M 04.02.1977 married, with children

Driving License:  Cat.B, Since:01.07.2002

Military status: no

objective

Desired Salary: not available

Job Type: Full time

Department: IT Software, IT Hardware

City: Bucharest

Career Level: MID-LEVEL

Availability: anytime

work experience

SENIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR 04.11.2008 - 30.09.2009 

Company:Azali Trading SRL

Working city:Bucuresti

Salary:1500

Department:it hardware

Company activity field :Retail (No. employees: 100-250)
International company headquartered in Beirut – Lebanon.
Specialized in franchising a portofolio of over 45 brands that feature identifiable names like: Zara or Sunglass Hut.
In Romania it franchised Zara too, but now only Sunglass Hut and some smaller brands like Oviesse and Piazzza Italia.

Responsibilities:Responsibilities:
Project Management:
Planned and executed a migration from a RAC 10.2 to RAC 11.1 over CentOS.
Planning for migration from Sen ERP to a corporate choosen ERP/SCM solution of JDE for fasion retail.
Various small projects:
Planned and executing a attendance monitoring solution (php/oracle + VB/oracle).
Improving all reporting procedures and defining preocedures and guidelines for ocasional requests.
Planning the migration from curent local Windows Domain to a corporate integrated Domain and Exchange.
Planning for implementation of Configurations Manager 2007.
Planing a VoIP solution to reduce communications between shops and HQ.
Drafting a plan for archiving and disaster recovery.
Staff management (2 subordinates):
Participated in annual appraisal for IT Staff.
Recomended training tracks based on individual assesed levels and company's needs.

Recommendation:Marian Radu - country Manager - direct boss

SENIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR 02.05.2007 - 30.10.2008 

Company:GEALAN Romania

Working city:Bucuresti

Salary:1500

Department:it hardware

Company activity field :Manufacturing - (No. employees: 250-500)
International company headquartered in Oberkotzau - Germany.
First Romanian manufacturer of "intelligent window profile systems".
Distributor for Hautau and Selve (window fittings of the highest possible quality),
also for Guardian (one of the world's largest manufacturers of float glass and fabricated glass products).

Responsibilities:Responsibilities:
Project Management:
Planned and executed a migration from a restraining SBS 2003 environment to a regular Windows2003 server
environment - full AD and Exchange migration.
Negotiated, planned and implemented 2 new business apps: a webstore + new website, and a CRM solution.
Various small projects:
- Blackberry Enterprise, greylisting, online video monitoring for all warehouses, LENEL, GPS monitoring.
Administration and Strategic Planning:
- Annual budget of the IT Department, in line with company’s development strategy and cost policies.
- Established standards and policies for purchasing hardware and software.
- Maintain an up-to-date inventory of all the IT hardware and software.
- Report weekly status to the General Manager.
Managed the relation with service providers:
- Renegotiated comunication service plans and service level agreements, hardware support and service plans and,
performed monitoring on service level for all providers.
Technical Support:
Developed and implemented of AD security policies and established written guidelines for acces to IT resources.
Developed company’s disaster recovery plan, wireless LAN and wireless VoIP (Nokia/Cisco based)
Implemented a centralised VoIP for all regional warehouses. Performed monthly internal systems audit.

Recommendation:Aurel Vlaicu - General Director - my direct boss
Paul Diacu - Production Director - coleague.

Benefits:Car, medical insurance, mobile, laptop

ITMANAGER 01.05.2005 - 01.05.2007 

Company:AECTRA

Working city:Bucuresti

Salary:1500 Euro net

Department:it hardware

Company activity field :First Romanian supplier of chemical products for agriculture and industry.
Distributor for GE, DuPont, General Electric, Bayer, Bassell, Nylstar, Invista, Syngenta and Atateks products in Romania and Bulgaria.

Responsibilities:Head of the Information Technology and Telecomunications Depatment.

Administrative Duties
Report weekly status to the General Manager.

Management of Staff
Manage and allocate an annual staffing budget
Select, supervise, train and evaluate staff, including Programmers, SysAdmin, DBA.
Coordinate staff training and development programs to improve staff retention and group effectiveness.

Project Management
Represent Aectra in computing committees and conferences related to computers.
Supervise the team (accountants, financial controller and programmers)
which develops and implements company's own ERP which in turn is integrated with another custom solution developed by Siveco.
Facilitate weekly meeting. Direct and guide the team in setting priorities and accomplishing goals.
Act as liaison to other departments.

