Employers and major engagements
The core record.
20265forty fourFounder, Product Lead, Designer & Builderforty four is Miro's own company. Its product, 44OS, is a live multi-sided platform for independent creative work, combining discovery, commerce, personal libraries, community, and creator publishing across music, beats, sample packs, merchandise, books, and games. Built from scratch on Next.js and Supabase.Project & Program ManagementEngineering & PlatformsWeb Development2024–20251Northern TrustProject ManagerA global financial institution providing asset servicing, investment management, and wealth management. This work took place in a highly regulated environment and is described here within careful confidentiality boundaries.Project & Program ManagementData & Cloud MigrationBusiness Transformation2022–20235National Restaurant AssociationSenior Project ManagerThe world's largest foodservice trade association, whose ServSafe programme certifies food-safety professionals across the industry. Miro led major portions of its Business Transformation 3 programme, modernizing a legacy global training and certification ecosystem.Project & Program ManagementData & Cloud MigrationBusiness Transformation2021–20244YourChoice ConciergeProject Manager & Lead Zoho DeveloperA Zoho Premier Partner delivering back-office, process-improvement, and implementation services. Miro was lead Zoho developer and client-facing project manager, taking engagements from first conversation through to adoption.Data & Cloud MigrationBusiness TransformationEngineering & Platforms2021–20223Sunward ElectronicsProject Manager & Zoho DeveloperA parent organization operating through a national dealer network across the United States and Canada, including the Dog Guard and Out of Sight Fencing brands.Business TransformationEngineering & Platforms2019–202010Peak Realty ChicagoProject Manager & Zoho DeveloperPeak Realty Chicago is a Chicago brokerage operating inside a broader property-management environment, with an internal listing portfolio spanning more than 14,000 properties.Project & Program ManagementData & Cloud MigrationBusiness Transformation2018–201914QwaaqDigital Operations ManagerQwaaq is the operating company behind Windy City Cigars and the Kashmir product line, sitting inside a wider brand ecosystem that also includes Inter-Continental Trading.Business TransformationEngineering & PlatformsWeb Development2017–20194Cosmick TechnologiesProject Manager & Zoho DeveloperA digital agency delivering web, marketing, and systems work for client accounts, including a multi-location national retail brand.Business TransformationWeb DevelopmentMarketing & Growth2015–20172IntertekProject CoordinatorA global testing, inspection, and certification organization. Miro coordinated fire-safety inspection work across the United States and Canada.Project & Program ManagementData & Cloud MigrationBusiness Transformation2011–20154Apple Inc.Specialist, Technical Support & TrainingFour Chicago locations across four years, covering technical support, certified device repair, customer data migration, small-business consulting, and team training.Project & Program ManagementData & Cloud MigrationBusiness Transformation
Freelance, studio and independent
Everything else.
20212EvnturaWeb DeveloperA creative and artist-community project connecting an audience across social, music, and video platforms under the Aventurine identity.Web DevelopmentMarketing & Growth20211Royal Clippers Barber ShopDesigner & DeveloperA Chicago barbershop needing a brand story, service pricing, and a booking path that worked on a phone.Web Development20201Chicago Blues CampWeb DeveloperA five-day Chicago blues immersion programme for adult musicians, scheduled immediately before the Chicago Blues Festival, combining instruction from established players with public performance.Engineering & PlatformsWeb Development20201Variety BalloonsDesigner & DeveloperAn event decor business whose customers arrive knowing roughly what they want and needing to ask about it quickly.Web Development2018–20223SEEDDesigner & DeveloperSEED began as an attempt to launch a digital marketing agency with several people. It never reached completion, but the identity work and collateral were produced and several client sites still carry its design credit.Design & Brand2018–20221Into The MountainsDesigner & DeveloperA cultural project sharing its name with a track from the KΛREN album, presenting the work and its accompanying exhibit.Web DevelopmentDesign & Brand2018–20221NISI MEMBRADesigner & DeveloperA cultural and event project needing both a web presence and printed promotional material.Web DevelopmentDesign & Brand2018–20221Veni NeykovDesigner & DeveloperA UX research and strategy professional needing a portfolio that presented case studies, career history, and a downloadable résumé.Web Development2018–20221Zenith FlowDesigner & DeveloperA London wellness and fitness studio offering yoga, Pilates, mobility, sound baths, and personal training across studio, home, and online formats.Web Development2018–20221Street Auto DetailingDesigner & DeveloperAn auto detailing business needing a straightforward service presence.Web Development2018–20221Paint Hair StudioDesigner & DeveloperA hair studio needing a mark that worked on signage, social, and print.Design & Brand2018–20221Click N GoDesigner & DeveloperA service business needing a brand mark and the print collateral to go with it.Design & Brand2018–20221Les VegasDesigner & DeveloperAn event series needing promotional print that worked as both information and a memorable artifact.Design & Brand2018–20221Roman SokolovDesigner & DeveloperA professional needing a business card system as part of a personal brand.Design & Brand2018–20223Nest PublicationsWeb DeveloperNest Publications is the parent company behind Maison Magazine. The work split between systems for the parent operation and a separate rebuild of the magazine's own web presence.Business TransformationEngineering & PlatformsWeb Development20185PoP Digital MarketingWeb DeveloperA Chicago full-service agency covering website design and development, PPC, SEO, social, branding, and email. Miro built and maintained several client sites through this relationship.Web DevelopmentDesign & Brand20183My Secrets of SurvivorshipWeb, Brand & MarketingAn author, advocacy, and commerce project supporting the book 'My Secrets of Survivorship: We Solved the Mystery' by Melissa Palmer and Dr. Tim Lubenow, centered on survivorship, Pompe disease, chronic pain, and the patient experience.Web DevelopmentMarketing & GrowthDesign & Brand2010–202613ØLSTENArtist, Producer, Mixing & Mastering EngineerMiro's independent music practice, active since 2013 on Bandcamp with a parallel Spotify catalog and a 272-video YouTube channel. Twelve full projects, 141 public tracks, and roughly six and a quarter hours of released music, alongside Unity-built interactive work.Design & BrandMusic, Audio & VideoGame & Interactive2018–20265Miro StrahilovDesigner & DeveloperUnity environments and interactive pieces built independently, several of them extensions of worlds the music implied.Game & Interactive