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Experienced, senior LAMP developer, with more than 5 years of experience in developing PHP applications, both frontend and backend, with a strong emphasis on the latter. Sucessfully tech led team of 5 and migrated it from waterfall to Scrum. Involved in all stages of project development in large LAMP projects, from concept to delivery.

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Work experience

Senior Application Developer; Amsterdam, NL; (Nov 2009 — present)

  • SCRUM master
  • LAMP development

LAMP contractor; London, UK; (Jul 2009 — Oct 2009)

  • PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS web development
  • Java Android mobile application development
  • current project: implementation of a small CMS for uploading and interpreting information in Excel files using Zend Framework (client: www.intendance.com)
  • previous project: prototypes of 2 mobile applications based on Android (interface implementation, web services development on LAMP stack & consumption in Java on the device)
  • previously: scrape information from various sources and import categories and products into Magento using the API (Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written on top of Zend Framework)

LAMP contractor; Timisoara, Romania; (Jan 2009 — Jul 2009)

  • PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS web development
  • projects: implemented a real estate framework which consumes a SOAP API from www.imobiliare.ro to obtain real estate properties and display them in the company’s own website (www.m-imobiliare.ro; www.mix-imobiliare.ro)

Product Manager; ITerating; Timisoara, Romania

  • January 2009 – May 2009
  • in charge of the software production management
  • describe and further refine business requirements with the client
  • find the developers suited for the job
  • monitor developer work

References available on request.

Lead Developer; RealMedia Network; Timisoara, Romania

  • May 2006 – Dec 2008
  • coordinated the technical team for the online software development department
  • established the entire software development process, chose the software tools, decided workflow and responsabilities of team members
  • architected and documented the base framework for development, chose libraries and other development tools, designed structures and code for the individual projects
  • redesigned the entire code base for the new generation of real estate online software provided by imobiliare.ro
  • designed & developed:
    • a multi-tier object-oriented framework in PHP4 and later migrated it to PHP5
    • PHP CLI applications for data migration
    • SOAP API for providing data to 3rd party applications
    • internal CRM application
    • main real estate portal, imobiliare.ro v5
    • application for management of real estate offers by company’s clients
    • other internal & external applications

View reference on LinkedIn.

Developer; Ciao Romania; Timisoara, Romania

  • Dec 2004 – May 2006
  • member of the Data Integration and Comparison Shopping technical team: developed code acording to specifications, unit tested it; occasional micro-architecture tasks for smaller projects
  • member of the Testing and QA team for 3 months: automated test cases for a search engine project, performed dedicated test procedures and bug reporting

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Web Developer; IQ Solutions; Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  • Nov 2003 – Nov 2004
  • design & development of an ERP application
  • web development & redesign of a web-based solution for project management using PHP & MySQL, JavaScript technologies
  • VB & MS Office programming for desktop applications
  • writing full documentation manuals for both user and developer perspective, in English and Romanian
  • occasional system administration tasks for the company’s data & Internet access server

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Technical skills

Development

  • PHP and PHP CLI scripting
  • Unit testing: SimpleTest, PHPUnit
  • Documentation: phpDocumentor, Trac wiki
  • Source control: CVS, SVN
  • IDEs: Zend Studio, Aptana, Eclipse
  • Web development & design: HTML, CSS, JS; Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop

Databases

  • mySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Sybase
  • FoxPro
  • SQL Server

JAVA technologies

  • Android mobile development
  • JSP
  • EJB3
  • JBoss AS 4.0.3
  • Ant
  • Maven

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Education

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  • 1998 – 2003
  • Computer Science Department – English teaching section

“Horea, Cloşca şi Crişan” College, Alba-Iulia, Romania

  • 1994 – 1998
  • Mathematics-physics section – graduated magna cum laudae

Other relevant information

  • Participant in a Physics contest, organised by Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca – 1998 – 4th place
  • Participant in the National Mathematics Olympiad – 1997
  • Participant in various Mathematics contests, during 1996 and 1998 (Brasov, Bistrita, Sfantu-Gheorghe, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Sibiu)

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Foreign languages

  • English: advanced
  • French: average
  • Italian: beginner

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Personal skills

  • capacity of analysis and organization
  • team spirit
  • perseverance
  • creativity
  • communication skills
  • ability to cope with a longer work program
  • driving license (B category)
  • hobbies: tourism/excursions, music, literature, sports

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Contact information

  • UK Phone: +44-775-1772247
  • Romania Phone: +40-745-522548
  • E-mail: gb [at] tekkie [dot] ro

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