Core competencies

Cloud solutions:

  • Cloud-based computing infrastructures
  • SQL Server databases
  • Microsoft Azure & Office 365 migration and management
  • Disaster Recovery
  • IT infrastructure security
  • Cloud-based endpoint security (Trend Micro)

Data center solutions:

  • Windows Server
  • Active Directory & Group Policy
  • Infrastructure services: DNS, DHCP, WSUS, VPN, RADIUS
  • SQL Server
  • Linux
  • VMware
  • Backup and disaster recovery
  • Network and computer security
  • Scripting and programming in: PowerShell, Perl, C, VBA, T-SQL, HTML
  • Software asset management (Flexera, Lansweeper)
  • IT project management

Experience

01/02/2019 - 01/05/2020: IT Consultant, doing contract work for UK-based clients:

  • Office 365 migration/deployment projects in UK and Europe
  • Microsoft Azure infrastructure support and development
  • Active Directory Federation Services
  • Single sign-on, multifactor authentication, conditional access policies
  • Office 365/Microsoft 365 deployment and maintenance

09/02/2001 – 11/01/2019: The Timken Company (Ploiesti Plant, Romania):

Systems administrator, member of the corporate sysadmin teams: the European Server team, the Global SQL DBA team and the Global VMware Administrators team

Responsibilities:

  • Technical Lead of the corporate Office 365 migration project
  • Management of Azure/Office 365 tenants for the Timken UWC joint venture
  • Management of the European Windows servers infrastructure, support for Windows servers located in UK, France, Romania, Poland, Germany, Spain and other European countries
  • Management of the SQL servers located on the European sites
  • Supported the local and corporate SQL and VMware servers/clusters
  • Worked in international teams, (USA, China, UK, India, Russia, France) to implement and support business applications
  • Lead projects for development and implementation of software packages used in engineering automation (knowledge-based engineering)
  • Delivered IT solutions for the Engineering departments, maintained design environments: Teamcenter/NX, Pro/Engineer, Catia CCD

Further employment details available on request.

Education

  • Master’s degree in computer engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
  • Master’s degree in Informatics Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania

Courses and certificates

  • MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Windows 2003, 2000
  • MCDBA - Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
  • Project Management - Open University, course MZT 865
  • Management - Open University

Other Skills

  • Spoken languages: English (advanced), German (medium), Romanian (native)
  • Customer support: Experienced in providing customer service to international clients, experience in delivering IT support or general technical support.

Interests

  • DevOps, infrastructure as code
  • Automation of IT operations
  • Computer security, network security
  • Hybrid infrastructures (cloud and on-premises)
  • Hybrid/cloud identity (Active Directory Federation Services)