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I offer consultancy and bring real value on project startups, project migrations or project recovery. In order to be successful you need vision, creativity, experience and a clear understanding of all the issues that could appear in software development since prediction is less costly than recovering.

• Team Lead, Coaching - 142 months experience
• Business Development - 20 m
• Project Management, Negotiator - 114 m
• Business Analyst - 68 m
• Architect, Designer - 180 m
• Database Design - 139 m
• Programmer - 300 m
• Build Configuration (maven, ant, Cruise Control, SBT, Jenkins) - 148 m
• Migration expertise (legacy systems migration) - 139 m
• Project Startup (create prototype, architecture, team) - 120 m
• Technology Selection - 132 m
• Operations (docker, vagrant, virtualization) - 20 m
• Quality Assurance (testing strategy, management) - 40 m

• Security (SAML, OAuth, PKI) - 20 m
• Scraping, Crawling, Indexing, Data Extractors, Actors, Parallelism, Reactive - 22 m
• Distributed Flow Management, Event Sourcing, Message Exchange (integration between countries' systems) - 60 m
• Financial (online payment, money transfer systems, banking programming interfaces) - 48 m
• Telecom (tracking key metrics of devices and equipments in telecom industry) - 11 m
• NMS (network management system, SNMP control) - 12 m
• R&D (Data Acquisiton, Signal Processing, Biometric Signal, Artificial Inteligence) - 10 m
• ERP (financials, stocks, project management - database intensive) - 36 m
• Web (photo, ecommerce, webic) - 80 m
• Rich Client Applications (NMS, WebInfoControl, brompton configurator) - 24 m
• Algorithms (production optimization planning, CS contests) - 139m
• Others: rhyme and language dictionaries, taxi reporting - 6 m
• Mobile/Android(zdreanta) - 15 m

• Agile Methodology - 168 m
• Test/Behavior Driven Development (TDD, BDD) - 168 m
• Pair Programming - 128 m
• Refactoring - 168 m
• UML description - 192 m
• Continuous integration and Delivery - 147 m
• Objectual/Declarative/Functional/Aspect Programming Paradigms - 242 m
• Rapid Development(RIA) - 35 m

• Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate-JPA, JUnit, SQL - 163 m
• Scala, Play Framework, Akka(reactive), Slick - 48 m
• Bootstrap(responsive), JQuery, CSS3, javascript, HTML - 168 m
• Regex, JSoup, XSLT, json - 90 m
• Maven/SBT, eclipse, subversion/git - 164 m
• Jenkins, jira - 86 m
• Docker, vagrant - 19 m
• Android - 17 m

• XML & WS: XML, XSD, WSDL, SOAP - 119 m
• UI : GWT, Spring MVC, playframework - 124 m
• Databases : posgres, h2, mysql, oracle, SQL Server - 125 m
• Ant, shell(linux,unix,osx) - 93 m
• C, C++ - 60 m
• perl, PHP - 20 m
• Oracle Designer - 30 m

• -.8 people, 100 man-months, java, maven, docker, git, agile, weblogic, oracle db
• -.Integration, development, operation, technology selection
• -.Achievements
  • Dockerize of entire solution including ECAS, ECAS client, IAM
  • Federation of Member States IAM solutions using SAML, eIDAS technologies, stork, ECAS

• -.Environment: Team size: 6 man-months, scala, sbt, eclipse, git, agile, wiki
• -.Roles: product owner, architecture, design, development, integrator, technology selection
• -.Achievements
  • In beta, online with 33.000 products from over 100 romanian e-shops.

• -.crawler, scrapper, regexp extractor, jsoup, goose with contributions on github - https://github.com/raisercostin/goose
• -.Roles: development, integrator, refactored legacy code
• -.Achievements
  • Integrated in one week more than 40 git branchesto consolidate all contributions made in last 4 years by various contributors

• -. http://blog.raisercostin.org/post/own-your-media
• -.Environment: scala, sbt, eclipse, git, agile, wiki
• -.Roles: product owner, architecture, design, development, integrator, technology selection

• -.Environment: scala, sbt, eclipse, git, agile, wiki, regex, xpath, xml, jtidy, jsoup, amazon ws, playframework, bootstrap, securesocial, openId/facebook/google authentication, responsive, reactive, akka, actor system
• -.Roles: product owner, architecture, design, development, integrator, technology selection
• -.Achievements
  • Minimum viable product delivered in 2 weeks ( www.YoupiQ.com)
  • In production for months with no maintenance effort

