15.09.2009 - prezent

Departament: it software

Titlu Job: senior development manager

Responsabilitati:

Position: Senior Development Manager for XScores Consulting Ltd. primarily involved with the following Work Activities:
1. Team leading and supervising: mentoring the Java, Linux and Oracle PL/SQL Developers on my Team at XScores, performing Code Reviews, and People and Team development. Constantly improving internal processes in Project Management, Application Development, and Quality Assurance areas at XScores. Also performing Budget Planning for various portfolio-managed IT Projects at XScores Consulting, either new Projects or enhancements to existing Projects.
2. IT Manager Role: acquisition of new Linux and Oracle Servers, configuration, installation and setup on Linux Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat Linux flavors and Oracle 11gR2 Database, Java development with Eclipse Integrated Development Environment ( IDE ), CometD protocol reviews with Netty Server implementation on www.xscores.com.
3. Java Development on Testing, pre-Production and Production Linux Servers at XScores: also implementing Linux Security using Fail2ban and Linux Groups, and Automation Tools such as CruiseControl using ANT Tasks, etc. as well as extensive Oracle PL/SQL development and XScores Production configuration and enhancements to Oracle Streams replication on Oracle 11gR2 database: further Technical Details available upon request.

Realizari:

Position: Senior Development Manager for XScores Consulting Ltd. primarily involved with the following Work Activities:
1. Team leading and supervising: mentoring the Java, Linux and Oracle PL/SQL Developers on my Team at XScores, performing Code Reviews, and People and Team development. Constantly improving internal processes in Project Management, Application Development, and Quality Assurance areas at XScores. Also performing Budget Planning for various portfolio-managed IT Projects at XScores Consulting, either new Projects or enhancements to existing Projects.
2. IT Manager Role: acquisition of new Linux and Oracle Servers, configuration, installation and setup on Linux Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat Linux flavors and Oracle 11gR2 Database, Java development with Eclipse Integrated Development Environment ( IDE ), CometD protocol reviews with Netty Server implementation on www.xscores.com.
3. Java Development on Testing, pre-Production and Production Linux Servers at XScores: also implementing Linux Security using Fail2ban and Linux Groups, and Automation Tools such as CruiseControl using ANT Tasks, etc. as well as extensive Oracle PL/SQL development and XScores Production configuration and enhancements to Oracle Streams replication on Oracle 11gR2 database: further Technical Details available upon request.

02.08.2008 - 15.09.2009

Departament: it software

Titlu Job: technical director and administrator

Responsabilitati:

Position: Technical Director and Administrator for self-founded company BVO Innovative Consulting SRL involved with the following Work Activities:
1. Creation of Client-Oriented Software. Provision of IT Consultancy and Management, as well as Administration and Usage of Client-Oriented Software.
2. License to sell both new and modified Client-Oriented Software, including commerce with related Software and Peripherals for developed Systems and/or Software for Customers.
3. Editing and Modification of existing Game Software and various other Software, for example modification and re-engineering of existing Lottery Games for Editec Development Bucuresti SRL.
4. Data Processing and Administration of Web Pages, Web Portals, and related activities.
5. License for IT Consultancy for Business and Management, as well as for other related Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities in the Information Technology Sector.
6. Telecommunications Projects for Telecommunications Company in East Coast USA dealing with various Datawarehouse Projects for Vendors Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei. This role involved both Production Support as well as Business Intelligence Development for MS SQL Server 2005 and Oracle 9i and 10g using T-SQL and Oracle PL-SQL flavours of SQL as well as various Linux distributions including Red Hat Linux, GNU Linux and SU SE Linux.

Realizari:

1. Am fondat aceasta firma a mea acum citeva luni, asa ca sunt abia la inceput cu activitatile pentru ea.
2. Obiectivul principal consta in crearea Software-ului orientat pe Client si furnizarea de Consultanta pentru aceasta.
3. Obiectivele secundare sunt listate in sectiunea de Responsabilitati descrise mai sus.

