Information Society (2004)
• 2nd place, best Open Source application, Slovenian Ministry for Information Society, (2003)
• 3rd place, Balkan Case Challange , ICT competition (2006)

WORK EXPERIENCE

• User Experience Expert and Community Manager at Zemanta (July 2007 – September 2009)
• Project Manager and developer at Prevoz.org (December 2004 – present)
• Speaker, developer, organizer and advisor at Kiberpipa, NGO – multimedia space (2006 – present)

EDUCATION

• Bachelor – Social Science and Informatics at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2003 – 2008)
• Master curses- Human computer interaction and Entrepreneurship at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Sweden (2007)