1.    Family name:                Bigelis
2.    First names:                  Zigmas
3.    Date of birth:                22^nd September, 1940
4.    Nationality:                   Lithuanian
5.    Civil status:                   Married

Institution [ Date from – Date to ] Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:

1962 Graduated from Kaunas Politechnical Institute (now - Kaunas Technical University) - radioengineer
1992 Certificate of the first in Lithuania training workshop “Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing”  ( United Nations Institute for Training and Research UNITAR, Global Resource Information database GRID (Norway) and Lithuanian Environmental Protection department)  1994 Certificate of the Public Service Language Centre’s English language Programme (level 4)
 1996 Certificate of course “Training and study tours for information specialists from Lithuania”  (County of Bornholm, Denmark)
 1998 Certificate of courses (seminars) on “Communication strategy and planning, Media Strategy, Negotiation techniques, Organized leadership, Team building and Team work and other” (Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation Programme, Swedish EPA )

Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5
(1 – excellent; 5 – basic)

Language     Reading Speaking Writing
Lithuanian  1                1                   2
English          2               2                   2
Russian          1               1                   2
Polish             2               3                   5
Ukrainian      3               4                   5

Author and lecturer of distant learning courses,
Construction Department,
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Participation in Lithuanian projects

  1.       eSeimas (eParliament) - enhancement of eDemocracy measures in Lithuanian Parliament, 2006
2.       National 2000  problem project . 2000
3.       National project VADIS (Government Administrative Information Systems), 1996-1997
4.       National project “Strategic Plan for Development of Information Infrastructure in Lithuania”, 1992-1994
5.       National project “Development of GIS Strategy”, 1992-1993
6.       National project “Conception of Development of Public Information on the Computerization background”, 1991  

Participation in European projects

  1.      FP6:  Project e-nvision. "A New Vision for the participation of European SMEs in the future e-Business scenario", 2006-2007
2.       FP6: Project IST4Balt “IST4Balt project Information Society Technologies Promotion in Baltic States“, 2005-2007
3.       FP5 : project  TELEBALT “Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Technologies programme” .2003-2005
4.       Phare 2001. “Promoting of e-commerce”
5.       Denmark .”Institutional Strengthening Through Information technology. Development of Program for Ministry of Environment, Lithuania”
6.       Nordic and Baltic countries 1997 : project BALLERINA “Baltic Sea region On-line Environmental Information resources for Internet Access” . 7.       Phare 1993-1994: “Development of Environmental Protection strategy”.

Year (from ....to…) Location. Company. Position. Description
2009.12.01 - .... Kaunas
Kaunas high and information technology park.
 Expert of project
 "Language,  semantic,  business modelling technology innovations thematic map for business environment improvement"

2003 - ..... Vilnius.
 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.
 Distance learning courses (modules) author and lecturer
Development of courses (modules):
1.  Knowledge Society, knowledge economy and knowledge systems
2. eWork (telework)
3.  Groupwork (collaboration and team work)
2006 – 2007.09 Vilnius .
Joint Dutch-Lithuanian consulting company EuroParama http://www.europarama.lt/.
 IT expert.
Project e-NVISION. A New Vision for the participation of European SMEs in the future e-Business scenario  http://www.e-nvision.org/
2006 – 2008.04 Vilnius.
 Distance Learning Centre http://nsc.vgtu.lt/ of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
. Researcher.
 Development of distance learning methodology
2006.01-2006.05 Vilnius. Company  S4ID www.s4id.lt .
Project expert.
eSeimas (eParliament) - enhancement of eDemocracy measures in Lithuanian Parliament
2005 – 2007.10 Vilnius. 
Lithuanian National Association INFOBALT www.infobalt.lt Visoriai IT park www.vitp.lt
Project consultant.
 IST4Balt project ”Information Society Technologies Promotion in Baltic States” www.ist4balt.lt www.vitp.lt/ist4balt
2003 - 2005. Vilnius.
Lithuanian National Association INFOBALT www.infobalt.lt
Project consultant.
Project "Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Technologies programme"
2001-2005 Vilnius Z. Bigelio imone Owner of micro-enterprise Key activities:
Business consulting and adult training. Consultant of EU projects
2001.01 - 2001.06 Vilnius.
Knowledge Management Institute, Communication department of
 Vilnius University
Assistant .
Development of course and lecturer ( course on information systems)
1994 -2001 Vilnius. 
Joint Research Center of Ministry of Environment. Director, Information Technology Center.
Project manager of main IT projects (the first website  of Ministry between ministries in Lithuania and websites of regional environemnt protection departments )
1991 -1994 Vilnius. 
Environmental Protection Department, Lithuania.
 Head of Informatics Division .
Management of main IT projects (statistical information processing, LAN)
1979- 1991Vilnius. 
Vilnius Radio Measurement Equipment Research Institute.
 Head of MIS Division .
 Project leader of different MIS:
 Institute Project supervision, Supply and procurement management, Human resources management, Quality management and etc. Manager of contracts (projects) with Kaunas Politechnical Institute (development of ternary enterprise model on DB) and Mathematics and Cybernetics Institute (development of expert system shell)
1971 - 1979 Vilnius.
 Vilnius Radio Measurement Equipment Research Institute.
 Project Manager.
 Development of single events oscilloscopes
1969 - 1971 Latvia.
 Soviet Army.
 Lieutenant .
Maintenance of radar (transmitter cabin)
1962 - 1969  Vilnius.
 Vilnius Radio Measurement Equipment Research Institute.
 Deputy Project Manager.
 Research and development of single event oscilloscopes

