Software Engineering, Project Managing

Master of Science (Complex I.T. Systems), Automatic Control and Computer Science, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (2005, 1 year)
Bachelor's Degree (Automatic Control Engineer), Automatic Control and Computer Science, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (2004, 5 years)
Project Management The Open University, Codecs (2007, 7 months)
Miscellaneous

• Fundamentals of Management (2007, 4 days), Performance Management (2007, 2 days)
• Oracle University courses (SQL Tuning, DBA and others)

Engineering Manager - Dreamweaver Team, Adobe   September 2007 - present

• Direct the activities of software development and software quality assurance functions
• Lead development team, plan and manage its workload by assigning work, monitoring and resolving problems
• Provide direction and direct supervision to employees
• Interact with functional peer groups and/or other teams
• Transform requirements into architectural and feature specs
• Create development plans and schedules
• Act as advisor to team and become actively involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems
• Provide team and feature status to management

Software Engineering Team Leader - License Management Services, Oracle   December 2006 - September 2007

• Establish development process standards with the team
• Translate business requirements into specifications and set objectives with each engineer
• Task planning & allocation, monitor progress
• Design, code and interface reviews with focus on quality, performance, usability
• Get involved in various phases of development for all projects as needed
• Mentoring
• Team members performance evaluation, operational reporting, managing technical interaction with other LOB's, recruiting

Software Engineer - License Management Services, Oracle   May 2005 - December 2006

• Enhance existing internal software applications and develop new ones to support activity of LMS field consultants, with variations depending on geographical region
• Automate and lower the time to accomplish different tasks (personal reports, data analysis, others)
• Document and provide training for applications and processes developed both by me and others
• Coordinate multinational teams for various projects
• Work usually with high level specifications (e.g. problem description, what would be nice to have, please find a way to solve this)
• Technologies used: PL/SQL, data modeling, Application Express (APEX), PHP, Java, shell scripting, Subversion, others
• Global team environment

Lead Developer, Web Development Group   August 2000 - February 2005

• Lead developer for the complete web solution used by staff and more than 13,000 members of The National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
• Designed & implemented new features and improved existing solutions introducing modularity, code reuse and unit tests
• Migrated data from legacy system to the new web solution
• Improved the development process, introducing CVS, coding standards, API documentation, release process
• Implemented HIPAA security requirements for servers and in-house developed applications
• Attended Board of Director's meeting at National Register HQ (November 2001, Washington D.C.)

Manager, Galuna   November 2002 - May 2005

• Implemented multiple Linux-based solutions (servers, desktops) and developed web applications (eCommerce with on-line credit card payment, CRM, others)
• Integration of various systems using web front-ends with single sign on
• Automate and document the process of installing new servers and desktops, with minimal setup time on customer's site. Focus on adding new features working reliably out-of-the-box, with web front-ends for further customizations / maintenance tasks done by customer

Developer, NetGroup Communications   June 1998 - October 1998

• Developed parts of the ERP used by a local textile factory (FoxPro)

• Defining and improving processes based on auditing current activity
• Coordinate work to meet targets and deadlines
• Persuasive communication in order to deliver timely results
• Highly motivated, results-oriented and skilled software engineer experienced in design, implementation and long term maintenance of web applications with high usability
• Writing clean and readable code, with focus on modularity, extensibility and security; in-line comments for generating API documentation, unit testing
• Using Open Source applications where possible, adapting for customer needs. This provides lower time of development and more features than classic one-team closed-source projects
• Linux servers administration and solutions (software deployment and maintenance; web, email, database, file servers; implemented web administration interface for end-users)
• Technologies: SQL, PL/SQL, database modeling (ER, PDM), XML; PHP, Java, Python, C, APEX; AJAX, web services; CSS, XHTML, XSLT, XSL:FO, XUL, GTK+; Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL; Apache; GNU/Linux
• Some of the tools used: Eclipse, JDeveloper, Subversion, CVS, Bugzilla
• Brainbench master certifications (Linux Administration - General and Red Hat, Linux Programming, Apache Administration, PHP4). Transcript #268646

• EMEA Spotlight Award (September 2006), License Management Services, Oracle
• Attended National Computer Science Olympiad (1998, 1999)
• Attended National Symposium "Computer in School" Arad 1998 and Scientific Communications Session of National Department of Defense Sibiu 1998 with a library management application

• Linux enthusiast. Presentations at Linux Open Alternative Days conference, other conferences. Articles in on-line and printed magazines. Romanian GNOME translation team coordinator (2001 - 2003). Contributing to Fedora Linux
• Dancing, music (usually new age, soft rock), biking
• Theatre, literature, philosophy
• Astronomy, space exploration, physics, science in general