Jobs: Fedor Virin - a man whom it is not necessary to submit

Today, on the workplace, working methods, software and gadgets Virin says Fedor. The following story about Fedor, his past and current projects.

What do you do in your work?

I am creating a business works: invent, inspire, and then helping to build. Today I have five main areas:

UFO Marketing - a company which is engaged in advertising on the Internet and especially in the SMM - this is the biggest and my company in terms of turnover and the number of working people (currently 25 people working here). Today my main work in the company - a staff training and organization of work with clients.

GF - Service of personal assistants. Very beautiful and simple idea - delegate all secondary tasks intelligently to the Secretary and to do what really matters. It is useful for everyone who does not have the Secretary, or for those tasks that can not or difficult to trust his secretary. Accordingly, it works for both private clients and companies. The help I'm here? Basically, marketing, but rather it is a GF helps me than vice versa.

Data Insight (www.datainsight.ru) - analytical agency specializing in ecommerce, online advertising, and startups. An entirely new company (organized in late autumn), but very fast growing. Here I am doing proper research, again working with customers and partners and, of course, publications and presentations.

Education managers of internet projects at HSE - an annual refresher course, which I direct, which gathers twice a year a group of students. A very complex system in terms of education, because a lot of teachers and very few teaching methods (in fact, we are doing these techniques). What am I doing here: teaching, coming up with new ideas and methods, negotiate with new teachers and new partners.

VANARDA capital - investment fund / incubator of Internet projects. Specialization - the earliest stage of investment. Here, I'm just doing everything ☺

And I'm always looking for people: intelligent, talented, interesting and independent. And in order to work in existing companies and to create new ones. People I have all the time is very acute hunger.

How does your workplace? What hardware are using? What software use?

In fact, my work place - it is a phone, because the majority of their working time I ever I am talking on the phone or meet and speak personally, or somewhere to food and often do something through phone. And these phones very quickly die. The longest lasted until the iPhone (first) - he lived around 2.5 years. Then there were the series Nokia N97, Nokia N900, Samsung WiTu (which I do not remember) c Windows Mobile, currently HTC Incredible (and I have not been so convenient). The last four phones have replaced each other for 12 months (and I hope that HTC will live longer).

In addition, I use the iPad-th a lot, mostly on the road or on the go, leaving the laptop in the office. As I often say, when people ask me, "Is iPad a handy thing" - "Yes! Great stuff! I began to leave on the laptop and take with them only the iPad, and I became a lot more time to spend with the family, because it is impossible to work with him. " iPad really scary is inconvenient to work, and the most inconvenient in that it is - is a browser and an email client. Browser treated, but the e-mail client has not yet found. Thus guglopochta (well! Yes, I still have all documents on 4 projects out of 5 in google) through aypad is that occasionally I start swearing angry and scared. Using the iPad and phone minimized the time for an e-book - I read it almost as simply not enough time for it. I am thrown iPad, and then I'll read more.

Well, yes, I still have a laptop, and yes, this is the main work tool, no matter what I said about there no phone, and all that I write or do, I do still mostly on a laptop. Now it probook5320m with win 7 and without any huge additions. What a nice car. When I choose, the most important was the battery life and weighs less than 2 kilograms and a decent performance (tselerony are not suitable). And the choice was between HP and MacBook pro. With all the richness of choice of HP is more compatible with all the different (yes, I know about the parallels ☺), so it is selected. It is curious that one of the selection criteria was the understanding that the owners of HP do not say anything about their computers (either good or bad), that is, there is no emotion, but there is just a job.

As a result, all the time I need portability, so I have three or four devices that are synchronized with each other, which I use when I it is convenient.

Is there a place in your paper work?

Of course have. Contracts for example. ☺ From this can not be avoided, but the actual paper records almost died out. Sometimes I write down on a piece of paper something in the course of a telephone conversation, if it is more convenient than a computer, but more often not.

In fact, there are a huge number of napkins, which I always something to write or draw on the meetings. That's why I love so much, Jean Jacques and Simple Things - where large sheets of paper on which is placed the food, and during the meeting they are very comfortable to work with. These wipes I bring to the office and almost immediately treated with either myself (if I was in a meeting one) or producer arms, who was with me.

Is there a dream configuration?

Yes. I even described her a couple of years ago in a magazine. I want everything: documents, software, e-mail, etc., stored in the phone (in total, 100 gigobayt to do enough for the eyes and for the rest of the media server is placed), and all other devices would simply docking station for this handset that would provide him an additional screen, a keyboard, additional processing power and memory…

Imagine a world where you have all the necessary data is always with you. You can get them at any time directly on the phone and make them almost anything. It's not very convenient, because the phone is small, and because there is no keyboard, and the weak processor, but it is possible! Next you come to any office or at any educational institution or in the café, and there are such boxes with screens - you're stuck in this box phone in front of you and your customized workspace (it is stored in the phone), and once you get a faster and more convenient a computer. And these computers can "rent" is not only the CPU time (and the actual "access to the body"), if necessary, but some software that you do not buy on your phone, because the need is rare, but you can use it an hour or two when it is necessary.

In the evening you come home and put your phone into a home dock - one that is surrounded by a media server, usual home equipment, and one that will make the night another phone backup to the internal server.

That is, perhaps, the dreams configuration ☺