RUMEN S. GARKOV 
rgarkov@hotmail.com
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a job as a MS Windows desktop/client-server (Internet) software application developer. 
SUMMARY 
•	Strong Visual Basic development skills (3+ years) 
•	Experience with MS Windows environment
•	Web applications
•	Databases
•	Object Oriented development experience 
Development tools and technologies: MS Visual Basic 6.0, MS Visual InterDev 6.0, MS FrontPage 98/2000, ActiveX, COM/DCOM, MS Visual Studio .NET
Database: T-SQL, ADO, DAO, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000, MS Access 97
Internet: ASP, HTML, MS IIS, VBScript/JScript 
Operating Systems: MS Windows 98/NT
EDUCATION
Masters Degree (MSc): Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, June 1997 
Major: Information Technologies
High school: Technical school of microprocessor technologies with English language teaching, Pravetz, Bulgaria, May, 1992 
Major: Computer and microprocessor technician
Courses and Certificates
Programming the Microsoft.NET Framework with C#, course 2349, January, 2002
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, November, 2000
Mastering Enterprise Development Using Microsoft® Visual Basic 6.0, course 1016, June, 2000
Mastering Web Application Development Using Microsoft® Visual InterDev 6.0, course 1017, June, 2000
Brainbench Certified Professional: Web Programmer, April, 2000
Brainbench Certified Professional: Visual Basic Programmer, April, 2000
Brainbench Certified Professional: Active Server Pages Programmer, January, 2000
EXPERIENCE 
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 
03/2001 – Present 
Radiant Telecom Inc., Miami, FL, USA
Project: Development and support, MIS department.
Technology used: MS Windows 2000, MS SQL Server 2000, T-SQL, MS Visual Basic 6.0, ADO, MS Visual Studio .NET
VB/ASP/SQL PROGRAMMER 
02/2001 – 03/2001 
Manarola Technology Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA 
Project: Inter-corporate information system (resource management) 
The system allows the company managers to check the status of consultants and to allocate to clients' projects those of them who are on bench and possess adequate skills. The consultants can use the system through its web interface to fill-in their time sheets and to indicate their status. Participated in development of the interface of manager's stand-alone program, database-access COM components and partially in the development of the ASP functionality for the web interface. 
Technology used: MS Windows 98/NT4, MS IIS 4.0, MS SQL Server 7.0, ASP 2.0, ADO, MS Visual Basic 6.0, MS Visual InterDev 6.0 
MIS ASSISTANT
06/1999 - 02/2000
Regional Initiatives Fund, Sofia, Bulgaria
Project: Management Information System
The management information system was developed by external consultants and incorporates each phase of the microprojects (separately financed civil-works projects) life cycle, performance monitoring, procurement and accounting. It is based on a client-server technology - MS SQL server 6.5 as a database server and MS Access 97 fat-client application on the client workstations. Responsible for design and implementation of reports concerning the accounting activities and the overall performance of the microprojects (planned and actual performance output indicators). Also responsible for design, development and maintenance of the RIF web site (http://www.rif.applet-bg.com/). The RIF web site is hosted on an MS IIS 4.0 and includes several pages with static content and several active server pages for online visualization of the output performance indicators by criteria. Views and stored procedures were developed on the SQL Server database for the purposes of the indicator calculation. Additional tasks include Windows NT4 administration, maintenance of the RIF LAN (25 workstations/Windows 98/NetBEUI and TCP/IP), 
Technologies used: MS Windows 98/NT4, MS Internet Information Server 4.0, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0, MS Access 97, ASP 2.0, ADO, MS Visual InterDev 6.0, MS FrontPage 2000, MS Visual Basic 6.0, SQL, T-SQL, TCP/IP.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 
09/1999 - 02/2000 
CORAX - Ivo Stoynev, Sofia, Bulgaria
Project: CBT Application 
Subcontractor on a part-time basis in a project for KPMG - Holland (HPT Group).
Designed, developed and implemented a stand-alone CBT application. The application consists of two separate parts - a WYSIWYG authoring part (Maestro Organizer) and a client part (Maestro Player). Inside the application, the main compound component presented to the learner is a page, which represent one screen of information. There are different pages, which offer different capabilities. Depending on its type, each page may have different static and interactive elements (objects). Actively took part in the design and development of the content database (tables and stored queries) and the main modules of authoring application including some of the page classes. Responsible for the design and development of the core modules of the player application, the database access class, the page visualization, the content navigation logic (page transition), the history class, the user profile class, the multimedia page (both authoring and player), etc.
Technologies used: MS Visual Basic 6.0, SQL, MS Access 97, DAO, ActiveX, Package & Deployment Wizard.
PROGRAMMER
07/1998 - 05/1999 
VirTech Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria
Project: Porting a 16-bit CBT Tool Kit to 32-bit OS environment
Old third party 16-bit ActiveX controls where replaced with new 32-bit versions. The source code was modified to reflect the specifics of the new ActiveX controls, the 32-bit Windows API declarations and the new features of MS Visual Basic 5.0.
Technologies used: MS Visual Basic 5.0, ActiveX.
Project: Intranet Site
Designed, developed and implemented an Intranet site for the Holland Social Insurance Company. The site represents typical insurance legislation information to the employees. The information is arranged in a hierarchy of different categories, knowledge types, processes and entities. The site has been developed as a framework of ASP pages, which facilitate the navigation through the hierarchy and displaying information. Took part in development of a utility for converting the content from MS Word documents into HTML and transferring it in a SQL Server database. Development of the web interface form and the back-end functionality for content searching.
Technologies used: MS Visual Basic 5.0, MS FrontPage 98, HTML, JScript, ASP, SQL.
Project: Project management application
Actively participated in the testing and quality assurance phase.
Technologies used: MS Visual Basic 5.0, MS Access 95, MS Word 95, MS Excel 95.
ASSISTANT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
07/1997 - 09/1997
Research Institute for Irrigation, Drainage and Hydraulic Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria
Tasks: Maintenance of LAN with 19 workstations (MS Windows for Workgroups/Windows 95) and administration of a PDC.
Technologies used: MS Windows NT 4.0 Server, NetBEUI, TCP/IP
SOFTWARE CONSULTANT
11/1994 - 03/1995
Amer Nielsen Research, Inc., Sofia, Bulgaria
Project: Data collection application
Design and development of application for collecting the information from data sheets from the local yearly marketing research namely "CENSUS". The functionality includes adding, editing and deleting records and output of set of standard reports to screen/printer. The information is stored in a dBase IV database.
Technologies used: Borland Delphi 1.0, MS Windows 3.11, dBase IV.