User:Bogdan-Alexandru Voiculescu
Project manager
Company and location: RINF OUTSOURCING SOLUTIONS SRL, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom
Project Manager, off-site contract (T&M and Fixed Price), at client facilities; acting as a liaison between RINF and the client (Intel). Initiator for new services to RINF: security testing and remote automated testing services - creation of an laboratory to deliver(patent pending). Involved (project board member) in European funded project for implementing the patent. I proposed new evaluation system for employees and I was involved in implementation. I implemented new recruitment system, with technical screening and soft skills screening. Team manager for Yocto QA contractors team, automation contractors team, android components contractors team, and Security QA contractors team (+20 people) People management: - Performance management - Reward & recognition - Motivating people - Conflict management - Developing people -> bringing out creativity - Providing career guidance and mentoring - Team-building - Responsible for recruiting team members: technical and soft skills interview Technical coordination: - Provide leadership to QA team members - Working alone on customer projects in a self-directed and mature manner - Multi task and to provide needed input efficiently on QA activities - Review QA project artifacts including Test Plans - Test Scripts and project strategies - Implement and maintain detailed concise test plans - Develop and execute automated test scripts - Document product defects - Assist in developing, organizing and maintaining QA methodologies along with QA manager and actively engage in rolling out QA organization improvements to own project Project management - Having functional meetings with the QA Manager - Acting as a liaison between RINF and the client (Intel) - Optimize and monitor the processes - Having an overview of the team members workload and competencies - Decision making - Taking innovative (or risky) initiatives - Collaborate with RINF managers in order to implement changes
Configuration management expert Period: December 2013 - February 2014 (2 months) Company and location: EuroTesting, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom I evaluated client (Vodafone) deployment system into UAT environment: I identified the problems and proposed an automated solution. I evaluated Nolio, and proposed a combined solution using Jenkins, Nexus, and Nagios tools. Also I proposed implementing Lean Six Sigma technique '5S' to cleanup the documentation and migrate it from drive storage to an Wiki system. I was involved in M-Pesa project: creating testing environments and provide expertise on SSL certificates.
Team leader: Continuous Integration & Delivery Period: May 2010 - November 2013 (3 years and 6 months) Company and location: AXWAY ROMANIA SRL, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom My team was responsible for the implementation of the Enterprise Continuous Delivery solution. It started as an Enterprise Continuous Integration (ECI) solution and was extended to include delivery too. Over 20 projects were involved and building one version of on solution results in over 12 GB of artifacts in different sites: Bucharest, Sofia, Noida, Paris, Annecy, Phoenix, Berlin. We manage the Jenkins and Artifactory servers from each site; Artifactories are synchronized and complete solution can be build in any site at any moment automatically. We manage over 80 build machines (unix and windows, half of them are virtualized using VMware) and over 800 Jenkins jobs. I implemented several Artifactory plugins (in Groovy) to extend the functionality. I participate in planning sessions for ECI project in project board as expert and team leader. I am single point of contact for ECI infrastructure. I allocate and monitor implementation of support requests from development teams, related to Enterprise Continuous Integration infrastructure and implementations. I planned and monitored team activities, involved in recruitment process and team members evaluations. My expertise is requested from the development teams to help them on integration with the ECI infrastructure. Here we help projects to adopt new standards, tools, and enforce build and delivery polices. We implemented automated monitoring for projects code: language violations, code standards, and security violations. I act as internal trainer for Continuous Integration concepts and tools, and Agile methodologies. Tools: Artifactory/Nexus, Jenkins/Hudson, VMWare, maven, ant, make, bash, nagios.
Operations Manager Period: September 2009 - May 2010 (8 months) Company and location: Storming media, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom As operations manager I reorganized and grow the Bucharest team. I supervised the production infrastructure migration which was stabilized. I added new monitoring system and automated recovery from crashes, so production downtime became insignificant: less than one minute per incident and less than one incident per week. We served over 200.000 unique visitors per hour. I manage the software R&D office and the US production servers laboratory. My team had 5 software developers, and 2 unix administrators. I was responsible for recruiting team members, dispatch the tasks and monitoring the implementation. I was responsible for performance evaluation. Storming Media has several websites with high-traffic (some with over 200.000 hits/hour: www.patentstorm.us, www.legistorm.com, www.stormingmedia.com). I had to build a software team, setup new office, hire new employees and new content team (for www.legistorm.com content). New feature were implemented; also the code deployment to production is automated. We implemented automated monitoring system and automated recovery system for production environment. I implemented a VOIP phone system. We stabilize the production servers and migrate to Apache from LiteSpeed. We added Nagios monitoring system. Technologies used: Litespeed balancer, Apache webservers, Postgres/Mysql DB servers, XEN Virtualization, Asterisk phonesystem. Technologies: linux, xen, postgresql, mysql, php, jmeter, nagios, asterisk.
