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Ivan Mitrovic's Bio:
Ivan Mitrovic's Experience:
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CTO at WHERE, Inc.
November 2005 - April 2011WHERE was acquired by PayPal, an eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY) company in 2011. WHERE, Inc (formerly uLocate Communications, Inc.) is a privately held, venture backed leader in consumer and B2B location-based services headquartered in Boston, Mass., specialized in mobile local commerce, local search and recommendations and local advertising. Built the team of 50 engineers in Boston and outsourcing office in Southeast Europe with 20 developers. Conceived and built products that moved company to profitability. WHERE is privately owned and venture backed company but has been profitable for the last 6 quarters. The 300% revenue increase in 2010. over 2009. was powered by innovative technology. Built mobile local commerce and hyperlocal advertising for WHERE - Nielsen #1 hyperlocal ad network in USA, processing and analyzing 100s of millions of hyperlocal transactions per day. GigaOm article, talking on building Data Science teams http://gigaom.com/2010/12/16/wanted-data-scientists-to-turn-information-into-gold/ Interview with Forbes columnist on Android http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/14/google-android-cupcake-technology-wireless-google.html Talking about Android Release Management Patterns and Agile development on mobile http://www.androidtapp.com/interview-with-ivan-mitrovic-vp-of-technology-at-ulocate-communications-creator-of-where/ WHERE PlaceGraph(TM) - visualization and white paper http://sxsw.where.com/index.html
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Founder at KMaps
April 2005 - November 2005Mobile LBS platform for smartphones. KMaps was acquired by WHERE, Inc.
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Senior Enterprise Architect and Project Lead at S1
April 2000 - April 2005Responsible for major Corporate Cash Management accounts (Bank of America, Fleet, Wells Fargo...). Built large scale Enterprise Banking frameworks processing and analyzing millions of financial transactions per day, integrated into banks' back end payment processing systems.
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Senior Software Architect at FICS Brussels, Belgium & Rotterdam, Netherlands
June 1997 - April 2000Corporate Cash Management Startup. Responsible for Corporate Payment Solutions architecture and services with the highest level of security and transaction volume for large financial institutions. Introduced Agile Methodology and Refactoring to the team. Published the first Refactoring Pattern outside of the core Refactoring book http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/replaceConditionalWithVisitor.pdf and contributed to "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" book. FICS was acquired by US based company S1 (Nasdaq:SONE) in 2000.
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Senior Software Architect at Federal Customs Service, Belgrade
1994 - 1997Federal Customs Service was the largest IT infrastructure in SouthEastern Europe, deployed on large DB2 database clusters processing millions of transactions per day. Built large scale B2B solutions and analytics for tracking goods through entry ports for customs functionality.
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Director of Data Science at PayPal
April 2011Big Data, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Predictive Analytics, Personalized Marketing, Segmentation, Classification, Recommender Systems...
Ivan Mitrovic's Education:
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Belgrade University
Ivan Mitrovic's Interests & Activities:
Chess, Military History