Technical Support:
Oversee and prioritize maintenance of hardware and software and work with outside vendors for service and repairs.
Manage annual upgrades of hardware and software; evaluate and recommend hardware and software purchases and configurations.
Help diagnose network problems and provide solutions under pressure and time constraints.
Control access to IT facilities and program utilities to secure and safeguard hardware and software.
Help manage the Oracle databases of Siveco's Cofinor software solution.
Help manage company's WAN based on Active Directory (W2KSvr as Primary & Back-up Domain Controler, W2KSvr as Terminal Services Server with 7 country wide spread offices as clients, W2KSvr Oracle database server, W2kSvr Application server for all ERP's modules), Linux (router, firewall, proxy and mail servers with antispam and antivirus solutions, SNMP with graphing support) a hardware full meshed VPN between all 7 locations along with a VoIP solution for internal comunications (each location has a local PABX with at least 4 outside lines (Tel, Fax, PremiCell, VoIP) and over 80 computers(workstations and portables - Windows,Linux and MacOS users).

Administration and Strategic Planning
Establish standards and policies for purchasing and configuring new hardware and software.
Maintain an up-to-date inventory of all the IT equipment and software.
Perform budget analysis for midyear adjustments and plan yearly budgets based on new projects and staffing requirements.
Establish project schedules and budget estimates for meeting these schedules.
Develop strategic plans for IT Division's long-term development.

Recommendation:Adrian Richiteanu - CFO

Achievements:Renegotiated the voice and data services and obtained a significant decrease of monthly bills (about 35% overall).

Benefits:Mobile office (notebook & phone), company car, medical insurance, and performance related bonuses.

IT MANAGER 01.01.2005 - 30.04.2005 

Company:Forest Trading ’93

Working city:Bucuresti

Department:it/technology

Company activity field :Wood (import & distribution) and furniture industry.

Responsibilities:Main responsibilities:
I administer Oracle databases for the integrated software solution Wizcount (accounting, supply and merchandise, online invoicing software etc.). Also, I provide maintenance for the local area network with 5 servers (one Linux box: router, firewall and VPN server, one Linux box: mail and proxy server, one Win2k box: Oracle server, one Win2k box Citrix and Wizcount server and one Win2k box: intranet -php, apache, mysql and asp- and antivirus server) and 25 Windows XP workstations for which I also provide helpdesk for all installed office applications (MS and Open complete with VBA or StarBasic code support) and for the Wizcount client which is set up on 75% of the workstations. I, too, maintain 15 VPN connections with company’s country wide dispersed sales
locations, and remote administering the VPN clients and local networks for each VPN client location. I’m also responsible for the Internet connection (routing, firewalling, mail), and for the software and hardware acquisition policy.

Other responsibilities:
Occasionally I provide for top management, excel or html formatted (asp & oracle or php &mysql) analytic reports. It is also my responsibility to maintain and develop a user oriented intranet application which generates customizable html reports extracted from the stock or accounting Oracle database and which from January 2005 is used to implement a discount ticket campaign (keeps track of all the rewarded tickets and of the returned ones).

IT MANAGER 01.09.2003 - 31.12.2004 

Company:TNS-CSOP

Working city:Bucuresti

Department:purchasing/logistics

Responsibilities:Main responsibilities:
I administered the TNS-CSOP’s Consumer Panel MS-SQL database and the SPSS database for the SNA department and generated reports from those databases. I installed and provided helpdesk for all clients, users of the Consumer Panel data analysis software for which I was preparing Interbase databases form MS SQL. I also administered the csop.ro domain based on Win2k Server boxes (Active Directory, Exchange, one domain controller box and one back-up domain controller box) and almost 40 WinXP, Win2kWS, Win98 and NT4 workstations. The Internet connection was my responsibility too, based on 2 Linux boxes one router and firewall the other proxy and web server.

Other responsibilities:
Web design and maintenance for www.csop.ro (HTML, and js technology).
Determining and providing solutions for any kind of software or hardware
acquisition and also remedy for any kind of hardware malfunction.

IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST 01.03.2003 - 31.08.2003 

Company:TNS-CSOP

Working city:Bucuresti

Department:mass media/journalism/graphics/dtp

Responsibilities:Main responsibilities:
Installing and helpdesk for InfoSYS TV, software used for planning and analyzing TV audience by clients (TV stations and Advertising agencies), and also daily maintaining and updating the databases for this software.

Other responsibilities:
Monthly updating the client dedicated extranet with average daily and monthly analysis for TV rating and monitoring and also monthly medium reports. Occasionally generating periodic (daily, weekly or monthly) reports for various clients. Determining and also providing remedy for any kind of hardware malfunction in the TV Media department.

