Alexandru Lapusan

CEO & Founding Partner, Zitec - Romanian Software Development

Location: Romania
Industry: Computer Software

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Alexandru Lapusan's Overview

Current

Development Team Manager at Zipongo
CIO at VideoPublishing.com
CEO & Founding Partner at Zitec

Founder & Member at The Alpinet Project

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Education

Academia de Studii Economice din București
Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Colegiul "Dimitrie Cantemir"

Colegiul National "Andrei Muresanu", Dej
Generala 3, Dej

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Recommendations

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Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Right now I am mostly focused on Zitec, however I am always happy to spend some time on non-profit projects like Alpinet.org.

Always open to new projects, I am looking only for interesting and challenging projects since I believe this is the only way we can grow.

Specialties

Software Outsourcing in Romania (PHP - ZF, Python; MySQL, PostgreSQL, Drupal 6&7).
Software Consultancy, Software Research & Development.
Cloud-computing Consultancy & Development (Amazon AWS & Azure)
Video Streaming & Management Services.
Web Design & Computer Graphics. Web Content Management.
Offshore IT startups in Romania - turn key solutions.

Zitec is a Zend (The PHP Company) representative for Romania.
Zitec is a MySQL Enterprise Ready Partner.
Zitec is an ARIES (www.aries.ro) member.

Development Team Manager

Zipongo

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry

September 2010 – Present (1 year 5 months)

Zipongo is a social mobile (www.zipongo.com/getapp/iphone) and (soon) web app , that lets users track and share food, exercise, sleep, mood, weight and outcomes they are interested in. Users can integrate devices like the Zeo sleep tracker, Withings wifi body scale and, soon, Garmin exercise trackers. This data informs our two most popular features: LifePower stats, which turns reaching daily nutrient and activity goals into a game, and the Guide, which provides specific meal, workout and sleep recommendations. In the next couple of months, we will begin delivering Deals for pre-purchase on healthy groceries (serving as promotion for our natural foods manufacturer partners), which users will have the option to buy online (via our Amazon integration), in local stores or at Farmers Markets.

CIO

VideoPublishing.com

February 2008 – Present (4 years)

VideoPublishing.com is a leading provider of low cost, high quality online video publishing solutions for businesses, publishers, video professionals and website owners.

CEO & Founding Partner

Zitec

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

June 2003 – Present (8 years 8 months)

As Co-founder and Chief of Executive Operations I am in charge of implementing strategic plans for development of our company. I also am involved in supervising different projects, and providing consulting services for major clients. For more information on our company, please visit http://www.zitec.com and feel free to contact me at alex.lapusan at zitec dot com.

Zitec has a strong team of 45+ software designers & developers.

We cover software outsourcing, including consulting or research&development for challenging projects, where more than coding is required. We deliver quality.
United States, Canada, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Australia & Romania based clients.

Most used technologies:
- PHP (Zend Framework)
- Python, C#, Objective C, Java
- MySQL & PostgreSQL
- Drupal 6 & 7
- Amazon AWS cloud-computing services
- Microsoft Azure cloud-computing platform

Zitec products:
- Zidox - Agile Management System
- Izuvio - eCommerce platforms (B2C, B2B and mixed versions)

Zitec projects:
- HotelPeeps.com (Hotel Booking)
- Sharoid.com (for Android & Facebook)
- Alegeri.TV (Romanian language only)

Zitec invested and actively supports the following projects:
- Videopublishing.com
- Zipongo.com

Founder & Member

The Alpinet Project

October 1999 – Present (12 years 4 months)

Since 1999 I am part of The Alpinet project, a non profit initiative ment to create a Romanian Mountaneering Web virtual community. So far the project is available in Romanian only.

By having a high Internet traffic we managed to finance Alpinet sub-projects, even support and sponsor other projects.

"Invitatie in Carpati" free online magazine (www.iic.ro) and "Fotogeografica" photo contest (www.fotogeografica.ro) are just two examples of what a non-profit project can do.

Academia de Studii Economice din București

Master of Science, Project Management

2002 – 2004

Graduation paper on "Time and Cost Planning & Tracking" web application.

Universitatea „Politehnica” din București

Master of Science, Automatic Control and Computers

1997 – 2002

Graduation paper on "Web Content Management Tools" a self-developed Web CMS tool, early version of current TreePath.

Colegiul "Dimitrie Cantemir"

Computer Science

1993 – 1997

Colegiul National "Andrei Muresanu", Dej

Generala 3, Dej

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I am part of the non-profit Alpinet Project (www.alpinet.org). I am also helping with organizing the yearly National Photo Contest for Students, "Fotogeografica"., CG :)