Professional Experience

Engineering across field work, infrastructure, manufacturing, and technology.

My experience has moved from natural-resource engineering and infrastructure evaluation to electrical systems, pilot builds, troubleshooting, and cloud technologies.

2024 — Present
G&W Electric · Bolingbrook, IL

Electronics Technician

Testing, troubleshooting, and validation of medium-voltage electrical switchgear for utility, data-center, and government customers.

  • Perform continuity, functional, software, and Hi-Pot testing on switchgear products.
  • Read complex wiring diagrams and electrical schematics and troubleshoot issues before FAT.
  • Support pilot builds and identify manufacturability, routing, and documentation improvements.
  • Serve as a technical resource for coworkers and train new employees.
  • Use JD Edwards daily and collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality.
2023 — 2024
G&W Electric · Bolingbrook, IL

Assembler

Built electrical equipment in a production environment before progressing into the Electronics Technician role.

  • Developed hands-on knowledge of product construction, wiring, and manufacturing flow.
  • Built familiarity with quality requirements and how engineering drawings translate into physical products.
  • Progressed into a testing and troubleshooting role after approximately one year.
2021 — 2023
IPK d.o.o. · Serbia

Expert Associate — Forestry Engineering

Supported infrastructure and land-acquisition projects through field investigations, technical analysis, GIS, surveying, and formal reporting.

  • Evaluated more than 2,000 properties associated with road, railway, power, mining, and public-infrastructure projects.
  • Prepared and co-signed more than 1,000 formal technical reports used in land-acquisition and compensation processes.
  • Used GIS, GPS field devices, survey coordinates, Excel, and Word to support technical evaluation and reporting.
  • Worked with government agencies, companies, property owners, lawyers, and courts.
  • Applied regulatory requirements and engineering calculations to physical-asset valuation.
2021 — 2022
Project Research · Serbia

Research Assistant / Project Researcher

Participated in paid field-research and data-analysis projects related to forestry governance, corruption risk, and non-wood forest resources.

  • Collected primary field data through questionnaires and interviews.
  • Processed, extracted, and organized collected information for analysis.
  • Contributed to research connected with USAID- and FAO-funded initiatives.
  • Worked across field research, stakeholder communication, and office-based data processing.
Education & Technology

Engineering foundation + modern digital tools

University of Belgrade

Master of Science in Forestry Engineering

Research focused on business processes and cooperation among forestry and wood-industry SMEs.

University of Belgrade

Bachelor of Science in Forestry Engineering

Foundation in GIS, technical analysis, surveying, natural-resource systems, and engineering problem solving.

AWS Cloud Institute

Cloud Application Developer Graduate

Hands-on learning in AWS cloud services, application architecture, networking, serverless computing, and development.

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