K T T N
Kosovo  Terrestrial  Transmission  Network

Background

RUDOLF BOSNJAK

Rudolf Bosnjak

Angelo Parenti call me "dotore", for that reason I have glasses!

Mr. Rudolf Bosnjak serves as Uplink Engineer, Consultant, Terrestrial Engineer in Kosovo. Operates as a Senior Terrestrial Broadcast Planner and Site Supervisor.  Lead Planner and Site Manager for Zatric and Golesh sites. provide training to local technicians from the Television stations on the operation of the satellite uplink van. Serve as supervisor for the preparation work being done at KTTN transmitting sites and serve as Terrestrial Engineer for the Zatric and Golesh sites, as well as other sites as necessary. Assist IREX in developing KTTN long-term management plan and assist in the training of Kosovar staff for KTTN Overall responsible for management of Satellite TV Broadcasts. More details about, click on web link KTTN.

September 2000 WAP and WML programing, WAP server KABA

1999 - Whitefield Computers Center
Network Engineer, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

WHITEFIELD   COMPUTER  CENTER is leading  company  in  supplying  Personal  Computers to  the market  of   Bosnia and Herzegovina. My role was to make complete preparation for web site design, application set up, tests and tasks related for establishing online system for ordering and future internet e-commerce transaction and later project of local company Intranet with connection to the Internet and our branch offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Project Design and full installation and testing. Company network is design with Windows NT Servers and workstations and IIS web server, and Netscape messenger and Mail server.

1998 - Centar za Razvoj Poslovanja - CRP - Business Development Center
Internet specialist - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Design and maintenance of company's first web site, where I worked with SUN Microsystems - servers, CISCO Communication Systems - routers, Motorola - access modems, Patton Electronics - base band modem equipment and Netscape Communications - Mail, Web server and Netscape browser software. This company is selected as exclusive partner inside area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to represent, sale and maintain - manufacturing program of hardware and software products and solutions from worldwide known companies: SUN Microsystems, CISCO Communication Systems, Motorola, Harris, Netscape Communications, Patton Electronics

Project design - work experience

1997 - 1998 Digital Uplink Services - Project Design of new company
Attempt to establish a company for satellite business - Belgrade, Yugoslavia

-Making feasibility study for all aspects of new company
-Collecting relevant information for new company and operational tasks
-Writing detailed satellite Uplink/Downlink equipment specification
-WWW - page design for the presentation of new company
-Other necessary tasks

DVB - Digital Video Broadcast & satellite uplink - work experience

1996 - 1997 Open Broadcast Network local page - OBN official web site - Project Assistance Team - visit Official Office of High Representative - OHR web site
Satellite Up Link Engineer, and later RF External Transmission Engineer - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

-Responsible for the ongoing operations of OBNsatellite uplink station and later duties as RF External -Transmission Engineer for whole network with tasks of planning network future.
-Satellite Uplink/Downlink daily operations ( various)
-Establishing communication with BT Teleport, London to uplink signal to Eutelsat satellite 2F3 16° East, -Downlink signal control test
-Digital Satellite Receivers NDS System 3000 Professional series receiver
-Scientific Atlanta..............Power Vu Models, Comercial Satelitte Receiver D 9223
-Analog Satellite Receivers
-TWT - HPA MX200 and MX 3000, see other MCL products
-Upconverter
-Digital Encoders/Modulators
-Satellite modems
-Co-ordination between all international partners involved in PAT ( Project Assistance Team )
-System control, new project design of  future OBN microwave network
-Maintenance of equipment, testing, technical problems, signal control
-Personal Computer hardware and software maintenance, MS Windows
-Establish and organize Internet and e-mail communications for OBN studios
-Other tasks

Telecommunication experience - work experience
1995 - 1996 ITEC inc. 
Technical Field Engineer
- Cairo, Egyp
t

-Full installation, commissioning of Billing Data Polling Computer Systems and Tape Emulator System,
-Testing cables, installation and connection of Polling Computer System to AXE 10 telephone exchange.
-Testing communication lines and protocols.
-Real telephone traffic monitoring.

1994 - 1995 ITEC inc., Billing System
Technical Engineer - Consultant - Bucharest, Romani
a

-Acceptance testing of Data Collection System.
-Software and hardware installation

1993 - 1994 ITEC inc., Billing System
Technical Engineer - Consultant - Harare, Zimbabwe

-Complete installation, testing, acceptance testing and maintenance of 7 large, billing systems

Pretoria, South Africa
-Complete installation, testing, acceptance testing of billing demo system

Sofia, Bulgaria
-Complete installation, testing, acceptance testing and maintenance of billing system

