Welcome to Goodbye Slovenia.

My decision is final. I’m moving to New Zealand ASAP.

I think that most of my fellow citizens of Slovenia would agree with me when I say Slovenia just sucks! Now don’t get me wrong. It’s a beautiful country. You can explore everything from mountains to it’s Adriatic sea. But economically speaking it’s still a child.

We have lover salaries and higher costs than other countries. I’ve been programming for all most 10 years now. My intelligence is high above average and still a garbage man in Germany gets more money than me at the end of the month. If that doesn’t make you cry than you’re not living in Slovenia

I watch “Goodbye Deutschland! Die Auswanderer” on German TV; VOX I believe. And in May I was on ActiveMigration seminar. Later that day I was thinking about many things around migration to New Zealand. Since there is a waiting time of around 1 Year for New Zealand work VISA I decided to set up this blog and to write and archive all the steps me and my fiance Maja will take to make this dream come true. Maybe someone else from Slovenia will find this information useful

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David Lednik’s CV

summary of Qualifications

• Multilingual: Slovenian/English/German
• Outstanding diplomacy that consistently produces win-win results for customers and company.
• 8-year professional background in programming
• 5-year professional background as lead GIS developer
• Creative and persistent problem solver, I thrive on challenges, excel under pressure and get the job done
• Bright, energetic and resourceful team player
• Member of Mensa Slovenia

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

• Operating Systems
  • Windows 95/98/Millennnium
  • Windows NT/2000/2003
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Linux (Suse, Fedora Core, Debian, RedHat, …)
• Applications
  • MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, …)
  • Pain shop pro, Adobe Photoshop
  • Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera
  • AutoCAD, AutoCAD MAP (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
  • ESRI ArcGIS (8.3, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2)
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
  • Adobe Flash CS3
  • CVS, SVN
• Administration and work
  • Windows/Linux systems
  • Oracle (9.x, 10g), MySQL (Linux/Windows), PostgreSQL (Linux/Windows), MSSQL, IBM DB2 (Windows, Linux)
  • Apache 2.x (Linux/Windows), IIS5, IIS6
• Desktop programming
  • MS Visual Studio .NET (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, C#, VC++, VB.NET)
  • MS Visual Studio 6.0 (VB, VC++)
  • PHP (4.xx, 5.xx, OOP)
  • VBA – Autodesk AutoCAD MAP (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 200
  • VBA – ESRI ArcGIS (8.3, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2)
  • C# ESRI ArcObjects (8.3, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2)
  • Dreamweaver CS3
• Web programming (frameworks - FW)
  • CakePHP
  • Ruby on Rails
  • w3matter (Boston stationed firm; have been working for a couple of months on there FW)
• Web programming/technologies
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • XML
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • ASP.NET
  • AJAX
• Databases
  • Oracle
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • IBM DB2
  • MSSQL

EMPLOYMENT

• October 2000 - 31. December 2006: LUZ d.d. (as student work)
• 1. January 2007: LUZ d.d. (permanent job)

EDUCATION

• High school – Chemist
• Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology Ljubljana; finishing study

OTHER SKILLS

• Electronics
• Chemistry knowledge

REFERENCE

Available upon request.

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