Claudiu COSTIN Overview Address: 2 Fainari Street, Bucharest, Contact: +40-(0)744-440987 Romania +40-(0)21-6105510 claudiuc@kde.org Area of UNIX/AIX/Linux System Date of March 17, 1973 Expertise: Administration Birth: Web Programmer Team Coordinator Electronical Engineer Objective / Summary I work over a large range of positions, from system administrator and web programmer to project teamleader. I work eficiently under AIX, Linux and Windows, where I have a very good experience both with programming and administration at international level, managing and working on well known open-source projects. For more than five years, all my work and my energy has been directed to increase the work's quality for me as for all the people who I managed or worked with. Experience Orange Romania [03/2002 - present] - system support engineer - administrate IBM RS/6000 SP and p660/650 server nodes with AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5.1/5.2L - administrate IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.x for UNIX, Windows and Linux clients on a variety of hardware: IBM 3583 SAN Tape Library and IBM 3570 models - administrate Intel-based Linux (Debian and SuSE) and Windows 2000 servers on IBM x445 and HP Vectra hardware: Samba, FTP, MySQL, Apache - restructured all backup and archiving scripts providing high level support and reliability for operational tasks - support for Oracle databases both for financial Oracle Applications and data warehouse jobs - involved in many local IT projects and upgrades - helping not only on administration tasks but even on software development projects leveraging my long experience with open-source projects and technologies: CVS, AIX's GNU/Linux support software and automation - centralized logging, documentation, statistics collection and monitoring - networking development with longwave/shortwave fiber and copper gigabit ethernet cards, and switches, and WDM technology - maintain and operate fibber channel interconnect, SAN, EMC Symmetrix Symcli and Time Finder, Brocade FC Switches - worked on complex Oracle Applications migration project - worked on Lotus Notes for AIX project Matrix Communications - Business Media Group [04/2001 - 03/2002] - project manager, network administrator and web programmer - building from the ground programming team and programming culture using open source technologies and Linux - heavy contribution to programming structure, applications, support technologies and other programmers applications. The results were Bumerang http://www.bumerang.ro and Eva http://www.eva.ro successfull launching, using hybrid dynamic-static content generation with PHP, WML and MySQL - programming, configuring and installing Freemail Bumerang services http://mail.bumerang.ro both web interface and low-level services (virtual POP3, SMTP server etc.) - programming, coordination and installation for intranet web sites: documentation, sites and applications content management, Web CVS interface etc. - administrate the BMG's 2 networks and computers (running Windows, MacOS and Linux), the 4 Linux main servers which host a range of internal and external services: web, mass virtual webhosting, FTP, mail, virtual POP3, mailing lists, IRC, CVS, proxy, anonimizer, rsync - implemented advanced security solutions, logging, integrity checking and atack monitoring - checked, wrote documentation and instructed programmers for using robust and secure web programming technics against cyber atacks and hardware/software failures - permanent technical consultant for "Bumerang" magazine and I wrote articles for BMG web sites Dumars [3/1993 - 9/1999] - electronical engineer, programmer - building and maintaining electronic gambling machines (20 builded and 40 maintained). I had electronic devices, TVs and, videos on maintenance. - made and maintained 4 PC computers, Internet connection, company web site - filled company design needs for advertising (papers, flyers etc.) - one of remarcable things: semiautomatic control system for pool tables totally made by me (program, PC computer and power light controler) and which is running flawlessly up to the present. Brod Center [11/1998 - 6/2000] - IT manager, web programmer - my duty was continuous uptime for Novel Netware network with 6-7 PCs, from which 3-4 have been used as Windows 9x network with 2 shared printers. - responsabilities: network maintenance, automatic backup implementation and fixing any software-hardware failure (almost all the software was French-based.) C&C Computers [10/1998 - 6/1999] - IT reponsible - my duty was to keep up and running the internet cafe of 6 PC computers network with Windows 98, from which, one had Internet dial-up connection. - responsabilities: Windows installation, configuration and "cleaning", games, network. ------------------------------------- Software [1992 - present] - project chief, system administrator, programmer 1999-present - KDE (http://www.kde.org) Romanian translation team coordinator. I've made KDE 3.x, 2.x and 1.1.2 GUI's and documentation Romanian translation (more than 50000 translated messages). Some contributions on the KDE source code itself. 2000-present - system administrator and webmaster for KDE internationalization (i18n.kde.org) website and server; contributions for almost all programs of KDE documentation system. 1999-present - Linux-KDE Romania webmaster (http://www.ro.kde.org). 2001-2004 - Linux-IrDA (irda.sourceforge.net) webmaster and contributor. 2002-2004 - Quax (www.ro.kde.org/quax/) - very nice and handy desktop magnification tool which received a review in the Japanese "Linux-Magazine" magazine from July 2003. 2003-2004 - SMCINIT (irda.sf.net/smcinit/) - utility for initializing IrDA controler on the Toshiba laptops. 