Alexandru Lapusan

Current

CIO at VideoPublishing.com
Romanian Branch Manager at BetBrain Software
CEO & Founding Partner at Zitec

Founder & Member at The Alpinet Project

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Education

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti
Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti
Colegiul "Dimitrie Cantemir"

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

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Industry

Computer Software

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Alexandru Lapusan’s Summary

Right now I am mostly focused on Zitec.com and VideoPublishing.com, 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.

Alexandru Lapusan’s Specialties:

Software Consultancy, Software Research & Development.
Software Outsourcing in Romania.
Web Design & Computer Graphics.
Web Content Management.
Video Streaming & Management Services.
Offshore IT startups in Romania - turn key solutions.

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

Alexandru Lapusan’s Experience

CIO

VideoPublishing.com

(Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

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

BetBrain Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

Turn-key offshore software startup in Romania for BetBrain Ltd UK.
I was in charge of all issues related to branch startup (in 2004) and management (up to date).
The branch currently has over 40 employees and it's still growing.
CEO & Founding Partner

Zitec

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

June 2003 — Present (6 years 6 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 30+ software designers & developers.
We cover software outsourcing, including research&development for challenging projects, where more than coding is required. We deliver quality. Financing is mostly done through providing software outsourcing in Romania.
United States, Canada, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Romania based clients.

Zitec products:
- Zidox - Document Management System
- Izuvio - eCommerce platforms (B2C, B2B and mixed versions)
- TreePath - Content Management Solution

Zitec projects:
- Alegeri.tv www.alegeri.tv (Romanian language only)
Founder & Member

The Alpinet Project

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

October 1999 — Present (10 years 2 months)

Since 1999 I am part of The Alpinet project, a non profit initiative ment to create a Romanian Mountaneering Web website, and a strong 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.

Alexandru Lapusan’s Education

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti

Master of Science , Project Management , 2002 — 2004

Graduation paper on "Time and Cost Planning & Tracking" web application.
Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti

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

Additional Information

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Alexandru Lapusan’s Groups:

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 :)