TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE  

n     More than 13 years experience in Information Technology, 5 years in Investment Banking and Stock Exchange IT, in analysis, design, development, testing, implementation

Strong experience in test management, methodologies, procedures, planning and automation

•   Team leading and Project management experience, based on a solid software development background.

•    Strong investment banking experience, good knowledge of Bank, Stock Exchange products.

•      Experience in each stage of IT project life cycle. Knowledge of engineering methods (V-Model, RUP).

•     Experience with project management tools: MS Project, Change and Source Code Management tool

  • Relational database experience Sybase, Oracle; development experience with Oracle PL-SQL.

  •      Object-oriented design, development experience; Web technologies experience (XML, XSL, HTML)

•      Very good analytical and problem solving skills.

•      Strong experience in preparing, holding presentations, trainings and writing technical documentation.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills at all levels, experience in working with and leading multi-cultural teams, in international companies in Japan, Germany and Switzerland.

1975 - 1980             Polytechnic University                       Bucharest, Romania

Diplomat Engineer in Electronics and Telecommunications - Faculty of Electronics & Telecommunication

• 1990                   Hospital Information Systems. Frankfurt, Germany 

• 1991                   Health-care Information Systems. Health Ministry, Paris.

• Jul.1994              Teknekron TIB - API' training, Tokyo

• Jan 2001              Network and Operating System Windows 2000 – “Global Knowledge” Zurich

• May 2001            Implementing W2k Professional & Server – “Global Knowledge” Zurich

• May 2001            Implementing a network infrastructure, Directory Service– “Global Knowledge” Zurich

• Jun. 2001            ISEB Certified Testing Foundation Course – London, UK

• Sep 2001             Bank und Exchange Course – Zurich, Switzerland

• Jul 2002              ISEB-Practitioner Testing Management – London, UK

• Jun 2003             ISEB Practitioner Testing Practitioner – London, UK

• Sep 2003                Conflict Management Course – IAP Zurich, Switzerland

02.2005 - now              Credit-Suisse                                     Zurich, Switzerland 

Ressort Test Manager – Core IT Products

10.2004 – 02.2005              AFORA International                                     Zurich, Switzerland 

Manager Product Development

Planning, design, development of an original Bridge software for Configuration Management on Tandem platforms, that allows the correct transfer of ASCII files between the Guardian and OSS; preparing and holding CVS training and workshops for Tuft Insurance, Boston, USA and for Surrey Satellite Technologies Ltd –SSTL, UK. 

000 - 2003                       SWX Swiss Exchange                                                                    Zurich, Switzerland

Senior Test Specialist – Test Automation, IT Support department

•  Analyzed requirements, wrote functional specs, designed, developed automated Regression Tests and Sanity Check Test for the “Trading System” and the “Market Supervision” products. Executed tests, analyzed results, reported and tracked faults. Trained users; wrote user manuals.

•  Identified processes for the Test Automation, according to the V-model of software lifecycle. Defined the Strategy, Policy and Standards of Test Automation. Worked at the Road Map of Test Automation.

•  Introduced metrics for evaluating the efficiency of Test Automation. Forecasted the ROI – Return on Investment, when replacing manual with automated tests.

•  Created the "2002 Report", summarizing the savings made after one year of using test automation in System Tests.

•  Made several presentations on Test Automation and WinRunner, for potential internal clients.

Technologies: MS Project, Clearcase (Source Control), PCMS (Change Management); PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Word; WinRunner TSL; StingRay, Java Add-Ins (Mercury Interactive); Windows NT, W2k, XP, UNIX.

1999 - 2000                       Credit Suisse First Boston                                                      Zurich, Switzerland

Computer Scientist – IT department

•  Responsible with XML implementation for Front Office applications. Established guidelines for using XML as common standard for data transfer, for Front Office programs.

•  Analyzed Trading System requirements; designed, developed several parsers for processing XML files.

Technologies used: DOM library, XML, XSL, HTML, C, C++, Perl, Clearcase, UNIX Sun

June 99 - Aug 99          Cambridge Technology Partners                                      Frankfurt, Germany

Database designer – Call Center EnBW

• Defined requirements for generating a new Database, for a Call Center, in collaboration with the Vantive and GUI teams. 

• Worked on database design. Developed PL-SQL programs to migrate date from several databases into the new Call Center database.. 

• Planned and executed data migration. 

Technologies used: C, Oracle SQL, PL-SQL, Toad.

1996 - 1998                    Siemens Dematic Post Automation                                   Konstanz, Germany

Software Consultant – IT Group

• Analyzed, designed, developed country specific packages for the Address Data Management product (ADM). Responsible with ADM for country projects (Slovakia, South Africa and Austria).

•  Analyzed, defined functional needs, wrote technical specification to introduce 12 digits Postal Delivery Code, for New Zealand project. 

• Designed and developed the data migration application. 

• Wrote User Documentation. 

Technologies used: Oracle V 7.3, Oracle PL-SQL V2.1, UNIX, RCS, awk, emacs

Software Consultant – Pattern recognition Group

•  Analyzed functionality, defined new algorithms for pattern recognition in mail-piece processing; implemented the new algorithms, tested; obtained avg. 10% improvement in recognition rate.

