Nermin Dizdar
Nermin Dizdar is a telecommunications specialist with nearly 10 years of experience in the industry. Mr. Dizdar, along with a small group of Bosnians is the Seattle, Washington, area, started a telecom company in 1999 to help members of the old Yugoslavia émigrés stay in telephone contact with friends and families. This telecom business was one of the first started by Croatians or Bosnians. After gaining four years of experience, Nermin Dizdar opened his own wholesale telecom business, CrossConnection, Inc., in late 2003. CrossConnection managed Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. There, Mr. Dizdar held the title of Operations Director, and focused on the day-to-day Quality of Service (QoS) work. A QoS professional strives to maintain the network’s priorities in the face of competing applications, users, and data packets, and must honor any guarantees of network capacity given to partners. This is especially true in Mr. Dizdar’s field of VoIP, as these priorities require extensive capacity and are time sensitive. Nermin Dizdar closed CrossConnection in 2009 when faced with the twin pressures of the Bosnian economy turning negative and the U.S. dollar devaluing. Mr. Dizdar now attends Bellevue College, studying Computer Maintenance and Systems Administration. Nermin Dizdar was born and raised in modern-day Bosnia’s second-largest city, Banja Luka. There, Mr. Dizdar went to high school and played soccer for FK Željezničar. Dizdar enjoyed family vacations to the Adriatic coast and also took part on his high school’s team handball squad. All of this ended when the former country of Yugoslavia erupted in civil war. Nermin Dizdar enjoys hiking, swimming, and playing soccer. He coaches a youth basketball team and stays in shape by training in MOAB defense techniques. Mr. Dizdar lives in Seattle with his wife.