Sorin OSTAFIEV

Personal details

 

First name:

Sorin Paul

Last name:

OSTAFIEV

Ocupation:

Computer Science Engineer

Age:

29

Phone:

+46 (762) 428 429, +40 (723) 231 661

Address:

Str. Feroviarilor, Nr. 8, bl. C4B, ap. 69, 800261 Galati, Romania

Email:

WWW:

www.ostafiev.com

Citizenship:

Romanian

Employment history

  • Co-Founder,      March 2005 - Present
    BITGROUND Software (www.bitground.com)

     

    projects:

    • EWRS - ewrs.ecdc.europa.eu (client: European Dynamics - www.eurodyn.com; 6 months, team of 2 people; ASP .NET, C#, MS SQL Server, IIS, Active Directory, XML, XSL, HTML, CSS, Javascript)

      Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) is a part of the network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases. The system allows for immediate exchange of views on risk assessment and risk management crucial for timely public health action. The system is used in the context of communicable diseases threats and it is a web-based system linking the Commission, the public health authorities in Member States responsible for measures to control communicable diseases and the European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC - ecdc.europa.eu).

      Responsible for performing additional developments to the project, fixing old issues and launching the application.

    • Teamness - www.teamness.com (company own project; 9 months, team of 2 people; ASP .NET, C#, MS SQL Server, IIS, XML, XSL, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, Windows services)

      Teamness is a highly interactive web application intended to help teams organize projects data and share it with colleagues and clients. Some of the main features are: assign tasks and attach messages to them, manage and share files and whiteboards, set milestones correlated with tasks, create groups to gather similar data, use RSS feeds to watch project's activities, invite clients to watch the progress, customize the look and feel of the private space, multi-lingual interface.

      Responsible for everything related to the Teamness product from idea to conception. Involved in the business strategy, market analysis, technical analysis, design, development and testing.

    • Newsberry - www.newsberry.com (client: Wildbit LLC - www.wildbit.com; 4 months, team of 3 people; ASP .NET, C#, MS SQL Server, IIS, XML, XSL, AJAX, Windows services, Web services)

      Newsberry is a web-based email marketing system built for individuals and companies. It allows anyone to easily create and send highly targeted and professional looking email campaigns to large subscriber lists. The system features robust reporting, subscriber management, scheduling, content management, and effective deliverability tools.

      Responsible with analysis, feature proposals, design, developments and launching the application (it was about 60% done when involved).

    • Xyleme Server (client: Xyleme Inc. - www.xyleme.com; more than 10 people; Linux, C/C++, Java, Corba)

      We were involved, along with an international team, in developments for the version 3.5 of Xyleme Server. The product is a distributed XML database solution and is used by enterprise costumers all over the world. Our work was mainly comprised of a dump and reload module, Tibco Rendezvous and Tibco EMS dispatchers.


  • Software Design Engineer,      February 2004 - March 2005
    Team Code Romania S.R.L.(www.teamcode.net)

     

    projects in which I was involved within the company:

    • CBTnet (about 250 days man, team of 2 people, Windows XP, MS IIS 5, MS SQL Server 2000, ASP .NET, C#)

      We developed a web-based solution for managing students and various information related to them. Application is used in classes from schools spread across the country featuring administration and student examinations.

    • ALICS (about 200 days man, team of 2 to 3 people, Windows XP, MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio .NET, C#, Crystal Reports)

      We developed a complete inventory control system. Application is used in warehouses featuring purchase orders, users and items management.


  • Software Design Engineer,      July 1999 - February 2004
    Softwin S.R.L. Romania (www.softwin.ro)

     

    projects in which I was involved within the company:

    • DGPAG (about 1100 days man, team of 6 to 8 people, Windows 2000 Server, MS IIS 5, MS SQL Server 7, FoxPro, MS Visual Studio .NET, C#, Crystal Reports)

      We developed a prisoners management system. Application is used in penitentiaries all over the country using distributed databases and three tier design.

    • MIS (about 900 days man, team of 5 to 6 people, Windows 2000 Server, Visual C++, MFC, DirectX)

      Application used to simulate flying coordination for controllers training.

    • Hearst (about 500 days man, team of 1 to 3 people, Visual C++, MFC, Acrobat SDK, MS SQL Server)

      We developed an application designed to provide semi-automatic data extracting from PDF files representing electronic catalogs and insert data into database featuring users and document management.

    • xPanda (about 800 days man, team of 2 to 4 people, Visual C++, MFC, Perl, Acrobat SDK)

      We developed an application designed to provide automatic document conversion from PDF files to an internal XML with CSS file. Then, through some Perl scripts, those files can be converted to OEB 1.0, XML (custom DTD) or various versions of HTML.

