Đorđe Mazinjanin, PhD, was born in Novi Karlovci, the municipality of Inđija, on 12 October 1955.
He completed the Nikola Tesla Secondary School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and graduated from the PTT College in Belgrade, majoring in telecommunications.
He obtained his specialist post-graduate degree at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, majoring in electronic business, with the paper entitled The Technology of Communication between the Government and Citizens. He obtained his master’s degree from the same Faculty with the paper entitled The Methods of Communication between the Government and Citizens in Electronic Business Operations of the City Administration to obtain his academic title: MSc in technical sciences – the sphere of organizational sciences for electronic business operations.
He also obtained a degree as an economist in the sphere of management from the Management School of Megatrend University in Belgrade. He obtained his PhD in Electronic Business Operations from the Faculty of Business Studies of the same university with his paper The model of managing the infrastructure of public services of the citizens in the electronic operations of the city administration to obtain a PhD degree in economic sciences.
At the outset of his rich professional career, he worked as an independent constructor in the Radio Development of Electronic Industry Nikola Tesla in Belgrade (1977-1981). Thereafter, he taught subjects in the sphere of electrical engineering (in the PTT College in Belgrade – telephony, VF devices, telegraphy, TT lines (until 2004). In the 2004 – 2012 period, with short breaks as a result of his performance of public functions, he was employed with PE PTT Srbija (present-day Pošta Srbije).
In the course of his career, he discharged many public and other functions such as: the chairman of the Executive Board of the Municipal Assembly of Palilula (2000-2002), a secretary at the Secretariat of Economics of the City of Belgrade (January 2005 – September 2008), the chairman of the school board of the PTT College in Belgrade, a member of the school board of the Rade Končar Secondary Technical School in Belgrade. He worked as an advisor to the chairman of the Regional Chamber of Novi Sad for information technologies.
Currently, Đorđe Mazinjanin performs the duties of deputy director of PE Sava Centre. At the same time, as a professor of vocational studies, he teaches Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, the System Theory and the Computer Network and Telecommunications at the College of Applied Technology Studies in the town of Arandjelovac.
He published a large number of professional papers, independently or with a group of authors, as part of publications of national and international importance.
He participated in the launch, preparation and implementation of the following projects: a project of preparation of the information system for the Palilula Municipal Assembly, the project entitled The introduction of the GPS system in the taxi service of the city of Belgrade, the Strategy of Development of the Agriculture of the City of Belgrade until 2015, the project entitled The Strategy of Development of the Tourist Trade of the City of Belgrade until 2018 and the project entitled The Strategy of Development of the Trade of the City of Belgrade until 2015.
He is a member of the E-development Association.
He attended a large number of seminars and lectures both in this country and abroad.
Apart from his extensive professional career, Đorđe Mazinjanin was also successful as a folk dancer (some 1000 performances), and as an art manager and choreographer in many cultural and artistic societies in this country. With the Branko Radičević Cultural and Artistic Society of Novi Banovci, he won third prize awarded by the expert jury and first prize awarded by the audiences at the Festival of Vojvodina Societies for his choreography entitled Dances of Western Serbia. He conveyed his expertise in the sphere of choreography to members of cultural and artistic societies in Germany (Wiesbaden) and Hungary.He completed many seminars in folk songs and dances and folk costume. He was the organizer of a number of festivals of folk songs and dances of the Republic of Serbia under the auspices of the Independent Trade Union of Serbia.
His dancing career and love of folklore contributed to his performing the duty of a member of the Managing Board of the Đoka Pavlović (1987 – 2010) Cultural and Artistic Society and the chairman of the managing board of the Kolo national ensemble of songs and dances (2013 – 2015).
For his work in the field of amateurism he received many recognitions from a variety of institutions of the Republic of Serbia and Cultural and Artistic Societies.
He uses the English and Russian languages.
He is married with two children.