02.04.2008 - 30.09.2008

Departament: it software

Titlu Job: team leader development

Responsabilitati:

Position: Team Leader Development involved with the following Work Activities:
1. Leading Software Developers Staff on Development Team, defining and dispatching work for the Team, and updating Planning on a continuous basis.
2. Researching, Designing, Writing and Testing new Software Programs. Developing existing Systems by analyzing and identifying Areas for modification. ‘Bolting together’ existing software products, ie. getting incompatible Platforms to work together and creating Code to link them.
3. Maintaining Systems by monitoring, identifying and correcting Software Defects. Creating Technical Specifications and Test Plans. Writing Operational Documentation with technical authors. Working closely with other Staff, such as Project Managers, Graphic Artists, System Analysts, and Sales and Marketing Professionals.
4. Investigating New Technologies and working with various Computer Coding Languages, such as Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET, C, C++ and C#, Visual C++ and MFC ( Microsoft Foundation Classes ), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 with T-SQL, Crystal Reports 2008, and other languages.
5. Consulting Clients and Colleagues concerning the Maintenance and Performance of Software Systems and asking questions to obtain relevant information, clarify details, and implement this information.
6. Constantly updating Technical Knowledge and Skills by attending in-house and/or external Courses, reading Manuals and accessing new Applications. Problem-solving and thinking laterally as part of a team, or individually, to meet the current and future needs of the Company and Projects.

Realizari:

1. Am condus o echipa de 5 oameni si am realizat diverse proiecte in Domeniul Loteriilor cu ei.
2. Am stabilit proceduri mai clare relativ la etapele de Proiectare, Implementare, si Testare la Editec Development SRL.
3. Am folosit cunostintele fiecarui membru din echipa in mod optim, astfel incat sa implementam proiectele din echipa cit mai eficient si continuu.

02.04.2007 - 31.03.2008

Departament: it software

Titlu Job: senior sql support engineer

Responsabilitati:

Position: Senior SQL Support Engineer involved with various Aspects of Microsoft SQL Server Issues including the following:
1. Implementing SQL Server Databases: Creating Databases and Database Files, Creating Data Types and Tables, Using XML, Creating and Tuning Indexes, Implementing Data Integrity, Implementing Views, Implementing Stored Procedures and Functions, Implementing Managed Code in the Database, and Using Service Broker.
2. Maintaining SQL Server Databases: Installing and Configuring SQL Server, Managing Databases and Files, Disaster Recovery, Managing Security, Monitoring SQL Server, Transferring Data, Automating Administrative Tasks, Maintaining High Availability, and Replication Scenarios.
3. Designing SQL Server Server-Side Solutions: Selecting SQL Server Services that Support Business Needs, Designing Security Strategies, Designing Data Modeling Strategies, Designing Transaction Strategies for SQL Server Solutions, Designing Notification Services Solutions, Designing Service Broker Solutions, Planning for Source Control, Unit Testing and Deployment, and Evaluating Advanced Query and XML Techniques.
4. Tuning and Optimizing Queries Using SQL Server: Measuring Database Performance, Optimizing Physical Database Design, Optimizing Queries for Performance, Refactoring Cursors into Queries, Optimizing an Indexing Strategy, Reducing Blocking and Managing Concurrency.
5. Designing a SQL Server Infrastructure: Analyzing Capacity Needs, Designing Strategies for Data Archiving, Designing Strategies for Database Server Consolidation, Designing Strategies for Data Distribution, Designing a Database Server Infrastructure, Designing Strategies for Data Recovery, and Establishing Database Conventions and Standards.
6. Designing Security for SQL Server: Designing SQL Server Security, Designing SQL Server Systems Infrastructure Security Policy, Designing Security Policies for Instances and Databases, Integrating Data Encryption into Database Security Design, Designing Security Exceptions Policy, and Designing Response Strategies for Threats and Attacks.
7. Troubleshooting and Optimizing Database Servers Using Microsoft SQL Server: Building Monitoring Solutions for SQL Server Performance Issues, Troubleshooting Database and Database Server Performance Issues, Optimizing the Query Performance Environment, Troubleshooting SQL Server Connectivity Issues, Troubleshooting SQL Server Data Issues, and Troubleshooting SQL Server Concurrency Issues.
8. Practical Troubleshooting Issues for the Database Engine: Waiting and Blocking Issues, Data Corruption and Recovery Issues, Memory Issues, Procedure Cache Issues, Query Processor Issues, Server Crashes and Other Critical Failures, Service Broker Issues, SQLOS and Scheduling Issues, TempDB Issues, and Clustering Issues.

