Bio

Don’t let for tomorrow what you can do today ( let it after tomorrow as it may not be needed anymore )

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       I started the software career 20 years ago, in 2002, with a small wage and a lot of energy in the planned direction to make software. I did not had a software profile faculty, but I had a master in software cybernetics at the University of Economic Studies. That moment followed another job that I had in the energy field. It was related to the first faculty that I finished: Power Engineering.

Romanian Energy Operator

           First job in software career was at Romanian Energy Operator. The job was in the software department of this company which runs and manage the energy market in Romania. The business of the software that I did there was related to the energy market. I built the applications using basic java server-side technologies and Oracle databases.

Nobel Romania

          Second job was at Nobel company. I could consider this the first step in the direction of professional software career. The business of the software that I did there was related to the telecom area. This company was a telecom operator with an internal software department, and its own telecom software products. It was difficult to get used with the professional rhythm and demands, and with some giant software products built for a complex telecom business. One day, the company decided to close the software department and we all had to find new jobs in other companies. Luckily the times were good: the software jobs market was very developed and I found a job within one month.

Kepler-Rominfo

        The third workplace was at Kepler-Rominfo, a software services company of medium size, with around 300 employees. The software skills increased substantially during the 11 years that I worked there, because it was a professional environment. There, I played many roles, from software developer, application architect and technical analyst to business analyst, quality analyst, team leader and technical project manager. I’ve worked on WEB projects started from scratch, using java and Oracle technologies. Thus, I have experience in all the phases of a project lifecycle, from design to maintenance. I worked in teams of around 5 peoples and on projects and modules of around 300 man-days. The main client that I worked for, was a multinational giant company in its area of activity with business: flavours & fragrances. At the end, after a period of time that I spent with low activity, the company and I decided that we should stop the collaboration at the beginning of 2017. That was the last company where I worked.

Unemployed

        After Kepler, when I started unemployment times, the software jobs market was also very developed, but mysteriously I couldn’t find a job using any of the experience that I have, although I looked in many companies for different software positions.
        During this period, I participated in many internet software webinars and worked on some proof of concepts. Most of the proof of concepts were related to WEB technologies: WordPress CMS, Amazon Cloud and Talend ETL. The most interesting of them are in the Projects page of this site. Some of them run in Amazon Cloud and include proof of concepts for cloud-specific lambda technology, and machine learning (projects: Expo companies info, From Unstructured to Structured Data). I published some java code on Github.
        After some time, the world situation changed, with a global pandemic that hit Romania and the government that gave some restrictions for population and economy. After the pandemic, a war burst in Europe, near Romania: Russia attacked Ukraine. Due to the fact that both countries are some of the world top exporters, the global economy was affected, including Romanian economy. During these economic issues, the tech companies world wide started to dismiss the employees. These, made a harder environment for job seekers, including me.

Thank you for reading this,
M.A.