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)