•  Tuning, for China project, to achieve higher read rate, lower error rate. 

•  Designed, developed new modules for 'Address Block Location' library, for recognition of special patterns in the mailpiece.

Technologies used: UNIX, C, Codemanager, SCCS, vi, emacs, Purify, dbx, Latex, image processing tools.

1994 - 1995                         Merrill Lynch Investment Bank                                                                 Tokyo Japan

Software Consultant - Quantitative Equity Trading Group

• Data analysis, data modeling for warrants pricing. Designed, developed programs to model: stock volatility, based on Black-Scholes model; warrants behavior, based on Whaley model; the stocks’ tracking error compared to the Nikkei225 index.

•  Designed, developed, installed in production-crontab job- a  “Stocks' Volatility Daily Forecast” program.

•  Developed various Teknekron client applications to extract real-time financial data;

•  Developed Sybase client applications;

•  Examined the performance of several market-data providers: Bloomberg, Reuters, Bridge, to support the acquisition decision.

Technologies used: 'Numerical Recipes for C', C/UNIX, Open Client DB-Library C, Sybase.

Software Consultant - Portfolio Management Group

• Analyzed the business process, wrote functional specs, designed, developed, tested and installed in production several large applications: `Volume Report' for the Portfolio Analytics System, "Stock bid/ask approximation", “Start-of-the-day”, `End of the Day' sub-system of the "Portfolio Management System".

• Performed functional analysis, collaborated with traders in defining needs, wrote technical specs for a Market data User Interface. Implemented it using MarketSheet from Teknekron.

Technologies used: C/UNIX, Open Client DB-Library C, TIB API (Teknokron).

1991 - 1994                         Graphica computer corporation                                                           Tokyo Japan

Project Leader - Special Software Development Division

• Lead a team of 3 engineers in the design, development, implementation of large image processing, computer graphics projects. Performed functional analysis, wrote specs for image processing projects.

• Defined new algorithms for  `loop vector' editing, in scanned maps. Object Oriented conception and software architecture definition for “Land map correction ESY2”, based on the new algorithms, as well as design and development work for the project.

•  Project leading and development work for “Multi-functional Driver” for Mitsubishi Color Printer, for Sun. Project co-ordination for the versions for Silicon Graphics Iris, HP Apollo and NEC stations. 

•  Performed functional analysis, defined technical specs for 3D CAD for mechanics and machinery design; team-leading, design, development of Graphi-CAD product (SUN Solaris). Coordinated and developed the Macintosh Graphi-CAD product.

•  Team-leading, development for a Macintosh-based `Digital Video Mixer’ DVM, that controls the transfer of analog or digital, NTSC or HDTV images between a Frame Memory and a range of video devices. DVM was bought by Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Sony. Developed the DVM ver.2.0, with HyperCard.

 Wrote the technical documentation for all the products developed.

Technologies used: UNIX, C, OSF/Motif, Pascal, FORTRAN, MacOS-System7, MPW-C, and GLSP Graphical Library. SUN Sparc, HP Apollo, Sumitomo, Macintosh Quadra.

1990 - 1991                          Ministry of health                                                                             Bucharest, Romania

Head of Informatics Department

•  Lead a team of 3 engineers and 10 data-entry people in implementing and executing computerized professional examinations. 

• Analysis of medical data, database design and development work. 

• Tutored for WordPerfect, Lotus1-2-3, and general DOS.

1983 - 1990                        FUndeni clinical hospital                                                               Bucharest, Romania

Head of Informatics Department

•   Project management and development of medical informatics projects. Managed a group of 5 data-entry operators and one statistician in creating and maintaining patient files databases. 

• Coordinated, designed, developed applications for medical research: `Hypocrate' - interactive package for medical trials (T-Student test, Chi-square, correlations); `Fuzzy-dia': computer-assisted medical diagnosis tool, based on fuzzy logic.

1980 - 1983                     INCREST REsearch institute                                                                 Bucharest, Romania

R&D Engineer – Thermovision Laboratory

•   Infrared image processing in research for alternative energy sources.

English and French fluent; German good; Romanian mother tongue, Japanese limited.

·         "On Fuzzy Filters for Pattern Recognition", Proceedings of ICARCV, 1992 Singapore.

n     "Syntactic Handwritten Numeral Recognition by Multidimensional Grammars", Proceedings of  "12th SPIE Symposium on Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing XII", 15-16 April 1998, Orlando, Florida, USA

n     "Syntactic Numerical Recognition Using Programmed Attributed Grammars", Proceedings of  "The Fifth Joint Conference on Information Sciences", Feb.27-March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

n     "A Syntactic Approach for Numeral Recognition", Proceedings of "Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems ACIVS-2000", August 3-4, 2000, Baden-Baden, Germany

n     "Inference Process of Programmed Attributed Regular Grammars for Character Recognition", Proceedings of "13th International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2001", 21-26 January 2001, San Jose, California, USA

n     "An Example for Syntactic Character Recognition ", Proceedings of the "26th Annual Congress of the American Romanian Academy", 25-29 July 2001, Montreal, Canada

n     "On Syntactic Character Recognition Using Attributes", Proceedings of the "Fifth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies", 6-8 September 2001,Osaka, Japan

Available on request.