Realizari:

1. Am creat legaturi de incredere cu Clientii de la Microsoft care folosesc SQL Server.
2. Am cistigat o experienta bogata in ceea ce priveste problemele si rezolvarile in domeniul SQL Server.
3. Imi perfectionez abilitatea sa gindesc si in limba Germana, pentru ca rezolv cazuri de SQL Server si cu Clienti din Germania, Elvetia, sau Austria.

01.03.2001 - 31.03.2007

Departament: it software

Titlu Job: senior software engineer data warehouse

Responsabilitati:

Position 1: Professional System Engineer Role involved in various Advanced Middleware Issues at Credit Suisse. Involved with issues such as Considering Client Interests and Requirements and Looking for Solutions in these Areas. Also involved with Building and Maintaining Client Relations. Another important aspect was to Recognize Problem Fields early and to take Corresponding Measures for these. Also to consider Changes and Trends and to Actively Promote Creative and
Practical Ideas for these respective issues.

Position 2: Senior Software Engineer Role involved with the Development and Support of Data Staging Processes with ETL ( Extraction, Transformation, and Loading ) Tool PowerCenter on SUN Solaris Servers at Credit Suisse. This includes various Conceptional Tasks and Analyses such as Detail Specifications in the context of the individual Data Warehouse Orders from different Business Requests, as well as developing New Data Interfaces using PowerCenter. Also involved with SQL Programming under SUN Oracle as well as the Programming and Development of UNIX Components.

Realizari:

Position 1: Product Responsible Person for the Quality Management Bridge Version 1. This Infrastructure Application supports the Centralized and Fully Automated Deployment of Tower Applications at Credit Suisse: Installation and Setup, CVS Repository and Tower Framework Setup, Development, Local Build and Deploy, Central Build and Verify Central Build Results. Product Responsible Person for the MacroMedia DreamWeaver and IDM Ultra Edit HTML Editors as well as for the Altova XML Spy XML Editor. Prepared Tasks, Responsibilities and Competences for handling these products. Product Responsible Person for the Rational Rose UML Modelling Tool as well as for the Borland JBuilder Java Integrated Development Environment ( IDE ). Handled 3rd Level Support Issues for Rational Rose and JBuilder Products. Product Responsible Person for the Concurrent Versions System ( CVS ) Version Control System used on a Production Server at Credit Suisse to Record the History of Source Files in Projects. Generated Product Catalogues for CVS and for the products listed above containing important Technical and Support Information for these Products as well as describing their known User Bases. Used Microsoft Excel and FrontPage Applications extensively to Generate various Pivot Tables and Graphs of specific Product Statistics for the Products described above and to display this Information on our Product Web Site. Statistics used include the Number of PereGrine Tickets ( Bug Tracking Tool at Credit Suisse) that were Opened, Resolved and Pending for each of the above Products. The most important Data was Managed Centrally and Graphically Displayed in Summary Form to our Customers.

Position 2: Responsibilities include Data Modelling, Production Support as well as further Development and Testing of existing Data Warehouse PowerCenter Mappings and Sessions for Business Requests. Important Skills used for the above Tasks in Data Warehouse are: know-how in the Oracle Environments Oracle 9i and 10g as well as PowerCenter Staging, specialized knowledge of UNIX Technologies, SQLplus Scripts and Solaris Packages. Excellent knowledge of the Data Warehouse Infrastructure officially used at Credit Suisse, which includes ERwin Data Modeller, Control-M Enterprise Manager Jobnet Tool, XML Metadata Structures, Concurrent Versions System ( CVS ), Toad and SQL Plus Oracle Clients, Informatica PowerCenter Designer and Workflow Manager, Hummingbird Exceed for Unix Display Terminals on Windows XP and NT, WinSCP for Windows XP to UNIX file copies and transfers, and the Data Warehouse Generic Staging Processes and UNIX Shell Scripts officially used at Credit Suisse. Also used the TestDirector Tool for Testcase Management to perform extensive Testing of the PowerCenter Mappings and Sessions developped in Data Warehouse at Credit Suisse, as well as an iterative Client-Feedback Scheme to indicate the level of Customer Satisfaction with these Data Warehouse Mappings, and to denote Areas where we could make further progress.

