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Alexander Missa

Photo: php programmer from Ukraine

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(please no adult content site projects propositions)
Skype: alecksmart
Email: rationalplanet@gmail.com

General Qualifications

PHP of versions 3/4/5, PHP OOP, MySQL
Almost 10 years of freelancing experience, references available
PHP-based projects consulting
PHP 4 (Master) certified specialist (Brainbench)
Higher education (MA) in English/Germanic linguistics
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Writing documentation, creating technical assignments

Brief Technical Overview

Browser-based interfaces with AJAX, cross-browser
MySQL database design, stored procedures, query optimization
PHP-based frameworks: cakephp, Zend, symfony and more
Javascript frameworks: dojo, jquery, prototype and more
PHP/MySQL, e-commerce systems, CRM, CMS, web-based interfaces, intranet solutions and a lot more
Hardware: IBM PC and compatibles, dial-up, ISDN, xDSL
Operating Systems: Linux (RedHat/Fedora), MS DOS, MS Windows 3/9x/2000/NT/XP
Web Servers: Apache, IIS, lighthttpd, ngnx
CVS, Subversion, Mercurial
Programming Languages: PHP, Perl, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, XML
Familiar with: Perl, JAVA, C, UML, IDL, XSL
RDBMS: MySQL, Postgres, Oracle 8/9
Technologies: ANSI SQL, AJAX, JSON, SOAP, Web 2.0, XML-RPC and lots more

Latest Projects

Sample Projects Screenshots

Printing Company Project	Insurance Company Workflow Application With Form Builder	Educational Courses admin interface
Ordering and Invoicing System for a Cleaning Company	Warehousing Solution for a Fumigation Company	Media Manager for FLV-player-enabled Web Sites
Ordering and Invoicing System for a Fruit Trading Company	Printing Company Admin Interface (Visual Template Builder)	Insurance Company Workflow Application With Form Builder

All projects screenshots are dated around 2002-2004;
current projects still have NDAs in power.

Professional Experience

October 2004 ~ Present
Self-employed
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
PHP/Perl/MYSQL/AJAX Web Software Developer
Freelancing, php / mysql / xml / javascript / wml programming and software development, e-commerce solutions, web interfaces.
http://liquidcatering.com.au , http://www.goodbartrade.com.au , http://www.shmservices.com , http://www.bestusajobs.com , http://www.ugri.at , http://www.mooroolbark.org.au , http://www.photoskeywest.com , http://flvhosting.com , http://videospark.com , http://www.citymaxx.nl , http://die16.com, http://www.rationalplanet.com, http://www.prodopedia.com, http://www.kapitalizator.com (more examples available)
September 2003 ~ October 2004
Successnow GmbH
Erfurt, Germany
Director on Software Development, CEO
Freelancing, php / mysql / xml / javascript / wml programming and software development, e-commerce solutions, web interfaces.
Internet and intranet solutions, network marketing, workflow, online shops, warehousing, content management, mass mailing, webmin applications and user interfaces. Project management and programming outsourcing management.
August ~ September 2002
Gentics Edv. GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Applications Developer, Programmer
Content management systems programmer, web developer. http://www.gentics.com
February 1998 ~ August 2002
ChimTech-Ukraine
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Applications Developer, ProgrammerProgrammer, LAN Administrator
Setup and support of software and LAN. Write accounting and marketing programs. Create several web sites. Teach company personnel computer literacy. Letters of recommendation available.
June 2000 ~ 2002 (Part-time)
Global Consulting, Boston, USA
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Recruiting Manager (on-site in Ukraine)
http://bestusajobs.com/
Interviewing, resume handling. Matching candidates for openings list. Reviewing applications. Candidates instruction and preparation for interviews with employers.
June 2000 ~ September 2001 (Part-time)
Viva Group
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Web Software Development Project Leader
http://ddtstudio.de, http://mart.cv.ua
Viva Group is a Ukrainian educational and software company maintaining a school of web design and programming and a web design studio. Design dynamic web sites; maintain MySQL application for the school of web design technologies; Java, PHP, HTML/DHTML/CSS/JavaScript, MySQL, and some others. Projects at http://www.vivag.com , http://mart.cv.ua , http://www.ddtstudio.de. Since October 2000, teach students at the school of web design (PHP4), work out educational policy of the school and the schedule of studies.
1997-1998
Department of Foreign Languages for Sciences Students,
Chernivtsi State University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Assistant Professor
Teaching English in student groups, advisory, tutoring, extra-curricula work.
June 1993 -November 1995
External Group
Chernivtsi Regional Branch of Prominvestbank of Ukraine,
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Senior Interpreter
Maintain correspondent accounts with foreign banks; perform accountant duties. Effect all types of money transfers to/from abroad, cash checks in foreign currency. Perform everyday interpreting services. Several business trips to Bank Depozytowo-Kredytowy (Lublin, Poland).
September 1992 – May 1993
Department of Foreign Languages
Free Ukrainian Institute of Management and Business,
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Visiting Assistant Professor, Advisor
Teach English and Business Spoken English in student groups. Practical English classes with students.

