Alex Muntean

Current

Senior Software Engineer at Gilt Groupe

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Cerego Japan
Technology Lead at Amway Japan
Software Engineer at Eastman Kodak

Software Engineer / Webmaster at East West Consulting
Software Engineer / Founder at Genuine ltd.
Software Developer at Topo-Cadastru ltd.
Software Developer / Webmaster at Logon ltd.

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Education

Universitatea 'Lucian Blaga' din Sibiu
Universitatea 'Lucian Blaga' din Sibiu

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Information Technology and Services

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Alex Muntean’s Summary

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
- Platforms: Internet/Intranet, Flash Platform, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft .NET, Mozilla, Windows.
- Languages: ActionScript, C, C++, C#, CSS, JavaScript, MXML, Python, Ruby, SQL, VBScript, UML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, XSD, XUL.
- Databases: ADO.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL.
- Media: Most Adobe, Corel and Macromedia products. Various Open Source tools.
- Web development: Adobe Flex, AJAX, ASP.NET, Mozilla, Ruby on Rails, web services (RPC and REST).
- Tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Altova XMLSpy, ArgoUML, Bugzilla, CVS, Doxygen, Enterprise Architect (UML), Eclipse, git, NetBeans, Subversion, Trac, vim, VSS.

CERTIFICATIONS
- Master-level certifications from Brainbench for .NET Framework, Computer Fundamentals, CSS2, Dreamweaver, English Vocabulary, HTML 4, JavaScript 1.5, RDBMS Concepts, VBScript, Web Development Concepts, and XML. My transcript ID: 511155.
- Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD Microsoft .NET):
- Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP Microsoft .NET).

Alex Muntean’s Specialties:

- Vast knowledge of computer systems and programming languages. Fast adoption rate of new technologies. Always committed to intensive research and study.
- Strong skills and interests in web development, OOP, agile software development, GUI.
- Very familiar with a plethora of products and technologies used for documenting the source code, revision control, UML, unit testing, bug tracking.
- Development and project management experience in international teams using agile methods.

Alex Muntean’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Gilt Groupe

(Privately Held; Apparel & Fashion industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Senior Software Engineer

Cerego Japan

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

August 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Part of the team building the first Social Learning Site in Japan and one of the first of its kind in the world: iKnow!. The unique blend of a Social Network Site with easy-to-use e-Learning applications and services quickly maked iKnow! very popular among Japanese and international users.
Awards: Top 10 Noticeable Japanese sites in 2007, DEMOgod Fall 2008.
- Involved in all project phases: from planning and design to implementation and debugging.
- Working in a fast-paced environment using only open source technologies and agile development methodologies.
Environment: AJAX, CSS, git, JavaScript, Linux, Mac OS X, Mongrel, MySQL, NetBeans, nginx, RESTful web services, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Subversion, vim, XHTML, XML.
Technology Lead

Amway Japan

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Tech leader of an agile team designing and building Rich Internet Applications using a mixture of (mostly) open source technologies and agile development methodologies. Very strong emphasis on the user experience.
- Part of the team responsible with designing the scope and structure for company's next-gen online business toolset. Conducted research, feasibility studies and UI prototyping.
- Design and implementation of an intranet-based Dashboard application. The project quickly became very successful being recognized not only within Amway Japan but also with the international affiliates. This is the very first internal project, implemented using agile methods, with incremental monthly releases.
- Technical consulting (RIA/Flash Platform) for the team responsible with the new e-commerce application. Contributed to the adoption of Flex 2.0 for the front-end, which greatly improved the speed of the development.
Software Engineer

Eastman Kodak

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EK; Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — May 2006 (2 years 9 months)

Key member of the award-winning team which developed the world's first Internet-connected, Wi-Fi consumer digital camera: Kodak EASYSHARE-ONE.
Contributed to all project phases. Acted as an interface between the Japan and the US teams. Successfully applied agile practices for writing and testing the code.
- Editor, reviewer, and member of the design team of various specifications related to this project including a broad set of PTP extensions, XML schemas and other data formats.
- Member of the design and implementation teams developing the UI and the middle-tier for the camera. The result is probably the first Embedded Rich Internet Application.
- Designed and implemented a full PTP Initiator (client) in ActionScript 2.0.
- Designed and implemented a test PTP Responder (server) in C#/.NET.
- Developed a tool for searching and filtering (based on EXIF tags) EXIF JPEG images. Implementation in ANSI C.
- Fully decoded the Macromedia AMF format.
- Prototyped an AJAX image viewer.
Software Engineer / Webmaster

East West Consulting

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 2001 — June 2003 (2 years )

- Developed the new job-candidate matching system using a 3-tiered architecture: .NET Windows Forms / .NET Remoting / SQL Server 2000.
- Developed a intranet-based job tracking system using ASP.NET / SQL Server 2000.
- Developed and maintained the company and consultants' web sites. Administered the web servers. Generated web site reports, optimizing and implementing new web promotion strategies. The company became Japan's No.1 Executive Search company in both Google and Yahoo searches.
- Developed and maintained the company's intranet-based Personnel Management Application using a 3-tiered architecture: Internet Explorer / COM+ / SQL Server 2000.
Software Engineer / Founder

Genuine ltd.

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

September 1998 — June 2001 (2 years 10 months)

- Developed interactive web sites and web applications (both Internet & intranet) for local and international clients. Administered the web servers.
- Successfully used Internet Explorer 5's XMLHttpRequest API together with DHTML and CSS for an e-commerce application. This technique will be known five years later as AJAX.
Software Developer

Topo-Cadastru ltd.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 5 months)

- Developed and maintained a database application for topography-cadastre data acquisition. Export capabilities to Excel and data plotting in AutoCAD.
Software Developer / Webmaster

Logon ltd.

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

September 1995 — May 1997 (1 year 9 months)

- Developed and maintained a cargo tracking database for transportation industry clients. Linux & Apache web server administration. Worked as the company's sole web developer helping the company to establish an early presence on the Internet.

Alex Muntean’s Education

Universitatea 'Lucian Blaga' din Sibiu

M.Sc. , Computer Science , 1998 — 1999

Diploma thesis in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the subject: "RoboCup Competition: real-time learning, planning and modeling in a dynamic multi-agent environment".
Universitatea 'Lucian Blaga' din Sibiu

B.Sc. , Computer Science , 1993 — 1998

Diploma thesis developed within European Tempus Project JEP-9737/97 at the R&D department of ELWE Lehrsysteme from Cremlingen, Germany with the subject "Software development for displaying AC/DC motor characteristics using the interface Comenius".