General Info

• Date of birth - 16th of February 1979
• Place of birth - Turnu-Magurele, Teleorman, Romania
• Nationality - Romanian

Work Experience

• since Dec 2000 - programmer S.C. Spidernet S.R.L. Timisoara
  • help planning the development of a Linux based commercial firewall
  • implement the web administration interface and the database update procedure (PHP & MySQL)
• since 1999 - Network Administrator - University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara
  • install and maintain the main web/mail/dns server based on OpenBSD with qmail, bind, IMP Webmail, Apache, Samba
  • install and maintain a failover router/firewall based on Linux with iptables, keepalived, zebra (for bgp routing with 3 ISP's), postfix and amavis (for Antivirus Mail Proxy), cbq
  • install two proxy servers connected to Broadband Download only Satellite Dishes on EuropeOnline and Eutelsat (services currently out of service) based on squid.
  • installed 3 Linux gateways for the clinics connected to the university through gre tunnels
• since 2000 - freelance - installed Linux gateways with mailserver, webmail for several small companies and internet caffe's
• since June 2002 - freelance programmer for clients in US, Canada, UK

Studies

• "Politehnica" University of Timisoara
  • 1st year in Informatics
• University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara - Faculty of Dentistry
  • dentist diploma in 2003
• Cisco Network Academy Program
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate Course - finished
• High-school "Unirea", Turnu-Magurele
  • Baccalaureate with 9.33 in 1997

Certificates and Diplomas

• Dentist Diploma in 2003
• Brainbench Linux Administration, TCP/IP and Security Certificates in 2000
• Cambridge First Certificate in English in 1998
• Baccalaureate with 9.33 in 1997

Strong Fields

• Programming
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Perl
  • HTML
  • Shell Script
• Linux/Unix
  • TCP/IP
  • Firewalling
  • Routing (BGP, RIP, IGRP, OSPF)
  • Failover
  • Bridging
  • Load Balancing
  • Proxies
  • Apache with vhosts
  • Bind and Djbdns nameservers
  • Mysql database server
  • Qmail and Postfix with amavis
  • Horde IMP Webmail
  • VRRP - Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
  • RedHat administration
• Networking
  • Firewalling, ACL's
  • Routing (BGP, RIP, IGRP, OSPF) on Cisco Routers
  • Switching
  • Bridging
  • Structured Cabling