Detailed Skills Overview

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

	5+ years experience	currently used
PHP	+	+
(D)HTML, CSS	+	+
SQL	+	+
JavaScript	+	+
XML	+	+
Unix shell		+
WML/WAP
Java
Perl
IDL

FRAMWEWORKS, LIBRARIES

	5+ years experience	currently used
cakephp		+
PEAR	+	+
symfony		+
Zend framework		+
dojo		+
jquery		+
prototype		+

DATABASES

	5+ years experience	currently used
Database design	+	+
MySQL	+	+
Oracle
sqlite
ODBC
Postgres

OPERATING SYSTEMS

	5+ years experience	currently used
Linux	+	+
Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/Vista/7	+	+
MS DOS	+

SERVERS, PROTOCOLS, LAN

	5+ years experience	currently used
Apache	+	+
MySQL	+	+
ngnx, lighthttpd
IIS

WEB DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

	5+ years experience	currently used
Content management systems	+	+
e-Commerce solutions	+	+
Web-based interfaces with AJAX	+	+
Web-based groupware	+	+
CRM	+	+

DESKTOPS, OFFICE SUITS, MISC.

	5+ years experience	currently used
Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, etc.	+	+
Zend IDE, Suit	+	+
CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Trac	+	+
Imagemagick	+	+
MS Office, OpenOffice	+	+
Macromedia Dreamweaver, NetObjects, etc.	+
Wordpress, PHPNuke, Drupal, Typo 3, Yoomla + a lot more	+	+

Selected Commercial and Open Source Projects

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2004-present, consultant, system architect, project manager, developer, coder

Programming Languages, Technologies

Name, Description, URL

PHP, WML, SQL, Apache, IIS, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, Win32, Linux, OOP, WAP, RSS, JPGraph, misc. php and javascript frameworks

Various internet/intranet, e-commerce, medical, b2b, middleware, groupware solutions, import/export interfaces, CMS.
http://liquidcatering.com.au, http://www.goodbartrade.com.au, http://www.shmservices.com, http://www.bestusajobs.com, http://www.ugri.at, http://www.mooroolbark.org.au, http://www.photoskeywest.com, http://flvhosting.com, http://videospark.com/, http://www.citymaxx.nl, http://die16.com, (more examples available on request)

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2002 -2004, SEO, project leader, developer

Programming Languages, Technologies	Name, Description, URL
PHP, SQL, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, Win32, Linux, OOP	2joy.com Internet and intranet solutions for MLM, network marketing, workflow, online shops, warehousing, content management, mass mailing, webmin applications and user interfaces. Project management and programming outsourcing management. http://www.2joy.com, http://www.bigjoysell.de, http://www.successnow.de

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2002, 2 weeks, developer

Programming Languages, Technologies

Name, Description, URL

PHP, SQL, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Win32, Linux, OOP

FlashWebSite
Online administration tool to dynamically manage, customize and configure flash movies online.

http://www.superchargedsoftware.com

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2002, 2 weeks, team: 2, developer

Programming Languages, Technologies	Name, Description, URL
PHP, SQL, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Win32, Linux, OOP	PHP Code Sweeper Optimizes php scripts by removing ends of lines and other unnecessary white space. HTML, Javascript code, as well as string variables of all types (including heredoc syntax) remain intact. The gain of its work on a php script is that scripts run a little faster, and there is a certain degree of unreadability for other programmers. Written in PHP.

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2001-2004, project not maintained any more, team: 4, project leader, developer

Programming Languages, Technologies

Name, Description, URL

PHP, SQL, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Win32, Linux, OOP

WebSite-123 (CM, CONTENT MANAGER, formerly – Quickwebcreator)
A proprietary application for building e-commerce sites. Features: MySQL-based dynamic pages; customizable setup via web interface; web-based html editor for dynamic pages; web-based theme builder; php parser for db-stored code; forms and php code generator; presets manager; images file manager; random home page editor; optional blocks manager; plugin links manager; goods/services catalog manager; yellow pages plugin; shopping cart; paypal integration; banner manager plugin; billing manager plugin; mailing list manager; extended site search system.
WebSite-123/CM Yellow Pages Plugin – A yahoo-like business directory with fully featured user logging integration. Submit, manage and update directory tree. Edit links. Detect last and top visited submissions. Clicks counter.
WebSite-123/CM Mailer and Subscriptions Plugin – Mail users, different group of users, create target user groups. View and manage mailing log. Resend former messages. Create and manage mailing lists groups.
WebSite-123/CM News Plugin – Submit, edit, manage and update site news. Edit news html online.
WebSite-123/CM Downloads Plugin – Create, submit, manage and update downloads threads. Maintain versions control. Automatically detect latest versions. Manage downloads permissions according to user groups.
WebSite-123/CM Calendar Plugin – Create, submit, manage and update events and personal notes. Personal notes are visible only for logged in users. Automatically detect and display site news and downloads submissions (if the corresponding plugins are present in WS123/CM)
WebSite-123/CM Online Shop Plugin – Online application for selling and advertising goods and services on line. Creates a tree-like flexible structure of series of shops, departments, goods categories and goods. Online create, add, update and edit all levels of shop entities. Online order registration and management. Marketing module, demand /proposition control module, goods promotion module.
WebSite-123/CM Themes Builder Plugin – Create WS123 themes online within a minute. Manage CSS properties. Add persistent Javascript. Manage colors, logos, images, site layout properties and site look and feel.
http://www.superchargedsoftware.com, http://4myhits.com, http://www.shockwavedesign.com, http://fatpipehosting.com, http://hostingtool.com, many others.

