Resume
PERSONAL DATA
- Birth date: January 16th 1978
- Place of birth: Dragomiresti, Maramures, Romania
- Nationality: Romanian
- Marital Status: Married
EDUCATION
- 2007 – present: Researcher, Applied Mathematics Department, Loughborough University, UK
- 2005 – 2008: Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
- 2003 – 2005 : Post Universitary Studies in Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the West University of Timisoara, Department of Computer Science
- 2001 – 2003 : Masters (MSc) – Post universitary studies at the Physics Faculty at the West University of Timisoara, Theoretical and Computational Physics Department
- 1997 – 2001 : Physics Faculty, West University of Timisoara, specialized in Physics, in 2001 – License in Physics (BSc)
- 1993 – 1997 : Theoretical High-School of Mathematics and Physics, Viseu de Sus, Maramures, Romania
PROJECTS
- Order and Chaos in Physical Systems.- BSc Thesis
- Using computer in Physics. Visual Basic aplications – MSc Thesis in Physics
- Parallel Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations – MSc Thesis in Informatics
- Pattern Formation in Thin Films of Nanoparticle Suspensions – work to Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany and continued to Applied Math Department, Loughborough University, UK
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
- August 2006 – present, Technical Manager, SC Van Solutions SRL, Romania (http://www.vansolutions.ro)
- January 2002 – December 2004, Freelancer System Administrator and Web Developer
COMPUTER SKILLS SUMMARY
- Software Engineering Management: CVS, Subversion
- Software Development: Unix C Programming, Perl, Python, Fortran, Unix Shells Scripting, Visual Basic, Make
- System Administration: (Free|Net|Open)BSD, Redhat|Fedora|CentOS, OpenSUSE
- Network Administration: TCP/IP, Apache/SSL, VPN, BIND, Samba, (VS|Pure)FTPd, DHCP, NFS, NIS, Postfix|Sendmail, IP firewalls
- Networking Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss, Cacti, Munin, Monit
- Database Programming: MySQL, SQLite, Perl/DBI
- Technical Writing: DocBook, HTML, CSS, TeX/LaTeX
- Virtualization Solutions: OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, Vmware, XEN, KVM
- Hardware: Computer Assembling, Computer Service
- Mathematical Programs: Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, Octave, Scilab
- Others: MS-Office, Corel Draw, Photoshop, Macromedia Software
EXTRA ACTIVITIES
- From 16 November 2002, I am a member in Romanian Cactus Team (Cactus is an Open Source problem solving environment designed for scientists and engineers: www.cactuscode.org)
PARTICIPATIONS IN SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
- 10-12 December 2008, Self-Assembly and Self-Organisation at Surfaces and Interfaces Conference, Cambridge, UK
- 7-13 September 2008, POLYFILM: Confined Polymer Films Conference, Sheffield, UK
- 27 July – 9 August 2008, DynaSoft08, Dynamics in Soft Condensed Matter Workshop, Cargese, France
- 21-23 July 2008, Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference, Keele University, UK
- 27 May 2008, Fourth Annual Conference for Research Students, Loughborough University, UK
- 12 April 2008, PANDA (Pattern Formation, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications) Workshop,Leeds, UK
- 6 – 11 April 2008, UK Dynamical System Graduate School Workshop, Leeds, UK
- 25 – 29 February 2008, DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft), Berlin, Germany
- 10 – 13 February 2008, Biological Physics Meeting, Oberwiesenthal, Germany
- 27 – 31 January 2008, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham, UK
- 24 – 26 January 2008, Max Planck Institut for Physics of Complex Systems, , Institute Retreat, Gross Dolln, Germany
- 10 – 12 December 2007, Workshop on Self-organisation vs. Self-assembly?, Max Planck Institut for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
- 3 – 8 November 2007, School of Mathematics, Loughborough University, UK
- 28 – 31 January 2007, Biological Physics Meeting, Oberwiesenthal, Germany
- 2 – 7 September 2006, Self-Assembly & Properties of Complex Patterns Workshop, Portoroz, Slovenia
- 26 – 31 March 2006, DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)- spring meeting of the Division Condensed Matter
- 12 – 18 March 2006, Nothingham, Great Britain (visit for discussion with colaborators about experimental techniques tools for imaging, measuring and manipulating matter at the nanoscale: AFM, STM, SPM)
- 9 – 13 January 2006, Biological Physics Group Retreat, Oberwiesenthal, Germany
- 30.10.2005 – 02.11.2005, Max Planck Institut for Physics of Complex Systems, , Institute Retreat Tutzing, Germany.
- 21 – 26 August 2005, Summer school on Surface Science, Nottingham, UK
- 18 – 22 July 2005, Summer school on Thin Films of Soft Matter at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy
- 26 – 30 September 2004, 6th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania
- 29 – 30 November 2003 Annual Conference of the Faculty of Physics, Timisoara, Romania
- 16 November 2002 – The first general meeting of the Romanian Cactus Team, Timisoara, Romania (www.cactuscode.org)
FOREIGN LANGUANGES
- English – fluent
- French – beginner
- Romanian – native language
INTEREST
- Design and Implementation of Operating Systems
- Server Virtualization Solutions
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Mathematical and Computational Methods in Physics
- Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics
- Computer Simulation of Liquids, Fluid Dynamics
- Numerical Relativity and Cosmology
OTHER
- Driver Licence – Cat. B
References Available upon request
… a pdf version of my CV is available here
