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Australia

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October 16, 2012

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Doron Katz

RIA & iOS Developer at TheMediaArchitects

Location

Melbourne Area, Australia

Industry

Computer Software

Summary

Doron aspires to pursue a leading development and/or management role in an agile

environment, where I can utilise my mobile and web development skills, and business

requirements gathering skills, in addition to my testing (CI and UAT) and release

management (Scrum) abilities.

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Specialties

Languages: Objective-C/iOS, Adobe Flex/Actionscript, PL/SQL, HTML5, Coldfusion

Applications: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Catalyst/Fireworks/Illustrator), XCode

Frameworks: Flex (Cairngorm/PM/Parsley/Robotlegs), iOS MVC

CMS: Wordpress CMS, Confluence

Versioning: Git, SubversionExperience

RIA & iOS Developer

TheMediaArchitects

July 2012Present (3 months) Melbourne Area, Australia

Develop and maintain both Flex and iOS aspects of client-customised applications for

viewing, managing and voting on independent-films.

Owner/DeveloperDoronKatz.comApril 2010Present (2 years 6 months) Sydney Area, Australia

A sole-trading company I have created, to work on personal projects, outside of normal

business hours.

Personal projects I have worked on with iOS, have given me experience in the following

frameworks/areas:

- RestKit (Asynchronous syncing to CoreData from JSON0

- CorePlot (graph-plotting)

Other frameworks I follow or help contribute with:

https://github.com/doronkatz/following

Mobile & Web Developer

Rice Warner Actuaries

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry

June 2011 July 2012 (1 year 2 months) Melbourne/Sydney

Summary

Design, develop, test, distribute and release manage branded financial apps to clients.

Scope:

- Design and Development Front-End Interfaces,

- Code Back End Engines & Intermediary tiers.

- Documentation & Testing (UT & CIT)

- Scoping work requirement and advising management and clients

- Preparation of project plans in accordance with client preferences;

- Providing input to technical aspects of RIA and App development; and

- Participating in discussions and carrying out associated research on future RIA and App

development and product design.

Technologies: Objective-C; Flex 4/4.5 & Actionscript 3, MySQL, Jira bug tracking,

Confluence CMS, SVN, Adobe CS5.

Australian correspondent

SARugby.com

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Newspapers industry

February 2010 July 2012 (2 years 6 months) Australia

Australian rugby journalist/correspondent for SARugby.com and it's syndicated websites.

Responsibilities include:

- Reporting on Super rugby provincial news, for the Waratahs, Reds and Rebels.

- Reporting on Australian international rugby news.

- Role includes interviewing players and coaching personnel, reporting on live games and

attending training sessions.

Rich Internet Application Developer

24/7 Real Media

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; TFSM; Online Media industry

March 2008 June 2011 (3 years 4 months) Cremorne, Sydney, NSW

Summary

Front-end Rich Internet Application developer, for the international Search Marketing

Firm 24/7 Realmedia. Doron's role as a RIA includes developing and maintaining existing

applications, as part of the company's portfolio.

Scope:

- Development & Maintenance of new and existing application components for the in-house

applications (DecideDNA)

- Collaborate with other UI developers and Chief Architect in finding new and innovative

approaches to customising components of the application and framework

- Experience in Quality Assurance Testing during release management of the application

- Technical document writing, for functional specifications and new technology proposals

- Researching improvements in workflow, from knowledge-sharing to Unit Testing

techniques, development tools and framework components that would enrich our existing

infrastructure

Technologies: Flex 4 (Cairngorm/Parsley frameworks), Gorilla Flex UI Testing, FlexPMD,

Coldfusion 8/9, Perl,Oracle PL/SQL, Adobe Creative Suite 4, MediaWiki CMS, Bugzilla bug

tracking.

Web Developer/System Administrator

Quality Group

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry

March 2007 April 2008 (1 year 2 months) Cyprus

Summary

A role overseas, based in southern Europe, for one of the largest private companies in

Cyprus. In charge of establishing a succinct IT department to support the growing

innovative infrastructure of the company.

Scope

- Support new I.T department and infrastructure, consulting with different departments on

establishing integrated intranet networks for the organisation.

- Part-time Systems administrator, including the overseeing of a new Email Exchange

system, social network streams, PC-troubleshooting.

Part-timeWeb Developer, re-developing the company's website in consultation with other

stakeholders, according to European Web Standards.

- Introduction of new CMS across all departments, for knowledge-sharing.

- Analytical analysis for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Technologies: HTML/CSS, Coldfusion, .NET, MediaWiki CMS, Adobe Creative Suite.

Web Developer/Systems Officer

Commonwealth Bank

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Insurance industry

February 2005April 2007 (2 years 3 months) Sydney Area, Australia

Summary

As Doron's first full-time position, the CBA Retail Banking Services involved 50% working

as a Systems Officer, and 50% as a Web Developer, responsible for updates to the bank's

intranet as well as customer-facing netbank/commbank, based on strong corporate site

compliance.

Scope

- Analysis of system issues for various project implementations, such as Transact, Probe

and TRIAD systems.

- Work closely with third-party vendors to ensure reliability of project progress, during

its agile phases.

- Undertake project tasks such as capacity management, incident management and risk

management, in line with ITIL principles.

