DoronKatz Consulting strives to implement innovation infused with art, into developing practical, engaging and marketable mobile applications. We ensure that through diligent planning and strong testing philosophy we aim to be the best at what we do.
DoronKatz Consulting is a privately-owned iOS consultancy, working on on our own iOS applications, as well as consult with clients on implementing sophisticated mobile apps. We enjoy working on iPhone as well as iPad utility applications, as well as magazines that are optimised for the iPad. We are also looking into the future and developing apps that may work on other gadgets, such as smart-wrist watches and other appliances.
Having the edge over your competitions relies heavily on efficiency, and we can help you get that synergy to streamline your business workflows. With our solutions build around Apple and iOS products, we can analyse and transform your business into a lean, green business machine.
Using Mac OSX Server, we can build your back-end infrastructure, using aenterprise-level sever operating system. With OSX Server, you can utilise:
We can find, or even develop a business app that integrates into your business workflow, rather than have your business conform to apps, thus allowing you and your staff to make better business decisions, more expeditiously, with the ability for you to access business-critical information anywhere, anytime. Whether it is document-based applications for scanning, authoring, managing and distributing, or invoicing, we have the solutions for you.
Want to automate signing of documents electronically when dealing with clients, we can help implement that solution for you. We can also construct a central document repository to allow you to give your employees access to vital services in order to keep them current and informed, wherever they are.
Expand how your business collaboration by merging various forms of communication into easy-to-use, integrated apps on iPhone. You can create applications to enable online meetings, voice services, instant messaging, and content sharing. Chat remotely with your other offices and contacts via various Enterprise-grade video conferencing solutions, that integrate into your mac, and iPad.
Let us help you create a wiki site, composed of your internal knowledge, that can be stored centrally, for others in your business to consume and share your business knowledge internally. With Wiki Server 3 brings even more ease of use and control to your wikis. Use Wiki Server to host a website or wiki where your users can add content using the new Page Editor. Your wiki includes a document repository where users can upload, preview, and download files to their computers, making sharing and collaboration a breeze. With the new navigation bar, users can quickly switch to the server’s home page, My Page, Updates, Wikis, People, or Podcasts. People Browser lets you discover and share information outside a wiki. And automatic email notifications let users know when a page has been updated or when new comments have been added.
As of July 2011, 200 million people downloaded 15 billion apps from the Apple App Store. If numbers are a good indicator of good business, then you need to have your brand on the App Store. And it’s not just an app, but an app that extends your reachability to your clients, and if you don’t do it, your rival may pull ahead.
By working with us, you get the benefit of:
- Development : With some imagination, good task-management and communication we can build the solution you need. We make use of project-management tools such as JIRA, to track, plan and manage the project from start to finish. Using best practices in Agile methodologies, we scope the tasks, communicate daily the tasks and provide a portal for you to view the status of each task.
- Testing: We test using the enterprise-level Bamboo, which integrates into our bug management tool, for Continuous Integration of the app, reporting nightly and ensuring the application does not break at any stage of our development cycle, and into our maintenance phase.
- Feedback: In addition to tracking in-project bugs, we provide a mechanism for users of the app to directly feed bugs and suggestions straight into JIRA, allowing us to expeditiously provide fixes and improvements on the go, incrementally.
The bread and butter of mobile development lies in iPhone and iPod Touch, the two most portable devices for people who are on the go. We also know the attention span of someone launching and using an app is a matter of seconds, so we ensure the right context of information is presented to the user, in a timely and appropriate fashion, so that the user can quickly take the phone from their jeans pocket, launch and absorb information from the app and slip it back into their pockets.
For those who are relaxing at home, or in a cafe or in school, or working at the office, the lovely 10-inch real estate you get with an iPad is unrivalled. Building apps that make use of large real-estate, to complement the more mobile versions is a natural progression. We can help design a great iPad app that would complete your client-reachness.
We can distribute the apps both externally, to the App Store, or in-house through the Enterprise program.
The popularity of digital books have risen dramatically over the past few years,
Apple promotes the use of iBooks, as not only a digital e-book reader but an interactive one, capable of showing videos and animation to it’s readers in a new and exciting way. The gradual decrease in physical bookstores, with the availability of more contemporary and historical books online means you now have the greatest audience for producing and publishing your own books. And we can help you get there, from providing training on using publishing tools, to creating animation and video that would complement your e-literature perfectly.
Magazines is another category and market segment of the iPad, with paid (and non-paid) subscription pricing models for readers. We can help implement an magazine that will provide interactivity for your readership whilst obtaining more information about your readers, for advertising and marketing purposes.
Social media is no doubt a world-changer, and we would love nothing more than to integrate very facet of our apps that we can with the Facebooks and Twitters of today and tomorrow. From promoting your app by sharing statuses, to creating facebook micro-apps that promote the iPhone app itself, we can come up with something that extends your brand recognition through word-of-mouth (or keyboard).
Mobile advertising
You know how many people download apps from Apple’s App Store, think about putting your brand out there and marketing yourself on the apps that implement iAds, as well as various other popular networks, such as Google Adwords and FoxMob.
iAd reaches millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users around the world in their favorite apps. With the iAd Network, you can reach the Apple audience, the world’s most engaged, influential and loyal consumers. This audience:
- Has installed more than 15 billion applications
- Has purchased over 315 million iOS devices
- Spends, on average, 73 minutes per day using apps
- Engages with iAd ads for an average of 60 seconds per visit
Each ad is shown only to the audience you want to reach, in the apps they love and use the most. Our highly-effective targeting can leverage demographic data, as well as unique interest and preference data that taps into user passions that are relevant for your brand. Whether they are reading the news, playing a game or checking the local weather, your ad will make an impact.
For more information on iAds, visit http://advertising.apple.com/
We are not bound by today’s technologies, we are aware of future trends, future libraries and innovation and we would love to stay on the bandwagon of the future. With television and smart wrist-watches, as well as smart cars just on the horizon, we will be there examining new ways of reaching out and connecting to the world. Whether it’s browsing an app through the future Apple TV, or checking up some business information on your wrist watch, we are constantly looking at new ventures and projects to work on.
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Rich Mobile and Web Application Developer & rugby journalist
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Doron aspires to pursue a leading development and management role in an agile environment, where I can utilise my mobile and web development skills, in addition to my testing (CI and UAT) and release management (Scrum) abilities.
Ideal roles would include: Mobile development, business requirements analyst and release management.
EMAIL ADDRESS: doron@doronkatz.com
RESUME:
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BLOG: www.doronkatz.com
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, Subversion
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry
June 2011 – Present (1 year) 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.
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Newspapers industry
February 2010 – Present (2 years 4 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.
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.
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-time Web 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.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Insurance industry
February 2005 – April 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
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
February 2004 – December 2004 (11 months) Wollongong Area, Australia
Summary
Part-time lab 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
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.
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.
2005 – 2011
This 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.
2000 – 2004
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.
President of the AUJS Wollongong chapter, on campus
New technology, Apple gadgets, traveling, hiking, ice skating
Graduating with a weighted average mark in the top 5% of faculty 2004.
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