• -.6man-month, 2 men, eclipse, spring, ajax, html, css, GWT, google appengine, java6, subversion, maven
• -.project management, specification, analysis, design, build

• -.Environment: Team size: 5x20 man-years, managed: 3-7 men, eclipse, spring, ajax, html, css, java6/java7, subversion/svn/git, maven, jboss, weblogic, LDAP, playframework, Jenkins and Bamboo, confluence, jira
• -.Architecture, specification, analysis, design, build, development, build configuration, agile framework: wiki/confluence, svn/git, continuous integration server/bamboo/Jenkins, lead developer, technical lead
• -.Achievements
  • Handover outsourced project
  • Specification and implementation of programmatic API exposed for National Applications
  • Refactoring legacy code to split GUI in presentation and backend
  • Installer for centrally and member states software (reduce deployment complains)
  • Categorize bugs in ones that require technical hardening and ones that need business reflection period
  • Deliver internal prototype
  • Deliver business layer analysis: Modeling, BPMN, Distributed Flow Management
  • Demo prototype to Unit Managers
  • Demo transport and messaging prototype to Technical Committee(June 2013)
  • Demo business layer prototype in front of Technical Committee(September 2013)
  • Playground (to foster protocol convergence) on internet
  • Solving political issues by creating tailored technology: any size transfer, multi-hop networks, online/offline clerk client, protocol flexibility depending on sector and flow, deploy anywhere

• -.>70 man-month, 6 men, Windows XP/Linux, eclipse europe, spring framework, hibernate, java5, java6, perforce, maven
• -.team leading, coaching, project management, analysis, design, build configuration, migration

• -.27 man-month, 9 men, Windows XP/Linux, eclipse 3.2, spring framework, hibernate, java5, perforce, maven
• -.team leading, project management, analysis, design, configuration, coaching

• -.50 man-month, 7 men, Windows XP/Linux, eclipse 3.2, spring framework, hibernate, java5, perforce, maven
• -.design, development

• -.60 man-month, 5 men, Windows XP, eclipse 3.1, hibernate, jboss, java5, SNMP, annotations, Perforce, Team Track, XML, XSL translators
• -.analysis, redesign, development, configuration (builds), code migration, coaching

• -.2 man-month, 2-3 men, Windows XP, eclipse 3.1, tomcat, MS SQL Server 2000, java, servlets, jsp, taglib, junit, SourceSafe
• -.analysis, design, database design, development

• -.12 man-month, 2 men, Windows XP, eclipse 3.1, tomcat, MS SQL Server 2000, java, servlets, jsp, taglib, internet payment, junit, SourceSafe
• -.analysis, design, database design, development, testing

• -.7 man-month, 2-3 men, Windows XP, eclipse 3.1, tomcat, MS SQL Server 2000, java, servlets, jsp, taglib, applets, junit, SourceSafe
• -.analysis, design, database design, development, algorithms research

• -.3 man-month, 1 man, Windows XP, eclipse 3.1, tomcat, MS SQL Server 2000, java, applets, sockets, junit, SourceSafe
• -.analysis, design, development

• -.2 man-month, 2-3 men, Windows XP, Visual Studio .net, Access, c++, odbc, payment, cppUnit
• -.maintenance, SurceSafe

• • • -.4 man-month, 1 man, Windows NT, solaris/linux, c/c++, cppUnit, eclipse
    • -.development, testing

• • • -.14 man-month, 2 men, Windows NT, Visual Studio .net, c++, cppUnit, java, jUnit, SourceSafe
    • -.scientific research (documentation, research, terminology) , analysis, design, development

Stock WebERP - Stock Management Module, as a part of an ERP system - 6m

• • • -.5 man-month, 2 men, Windows NT, Internet Enabled, Component Oriented, Web Based (JSP 1.2, Servlets, Enterprise Java Beans 1.1, Application Server - Jonas, Servlets Container - Tomcat 3.2.1, Web Server - Apache), Visual SourceSafe, Rational Rose
    • -.analysis, design, database design

Rhyme Dictionary - rhyme dictionary for Litera Printing House - 1m

• • • -.1 month/man, 1 man, Windows NT, Visual Studio .net, c++
    • -.words processing, development, testing

English/Italian/Spanish - Romanian Dictionary - dictionaries series for Niculescu Printing House - 2m

• • • -.2 man-month, 1 man, Windows NT, Visual Studio .net, c++
    • -.words processing, development, testing

