Hive Studios Development Team

Ivan Pavlović, MVP for Visual C#, MCAD, MCSD.NET, MCDBA, MCT

Software Craftsman (MCAD, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT) with more than 9 years of professional engagement in software development. During that period he took part in various projects ranging from deployment and configuration of team development environments, IT training and development of Windows and Web applications. Co-founder and managing director of Hive Studios d.o.o. (www.hive-studios.com). Current project roles are defining business requirements, application infrastructure design, project management and technology selection. MCP status archived on December 2000. MVP status archived on April 2007. Fluently speaks T-SQL, VB 6.0, VB.NET, C# and Basic for ZX Spectrum ;-)

He is very active in Microsoft Community in Serbia. You can visit his blog Brain.WriteLine() on MSForge or get a RSS feed. He is INETA Country Leader for Serbia since December 2007.

Milica Tomić Jovanović, MCAD, MCSD.NET

Her professional career began in 2002 at CET as a lecturer for Microsoft courses specialized in Windows and Web development, database design, ARDSA, as well as Microsoft Sales Specialist courses. Year and a half later she started to work for E-Smart Systems on a project for issuing transport licenses for the serbian Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications. In the beginning of 2004, she transfers to NeoNet company, where she worked on a variety of complex Windows and Web solutions, documentation creation and end-user training. She also worked on establishing and maintaining good client relationships. Since April 2007 she works for Hive Studios.

Childhood spent in Southern Africa provided her with excellent knowledge of English and led to Cambridge Proficiency English certificate. Using this she worked on software localization on various Microsoft projects (MS Office 2007, Windows Vista, Knowledge Base articles, Microsoft Navision).

Today, she works on various projects which require use of most up-to-date technologies such as: VS 2005, C#, SQL Server 2005, Visio, XML, but also uses already traditional ASP.NET, JavaScript, UML and others. She is results-oriented with excellent problem solving and communication skills and also highly organized with strong planning skills.

In Febuary 2002 she gained her first certificate, MCSD, and only a few months later MCAD.NET Charter Member. Soon after that, in April 2003 she gained MCSD.NET certificate as an Early Achiever. Although she completed her Civil Engineering studies in 2001, she thought she could do more. Now, there is only one year between her an a BSc Computing and Information Systems degree.

In Zimbabwe she mastered batik, which is something she is very successful at and enjoys doing. Apart from this, she enjoys gardening and interior design and decoration shown in every space where she lived.

Apart from Serbian and English, which are her native languages, she speaks some Spanish, French and Slovenian. One could say that she has an uncommon hobby of being a Language Collector.

She is married to Janko and has an itsy-bitsy boy Mateja.

Janko Jovanović, MCSD

He met with a computer at 12, long ago in 1987 and started programming in 1989 working in Clipper ’87 and dBase III+ database. From 1991 to the end of 2002 was envolved in various projects going through requirement analisys, documenting, development, training and other phases. Form 2002 he began using Microsoft technologies intensively. He worked on several interesting projects, the most complex of which was insurance system for lawyers. From November 2003 up to April 2006 worked for NeoNet as a team leader of a small software team and was envolved in leading and developing several solutions. In April 2006 he began working for Ceetel on a European Railway Agency project. Since December 2006 he works for Hive Studios where he works with cutting edge technology among which are ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2005, Visio, XML and others. Request analysis and creation of documentation using UML are his favorites, but his specialization is customer-oriented, inductive UI design and development. Visit his blog about web development, asp.net and ajax here.

In the first half of 2001 he gained an MCP status and in the beginning of next year an MCSD certificate. The beginning of 2005 was marked by completing his studies at Belgrade Business School department of Information Technology. Speaks English and some German.

He is an amateur painter, also from the age of 12 and constantly works parallel to his professional engagement. It was probably just a tiny thing which influenced him not to pursue a painting career. His art is available at his website www.dzovan.com, http://gallery.dzovan.com

He is happily married to Milica and a proud father of little Mateja.

Josip Bešić

He discovered his talent in 1991 at the age of 12 taking part in various programming competitions. He has more than 6 years of programming experience in Visual Studio environment. From September 2000 to April 2004 he worked as freelance programmer in whatever language customer desired such as PHP, Java, VB, C++, C#. From April 2004 to January 2007 he worked in QUANTUM – AutoMARKET where his good work was recognized so from July 2005 he advanced from working as developer to being lead developer. Beside programming he enjoy playing guitar, traveling and at most sailing.