Adrian-Grigore Pop
imagineer
- Working as UI-UX designer, product manager, web developer, editor and entrepreneur
- Have started on a late November day in 1960
- Now located in the Bucharest area of Romania
- Reachable at adrian dot pop at informagination.ro
- Or +40 722 283 [4, three times]
- Your Information Companion
Short version: I’m 60, but feel like 40!
Passionate about knowledge and information technology, with 35+ years of experience; Working as UI-UX designer, web developer, product manager/owner, editor with 25+ years as entrepreneur; well-versed in web programming (JavaScript, HTML, CSS & PHP) developing in an Agile environment; WordPress contributor and General Translation Editor for the WordPress Romanian community; Editor and publisher of computer magazines, computer textbooks and websites; Graphic designer with a fondness for Typography and Minimalism.
Born in Zalau, educated in Cluj-Napoca, begin the work in Targu Mures, and then continue it in Bucharest;
Father of two twin daughters since 1985 and two sons since 2011 and 2013;
Critical thinker, in love with technology, science, visual arts and music since …forever.
Business Skills
Professional Skills
Languages Skills
Work Experience
Working on various Cloud Apps for Enterprise Level Applications.
A cloud application for entrepreneurs and accountants to help their businesses in new and meaningful ways.
Working for my partners as a personal adviser on computing and web technologies. Helping on designing and launching new projects, gardening their web sites and create beautiful designs for their communication needs.
Responsible with company communication both internally and externally. Re-branding, print and presentation materials, website development and content creation, UI and UX development for its web based products' interfaces.
Adrian Grigore Pop, PFA
Web developer & designer
Working on a range of projects: designing and programming websites; producing communication materials; typography, graphic and web design.
Responsible with publishing activities, business planning & development, new products and design. Continuing Computer Press Agora publishing activities, diversifying the titles with eWeek Romania, Digital Trends and IT Trends, complemented with Road Shows and Conferences as eLiberatica on open-source.
Computer Press Agora, SRL
Owner, Executive manager
Responsible with publishing activities, business planning & development, new products and design. Continuing the publication of PC Report, acquiring the license for BYTE Romania, and later for PC Magazine Romania. Publishing Gazeta de Informatica, CAD Report and IT textbooks.
Radiotel Mures, SRL
Owner, Administrator
Responsible with business development and strategy.
Introducing the first paging and radio networks in the city.
Developing the radio communication tower for radio communications, TV and Radio broadcast, internet links and cell-based communications.
HotSoft, SRL
Owner, Technical director
Doing all sort of things at the beginning: programming, DTP, editor, test engineer. Launching PC Report, the first major Romanian IT&C magazine. From 1995, the company became a holding and created several businesses in Software Development, IT Equipment Distribution, Radio Communication, Internet ISP, IT&C Publishing, English IT magazines & books distribution.
Developer of KeyMap - A keyboard driver with 180 fonts with Romanian characters, for Windows 3.1 up to 95.
Computing Center of Targu Mures
Software developer
A redesign of a computing periferial as general purpose microcomputer with a DOS OS.
A graphical UI with animated menus and board movements for a chess algorithm.
Part of the team that created the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University. Teaching Introduction in Computer Architecture and Operating Systems.
IIRUC, S20, Targu Mures
Computer maintenance engineer
Computer maintenance for mainframe systems (an IBM 360 clone), minicomputers (a Digital PDP 11 clone) and microcomputers (an Atair 8800 clone) and finally PCs. Also the maintenance for their periferic devices: disk-pile units, magnetic tape units, teletype consoles, drum printers, punch card readers, and other equipments - now computing museum stuff :)
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science
Graduation Project
Co-author of the first Personal Computer (PC) build at the University, based on the IBM PC specifications for Intel 8088 microprocessor.
Side Projects
USR-PLUS Alliance
Local Councilor, Corbeanca Local Council
In the 2020 Local Elections, I was elected as Local Councilor for the Corbeanca Local Council, Ilfov County.