Conta WebERP - Financial Management Web Module, as a part of an ERP system - 12m

• • • -.120 man-month, 15 men, Windows NT, Internet Enabled, Component Oriented, Web Based (JSP 1.2, Servlets, Enterprise Java Beans 1.1, Application Server - Jonas, Servlets Container - Tomcat 3.2.1, Web Server - Apache), Visual SourceSafe, Rational Rose
    • -.analysis, design, database design, development, testing

System 3D Project - Project Management Module, as a part of an ERP system - 5m

• • • -.28 man-month, 7 men, Windows NT, Designer 2000, Developer 2000 (Forms 6.0, Reports 6.0), Visual SourceSafe, Rational Rose
    • -.database design, development, testing

• Design: Rational Rose, Oracle Designer
• Database: PLSQL, SQL*PLUS, Oracle Forms, Oracle Designer, Oracle Reports
• Languages: pascal, java script, js, jscript
• Communication technologies: socket, IPCS, RMI, SNMP
• Parsing. Interpreters. Compilers: bison, flex, javacc, jtree
• Artificial Intelligence: prolog, lisp, scheme, neural networks
• Low level languages: ASM x86, linux drivers
• Source Versioning: perforce, subversion, cvs, vss
• Servers: MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Tomcat, Jboss
• Electronical Tools: pspice, verilog, HPVEE, LabView
• Others: Open GL, Autocad

• • • -.English - proficient
    • -.Romanian - proficient

• • • -.yes

• • • -.Psychology
    • -.Pedagogy
    • -.Methodology

University Politehnica of Bucharest, Computer Sciences

University Politehnica of Bucharest, Computer Science, Systems and Base Programs Major (C3)

High school "Alexandru Odobescu" Pitesti, Computer Sciences

2014 Coursera - Principles of Reactive Programming - with distinction

2013 Coursera - Functional Programming Principles in Scala - with distinction

2004 (Brainbench Transcript Code ( www.brainbench.com ):1045642

Brainbench Master Java 1 (4.52)

Brainbench Typing Speed & Accuracy (3.46)

Brainbench Master Java 2 GUI (4.08)

Brainbench Master Java 2 Non GUI (4.58)

Brainbench Master HTML 4.0 (4.12)

• 2002

Brainbench Java 1 (4.21)

Brainbench HTML 3.2 (3.66)

Brainbench Unified Modeling Language (UML) (3.46)

Brainbench Math Fundamentals (3.68)

CISCO CCNA - Semester 1 (44/45)

• 2001

Brainbench Master Java 1

Brainbench Master Computer Fundamentals

Brainbench Oracle PL/SQL

Brainbench Javascript

• 2000

Brainbench C

Brainbench C++

Brainbench Analyst Programmer

Curs Oracle Designer - First Class

Curs Oracle Designer - Systems Modeling

Curs Oracle Designer - Forms Generation

Curs Oracle Designer - Data Modeling and Relational Database Design

Scientific Session Communication Politology: mention

• 1999

Scientific Session Psychology: mention 1997

• 1997

Computer Science National Contest: mention

Computer Science Local Contest: 1st place

• 1996

Computer Science National Contest: mention

Computer Science Local Contest: 1st place

• 1995

Computer Science National Contest: 2nd place

Computer Science Local Contest: 1st place

• • github - https://github.com/raisercostin
  • stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/users/99248/raisercostin
  • goodreads - http://goodreads.com/raisercostin
  • linkedin - https://ro.linkedin.com/in/raisercostin
  • bintray - https://bintray.com/raisercostin/maven

• • Andrew Hunt, David Thomas - Pragmatic Programmer
  • Frederick Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering
  • Joel Spolsky - Smart and Gets Things Done
  • Kent Beck - Test Driven Development By Example
  • Robert Martin - Clean Code
  • Steve Krug - Don't Make Me Think
  • Tom DeMarco - The Deadline
  • Martin Fowler - Refactoring Improving the Design of Existing Code
  • Martin Fowler - Domain Specific Languages
  • Steve McConnell - Code Complete 2

• • self-appraisal capacity
  • self-taught, curious, flexible, learner
  • synthesis and analytical capacity
  • love to teach, explain and share knowledge

Professional: analysis, design, TDD, BDD, XP methodology, refactoring, pair programming, programming language paradigms, noSql databases, reactive programming, responsive design

Personal: literature, psychology, martial arts, theater, acting, SF, biology

I have a job. I am looking for special opportunities. I am available for a new contract in 30 days.

I am ready to relocate in order to get a job. I'm comfortable with quite a few business trips.