SSST - Mr. Amer Hadžikadić, MSc

Mr. Amer Hadžikadić, MSc

Industry Expert Lecturer

amer.hadzikadic@ssst.edu.ba

Mr. Hadžikadić is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Charlotte where in a class of 1998 he achieved his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. In 1999, he earned his master’s degree in Computer Science at the same University. His professional career started in the US at Carolinas HealthCare System and a internet startup InternetSoccer.com. Upon coming back to his homeland Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001, Mr. Hadžikadić worked 5 years as a Systems architect primarily in banking industry, at Info Studio, a software development company and an Oracle partner. After 6 years in MIMS Corporation as a Head of IT and Executive director of Team Consulting, an IT company operating within the MIMS Corporation, he came back to banking industry, this time as Director of IT at Sparkasse Bank BH. Throughout his academic and professional career, Amer was always closely involved and working with Oracle technologies. It was from the Bank that he joined Oracle and brought with him experience of designing and implementing solutions and processes that help businesses optimize and remain competitive on the market. Satisfaction of working with young generations at SSST University is lasting since 2007 where Amer teaches database and data mining related courses, and helps students shape their minds and prepares them for their professional endeavors.

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Education

1998 – 1999 Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Master of Science, Computer Science
- Specialty in databases
- GPA 3.7/4.0
1994 – 1998 University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (minor Business Management)
- GPA 3.6/4.0

Work Experience

Feb 2007 – present Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
Senior assistant
- Organizing and lecturing undergraduate topics of databases and data mining, as well as advanced
  topics of databases for graduate students.
- Mentoring undergraduate final thesis.
Sep 2015 – present Oracle BH d.o.o.
Director
- Managing the company as a representative of Oracle corporation, with special accent on sales of
  Oracle technology stack.
Dec 2011 – Aug 2015 Sparkasse Bank
Executive Director of IT/Org
- Managing Information Technology sector which was in charge of all technological aspects of the
  Bank, such as IT operations, applications development and implementation, etc.
- Managing the department of Organization which was in charge of all technology project
  management, change management, IT governance, and business process management
  (implementation of new, optimization of existing and overall management of all Bank’s business
  processes).
Jul 2008 – Nov 2011 Team Consulting d.o.o.
Executive Director
- Team Consulting was acquired by MIMS d.o.o, so the responsibilities from previous work
  remained, along with new projects: fiscal processing, mobile operator top-up processing, ERP
  for Banking Agency of the Federation of BH, e-statements project for Raiffeisen bank, etc.
Dec 2005 – Jun 2008 MIMS d.o.o.
IT Manager
- Managing the team of IT engineers and technicians
- Leading the Oracle eBS project in multiorganizational, multiactivity setting – first project of this
  kind in the former Yugoslavia, and one of the first of the kind in Europe.
- Leading and organizing other important projects such as: SAP project in Vegafruit, fully
  automation of SP Commerce warehouse, card processing center, web engineering for the MIMS
  group, computer infrastructure for the new shopping centers, etc.
Jan 2001 – Dec 2005 Info Studio d.o.o.
Systems Architect
- Oracle developer – development of full system applications for banks and retail store chains
- Responsible for loan application in Bosna Bank International, Volksbank, LT Gospodarska banka i
  UPI banka, as well as loyalty card system in Mercator Centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
  and Serbia and Montenegro
- Webmaster – design, development and maintenance of infostudio.ba web site
Mar 2000 – Sep 2000 internetsoccer.com
Web Engineer
- Development of dynamic web pages using Cold Fusion and Oracle database
- Main developer for internetsoccer.com network sites: collegesoccer.com, nscaa.com,
  youthsoccer.org, soccerrecruiting.com, soccerspot.com
Feb 1997 – Mar 2000 Charlotte AHEC (division of CHS)
System Analyst of Information Technology
- Network assistant administrator – Novell NetWare, Microsoft NT
- Development of dynamic web pages using Cold Fusion and MS SQL database.

Relevant Other Projects

Consultant for Corporate Creative on programming issues for sites: cvintervene.org,
fnthompson.com, mobiussearch.com, qualitrol.com
Consultant for database engineering for Steedman Wilson raggs.com site
Founder of web portals kredit.ba, advokat.ba (odvjetnik.ba), ljekar.ba (lijecnik.ba) in development.

Key positions (industry)

2011 – current, Director of IT and Organization, Sparkasse Bank, Sarajevo, BiH
2007 – current, Senior Assistant, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Sarajevo, BiH
2008 – 2011, Executive Director, Team Consulting, Sarajevo, BiH
2005 – 2008, IT Manager, MIMS Corporation, Sarajevo, BiH
2001 – 2005, Systems Architect, Info Studio, Sarajevo, BiH
2000, Senior Web Engineer, Internet Soccer, Charlotte, USA

Teaching

CS/IS 240 – Database Systems
CS/IS 455 – Data Mining
EC 440 – Database Systems
CS/IS 510 – Advanced Database Systems

Research interests

Database and Data Warehouse Systems
Konwledge Discovery & Data Mining
Decision Support Systems
Performance Analysis

References

Available upon request

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