Ciprian Nita, acqzf7@r.postjobfree.com, Tel: +40-754-****** (RO)

Senior Software Engineer

Professional Summary

Autodidact, self motivated and result-oriented professional with over 10 years experience in software development (Java/C/C Key skills include: GSM-SS7 area, system analysis, software development, team management, quality management, testing. Willing to accept and manage challenges, with abilities to build success oriented teams and to lead technical projects.

Key Professional Strength Areas

Software Development. Involved in development and management phases of different telecom GSM solutions for policy and charging management, call processing and billing, short message processing and service provisioning.

Telecom Consultancy. Offering integration expertise, onsite or remotely, for policy and charging management solution, call processing services and prepaid/postpaid billing applications successfully deployed to major GSM operators.

Quality Management. Successfully define and implement a Quality Management System based on ISO9001:2000 standard and ensured application of it in the company daily activities. Successfully managed the Quality process and activities.

Professional Experience

Computaris 2004 - present

Senior Software Engineer

•Design, develop and manage various modules of GSM solutions for policy and charging management, call processing and billing, short message processing and service provisioning - using different technologies like Java, EJB, C, C++ and different protocols like SS7 stack and Diameter.

Projects:

•Computaris SS7 Stack – Design and implement the Tcap layer from an SS7 Stack (ITU) implementation to be integrated with OpenCloud platform.

•BSSG Quick Rules - Continuous support the policy and charging solution for data traffic in a medium GSM operator; responsible of following: analyze requirements and clarify the scope, design and specify the solution based on requirements, implement and test the solution, deploy on testbed, support for acceptance testing, deploy in production.

•Localization Gateway - Localization Gateway is a system for providing localization services to GSM operators. Design and implement in C++ programming language the module that communicates with a GSM network entity (HSS), using Diameter communication protocol in order to obtain localization data. Successfully delivered to client.

•Voucher Management for IN Prepaid Platform - Design and implement the Voucher Management system for the IN Prepaid Platform as a J2EE application, EJB3, deployed in Jboss. Voucher Management is responsible for production and life cycle management of vouchers, provides means for vouchers creation, sending to the manufacturer, loading batches of vouchers from export files provided by manufacturer, changing state of existing vouchers. Successfully deployed to telecom operator.

•MMS and IFX Jmeter plugins - Implement different plugins (Java) for the open source Jmeter testing tool to be used in testing a billing platform that communicates over MMS and IFX protocols.

•Application Publisher – Application Publisher is a customer and partner management system, part of a BSS platform. Involved in design, implementation (Java), testing, delivery to client site and acting as Project Manager stand in on request. Successfully deployed to a major telecom operator.

•Authentication and Accounting - Responsible for different changes in an Authentication and Accounting application for client's Application and Development Workbench platform. This authentication and accounting interface is towards the SGSN/GGSN node in the telecom operator network. Implemented in C. Successfully delivered to client.

•Authentication through ZH Interface - Responsible for changes in an Authentication application for client's Application and Development Workbench platform. ZH interface represents the Diameter based authentication interface for this platform. It has the role to retrieve authentication or localisation information from an HLR on behalf of requesting systems. Implemented in C. Successfully delivered to client.

Quality Manager

•Actively involved in quality assurance process by implementing a Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2000 standard. Certified as Internal Auditor.

Avalanche Mobile, 2002 – 2004

Software Design Engineer / Team Manager

Projects:

•Avalanche Appliance - Coordinate implementation (Java) of a test SS7 protocol stack based on protocol standards to validate the real protocol stack implemented by development team. This includes managing a team responsible with analysis and validation of requirements against SS7 protocol specifications, development of test SS7 stack, test plan design, test cases implementation, coding (Java) and bug tracking.

•Hosted AIS - Involved in development (Java) of different modules for a distributed, high speed and failure proof solution for SMS offloading and processing.

Richard Consulting, 2000 – 2002

Software Design Engineer / Team Manager

Projects:

•Ensiva – As Team Manager coordinate development (Java) of Form Designer, a module of Ensiva product - a rapid development environment for web-oriented applications based on databases. Actively involved in developing java components (java beans) that assemble into Form Designer, the module responsible with visual design of html forms able to perform insert, update and delete tasks into a database.

•Involved in all development phases of Print Manager module.

Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania, 1998 – 1999

Assistant

Projects:

•Teach C++ laboratories.

•Teach Assembly x86 laboratories.

Technical Skills Summary

Programming: JAVA, C/C++, EJB, J2EE, Shell scripting, Python, Corba.

Databases: Oracle, MySql, Postgres, Jdbc, SQL

Protocols: Diameter, TCAP, MAP, SMSP2P, LDAP, TCP/IP

Standards: 3GPP GSM, ITU-T SS7, ISO 9001:2000

Telecom Domains: PCRF, Billing, Messaging (SMS, MMS), Service node (call-back systems, Pay4Me), Voucher/Recharge Management, Localisation

Others: Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Ant, JMeter, Jasper, ACE library, Swing, Junit, Cunit, Design patterns, UML, XML, XSD, CSS, Eclipse, Jboss

OS: Linux, Solaris, Windows

Professional Development

MBA (online) British Academy for Business and Communication, Iasi, 2007

MSc Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, 1998 - 1999

BSc Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi 1993 - 1998

Languages

English Proficient

Romanian Native

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