Curriculum Vitae

1 Name of Firm: Hrvatske šume consult

2 Family name: Meštrić

3 First name: Branko

4 Present position: Hrvatske šume consult - consultant

5 Profession: Forest Engineer

6 Date of birth: 21. Sept. 1961

7 Years within firm: 6

8 Nationality: Croatian

9 Membership of professional bodies:

· The Croatian Chamber of Forestry and Wood Technology Engineers

· Croatian Forestry Society

10 Key qualifications:

· IT management

· Development and implementation of IT systems

· Database modelling and web-based interface development

· Knowledge and experience in design and implementation of forestry IT systems

· Development of the use of field computers in forestry

· Programming in the procedural and object based programming languages

· Web site development

11 Other skills:

· Experience in design of forestry organisation

· Good management skills

· Forest certification – inspection

· Experience in work with non-governmental organisations

· Forestry history and promotion of forestry

12 Scientific Education:

Institution	Faculty of Forestry at the University of Zagreb, Croatia
Date: from - to	1981-1985
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained	B Sc in forestry

13 Professional experience and employment record: (relevant projects of the last years only)

Date	2008-
Location	Croatia
Client	Croatian forestry Society
Position	Web and database developer
Description	Full digitalization of Šumarski list, web presentation and full text searching mechanisam
Date	2007
Location	B i H
Client	Word Bank & FED BiH
Position	Consultant
Description	Development of Forest managament IT systems in Federation; DB model & Data acquisition system - preliminary design
Date	2005
Location	B i H
Client	Word Bank & FED BiH
Position	Consultant
Description	IT systems review in Federation
Date	2004-
Location	Croatia
Client	Hrvatske šume Consult d.o.o.
Position	Consultant
Description	Consultant activities in restructuring for Hrvatske šume, company for management of state forests in Croatia; monitoring in FSC certificating system
Date	2004-
Location	Croatia
Client	Croatian Forestry Society
Position	wEB AND DATABASE DEVELOPER
Description	Register of Croatian foresters and Bibliography of Šumarski list: database modelling, data collection and web presentation
Date	2002-2003
Location	Croatia
Client	Hrvatske šume, Microsoft
Position	Assistant team leader
Description	Case study of the use of handheld devices based on Microsoft CE system in the forestry application.
Date	1995-2001
Location	BiH
Client	Šume Hercegbosne Mostar
Position	Head of consulting team
Description	Introductory development and implementation of IT System in the forestry organisation. Implementation of broad range of forestry and business IT solutions
Date	1991-2004
Location	Croatia
Client	Hrvatske šume
Position	Head of IT department
Description	Establishment and long-term leading of a large scale IT department with personal experience in all segments of IT development: database modelling, programming, head of in-house software development, design of IT systems, web development, IT training
Date	1989-1990
Location	Croatia
Client	Delnice Secondary School
Position	Teacher – specialist
Description	Perform two-semestral IT teaching programme and databases for 4^th class students of IT
Date	1988-1990
Location	Croatia
Client	GPŠG Delnice
Position	Head of IT department
Description	Building IT function, team building, educations & training for IT people and users. Development of all bussiness and forestry software: lead project team and practical work in project management, data modelling, code writing in several programing languages
Date	1986-1987
Location	Croatia
Client	GPŠG Delnice
Position	IT Specialist in Development department
Description	Cooperation in practical forestry projects, implementing of data processing procedures, starting IT function in company.
Date	1983-1986
Location	Croatia
Client	Faculty of forestry
Position	Assistant on science projects
Description	Data processing, statistical analysis, programing procedure in several projects

14 Language skills:

Language	Reading	Speaking	Writing
Croatian (mother tongue)	excellent	excellent	excellent
Bosnian, Serbian	excellent	excellent	excellent
English	Good	Good	Good