Ivo Krastev Email & Phone Number

Sofia, Sofia, Bg

• Responsible for managing, setting objectives and strategies for "IT", "PR" and "Administrative services" departments.• Creating IT and Cyber security strategy• Select and implement suitable technology to streamline all internal operations and help optimize their strategic benefits• Plan the implementation of new systems and provide guidance to IT professionals and other staff within the organization• Budget planning• Approve purchases of technological equipment and software and establish partnerships with IT providers• Oversee the technological infrastructure (networks and computer systems) in the organization to ensure optimal performance• Steer and organize IT-related projects• Monitor changes or advancements in technology to discover ways the company can gain competitive advantage• Analyze the costs, value and risks of information technology to advise management and suggest actions• Assist in building relationships with vendors and creating cost-efficient contracts• Incident management and SLAs.

Красно Село, София-Град, Bg

• Creating company’s IT and Cyber security strategy• Select and implement suitable technology to streamline all internal operations and help optimize their strategic benefits• Plan the implementation of new systems and provide guidance to IT professionals and other staff within the organization• Reporting directly to the CEO• Budget planning• Approve purchases of technological equipment and software and establish partnerships with IT providers• Oversee the technological infrastructure (networks and computer systems) in the organization to ensure optimal performance• Steer and organize IT-related projects• Monitor changes or advancements in technology to discover ways the company can gain competitive advantage• Analyze the costs, value and risks of information technology to advise management and suggest actions• Coordinate IT managers and supervise computer scientists, technicians and other professionals to provide guidance• Set objectives and strategies for the IT department• Assist in building relationships with vendors and creating cost-efficient contracts• Leading the "IT System administration and support" team, responsible for the Windows and Linux Server Infrastructure Maintenance and Administration, End-user support and Network infrastructure administration and support.• Leading the "Field Services" team responsible for maintenance and repair of the equipment in all 2000 locations.• IT Infrastructure and services.• Relationships with external IT vendors.• Incident management and SLAs.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

IT Business Analyst and Project management for Operation and Supply Chain EMEA region.Working closely with business partners, teams, business stakeholders and vendors to enable the delivery of process, data and technology solutions. • Full Project Management across all Cargill businesses in EMEA.• Internal and external stakeholders management, vendor negotiations, multinational teams management.• Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering • Solution Design• Business Partnership

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Application management and support in the EMEA region for Cargill Animal Nutrition (CAN).Responsible for feed formulation systems and the interfaces with other applications (e.g. ERP systems) improving the customer satisfaction and creating a strong business relationship with stakeholders.• Covering a large application portfolio for more than 500 individual customers and maintaining vast virtual infrastructure (Citrix and Cloud based). • Large portfolio of .NET and SQL based applications: MAX, BILLS, BestMix, LIMS systems.• Day by day deployment and support for CAN IT Global Formulation applications provided to internal and external customers (non-Cargill employee).• Accountable for all projects related Formulation or with interface with Formulation systems• -Partnership with Formulation Center of excellence to provide application training to EMEA users• SME for Best Mix (Globally deployed)• On-site support and training in partnership with Global Strategic Marketing and Technology during regional meetings.• Cross regions support , training and escalation• Coordination with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) partner

Rotterdam, Nl

In charge of:• Business continuity from IT perspective for company’s locations in Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.• IT Infrastructure and services• Windows Server Infrastructure Maintenance and Administration • Data centers management• Relationships with external IT vendors. • Implementation and maintenance of global solutions within Bulgaria and Romania.• Incident management and SLAs for BG and RO.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Maintain the highest available uptime and performance of the custom applications in the production environment, while maintaining the flexibility and preparedness to quickly respond to business and technological drivers. Doing this by monitoring and trending the performance of the applications and the supporting infrastructure. I also facilitate the development and testing of the applications in non-production environments by supporting the application development and quality assurance teams. I provide production escalations support and return to service, working with the appropriate internal and external groups to resolve issues. -Microsoft Windows Servers Administration -Infrastructure Monitoring -Application Support

Sofia, Sofia, Bg

• Installing and maintaining Windows server family under multi-domain environment; • Virtualization (Hyper-V, vSphere) • Configuration and maintaining company’s Active Directory • Configuration and maintaining Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers • Responsible to perform installation, configuration, patching and troubleshooting MS Windows servers family• Operate and maintain complex centralized activities and distributed computer systems in a multi-vendor operating environment; • Providing end-user support: processing and completing internal clients requests • Executive directors (VIP) Support

Sofia, Sofia, Bg

Providing end user support: processing and completing internal clients’ requests for software and hardware problems at workstation, conference, network, printers, copying machines, etc.; Active Directory, Exchange, DHCP, DNS; Executive directors (VIP) Support;