Radio communication experience - work experience

1990 - 1993 TECHNICON ( Pvt. ) Ltd.,
Chief Engineer - Harare, Zimbabwe

Duties also include the daily work with operating equipment and specific areas of noted experience:
-Installing, commissioning and maintaining a wide range of communication Military HF Radio Communication Equipment and systems for National Army and National Police, and civilian use-different equipment, supplied by Technicon to Zimbabwe customers from:
-RACAL Radio and RACAL Communications, Inc
-Installation of HF/VHF/UHF DF-Direct Finding system
-VHF Jamming Systems and surveillance HF/VHF/UHF Receivers.
-Specific work on upgrade of Racal military radio communication equipment in Angola and Botswana for their National Armies.
-Midland and Midlandradio and   Motorola
-Installation, commissioning, programming and maintenance of two way radio, repeater stations, base stations, antenna systems.
-Designed and manufactured motorcycle adapters to interface Midland radios (including PCB, switching electronic and case ) to Motorola headset. Work done for Zimbabwe Republic Police.
-HARRIS RF Communications and Defense Communications
-Installation of HF/VHF Military Base Station
-Installation 15 pieces of ATU-Automatic Tuning Unit for HF 100w mobile radios.
-Meteorological Department Government of Zimbabwe
-Installation and commissioning of Casella weather station and maintenance, installation and commissioning Feed-Back satellite dish antenna and PC computer for receiving and monitoring data from Meteosat satellite.

Various electronic work experience

1989 -1990 VIDEO & COMPUTER SERVICE
Service Engineer - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

-Maintenance of PC Computers and maintenance of industrial electronics for various customers.
-Installation of radio communication equipment such as CB radio HF/VHF/UHF
-installation of internal TV system for Sarajevo airport in CO-operation with SPE-Electronic
-Repairing TV sets, video recorders, video cameras and repairing of all kind of audio equipment
-Design of Switching Mode Power Supply unit for PC computer, design and manufactured of Bar Code Reader with Z 80 microprocessor.

Mainframe computers - work experience

1979 - 1989 ICL Ltd., UK -  Mladost,Zagreb, Croatia
Hardware System Engineer - Sarajevo-Zagreb-Belgrade, Yugoslavi
a

-Installation, maintenance of ICL mainframe computer equipment
-System 1902 with peripheral equipment
-System 1500, System DRS 25
-Point of Sale -PoS and optical scanners RKB-Belgrade.
-Work with DIGITAL PDP 11 mainframe computer connected to Scan - Data Corporation 2250/1 OCR (optical character recognition) scanner.

First work experience

1977 - 1979 ZPIO BiH
Service Technician - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

-Duties are maintenance of different electronic equipment


ENVIRONMENTS: Software knowledge

Excellent knowledge of computer platforms using MS-DOS, Windows for Workgroups 3.11,Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, MS-Office, MS Word, MS-Excel, MS - Power Point, Front Page 98, HTML software and other WEB based software packages, Installation and maintenance of Netscape messenger Servers and Netscape Mail servers and software, Microsoft IIS  web servers and software, Microsoft NT servers and Work station software, networking systems, LAN, TCP/IP, wireless systems, work with routers from Cisco, D-link, Zyxel, hubs from D-link, 3Com, work with Netscape Communicator Software, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, etc.

WEB and NETWORKING EXPERIENCE: Web design, web applications, Networking, Internet, Intranet, LAN related - work experience

TECHNOLOGIES: Hardware knowledge

PC computers all brand names and laptop computers software and hardware platforms, maintenance, installation, set up and installation, maintenance of PC computers, printers, cards, servers, routers, LAN networks, modems, network printers, hubs.

Expert in Fault Finding Procedures coupled with experience in Trouble Shooting Procedures for PC computers and PCB Circuit, Technical Management and Operations procedures. Expert in Radio Communication systems and equipment, telecommunication systems and equipment, digital satellite communications systems and equipment, transmission of digital broadcast signals and DVB equipment

BUSINESS AND PROJECTS:

Project and design of LAN network for SOHO and project for ISP companies.

Consulting Services for Satellite Communications - Uplink/Downlink system, Installation, maintenance, Commissioning.

EDUCATION:

Education history - Professional development

1974 - 1977 University of Sarajevo, Study-Faculty of Political Science
1967 - 1971 Technical Secondary School

Training courses attended in following companies worldwide:

1999 - Networking Technology and Systems, Alcatel-Cabling Systesms design and installation,
1998 - CRP - Cisco Communications, Sun Microsystems, Patton,
1996 - 1997, OBN, SNG - Digital Broadcast Technology
1993 - 1995, Comtec, Satellite communication Inmarsat C, GSM Telephony
1990 - 1993, ALDEN, ITEC inc., Magnavox, HARRIS, Midland
1989 - AMSTRAD, Italy
1980 - SCAN DATA Corporation, USA
1977 - 1979, KODAK, Austria

REFERENCES: Personal and professional references or additional information available upon your request via e-mail.

Web resume available as interactive, with web link to each previous position.

Backgrounds

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