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2001-2002, project not maintained any more, team: 4, project leader, developer

Programming Languages, Technologies

Name, Description, URL

PHP, SQL, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Win32, Linux, OOP

WEB INTEGRATOR LITE (Web Portal Engine)
A fully featured web portal and e-commerce web site generation engine. Features: CORE ENGINE: web portal generation engine; basis for any type of e-commerce applications; OOP programmer friendly application; possibility to have any DB or n-tier on backend; possibility for fast plugins development; possibility for fast themes development; possibility for fast multilingual support development; unified system of user access; unified system of user rights administration; unified search with possibility to develop custom search features; configurable installation; MySQL support. CORPORATE PLUGIN: fast creation and updating of corporate pages; management of corporate information: products and services, projects history, personnel, vacancies and more; DOX PLUGIN: submit, update and manage documentation tree hierarchy; create multiple documents threads; full control and flexible removal, update and editing of your documentary system; user-friendly DOX editor. NEWS PLUGIN: submit and manage portal news. (Can be still found on the web on the sites like that.)

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2001, 6 months team: 8, leading developer/analyst

Programming Languages, Technologies	Name, Description, URL
PHP, ASP, XML, SQL, Apache, IIS, MySQL, Oracle, ODBC, HTML, CSS, Javascript, VBScript, Win32, CORBA, OOP	“INTERCILLIUM INC.” (Canada – Israel). Medical diary on the WEB, Internet project with multi-tier cross-platform architecture on IBM Netfinity 5000 Servers. Responsibilities: a) project structure and architecture design; b) PHP programming; c) Javascript, DHTML, HTML.

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2001-2004, project not maintained any more, team: 2-5, project leader, developer

Programming Languages, Technologies

Name, Description, URL

PHP, SQL, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Win32, Linux, OOP

DJ: Document Juggler – A set of PHP-scripts to create dynamic MySQL-based help, reference or documentation pages on any topics. (Features: submit, update and manage documentation tree hierarchy; create multiple documents threads; full control and flexible removal, update and editing of your documentary system; adding pictures and html to your dynamic help pages.) Idea, application design and support. (Can be still found on the web on the sites like that.)

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2001-2004, project not maintained any more, team: 2-5, project leader, developer

Programming Languages, Technologies

Name, Description, URL

PHP, SQL, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Win32, Linux, OOP

EC: Education Center – Education Center is a set of PHP-scripts to administer a corporate education and examination system via Internet/intranet. (Features: submit, update and manage courses and examinations; manage user access to EC system; view and manage education resources; show students’ personal progress and different types of exam taking ratings.) Idea, application design and support. (Can be still found on the web on the sites like that.)

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2001, 4 month, team: 4, programmer

Programming Languages, Technologies	Name, Description, URL
Java 2, JFC Swing, Borland Jbuilder, OOP, UML	Client and user interface for sorting and data representation of different document types stored in MySQL database. Created cross-platform windowed application for use by company accountants for storing reports and by programmers for documentation storage.

Year, Duration, Team, Role:
2000, 3 month, team: 4, programmer

Programming Languages, Technologies

Name, Description, URL

Java 2, RMI, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Linux, OOP, UML

Web-based system of data collection from remote weather sensors and its representation on a web-page. System created with using 3-Level architecture and RMI technology. Applet connected to RMI server, which requested data from weather server with sensors. Classes diagram in UML (Rational Rose). Developed classes specifications. Developed controllers driver as native Java functions. Created the applet as user interface. General management of documenting.

Education and Courses

1987 – 1993
BS, MA
Chernivtsi State University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology (English & Literature)
Aug. – Dec. 1991
Lock Haven University
Lock Haven, PA, USA
English and Literature, exchange student
Feb. – Jun. 2000
JAVA Courses
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
OOP, UML, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, TCP/IP, SQL, CORBA, RMI