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.
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.
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.
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
