Claudiu COSTIN
Overview
Address: 2 Fainari Street, Bucharest, Contact: +40-(0)744-440987
Romania +40-(0)21-6105510
claudiuc@kde.org
Area of UNIX/AIX/Linux System Date of March 17, 1973
Expertise: Administration Birth:
Web Programmer
Team Coordinator
Electronical Engineer
Objective / Summary
I work over a large range of positions, from system administrator and web
programmer to project teamleader. I work eficiently under AIX, Linux and
Windows, where I have a very good experience both with programming and
administration at international level, managing and working on well known
open-source projects.
For more than five years, all my work and my energy has been directed to
increase the work's quality for me as for all the people who I managed or
worked with.
Experience
Orange Romania [03/2002 - present] - system support engineer
- administrate IBM RS/6000 SP and p660/650 server nodes with AIX 4.3.3 and
AIX 5.1/5.2L
- administrate IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.x for UNIX, Windows and Linux
clients on a variety of hardware: IBM 3583 SAN Tape Library and IBM 3570
models
- administrate Intel-based Linux (Debian and SuSE) and Windows 2000
servers on IBM x445 and HP Vectra hardware: Samba, FTP, MySQL, Apache
- restructured all backup and archiving scripts providing high level
support and reliability for operational tasks
- support for Oracle databases both for financial Oracle Applications and
data warehouse jobs
- involved in many local IT projects and upgrades
- helping not only on administration tasks but even on software
development projects leveraging my long experience with open-source
projects and technologies: CVS, AIX's GNU/Linux support software and
automation
- centralized logging, documentation, statistics collection and monitoring
- networking development with longwave/shortwave fiber and copper gigabit
ethernet cards, and switches, and WDM technology
- maintain and operate fibber channel interconnect, SAN, EMC Symmetrix
Symcli and Time Finder, Brocade FC Switches
- worked on complex Oracle Applications migration project
- worked on Lotus Notes for AIX project
Matrix Communications - Business Media Group [04/2001 - 03/2002] - project
manager, network administrator and web programmer
- building from the ground programming team and programming culture using
open source technologies and Linux
- heavy contribution to programming structure, applications, support
technologies and other programmers applications. The results were Bumerang
http://www.bumerang.ro and Eva http://www.eva.ro successfull launching,
using hybrid dynamic-static content generation with PHP, WML and MySQL
- programming, configuring and installing Freemail Bumerang services
http://mail.bumerang.ro both web interface and low-level services (virtual
POP3, SMTP server etc.)
- programming, coordination and installation for intranet web sites:
documentation, sites and applications content management, Web CVS
interface etc.
- administrate the BMG's 2 networks and computers (running Windows, MacOS
and Linux), the 4 Linux main servers which host a range of internal and
external services: web, mass virtual webhosting, FTP, mail, virtual POP3,
mailing lists, IRC, CVS, proxy, anonimizer, rsync
- implemented advanced security solutions, logging, integrity checking and
atack monitoring
- checked, wrote documentation and instructed programmers for using robust
and secure web programming technics against cyber atacks and
hardware/software failures
- permanent technical consultant for "Bumerang" magazine and I wrote
articles for BMG web sites
Dumars [3/1993 - 9/1999] - electronical engineer, programmer
- building and maintaining electronic gambling machines (20 builded and 40
maintained). I had electronic devices, TVs and, videos on maintenance.
- made and maintained 4 PC computers, Internet connection, company web
site
- filled company design needs for advertising (papers, flyers etc.)
- one of remarcable things: semiautomatic control system for pool tables
totally made by me (program, PC computer and power light controler) and
which is running flawlessly up to the present.
Brod Center [11/1998 - 6/2000] - IT manager, web programmer
- my duty was continuous uptime for Novel Netware network with 6-7 PCs,
from which 3-4 have been used as Windows 9x network with 2 shared
printers.
- responsabilities: network maintenance, automatic backup implementation
and fixing any software-hardware failure (almost all the software was
French-based.)
C&C Computers [10/1998 - 6/1999] - IT reponsible
- my duty was to keep up and running the internet cafe of 6 PC computers
network with Windows 98, from which, one had Internet dial-up connection.
- responsabilities: Windows installation, configuration and "cleaning",
games, network.
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Software [1992 - present] - project chief, system administrator,
programmer
1999-present - KDE (http://www.kde.org) Romanian translation team
coordinator. I've made KDE 3.x, 2.x and 1.1.2 GUI's and documentation
Romanian translation (more than 50000 translated messages). Some
contributions on the KDE source code itself.
2000-present - system administrator and webmaster for KDE
internationalization (i18n.kde.org) website and server; contributions for
almost all programs of KDE documentation system.
1999-present - Linux-KDE Romania webmaster (http://www.ro.kde.org).
2001-2004 - Linux-IrDA (irda.sourceforge.net) webmaster and contributor.
2002-2004 - Quax (www.ro.kde.org/quax/) - very nice and handy desktop
magnification tool which received a review in the Japanese
"Linux-Magazine" magazine from July 2003.
2003-2004 - SMCINIT (irda.sf.net/smcinit/) - utility for initializing IrDA
controler on the Toshiba laptops.
2002-2004 - MyDJBDNS (www.ro.kde.org/djbdns/) - my own contributions to
the Dan Berstein's djbDNS system: slides, patches and utilities
2000-present KcmPureFTPd (http://www.ro.kde.org/kcmpureftpd/) - graphical
configuration interface for pure-ftpd FTP server
2000-2003 KZoom (http://www.ro.kde.org/kzoom/) - desktop magnifier for
KDE;
2000-present Other contributions: qmail - utilities; Easy Ezmlm -
utilities for mailing list manager; KBabel
(http://i18n.kde.org/tools/kbabel) patches and I wrote in english many
parts from user's handbook
1999-2004 - Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory webmaster and
system administrator from "Politehnica" University Bucharest.
