Alex Budin

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Creative. Tech. You know the deal. Making the most of the agency. Hands-on, getting shit done, assembling great ideas, setting direction, making things work, doing things properly. Multi-discipline, multi-device, multi-screen. Making rules, breaking rules, getting ideas out of people's heads and onto the internet.Working with the likes of Samsung, Absolut (Pernod Ricard), Coca Cola, KFC, Dominos, Saudi Aramco and delivering them awesome digital solutionsAlso:Planning and executing complex technical projectsCreating an API for everythingWinning pitches and awardsOrganizing meet ups and loving to talk about technology in retail and every day livesPutting an iBeacon in everything around meLatest craze for me: connecting everyday household items to the internet and controlling them remotely

Developing mobile and web apps, creating strategic goals and managing a group of 6 brilliant people.Working a lot with Titanium Mobile, NodeJS, PHP and Ruby on Rails to bring more web and mobile applications into the world.

Besides rolling up my sleeves and getting knees deep in coding some of my responsibilities were:- Select and set up a software revision control sytem and repository- Collaborate with the founders to develop user stories and specifications that describe the implementation of the company’s services as a web application.- Collaborate with the UX Designer to prepare wireframes or mockups of a prototype of the company’s web application.- As a member of the senior management team, participate in the selection of a graphic designer who will create the company corporate identity and design the web application’s look and feel. Ensure that the graphic designer has sufficient web experience, follows guidelines established in the User- Experience design process, and delivers assets that can be easily adapted to web requirements.- Define the company’s software development methodology.- Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards.- Review current best practices for the selected web framework and establish the initial architecture for the application.- Select and manage company staff who will implement the application.- Establish and supervise the software development process, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the selected software development methodology.- Conduct code reviews and specification conformance testing as defined by the selected software development methodology.- Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.- Select, deploy, and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures.- Review and approve proposed development releases and manage the release process.- Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers.- Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.

Offering consultancy and developing mobile applications using Titanium Appcelerator. Helped define, develop and deploy technology architectures for clients using JAVA.Developed and worked on complex backend infrastructure for web applications using Zend Framework