To contribute to the growth of
an organization providing a team-oriented environment with a diverse,
challenging problem domain employing technical solutions to meet business
needs.
Summary of Qualifications
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Manager, solutions expert and software architect (14
years +) specialized in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, software
architecture and lifecycle, mostly in Telecommunication area. Professional with experience on large
projects/programs with multiple applications customized to meet the various
requirements for different customers around the world
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Focus on outstanding deliveries, in a timely manner with
high quality, actively following the development methodologies and processes
Amdocs Inc. – Richardson,
TX, USA / Limassol, Cyprus
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Duration:
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2001 – present
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Title:
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Manager - Senior Software Development Expert
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Role description:
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- Manager in the APDO
development/implementation team (Amdocs R&D division) - working on
new products development and new versions of existing products. Projects
business domain were in OSS/BSS area: Billing, Network Management,
Revenue Insurance and Customer Relation Management.
- Extensive team leading and project
management skills, with demonstrated proficiency in leading development
efforts across all software lifecycle, including testing and production
support. Implemented CMMi and ISO methodologies. Experienced in
onshore/offshore management and integration.
- Focusing on analysis, architecture and
design, providing technical expertise during development phase,
mentoring and technical training. Responsible on end-to-end
technological aspects during requirement gathering, design, development
and maintenance phases.
- Plan together with the key stakeholders of
the projects the resource allocation for current and future deliveries (
including the financial aspects)
- Coordinate and act as a liaison between
the development team and the other teams involved in the project life
cycle ( PMO, IT, Off-Shore, Core etc)
- Integration manager responsible for
version upgrades of large billing systems.
- Introducing and utilizing agile
development methodologies (Scrum, XP, TDD) to teams and managers using
classical waterfall approach (Scrum master for various projects).
- Release management and SCM expertise.
Development, testing, infrastructure, integration, operational teams’
management for new version development. Established technical
standards and procedures for reporting teams.
- Implemented
solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems
and applications across the enterprise to reduce costs and improve
information flows. Ensures projects do not duplicate functionality
or diverge from each other, and business and IT strategies.
- Advocating use of open source frameworks
and tools to simplify development and software maintenance.
- Participating in implementation of CMMi
methodology in Cyprus development center.
- Lead and participated in impact assessment
sessions with the clients; acted as trusted advisor regarding Amdocs
products implementation, customization and performance tuning.
- Performance tuning of applications
processing layer and database access layer
- Coordinated and managed infrastructure
teams for software configuration management, database administration and
environment setting activities. Acted as Release Manager, in charge of version
management, infrastructure support coordination, environment setup,
defects tracking, inter-team communication coordination, QA procedures
enforcing
- Member of APDO (Amdocs R&D Division) Interviewers Team -
conducted the interviews as part of company's recruiting team.
- Member of Amdocs Java Experts forum and 3rd party
product owner for Hibernate and related frameworks.
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Projects/role:
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- Amdocs Error Manager – revenue management
system for processing of erred usage records recovery; manual and
automatic (rules based) processing
- Software architect / technical development
manager
- Amdocs Ordering - ordering system that automates the entire ordering process, from
negotiation to delivery and completion; system workflow is managed by
in-house developed BPM
- Principal software architect / technical
lead
- Rule Based
Management System – rule-based
system for usage processing and formatting
- Accounts
Receivable - financial data processing in Amdocs Billing system
- Telegence Conversion – ETL data conversion project (legacy to Amdocs
billing) for AT&T
- Amdocs XACCT – Amdocs mediation solution in AT&T
- Amdocs Enabler – Amdocs Billing Platform implementation in
AT&T – end-to-end billing solution for Telcos
- Conversion and Integration Manager
- Performance Expert
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Quick SRL – Ploiesti, Romania
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Duration:
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September 1995 – October 1996 / January 1998 – May 2001
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Title:
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Senior Software Engineer /
IT Manager
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Role description:
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- During my first period with the company I
have worked as programmer and business analyst, participating in the
design and development. Also provided help desk level support for the
applications once implemented into production.
- After I rejoined the company in 1998, I
have acted as IT Manager in charge of the software development
department and also responsible with hardware acquisition and
implementation policies.
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Projects:
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The company was developing
financial, ERP and security applications for small businesses and internal
usage.
- CONTAB is a software system that allows
book keeping, inventory planning and management for retail businesses.
- RESEC was initially a security layer for
CONTAB and latter was developed into a stand alone application allowing
user authentication and role based security for client applications, in
a distributed environment and client server architecture.
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Fin
Informatica SRL – Bucharest, Romania
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Duration:
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March 1997 – December 1997
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Title:
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Senior Software Engineer
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Role description:
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- Senior Software
Developer with responsibilities in design and development of new
versions of the software product.
- Responsible for
performance tuning – database level – for a previous product version.
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Projects:
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The company was a subsidiary
of an Italian software house that was developing document management
solutions.
I was involved in the
metadata storage module and in the optimization of the document retrieval
engine, including Rete algorithm implementation and SQL tuning.
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Other Qualifications:
o Logical and data modeling expertise for large production systems
architecture and configuration. Built flexible and responsive technology
architectures.
o System integration experience in heterogeneous applications. Vendor
management and software integration. Research and evaluate software/hardware
products in collaboration with EA and IT Business Teams.
o R&D and customization development experience.
o Strong technical leading experience in various environments. Designed, developed, documented, and
supported frameworks for integration; implementation of changes to technical
standards and development procedures. Provided direction, expertise, feedback,
coaching and development to build the capability of more junior staff.
o Proven expertise in SQL and database performance tuning. Experience on
multiple RDBMS platforms with emphasize on Oracle DB. Extensive experience in
database architecture, administration and design. Middle tier tuning
experience. Extensive experience in database architecture, administration and
design.
o Hands-on experience in high volume transaction processing systems (billing
and financial trading). Designed and programmed batch processing systems for
high availability applications filling large organizations production needs in
24x7 modes, including data persistency and fault recovery.
o Provided client site production support for time critical applications in
high usage environments. Development support lead for production and
pre-production activities. Effectively
communicated and built rapport with team members, stakeholders and interface
groups using collaboration from initiation to close.
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