Hardware [1990 - present] - electronical engineer
1990-1999 - any complexity service for TV, video, audio (hundreds of
repaired devices); hardware-software PC automation for accounting systems
with electronic ID keys, EEPROM memories, pool tables control sistem,
infrared command etc.
1994-2000 - hardware-software service for PCs (hundreds), PCs assembling,
consulting, network installation and Internet.
Other [2000 - present]
2003-2004 - 2 published articles and 1 review in "Linux Magazin" magazine
about Linux and KDE: 11/2003 "Traducerea aplicatiilor 1", 12/2003
"Traducerea aplicatiilor 2", 03/2004 "Desktopmania"
2000 - 4 published articles in "Chip" magazine about Linux and KDE:
5/2000, 6/2000, 7/2000, 8/2000.
Studies
2000 - present - I work on Ph.D at Electronic and Telecommunications
Faculty, inside Departament of Telecommunications, with "Infrared
accesible LANs" theme.
1999 - 2004 - I was Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory assistent
and I worked as final-year project coordinator. I managed 4 generations of
students (with a total of 7 students) for their projects regarding IrDA
technology.
1999 - I presented my graduation project "Infrared Communications and
LANs" and I obtained 10 ("A" equivalent). With same work, I won second
prize to Scientific Communication Session from March 1999.
1991-1999 - Electronics and Telecommunication Faculty from "Politehnica"
University of Bucharest. Licence exam qualifycation was 9.50 ("A minus"
equivalent) and I've obtained Electronics Telecommunication Engineer
degree.
1987-1991 - High School no. 13, "Posta si Telecomunicatii" Bucharest. I've
graduated with 8.64 and I've obtained Telecommunication Electronist
degree.
Skills
IBM AIX and enterprise technologies
Unix:
- AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.1 and AIX5.2L on a variety of IBM gear: RS6000/SP,
7024-H70, p650-6M2; NIM, HACMP (little), NFS, SNMP, NTP.
- operational tasks formalization, disaster recovery planning
Oracle: (from system administrator point-of-view)
- Oracle 9i/8.1.7 installation, patching and configuration
- Oracle Applications cloning, operating, troubleshotting
- many DBA-related activities known
- SQL knowledge
Other technologies: - Lotus Notes on AIX; Tivoli Data Protection for
Domino
- SAN over Brocade switches, EMC Symmetrix class storages and IBM FaSTt
400. EMC Symcli and Time Finder operating, SSA arrays, ADSM and Tivoli
Storage Manager administration over IBM 3570 SCSI-attached and IBM 3583
SAN-attached.
Other UNIXes:
- 6 months work experience with OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.1 on x86 hardware
- 2 months desktop work experience with Solaris 8 on Sparc and Solaris 10
on x86
Linux (Debian, SuSE, RedHat, and others)
programming:
- PHP4 + MySQL web applications, sofisticated distributed application
systems made with Perl + PHP + shell scripting, advanced HTML 3.2-4.x +
CSS and experience with browsers bugs and particularities, basic
Javascript
- C on Linux, C++ using Qt and KDE libraries, Tcl/Tk scripting, advanced
Bash scripting, system utilities (sed, awk, grep, find etc.)
- GNU tools for applications development (autoconf, automake)
- experience to build applications from concept, documentation, graphics
to packaging, launching and lifecycle maintainance. Good experience on
teamwork concurent versioning systems like CVS
- international work experience on many open-source projects: solution
findings, conflict resolution etc.
system administration:
- advanced TCP/IP knowledge, Linux 2.x - 2.4.x routing, NAT, HTTP, DNS,
SMTP, POP3, IMAP protocols
- Apache + mod_rewrite + SSL configuration/administration, mass virtual
webhosting
- qMail, mass virtual POP mail, sendmail, ezmlm mailing lists
- djbdns, BIND, MySQL, CVS servers, custom IRC server and services, rsync,
mrtg and rrd+nrg custom generated statistics. - security: file system
integrity with Tripwire, Nmap, Snort, chroot()-ing services, firewall,
tight access policy.
- custom Perl/Bash medium sized utilities for network maintainance. -
administrate/configure Windows SMB sharing services, Apple NetAtalk, Linux
NFS, LPD, SMB and PAPD printing systems.
graphic/design applications:
Gimp (Photoshop clone) and Gimp-Perl scripting programming, PovRay
(raytracing) - almost all graphics used on my sites have been
made/processed using Gimp and/or PovRay.
office/documenting applications:
OpenOffice (MS Office clone), Lyx/Klyx, DocBook, XML, LaTeX and other
Windows 2000/XP/9x / DOS (quite old for now...)
software:
- knowledge of Windows 2000/XP subsystems, operating, registry
manipulation, networking, MS Office, OpenOffice, Corel Draw, Adobe
Photoshop etc.
programming: (1994 - 2000)
- Borland C (hardware automation programming), Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk (graphical
applications), Visual FoxPro (real estate application), Borland Pascal
(tens of medium sized programs), Visual Basic knowledge (few applications)
and Borland Delphi (few hardware automation applications)
MacIntosh
I have knowledge of Apple2 and MacIntosh G3/G4 operating and
configuration, especially in networking and AppleTalk protocols.
Known Languages
English: write - good, read -good, spoke - medium
French: write - medium, read - good, spoke - medium
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