2002-2004 - MyDJBDNS (www.ro.kde.org/djbdns/) - my own contributions to the Dan Berstein's djbDNS system: slides, patches and utilities 2000-present KcmPureFTPd (http://www.ro.kde.org/kcmpureftpd/) - graphical configuration interface for pure-ftpd FTP server 2000-2003 KZoom (http://www.ro.kde.org/kzoom/) - desktop magnifier for KDE; 2000-present Other contributions: qmail - utilities; Easy Ezmlm - utilities for mailing list manager; KBabel (http://i18n.kde.org/tools/kbabel) patches and I wrote in english many parts from user's handbook 1999-2004 - Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory webmaster and system administrator from "Politehnica" University Bucharest. Hardware [1990 - present] - electronical engineer 1990-1999 - any complexity service for TV, video, audio (hundreds of repaired devices); hardware-software PC automation for accounting systems with electronic ID keys, EEPROM memories, pool tables control sistem, infrared command etc. 1994-2000 - hardware-software service for PCs (hundreds), PCs assembling, consulting, network installation and Internet. Other [2000 - present] 2003-2004 - 2 published articles and 1 review in "Linux Magazin" magazine about Linux and KDE: 11/2003 "Traducerea aplicatiilor 1", 12/2003 "Traducerea aplicatiilor 2", 03/2004 "Desktopmania" 2000 - 4 published articles in "Chip" magazine about Linux and KDE: 5/2000, 6/2000, 7/2000, 8/2000. Studies 2000 - present - I work on Ph.D at Electronic and Telecommunications Faculty, inside Departament of Telecommunications, with "Infrared accesible LANs" theme. 1999 - 2004 - I was Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory assistent and I worked as final-year project coordinator. I managed 4 generations of students (with a total of 7 students) for their projects regarding IrDA technology. 1999 - I presented my graduation project "Infrared Communications and LANs" and I obtained 10 ("A" equivalent). With same work, I won second prize to Scientific Communication Session from March 1999. 1991-1999 - Electronics and Telecommunication Faculty from "Politehnica" University of Bucharest. Licence exam qualifycation was 9.50 ("A minus" equivalent) and I've obtained Electronics Telecommunication Engineer degree. 1987-1991 - High School no. 13, "Posta si Telecomunicatii" Bucharest. I've graduated with 8.64 and I've obtained Telecommunication Electronist degree. Skills IBM AIX and enterprise technologies Unix: - AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.1 and AIX5.2L on a variety of IBM gear: RS6000/SP, 7024-H70, p650-6M2; NIM, HACMP (little), NFS, SNMP, NTP. - operational tasks formalization, disaster recovery planning Oracle: (from system administrator point-of-view) - Oracle 9i/8.1.7 installation, patching and configuration - Oracle Applications cloning, operating, troubleshotting - many DBA-related activities known - SQL knowledge Other technologies: - Lotus Notes on AIX; Tivoli Data Protection for Domino - SAN over Brocade switches, EMC Symmetrix class storages and IBM FaSTt 400. EMC Symcli and Time Finder operating, SSA arrays, ADSM and Tivoli Storage Manager administration over IBM 3570 SCSI-attached and IBM 3583 SAN-attached. Other UNIXes: - 6 months work experience with OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.1 on x86 hardware - 2 months desktop work experience with Solaris 8 on Sparc and Solaris 10 on x86 Linux (Debian, SuSE, RedHat, and others) programming: - PHP4 + MySQL web applications, sofisticated distributed application systems made with Perl + PHP + shell scripting, advanced HTML 3.2-4.x + CSS and experience with browsers bugs and particularities, basic Javascript - C on Linux, C++ using Qt and KDE libraries, Tcl/Tk scripting, advanced Bash scripting, system utilities (sed, awk, grep, find etc.) - GNU tools for applications development (autoconf, automake) - experience to build applications from concept, documentation, graphics to packaging, launching and lifecycle maintainance. Good experience on teamwork concurent versioning systems like CVS - international work experience on many open-source projects: solution findings, conflict resolution etc. system administration: - advanced TCP/IP knowledge, Linux 2.x - 2.4.x routing, NAT, HTTP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP protocols - Apache + mod_rewrite + SSL configuration/administration, mass virtual webhosting - qMail, mass virtual POP mail, sendmail, ezmlm mailing lists - djbdns, BIND, MySQL, CVS servers, custom IRC server and services, rsync, mrtg and rrd+nrg custom generated statistics. - security: file system integrity with Tripwire, Nmap, Snort, chroot()-ing services, firewall, tight access policy. - custom Perl/Bash medium sized utilities for network maintainance. - administrate/configure Windows SMB sharing services, Apple NetAtalk, Linux NFS, LPD, SMB and PAPD printing systems. graphic/design applications: Gimp (Photoshop clone) and Gimp-Perl scripting programming, PovRay (raytracing) - almost all graphics used on my sites have been made/processed using Gimp and/or PovRay. office/documenting applications: OpenOffice (MS Office clone), Lyx/Klyx, DocBook, XML, LaTeX and other Windows 2000/XP/9x / DOS (quite old for now...) software: - knowledge of Windows 2000/XP subsystems, operating, registry manipulation, networking, MS Office, OpenOffice, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop etc. programming: (1994 - 2000) - Borland C (hardware automation programming), Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk (graphical applications), Visual FoxPro (real estate application), Borland Pascal (tens of medium sized programs), Visual Basic knowledge (few applications) and Borland Delphi (few hardware automation applications) MacIntosh I have knowledge of Apple2 and MacIntosh G3/G4 operating and configuration, especially in networking and AppleTalk protocols. Known Languages English: write - good, read -good, spoke - medium French: write - medium, read - good, spoke - medium