NAME
Vladimir Petković


NATIONALITY
Serbian


DATE OF BIRTH
21/Feb/1983.


WORK EXPERIENCE


Overall

Freelancer and contract worker for many companies around the world including:
America, UK, Russia, Dubai, Libya, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia etc, as:

3D&Animation Artist
Illustrator
Web, Logo and UI Designer
Application Designer
Game Designer
Lecturer and assistant

Most recent

2011 - present
3D generalist at Crater Studio.

2010 - present
CEO and Art Director at Vladimir Studio, 3D & Graphic design studio.

during 2010
Lecturer at Metropolitan University (Adobe Photoshop courses).

2008 - present
Senior web and application designer at Canic interactive .

during 2009.
Assistant at Chiron, Autodesk certified school for animation and modeling (in Belgrade).

2007 - 2009.
Graphic designer at ABB Ltd., Industrial Automation industry (in Switzerland).

2006 - 2009.
Art director at Klick Sports, Mobile and Internet games company (in Los Angeles, CA).

EDUCATION AND TRAINING


2008 - 2009.
Graduate on Chiron, Autodesk certified school for animation and modeling (in Belgrade).
View certificates

2009 - present
University student (II year) on Faculty of Digital Art, Metropolitan University,

1998 - 2002
4th level of High School degree (Science and Mathematics), High School “Bora Stankovic” (in Nis).

1995 - 1998
Special mathematics school for talents, Mathematicians society (in Nis).

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS


1. Founder and leading organizer in non-government, non-profitable organization “REANIMATION”, an Internet portal with primary goal to be positive and reanimating art-cultural influence for youth of Niš and Serbia (from 2005 till 2007).

2. Founder, leading organizer and main lecturer of the student club “3D Archeology” (http://www.3darheologija.com) from 02/21/2006 till now, featuring:

3D reconstruction of Niš archeological excavation sites (2 main projects)
3D modeling school (3D Studio Max lessons) and
raster graphic school (Adobe Photoshop lessons).

3. As a member of MENSA International, organization help during MENSA events (“Days of MENSA in Niš”, etc…).

PUBLISHED WORKS


Interval matrix models of design iteration, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Electronics and Information Engineering, Kyoto 2010, vol.1, 20-24.

“Web application user interface design”, published on YUINFO 2004, Kopaonik.

PERSONAL SKILLS


Mother tongue: Serbian

Other languages: English (TOEFL certified), German

TECHNICAL SKILLS


|OS|

MICROSOFT WINDOWS
MAC OS X
LINUX OS

|PROGRAMS FOR 3D MODELING AND ANIMATION|

Autodesk MAYA
Autodesk 3D STUDIO MAX
Pixologic ZBRUSH
Next Limit Technologies REAL FLOW
Corel BRYCE
e-on software VUE
Planetside Software TERRAGEN

|PROGRAMS FOR POST-PRODUCTION|

Adobe AFTER EFFECTS
Adobe PREMIER
Vicon BOUJOU

|PROGRAMS FOR RASTER GRAPHICS|

Adobe PHOTOSHOP

|PROGRAMS FOR VECTOR GRAPHICS|

Adobe FLASH
Adobe ILLUSTRATOR
Corel DRAW

|PROGRAMMING SKILLS|

JAVA
C++
FORTRAN

|WEB DEVELOPMENT|

mySQL
HTML
CSS
Installing, handling and modifying DRUPAL CMS.

|HARDWARE|

Assembling PC computers

SPORT ACTIVITIES


Ninjutsu (martial arts)
Snowboarding
Free-climbing
Mountain climbing
Spearfishing
Free-diving
Bike-riding

OTHER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES


Problem solving skills and analythical thinking
Artistic drawing and digital/GFX artist skills

ADDITIONAL COMPETENCES


US Green Card holder
Member of Mensa International
Drivers license, B category


My full CV:
Vladimir Petkovic Curriculum Vitae.pdf