- Develop and update documentation on systems and components.

- Conduct SIT testing for various systems, such as NETBANK

- Commbank/Netbank development using front-end technologies (XHTML/CSS/Javascript) in a

fast-turnover set of micro-tasks.

Technologies: XML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Adobe Creative Suite, ITIL

Lab Instructor

Informatics Faculty

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

February 2004 December 2004 (11 months) Wollongong Area, Australia

Summary

Part-timelab instructor, utilising his personal academic knowledge in providing

auxiliary classes for various university courses, including laboratory and tutorial

classes.

Scope

- Facilitate tutorial and lab classes for various units.

- Complement existing course agenda with related cutting-edge information to assist

students.

- Micro-lecturing.

- Subjects included :Location-based services, IBM Selling Solutions and various other

joint IBM/UOW subjects, such as IBM e-Business Patterns and Technologies.

- Assisted in marking assignments for the subject.

Technologies: Websphere, Java, XML, e-Business, Marketing

President

Australian Union of Jewish Students Wollongong Chapter

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry

February 2002 May 2004 (2 years 4 months)

Doron was president of the University Social Club chapter of the Australian Union of

Jewish Students, and presided and grew a club from virtual non-existence to becoming self-

sufficient, catering for Jewish students locally and abroad, interacting with other clubs

and implementing measures to ensure the club is sustained with a long future. Doron used

diplomatic and skilled management of the club to ensure it's finances were well

maintained, ensured through communication with other clubs that it was able to achieve the

maximum funding from the University and can acclaim to having been recognised through the

local media as well various international politicians for it's achievement in the short

period of time.

Certifications

Microsoft Certified Applications Developer

MCAD

February 2008

Skills & Expertise

Cocoa

Objective-C

Flex

Coldfusion

HTML

jQuery

JavaScript

PL/SQL Developer

Photoshop CS5

Fireworks CS5

Flex Parsley Framework

Flex Cairngorm Framework

Git

Subversion

Coffeescript

Photoshop

Java

CFML

Online Marketing

Online Strategy

HTML5

CSS3

Apple Software

Adobe Illustrator

Cairngorm

RestKit

CoreData

JSON

Railo

Zucchini

Kiwi

CFWheels

Publications

Rugby League's Bad Boy, Booze Culture

Sports Illustrated

February 23, 2010

Authors: Doron Katz

The Australian Rugby Union over the past decade had flirted with the notion of

approaching and acquiring Australian rugby league players, with a recipe of sprinkling a

generous amount of money, adding water and creating an instant Wallaby, from an already-

established rugby league superstar, producing the likes of Andrew Walker, Wendell Sailor,

Lote Tuquri, and Matt Rogers.

List of my SARugby publications

SARugby

Authors: Doron Katz

A list of all my authored publications

Languages

English

(Native or bilingual proficiency)

Greek

(Professional working proficiency)

Hebrew

(Limited working proficiency)

Education

Charles Sturt University

Graduate Diploma, Management and Information Technology

20052011This program incorporated both University management and marketing subjects as well as a

full Microsoft Certified Solutions Development (MCSD) certification.

Activities and Societies: Done through correspondence whilst working full-time for the

Commonwealth Bank and Quality Group whilst overseas.

University of Wollongong

Bachelor of Internet Science and technology, Internet Science/Web Development

20002004

Curriculum included various IBM eBusiness commerce and computer science modules, as well

as various Geoscience units, taken as a minor

Activities and Societies: - Involved heavily in Social Clubs, political and religious -

Apart of innovative new subjects and exclusive club of only a handful of students who

completed Internet Science degree from it's inception prior to it not being continued. -

Apart of the IBM curriculum which was new to Australian Universities, which included me

also being a lab instructor for those subjects upon completion of the accredited subjects.

- Achieved Golden Key recognition for excellence in various subjects and degree.

Courses

Graduate Diploma, Management and Information Technology

Charles Sturt University

Contemporary Mgt Practice (MGT571)

Dev. XML Web Serv. (ITI563)

Developing Web Applications (ITI561)

Managing People in Info Age (RM571)

Marketing for IT Managers (MKT571)

Programming with MS Languages (C#) (ITI562)

SQL 2000 Database Designing (ITI517)

Strategic Practice (MGT573)

Bachelor of Internet Science and technology, Internet Science/Web Development

University of Wollongong

Database Management System (BUSS212)

Innovation and Electronic Commerce (COMM300)

Java Programming & the internet (CSCI213)

Management & Electronic Business (MGMT200)

IBM eBusiness fundamentals (IACT304)

IBM eBusiness technologies (IACT305)

IBM Patterns for eBusiness (IACT450)

IBM Detailed Design of Integrated Solutions (IACT436)

Web Services for Dynamic eBusiness (ITCS451)

Introduction to Management (MGMT110)

Computer Science 1A (CSCI111)

Computer Science 1B (CSCI121)

Organizations

Australian Union of Jewish Students Wollongong Chapter

President

January 2001 to December 2004

President of the AUJS Wollongong chapter, on campus

Additional Information

Websites:

Personal Website

Company Website

Interests:

New technology, Apple gadgets, traveling, hiking, ice skating

Honors and Awards:

Graduating with a weighted average mark in the top 5% of faculty 2004.

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