QA automation architect Period: September 2008 - August 2009 (11 months) Company and location: consultant, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom I worked as a consultant at clients offices. Rompetrol Oil project: 2 phases - 9 months. I analyzed the requirements and I implemented several end-to-end system testing scenarios according to client specifications. New QTP library implementation was needed; I wrote over 100 testing scripts to accomplish the requirements. Technologies used: QC (Quality Center), and QTP (QuickTest Professional), MSSQL, Oracle. BCR (Erste Bank): 1 month (between Rompetrol phases) I analyzed the requirements, created the scenarios and test cases; I created the input data and the needed QTP functions. I setup client Quality Center to work with our testing library. Banca Romaneasca (part of NBG): 2 weeks proof-of-concept project I analyzed the requirements, created the proof-of-concept scenario and test cases; I created the input data and the needed QTP functions. I setup client Quality Center to work with our testing library and run the demo (it was a succes).
Manager QA & Release management (Full time) Period: April 2008 - September 2008 (5 months) Company and location: SEMAGO SOFT SRL, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom QA process includes testing and release. I was managing this department. I coordinate the testing team and added automated testing; smoke, regression and performance testing. As release manager I managed the releases to production. Also I facilitate the communication between clients and development team: new requirements and bugs were the usual topics.
Configuration manager Period: November 2004 - April 2008 (3 years and 5 months) Company and location: Blazent Inc, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom At Blazent I managed all the servers involved in the build system: cvs, main build server and build controller, slave build machines, bugzilla and backup server. I developed and maintain the build system using bash and InstallShield: the build system was fully automated, and generated reports and notifications. I added a continuous integration system based on CruiseControl. I customized Bugzilla and integrate it with automated build system to generate automated bug reports. I enforced automated installation adoption, followed by automated testing. I managed the product releases: generation, builds storage. As a QA engineer (first 6 months) I did manual testing of Blazent products: mainly the webserver and unix agents. As personal improvements, I implemented automated installation for all products; the manual installation took about 4 hours of each QA engineer time, and occurs several times week. I implemented a smoke test to verify the installation and check all reports availability: over 200 reported were checked automated. Technologies: perl, installshield, bash, batch, various unix flavours
QA engineer Period: October 2003 - November 2004 (1 years and 1 months) Company and location: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR ROMANIA SRL, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom As QA engineer I tested manually and automated CodeWarrior for Embedded PowerPC platform, mainly the debugger. I tested CodeWarrior on Windows, Solaris, Linux hosts and embedded targets. Also I tested on Linux embedded environments. I run manual and automated test cases (using TCL). I setup embedded environments, install products on hosts and setuo the boards. I configured and build manually the Board Support Packages - BSP - for Linux embedded: selecting and configuring the kernel, needed drivers for specific boards and the packages that will be included in filesystem. I tested the Linux kernel deployment system from CodeWarrior to embedded boards, debug the bootloader (u-boot), debug the linux kernel and filesystem applications.
Administrator IT systems & networking (Full time) Period: December 2000 - October 2003 (2 years and 10 months) Company and location: Agora Media, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom As IT system/network engineer I provided support for all servers and workstations from Bucharest office. I wrote as editor in PC Magazine on linux and networking topics.
Desktop support (Full time) Period: May 2000 - December 2000 (7 months) Company and location: Mediafax Database, BUCURESTI Job domain / occupation: IT / Telecom Responsibilities, Achievements desktop support, servers maintenance(Linux, MS Windows 2000)
Education
University Computer Science Department - University "Politehnica" Bucharest (1997 - 2002), BUCHAREST Major: Automatic, Computers section: computers specialty: network & hardware graduate: 8.50 (maxim 10) 5 years syllabus
High School National College "Alexandru Lahovary" Rm. Valcea (1993 - 1997), Ramnicu Valcea Major: Automatic, Computers informatics class; certificate: junior analyst programmer graduate: 9.50 (maxim 10)
Courses
SimpliLearn (2015 - 2015) - ITIL Service Transition - intermediate level
Awards / Certifications University of Michigan (2015 - 2015) - Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills
Case Western Reserve University (2015 - 2015) - Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
AXELOS/PEOPLECERT - Project Management (2015 - 2015)- Management of Risk Foundation certificate
AXELOS/PEOPLECERT - Project Management (2015 - 2015)- PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner certificate
AXELOS/PEOPLECERT (2014 - 2014) - ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management certificate
GoLeanSixSigma (2014 - 2014) - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Cisco Network Academy (2000 - 2001) - Cisco Certified Network Associated
Spoken foreign languages: Romanian - Native English - Advanced French - Advanced
