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Laurian Gridinoc

Medicine and Surgery graduate from University of Medicine and Pharmacology 'Gr.T. Popa' with Master's from 'A.I. Cuza' University of Iasi and currently pursuing PhD at The Open University. Worked 6 years as Co-founder & Chief Developer at Grapefruit.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: AJAX, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Perl, Python, Software Engineering, Web Development
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Grapefruit www.grapefruit.ro
Position: Co-founder & Chief Developer
Time period: November 1999 - June 2006
Description: Founder and Chief Developer of one of the top Romanian consultancies on brand
strategy and interaction design, with more than 100 clients in 14 countries on 4
continents. My responsibility was while keeping project’s costs and deadline fixed, to
push its scope towards new technologies (i.e. semantic web ones) to keep ahead of the
competition. There, I was involved in exciting interactive projects for big names, like
Vodafone, HP, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, etc.

Employer: Nord Est Communications (Information Technology and Services industry)
Position: Web Developer
Time period: March 1998 - November 1999
Description: I was involved in the design and implementation of various commercial sites, implementing both the front-end and the back-end.

Employer: Monitorul de Iași newspaper
Position: Webmaster
Time period: March 1998 - November 1999
Description: I was responsible with the aggregation of the news from five counties (each with its own
newspaper) in a regional site. The job apart of content editing and general site maintenance, consisted also in negotiations with newspaper editors on article selection
and article types traffic trends analysis.

INFORMATION

Hobbies: Privacy, deniable cryptography, capability-based security, computer forensics, humanbased
computation, cyberpunk, Japanese culture and language, manga and anime, Kendo and Iaido.
Memberships: Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2007), Where the team I led won the project competition.
EuroLAN 2005 Summer School: "The Multilingual Web"
Where I wrote my very first paper “Concepts for faster exploratory navigation” (tinyurl.com/55xg4j) accepted at End User Semantic Web Interaction WS, ISWC’05.
Communication Officer for SSSMN (The Students Section of the Physicians and Naturalists Society) 1997–1999.

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  • Webbing

    Webbing is a close-knit team of 5 who enjoy managing projects and seeing our clients smile. We also believe that knowing us as humans with interests helps clients to get to know us. We enjoy our work as a web team.

  • badboy.media.design

    badboy.media.design is the business alias of independent graphic designer Lucian Slatineanu.

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