    • AirGTI (about 1200 days man, team of 3 to 5 people, Visual C++, MFC)

      We developed a database modeling system using SGML technology for a large application for Boeing. Access to SGML databases though ODBC (SFQL driver - compatible SQL).

    • TwinTerm (about 100 days man, team of 1 to 2 people, Visual C++, MFC)

      Implementation of a telnet passive terminal in a C++ application (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX and Direct Connection communication) for a Prologue server.


  • Teaching Assistant,      Spring 2003, Spring 2002
    "Politehnica University" of Bucharest, Computer Science Faculty, for "Real Time Systems Programming". Professor: Adina Magda Florea

Personal projects

  • Using genetic algorithms for problem-solving through evolution and co-evolution (Master thesis, Summer 2003)
  • Fast Intranet searching (Diploma project, Summer 2002)
  • Intranet File Sharing
    About 200 days man, individual work, Visual C++, MFC, ISAPI and MS SQL Server.

    I developed a complete suite for locating resources in a local area network featuring high speed information retrieval, providing tools for indexing and storing information into database, an ISAPI filter for data retrieval, browser integration, administration of the system and statistics and monitoring tools.

    Project "Intranet File Sharing" is located at www.ostafiev.com/ifs/.


  • ImgEdit

    This is an image processing application. ImgEdit is a pluggable application, very extensible, featuring color adjustment, operations between two images, various filters, image rotation and many more.


  • Most of my projects are located at www.ostafiev.com/downloads/.

Key Skills

  • programming languages (C#, C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, Pascal)
  • development environments (Visual Studio .Net, Visual C++, Borland C++, GNU C)
  • operating systems (Windows (all versions), Linux, SunOS, Dos)
  • experience in OOP design/programming
  • modeling tools (Rational Rose)
  • modeling languages (UML)
  • technologies (.NET, XML, XSL, ActiveX, ATL, COM, Corba, TCP/IP, sockets)
  • network administration (Windows NT/2000, Linux, Novell)
  • web design (HTML, CSS, CGI, PHP, Perl, Javascript)
  • database (T-SQL, MySQL, PL/SQL, Access)
  • libraries and APIs (STL, MFC, Windows GUI and SDK, Seagate Crystal Reports, Acrobat SDK, OpenGL, SNMP)

Education

  • Ph.D. Student (fall 2003 - present), "Politehnica University" of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science.
  • Master of Science (fall 2002 - spring 2003), from the "Politehnica University" of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science ("Advanced Computer Architecture" specialization).
  • Bachelor of Science (fall 1997 - spring 2002), from the "Politehnica University" of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science ("Application Software Systems and Artificial Intelligence" specialization).
  • Baccalaureate (spring 1997), from the National College "Vasile Alecsandri", Galati, Informatics department.

Honors and awards

  • 1998
    • participation - regional selection for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • 1997
    • 2nd prize - National Competition of Programming
    • participation - selection for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)
    • 1st place - Regional Competition of Programming - Braila
    • qualified among the twenty finalists (3rd place) of the 5th Edition of International Competition in the Programming (ICP)
  • 1996
    • 2nd place - National Competition of Programming
    • participation - selection for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)
    • 1st place - National Competition of the Winners of the National Competition of Programming and Special Prize for the best solution of the problems
    • 3rd prize - Regional Scientific Communications Session - "Saptamana liceului"
    • mention - Regional Scientific Session "Open-Info at National College Vasile Alecsandri"
  • 1995
    • 2nd prize - National Competition of Programming
    • 2nd prize - Interregional Scientific Communications Session - "Anghel Rugina", Vaslui
    • 1st prize - Regional Competition of Programming - "Saptamana liceului"
    • 3rd prize - Regional Scientific Communications Session - "Saptamana liceului"
    • participation - selection for Eastern Europe Competition of Programming
  • 1994
    • 3rd prize - National Competition of Programming
    • 1st place - National Competition of Programming - "Marele premiu al Palatului Copiilor"
    • 1st prize - Regional Competition of Programming - Braila
    • 2nd prize - Scientific Communications Session - Braila
    • mention - National Competition of Programming - Buciumeni
  • 1993
    • 2nd place - National Competition of Programming
    • participation - National Math Competition
  • 1992
    • 1st place - National Competition of Programming

Further qualifications

  • Foreign languages

    • Fluent in English and Romanian
    • Working knowledge in French
  • Interests:

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Theory of Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems, Cryptography, Genetic Algorithms, Human Computer Interaction

  • Driving license:

Holder of a current Romanian B class unrestricted driver's licence

  • Hobbies:

skating, skiing, computers, driving, music, cars, reading, swimming