PROGRAMMER & IT ADMINISTRATOR 01.11.2001 - 28.02.2003 

Company:Nic Sped

Working city:Bucuresti

Department:it/technology

Responsibilities:Main responsibilities:
Analyzing, designing, programming, implementing and maintaining SHELL, a software application for the HandEra 330 handheld based on PalOS operating system. This application is used even today to record the raw information on the activity of Shell Romania supply trucks, information concerning the type of merchandise shipped, shipment details and the destination and parameters of the merchandise.

Other responsibilities:
Installing, and maintaining the local area network consisting of 5 workstations with Win98SE and Office XP and SuSe8.0 † StarOffice using a SAMBA server and 2 programming boxes with Win98 SE, Visual Basic 6.0 and Appforge.

IT MAN ADMINISTRATOR 01.04.2001 - 31.10.2001 

Company:Terra Sat Comp.

Working city:Bucuresti

Department:it/technology

Responsibilities:Main responsibilities:
Maintaining the local area network of TerraSat Craiova. Installing software based routers (FreeBSD, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSe, Slackware)
on site for each new client for Internet connections over leased RomTelecom telephonic lines or over 2.4 GHz radio links. Designing, setting up and maintaining the metropolitan roaming radio network
used for transparent Internet access of Terrasat’s clients using radio links.

Other responsibilities:
Helpdesk for all clients using Terasat’s Internet connections (dedicated –radio, leased telephonic or CATV- and dial-up analogic or ISDN).

SERVICE ENGINEER 01.09.1999 - 31.03.2001 

Company:HELCO

Working city:Bucuresti

Department:it/technology

Responsibilities:Main responsibilities:
Determining and repairing of any kind of hardware problems to IT systems sold in Craiova and Oltenia region by UltraPro. Complete documenting of the defects determined and shipment of the parts that
where impossible to repair back to UltraPro’s central service.

Other responsibilities:
Assembly of custom tailored computers and installing operating systems (Linux or Windows) and drivers and all required software either provided by the client or bought together with the computer.

education

Studies:  

Mathemathics/ Bucuresti University/ 1995-1999

Courses, certificates & awards  

ITIL v3 Foundation - 2010 Certified.
ITIL v2 Service Manager - 2010 ongoing certification

abilities

Foreign Languages(Knowledge level):  

english (advanced)

french (medium)

PC Skills:  

Project management Knowledge
Solid Service Management Knowledge.
Solid programming knowledge of:
Visual Basic(VB, VBA, VBS), C, Pascal,
HTML, JavaScript, PHP
Good programming knowledge of:
StarBasic, C++,
Storage management - Partitioning, RAID, data recovery.
Operating systems on which I have solid knowledge:
Microsoft: DOS†Win3.1, Win9x Nt3.51,Nt4, W2KWS, W2KS, WinXPPro
Win 2003 Server.
Linux: RedHat, Slackware, SuSe, Mandrake.
BSD: OpenBSD, FreeBSD.
Set up and administer Linux servers with
firewall, cbq, apache, PHP, MySQL.
Set up and helpdesk for any kind of office suite (Windows & Linux) including scripting code support for custom functions or macros:
VBA(Excel, Access, etc) and SQL(MS-SQL, Access).
StarBasic for StarOffice and OpenOffice
Solid networking knowledge (TCP/IP, routing, firewalling, proxy, VPN)
Solid networking hardware knowledge both wired si wireless (switches managed and unmanaged, routers, NAS, modems: telephonic, CATV, broadband, wireless).
Solid PC hardware knowledge: assembly, determining and repairing of many kind of hardware problems.
Solid peripheral hardware knowledge: printers (matrix, jet, laser) scanners, etc.

mini interview

1. Which was your biggest professional achievement?

There are several projects I've been involved or I've managed, but the most important for me is the first project I've managed for SHELL Romania in 1999.

2. Which was your biggest setback?

As I see it, my most important professional mistake was to let somebody else take credit for my work !

3. Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?

In 5 years I'll be an ITIL certified expert working in Romania, in the same solid company with high professional standards, satisfied with my achievements on the job, as I'm today ;).

4. What's your biggest dream? Describe your ideal career

Latelly I discovered that my dream job had a name:
- Service Manager - constantly updated, active and challenged in the constantly evolving IT world.

5. What job do you consider to suit you best?

IT Infrastructure Manager or IT Service Manager

6. Describe your ideal company.

A solid, performance oriented company with high professional standards and investing in it's people !

7. Which is the department you would like to work in (you can make only one choice)? Explain why do you consider that you are right for the job and why you made that choice!

IT Infrastructure Management.

8. Give a detailed description of your personality (hobbies, hopes, the things that motivate you, your lifestyle and workstyle, etc ).

My aquarium is my hobby and I think it sais all about me: patience, care for details, real time reaction for time critical activities, quality expected for the whole chain.