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Birth:       Sibiu 

Location:  Bucharest, Romania

 

 

Available: Immediately

 

Summary

More than 4 years experience in the IT Industry, my strengths include Visual Basic data import/export applications (connections to SQL Server, Ms Access, Microsoft Outlook and Fox Pro databases) and Visual Basic ActiveX DLLs and COMs. ASP.NET 1.0 pages with connections to Access 2000 pages and VB as scripting language. ASP pages mainly VBScript (ADO, RDO and DAO connections to SQL Server databases), Dynamic HTML pages with client and server side JavaScript programming and PHP pages with connections to MySQL databases. Experience with e-commerce standards (EDIFACT, DISA X-12) and Rosetta Net specifications (mostly Rational Rose models). Knowledge of Docent Learning Management System with Oracle 8.1.7 repository (http://www.docent.com/).


I am an authorized freelancer for 3 years. Funding member of the Romanian Association for Telework and Teleactivities www.teleorg.org .

 

Technical Skills

Operating System:                 Windows 2000server, Windows 98, Windows 95, MS DOS 6.22, Linux

Development Tools:               Visual Basic .NET, 5.0 & 6.0, Docent Learning Management Server

Internet:                                 ASP.NET 1.0, ASP 2.0, HTML 4.0, VBScript 5.0, JavaScript 1.3, IIS 5 Administration & Maintenance

RDBMS:                                   SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 7, MS-Access 97 & 2000, Fox Pro 2.6, Paradox 7, Oracle 8.1.7

Version Control:                     CVS
Bug tracking tools:                 Bugzilla, Bugzirra

Languages:                             C, C++ (Windows & Linux), SQL, BASIC, Prolog, Progol, Lisp, Quanvert, Turbo Pascal

Methodologies:                       OOA & D and 3+ tier Architecture

Packages:                               MS Office 97 & 2000

Tools:                                      Rational Rose, Quantum-Quanvert, SPSS, GPSS (economic process modelling)

Design tools:                           Adobe Photoshop 5, Image Ready 2, ULEAD Gif Animator

                                                                       

                                                                       

Professional Experience

1.   The IVth National Congress of Psychiatry and Neurology for Children and Adolescents with International Participation’ website, Medevent SRL Bucharest, RO (Dec 2002 to May 2003) http://www.medevent.ro/npi/ - Freelance Contractor, Web Developer –

Environment: HTML, Javascript, PHP,  MySQL

My Role: Develop the site of this congress where people can register their participation online, can book hotel rooms and find other useful information about this medical congress. A designer I team up with for this type of projects developed the Flash part.

 

2. Romanian Angel Appeal Foundation (UK funders), Bucharest, RO (Sep 2002 to present) – Independent Contractor, Web Developer and Programmer –

Environment: Docent LCMS, Oracle, Visual Basic for Applications, Access, HTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, ASP.NET, ASP

My Role: I am working on a CME (Continuing Medical Education) courses site developing the HTML and Javascript code. Link: www.emconline.ro  My duties also included the conversion of some PHP pages in DHTML pages (using JavaScript client and server side programming) and the management of the e-learning management system. Implementation of the Docent e-learning management system with an Oracle database. Visual Basic for Applications programming in Microsoft Outlook 2000 to export mail items content into a customized Microsoft Access 2000 database (ADO connection).

Developed ASP.NET pages and designed Access database for the www.seypa.net site. The site includes many database driven pages and also a discussion forum.  All dynamic ASP.NET are placed under a protected restricted area.  The users are 5 countries that participate to a study about the social exclusion of children affected by AIDS. All documents are submitted and viewed online by different user types with different access/view rights.

Built the system hosted at www.workangel.com that is an online workshop where people submit information about different companies and their services or upload design templates for the other members to see.

Programmed some dynamic ASP pages and also the electronic forum for children as part of the site www.forumtineri.net. This forum is divided in two sub-forums based on the child’s condition: children infected with HIV/AIDS and non-HIV children. A member of one sub-forum is not aware of the other forum. I also developed its administration part. (Technology: ASP with DSN less Access connection).