1.Vaidotas Trinkunas, Zigmas Bigelis, Irina Vinogradova, Irma Sileikine. Destytoju mokymas teikti studijas nuotoliniu budu.Mokomoji knyga.ISBN 978-9955-28-270 VGTU leidykla TECHNIKA 2008 (Lecturers teaching how to develop distance learning lectures. Book.)
2. N.Lepkova, Z.Bigelis. Model of facilities management consulting knowledge system. The 9^th international conference. Modern building materials, structures and techniques, p. 300-304. May 16-18, 2007, Vilnius, Lithuania
3. Z. Bigelis. Social Bookmarking as a an analysis tool. IST4Balt project News Journal, VOL. 2, September 2005 – August 2006 http://www.ist4balt.lt/project_newsletter/NJ2.pdf
4. Z. Bigelis. Information and Knowledge Portal - a tool for a collaborative working environment.  IST4Balt project News Journal, VOL. 1, September 2004- August 2005. http://www.ist4balt.lt/project_newsletter/newsletter_1/
5. “TELEBALT project on the Web”. Mr. Zigmas Bigelis, Lithuania and Dr. Alexander Beriozko, Russia, 2002,   http://www.infobalt.lt/docs/Bigelis_A_Beriozko.ppt
6. “Telework and self-learning” (Teledarbas ir savišvieta). TELEBALT project advicer Zigmas Bigelis. Presentation on international conference “Telework and trends in Lithuania”,  2002-10-24, http://www.nrda.lt/2002_10%20_24b.htm
7. Z. Bigelis, S. Maskeliunas, E. Zvirblis. Ontology-Based Telework Knowledge Centre as a tool for knowledge building and sharing of experience, Proceedings of presentations of ideal-ist  International Conference "Information Society Technologies in the Sixth Framework Programme", 25-26 November 2002, Warsaw, Poland. http://www.ideal-ist.de/programm.html  
8. Papers in INFOBALT conferences 7.1. “eWork and distance learning in business”, Zigmas Bigelis https://www.infobalt.lt/docs/Bigelis_TELEDARBAS__El_darbas__ir_distancinis_mokymas_versle_.ppt http://www.infobalt.lt/konferencija/2002/?&t=tele&l=en 7.2. Z.Bigelis, Pasaulinis semantinis tinklas, ontologija ir žinių centras (Semantic web, ontology and knowledge center),  INFOBALT LAIKAS, ISSN 1392-3773, Nr.7, 2002, spalis
9. Z. Bigelis, S. Maskeliunas. Telework Ontology: needs and
solutions. In: E.Zvirblis, D.Juknys, A.Beriozko, J.Bonnin
(eds.). Proceedings of International TELEBALT Conference
"Teleworking for Business, Education, Research and e-Commerce",
Vilnius, Lithuania, 21-22 October 2002. ISBN 9955-9612-0-1.
Vilnius: Infobalt Centras,2002, pp. 295-298.
http://www.infobalt.lt/konferencija/2002/?&t=tele
http://www.infobalt.lt/docs/Bigelis.ppt
10. Integration of Environmental Telematics Projects, Zigmas Bigelis, 1998,  http://www.metla.fi/tapahtumat/rt98/abs/Bigelis.htm
10. “Environmental Information on WWW site of Lithuania” (Eugenija Lelyte & Zigmas Bigelis, Joint Research Centre, Lithuania),1997, http://www.baltic-region.net/about/conferen.htm