Nikola Modrušan

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

  • born on 9 January 1987
  • married
                                   

Education

  •  2010 Master in Informatics - Information and Software Engineering: Faculty of Organisation and Informatics                                      
  • 2005 Computer Technician, Krapina High School
  

Professional career

  • 2024  -           Acting Director General for for the Development of National Information Infrastructure and Electronic Services, Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation
  • 2023  - 2024  Deputy State Secretary, Central State Office for Digital Society Development 
  • 2022  - 2023  Head of Digital Infrastructure Development Sector, Central State Office for Digital Society Development
  • 2019  - 2022  Sectoral Coordinator of Digital Society Development, Central State Office for the Digital Society Development
  • 2014  - 2019  Director of Informatics Service, Narodne novine d.d.
  • 2010  - 2014  Team Leader, NTH Group d.o.o.
  

Other

  • Member of Expert Working Group on the Proposal for a National Plan and Action Plan for AI Development 
  • National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 - National Coordinator of Sub-Component C2.3. Digital transformation of society and public administration, and Project Manager of C2.3.R2-I2 - Establishing a central data light repository and business analytics and C2.3.R3-I1 - Upgrading the Shared Services Centre
  • Head of Joint Project Team and Member of Project Steering Committee of the project “Establishment of the Shared Services Centre”
  • former Member of the Expert Working Group on the Draft Proposal of the Digital Croatia Strategy 2030
  • former Member of the Working Group on the Draft Proposal of the National Information Infrastructure Act
  • Member of the Working Group for the Implementation of the Project for Preparation and Establishment of the Register of Population, Families and Households, based on the Decision of the Minister of Finance
  • former Deputy Chair of the Expert Working Group on the Draft Proposal of the National Plan of the 2030 Policy Programme “Path to the Digital Decade”
  • National expert in the field of interoperability - participates in CIO Network and Interoperability Expert Group at EU level
  • former Chair of the Working Group on the Draft Proposal of the Data Governance Act that will transpose into the Croatian legal system the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on European data governance and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 (Data Governance Act);
  • Member of the National Information Infrastructure Council
  • Representative for EIDAS
  • Member of the shadow working group of the Interoperability Steering Committee
  • Deputy Member of the Management Board of the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity Industry, Technology and Research
  • Member of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Council
  • participated on several occasions in trainings and presentations of state information infrastructure projects
  • presented projects at conferences, participated in panels and round tables presenting the work of the Central State Office for Digital Society Development and other state administration bodies
 

Certificates

  •  ITIL V3 FOUNDATION:
  • Management of IT services
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012
  • Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases
  • Microsoft Technology Associate
  • Database Administration Fundamentals
  • Integration and Use of eInvoices in Business Processes
  • eInvoice
 

Foreign languages

  • English: active in speech and writing
  • German: passive in speech and writing