Jordan Vrtanoski

Jordan Vrtanoski has over 27 years of work experience in the telecommunications industry. Jordan is currently serving as the Chief Architect at Connect 5G, Inc. since October 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Ericsson for 15 years, where they held the position of Chief Solution Architect. In this role, they led digital transformation programs worth over $30 million, managing cross-functional teams with over 100 members. Jordan was responsible for solution definition and delivery, as well as leading teams of solution architects in pre-sales activities. Before joining Ericsson, Jordan worked at Cosmote Romania as the Head of billing, mediation & integration office. Jordan also served as the Billing Team Lead at Cosmofon and as an IT Consultant and Senior Auditor at Macedonian Telecommunications. Jordan'searly career includes roles as Lead Developer at Mobimak and IT Technician and Consultant at Macedonian Telecommunications.

Jordan Vrtanoski has a diverse education history. In 1988, they obtained their High School Diploma from U.C. Vlado Tasevski in Skopje, Macedonia, where they studied Electrical, Electronic, and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician. From 1993 to 1996, they pursued a degree in Management & Accounting at the University of S. Kiril i Metodij in Skopje, Macedonia, completing three years of the program. Later, from 2003 to 2010, Jordan attended the European University in Skopje, earning a BSc in Computer Software Engineering.

Throughout their career, Jordan also pursued additional certifications to enhance their skills. In 2018, they completed a course on Learning C++ from LinkedIn. In 2019, they obtained a certificate in Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization from Imperial College London through Coursera. In 2020, they earned a Machine Learning Professional Certificate from IBM on Coursera. In 2021, Jordan acquired certifications in Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git by The Linux Foundation, Applied Data Science with Python by the University of Michigan, and System Issues in Cloud Computing by the Georgia Institute of Technology, all through Coursera. Jordan also obtained a Core Designer Certificate and an ML Practitioner Certificate from Dataiku. Furthermore, Jordan holds a TOGAF® 9 certification from The Open Group, although the month and year of attainment are not specified.