PLUS
member in the Bureau of Local Community PLUS
Member in a new political party PLUS - the Party for Liberty Unity and Solidarity just launched in Romania on December 2018, with a center-right political platform. Elected as member in the Bureau of Local Community PLUS Corbeanca.
Rockberies
Founder, Bass Guitar
A rock cover band, with a few shows per year, for our rock-loving friends :)
WordPress.org
General Translation Editor, Romanian Site Editor
Volunteer in the WordPress Polyglots Team, working to bring the most popular internet personal publishing platform - WordPress - to the Romanians. Supervising the consistency and completion for all core translation projects, for main plugins and themes and validation for the rest of them.
ELUMNI
Founder, Film Director, Actor, Bass Guitar Player
Founder of the ERUDIO Alumnae Association and participating in several projects of the association. Scripting and directing two short movies. Acting in a theater play. Playing bass guitar in a rock band.
Brand design for the Educational Association and for its programs. Website creation, web developer and content editor.
Part of the team that build and launch a brand new political party in Romania. A center-right and liberal modern party - the first with an internet platform.
Responsible for visuals, communication and web. Creating the web platform. Web development and content creation.
in 2005, for 6 months, Secretary General in PNT-CD - the party in which URR was absorbed.
Freelanceing
Software Developer
Build a home computer HC 85 (a Sinclair 80 clone) from kit parts, design and build a parallel printer interface for it.
Creating a copy-encryption-decryption cassette tape program with on-the-fly self-auto-modification and reconfiguration for copyright protection.
An avant-la-lettre Office Suite for HC 85 with a word processor, a spreadsheet and vector based drawing programs.
A Basic program for modeling the blood flow in brain - Simulation of the Willis Polygon, etc.
Faculty's Students Association
Vice President for Cutural Activities
Responsible with student cultural activities, student festivals, and more.
Education
EMBA - Executive Master of Business Administration
ASEBUSS - Romanian-American School of Business
Business Training and Cooperation for SMEs
An USAID Program
Computer Architecture Trainings for Mainframes, Mini and Micro-Computers Maintenance
IIRUC - Computing Equipment Maintenace Company
Computer Engineer, (MSc in Computer Science)
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science
Classic Guitar
Popular School of Arts,Cluj-Napoca
Graphic Design
Popular School of Arts, Cluj-Napoca
Phisics & Mathematics Class
"Nicolae Balcescu" High School, Cluj-Napoca
Estimated Prices
Yours for a day
A whole day I’m yours for short web or IT related projects. Every once in awhile you may need small – but nevertheless important – materials, content or website updates. An hourly / daily based contract would be best suited for these needs. Preferably on a monthly basis.
starting price for a full month
Either for a tech startup or a product, a business presentation website, a branding or a rebranding, a product content design, a web enhancement or a redesign of your information infrastructure. It can very well be a large tech project spanning on several months, so you could test a new ideas without necessarily start the investment in actual development. You decide, I’m fully yours :)
A week each month or a day per week
You may have a small project, like a one-page presentation site, adding some new services/functionalities to your website, or a small design project. Or projects / developments with digital support, upgrades, communication needs, branding and ID design, presentation design, etc. All those things that you would like to do internally, but never have enough work to warrant two or three specialized full time positions. Preferably on a monthly basis.
I am pretty flexible and willing to accommodate my clients’ need and requirements. Do not hesitate to contact me, so we can further discuss the perfect solution for you.
Hobbies & Interests
- Playing my bass guitar in a rock band
- binge watching my favorite tv series
- devour books on my kindle
- brass swimming as a long walk
- bicycle sightseeing
- cultural travel
- mountain hikings
..or sometimes writing poetry..
to one reverse, the universe diverse. in one inverse, the universe a verse.
lui unu revers, universul divers. în unu invers, universul un vers.
Contact me
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- Email adrian dot pop at informagination.ro
- Mobile +40 722 283 [4, three times]
- Skype adrian.g.pop
- Slack @adrianpop on #wpromania
- Location the Bucharest area, Romania