 

3.   Artgastro.com SRL, Bucharest, Romania                                   (Jan 2001 to present)

– Authorized Independent Contractor: Project Manager, Developer –

Environment: HTML, JavaScript, ASP, VBScript, ADO, IIS Administration, SQL Server 2000 Design, Implementation and Administration, Windows 2000 server

 

I am working on two sites.

www.artgastro.com  - a site promoting the French cuisine in Eastern Europe. The site is being developed in English, French and Romanian. It contains information for professionals in the food industry, or basic information for amateurs. It currently has more than 1500 html pages/language and over 1200 images. The technology used is mainly HTML & Javascript and a few ASP pages.

www.jobresthotel.com - a job site for people involved in the tourist trade.  The technology here is entirely ASP combined with an ADO connection to SQL Server 2000 database.

 

 

My Role:

Project: www.artgastro.com

-          Maintain the relationship with the client and ensure that all requests are met.

-          Manage data input.

-          Manage all the site translators and testers.

-          Manage the design and development of the site.

-          I am one of the two developers of this site. I made all the patterns for the site and the functional structure. I am doing most HTML 4.0 pages using JavaScript and I also do minor image corrections with Adobe products or Ulead Gif Animator.

-          Administrate the site (updates, remote settings); keep in contact with the US host of the site and the US domain provider.

Project:www.jobresthotel.com

-          Maintain the relationship with client and ensure that all ideas are well implemented and requests are met.

-          Administrate the site (updates, remote settings, database update and administration); keep in contact with the US host and US domain provider of the site.

-          Design the SQL Server 2000 database (tables, stored procedures, user administration), coding all ASP pages.

-          The site is also in three languages, but selected at runtime using ADO connections to the SQL Server database and COM objects.

 

 

4.   Edifecs Commerce (www.edifecs.com), Seattle, USA       (Apr 2000 to Dec 2000)

– Independent contractor developer and Manager of all Romanian Independent Contractors –

Environment:  Visual Basic 6, ADO, DAO, Rational Rose, MS Access, SQL Server 7, EDIFACT format files and X12 format files, UML theory, Windows 2000 Server, Rosetta NET specifications (http://www.rosettanet.org)

 

I developed some e-commerce Visual Basic applications (Process Builder UI & DB were solved in a timely manner)

My Role:

Project: EDIFACT2DB – VB developer

-          I had to import all EDIFACT directory files into a SQL Server database. The input files were preformatted text files. Unfortunately EDIFACT changed the format between different releases. My program had to import everything correctly. The user should only enter the path of the files (sometimes the location of the SQL Server) and the program did all the rest. Development tool: Visual Basic 6 with ADO connection

-          Administrate Romanian office’s e-commerce standards database.

-          Fix bugs and CVS code update

Project: Project Builder + MDL2DB - VB developer, database designer + VBA developer

-          Design and write code for the MS Access 2000 database containing Rosetta Net specifications

-          Import Rosetta Net e-commerce specifications into the MS Access 2000 database using DAO and Visual Basic 6. The input files were UML models developed by Rosetta Net using the Rational Rose tools.

-          Fix bugs and CVS code update

Project: Manager of all Romanian independent contractors

-          Provide support to the other colleagues who imported other standards. Therefore I also have knowledge of DISA-X12 standards and other e-commerce standards.

 

 

5.   Mercury Marketing and Research Consultants, Romania       (Aug 1999  - Apr 2000)

– Data Analyst & Developer –

Environment: MS Access, VBA, Quantum-Quanvert, SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences)

 

Mercury is a market research company. In this role I was a database designer, forms developer and also because of my mathematics knowledge a data analyst using specific tools. When I started this job I had to learn two programming languages: SPSS and Quantum-Quanvert.

 

My Role:

-          Develop MS Access 97 databases (design tables, implement forms, macros and modules, create reports)

-          I also had to coordinate the input of the questionnaires into the database that I created.

-          Export the data from the Access database into a specific text format file used as input by Quanvert (I used VBA in Access modules).

-          Develop/write the Quanvert syntax (similar to C++ programming).

 

 

EDUCATION

 

In June 2001 I graduated the computer science section of the Faculty of Mathematics – Bucharest University, Romania

 

In 2002 I will be taking the degree exams.

I am a Brainbench certificate holder in:

-          Programmer/Analyst Aptitude (28th September 2000)

-          Visual Basic 5.0 (26th December 2000)

-          Visual Basic 6.0 (26th December 2000)

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