Andrei Olar

This was part of a complex platform designed for reading eBooks that eased studying. It was available on all relevant platforms at the time.

The original premise was to take hard-copied books, convert them to a digital format, and then enhance the lecture by adding various tools for studying.

FEATURES:
• Embedded videos, images, thesaurus, and dictionary lookup
• Flashcards
• A journal that would allow the viewing and printing of a summary of the material
• An ability to share notes, journal entries, and other user-generated content with others
• Digital rights management for the content publishers
• A single sign-on that uses external providers such as Clever (Clever.com) to allow easier integration into a school/classroom environment

Zoover.nl is a travel review website geared towards the Dutch market peaking at over two million unique visitors on a monthly basis. Our team was responsible for the maintenance and overhaul of the back end of this website.

Contributed to developing a customized warehouse management system for the fashion industry.

FEATURES:
• Monitors incoming and outgoing merchandise
• Manages various packaging options for the merchandise
• Anti-theft protocols in place
• Implements contingency measures in case of damage or various other problems with the goods
• Offers near real-time reports on stock or projected space availability
• Provides readily available topographical information of the warehouse
• Offers role-based access to its functionality

While most warehouse management systems of the time were exclusively desktop-based, this system innovated by offering a mobile application. This drastically improved all activities related to keeping stock properly. The mobile application was in part native and web-based, reflecting what would become one of the main industry trends.

Another innovative aspect was integrating the warehouse's own automation features into the application.

Organized code retreats seeking to engage with others in the beauty of simple design. As a facilitator for these events, I make sure the participants' needs are taken care of and their experience during the event is a rewarding one. I also guide them through advanced test-driven development and pair programming techniques, all the while making sure everyone sticks to the event's format.

This project was a complex tool for the pharmaceutical industry. Some call it an environment for engineering medical tests, while others refer to it as a core repository of knowledge.

FEATURES:
• A pluggable architecture that enables engineering on any medical test for any device
• Dynamic UI generation based on user input and data inference
• A core repository for storing data in a versioned, consistent way
• An advanced knowledge repository for browsing and search algorithms
• Workflows for releasing new tests to production devices worldwide
• Automatic documentation generation
• Semantic differentiation between versions of the same test

High-touch solutions allow office workers from financial institutions to interact with the financial markets directly.

The project was an extension built on top of an existing platform.

FEATURES:
• Monitor profit and loss statistics in near real time on transactions from multiple sources (various markets, registered in an order management system, and so on)
• The ability to act quickly to ensure the best course of action is taken at a given moment
• Keep an updated log of the status of transactions as reflected by multiple data sources