Facultati:

EDUCATION:
1995 (August) B.Sc. (Honours) Mathematics. Physics. Computer Science.Psychology.
1990 - 1995 University of British Columbia Enrolled in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Psychology.
1985 - 1990 John Oliver Secondary School. (Grades 8 - 12). Computer Programming and Mathematics Enrichment Classes.

Facultati in straiatate

EDUCATION:
1995 (August) B.Sc. (Honours) Mathematics. Physics. Computer Science.Psychology.
1990 - 1995 University of British Columbia Enrolled in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Psychology.
1985 - 1990 John Oliver Secondary School. (Grades 8 - 12). Computer Programming and Mathematics Enrichment Classes.

Activitati extracurriculare

C++ Related Skills and Experience:
1. Fundamental Elements of C++ such as:
• Control Structures: if, switch, while, for, break, continue
• Non-Primitive Data Types: Enumerations, Arrays, Structures, Unions and typedefs
• Functions: Parameter Passing Mechanisms, Function Structures and Return Types, Optional Parameters, Function Prototypes, Overloaded Functions and Operators and Inline Functions
• Pointer and Reference Types: Variables, Dynamic Arrays and Recursive Structures
• Pre-Processor Directives & Header Files: Pre-Processor, Header Files, #include and Separate Compilations, Symbolic Constants, Macros, Conditional Compilations, avoiding Duplicate Definitions.
2. Elements of Object Oriented Programming ( OOP ) such as:
• Classes and Objects: Class Definitions, Public and Protected and Private Fields, Specialized Methods ( Constructor, Destructor, Copy and Operator Methods ), Linked List Classes, Friend Classes, Class Nesting, Static Class Members and Type Conversion Methods.
• Inheritance: Simple Inheritance, Construction and Destruction of Derived Class Objects, Public and Protected and Private Keywords, Multiple Inheritance, Virtual Methods and Polymorphism and Abstract Classes.
• Templates: Class and Function Templates, Templates for Derived Classes and Templates for Recursive Classes.
• Input and Output: the “iostream” class, overloading of the Stream Operators, Setting Format Options and using I/O Manipulators, File Classes and Binary Input and Output.
3. Elements of XML Processing with C++ such as:
• XML Constructs and Concepts: Basic Constructs, DTDs and Namespaces.
• Event Driven Processing: the Event Driven Model, expat, and other C/C++ Toolkits.
• SAX C++: SAX 1.0 and 2.0 as well as SAX C++ Structure.
• DOM Level 2.0: DOM Basics and Nature, XML Editors and Core Interfaces, C++ SAX versus C++ DOM, Memory Management in C++ SAX and Memory Management in C++ DOM.
4. Using XML Related Standards with C++ such as:
• XML Schema: the Language and C++ Tools for XML Schema
• XPath and XPointer in C++ and C++ Manipulation of XPath and XPointer
• XSLT Transformations in C++
• Toolkit Features and Implementation Frameworks: Xerces and Xalan.
5. Integrating C++ Modules such as:
• Creating XML-Based Extension Languages for C++ Programs
• Distributed C++ XML Applications: SOAP and XML-RPC
• XML and Databases with C++: ODBC and DAO.

Mathematics:
Integral and Differential Calculus-Analysis. Linear Algebra. Advanced Calculus. Differential Equations. Real Variables. Abstract Algebra. Calculus of Variations. Stabilization and Optimal Control Theory. Mathematical Logic. Measure Theory. Complex Variables. Differential Geometry. Probability and Statistics. Linear Programming. Laplace Transforms and other transforms. Functional Analysis.

Physics: Mechanics. General Relativity. Thermal Physics. Classical Mechanics. Experimental Physics. Electricity and Magnetism. Quantum Mechanics. Theoretical Mechanics.

Premii

AWARDS AND RESULTS:
1991 - 1995 Ranked in the top 5% of students at UBC Sciences.
June 1990 Chancellor’s, Canada’s and other scholarships at UBC.
1988 - 1990 Various Grand Prizes and top scores at Mathematics Contests and Conferences.