Alex Petrov

I develop cool, cutting edge iOS applications using Objective-C, Cocoa/Cocoa Touch, UIKit, Newsstand Kit, StoreKit, CoreData, CoreGraphics, Push Notifications. Besides mobile development I take part into web applications development and maintainance with use of Drupal CMS, CodeIgniter framework, as well as of pure PHP/MySQL on the back end and with HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery/jQuery Tools/jQuery Templates on the front end.

I developed multilingual websites using Drupal 6 with rich HTML/CSS/JavaScript interfaces. Also I took part into several internal projects (Drupal based systems for site monitoring, ticketing system etc).

I was creating robust, secure and powerful web-applications based on Drupal 6. Specifically applications for e-commerce (Ubercart), various tools with 3rd party API integration (Google Maps API etc).

I was doing my Ph.D. and in the same time I was deeply involved into educational process. Specifically I taught (lectures and practical lessons) the following courses: - "Algorithms and Data Structures"; - "Programming Technologies and Software Development"; - "System Programming"; - "Object-Oriented and Distributed DBMS"; - "Neural Networks"; - "Technical English"; - "Genetic Algorithms".

I was developing software as a freelancer using such programming languages: Delphi, PHP, C++. My major clients were: Pension Foundation of Russia for whom I developed a web-based system of pension calculation 2004 (PHP) Ukrainian Karate Association for whom I developed software for conducting European Karate Championship in Ukraine, 2006 (C++/CBuilder)

I was responsible for data base (Sybase SQL Anywhere 5, Windows 2003) server and file server (Novel Netware 4) maintenance. Also I wrote several programs for ATMs monitoring (Python) and a program for data exchange and communication with clients (C++).