Professional skills

Programming languages and software tools

Java , PHP, Delphi, Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Basic 6.0, CBuilder, Kylix, Kdevelop, C#Builder, Visio, Select Enterprise, Pascal, HTML, C++, C#, Ruby on Rails

Web Design

Dreamweaver, Flash, PaintShopPro

Reporting Tools

CrystalReports 8.5, 9.2, MS SQL Reporting Services

Databases

MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle, MySQL, Interbase Server

Operating Systems

Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux (Redhat, Mandrake)

Foreign languages

English (average), French (beginner)

Professional experience

April 2004 – March 2007 (Web Developer)

Employer: Dacia IT (Renault)
Project: MoCo (Module Commerciele) – spare parts catalogue (Intranet application)
Responsibilities:
Project MOFD (Module Facturation et Douane) – management of the shipments, spare parts, custom
Responsibilities:
Project REPOVN : Reporting services (Struts app)
Responsibilities:
Technical environment: Java, Java servlets, Struts, PHP, Oracle 8i – 10i, PHP, Eclipse, XML, Windows 2000.

December 2002 – April 2004 (Delphi developer – Report manager)

Employer: TotalSoft S.A. (Romanian Software Company)
Project: Charisma Enterprise (ERP)
Responsibilities: Development of a module (called CustomizeManager) that implement an interface for managing overall shortcuts, tab orders for applications. Most of my time I had spent developing reports. This is done using CrystalReports with MS SQL Server 2000 stored procedures. For every report I written specifications. I developed and maintained an application for ReportManagement. This application register reports in database, setup different parameters for reports, etc.
Technical environment: Delphi 6, MS SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports 8.5, 9.2, MS Reporting Services, Windows 2000

July 2002 – October 2002 (Delphi developer)

Employer : Resorsys Romania
Customer: Robinson Associates (U.K. client)
Project: RETS (Railway Environment Traffic Simulator)
Responsibilities: I had written Scenario Manager module, the test specification for this module and implementation notes (here including Visio Diagrams and some Word documents). This module open a Scenario script file and the Journey script files, parse them and then execute all the commands from them. This script files were project specific formats and were handled by using CoCoR precompiler. I have worked at CoCoR scripts implementation too.
Technical environment: Delphi 5, CoCoR precompiler, Visio, Windows NT.

April 2002 – June 2002 (Web developer)

Employer: Loginet S.R.L. (Internet Provider)
Project: www.shift.ro
Responsibilities: I have managed the development of an E-commerce solution for internal/external use.. This site was based on an open source solution OSCommerce (www.osscommerce.org ) and was made using MySQL database and PHP scripts
Technical environment: PHP, MySQL, RedHat Linux
Project: www.bursamuncii.ro
Responsibilities: We moved the database from Postgress sever to MySQL server. Also I have added a new module for sending faxes that create a file for every CV to send and then call "sendfax" Linux command for sending the fax .
Technical environment: PHP, MySQL, RedHat Linux

June 2001 – March 2002 (Delphi developer)

Employer: Balkan Software Consult (Romanian-Dutch Software Company)
Project: COR (De Groot Archive Management)
Responsibilities: For this client we developed an archive management application. In this project we work with fix and mobile (Piccolink RF600 from www.nordicid.com ) barcode scanner. The visual interface of the application was made in Delphi and the database engine that supported our data’s was Interbase 6.0. The application was three-tiered with the first tier consisting on database server application (Interbase server), the second tier – a small database controller which manage the database connections, building complex queries and finally the third tier – the client application which consists of the visual interface. In this project I have managed the database (table creations, stored procedures, triggers) and worked with it from our database controller. Beside this I worked in visual interface design, configuration and database management module.
Technical environment: Delphi 5, Interbase 6, Select Enterprise (UML Tool), Windows 2000, XP.

Project: Balance Accountancy Software (BAS) – accountancy software for the Dutch market
Responsibilities: I worked at development and debugging of an account application, which could be downloaded and tested on the www.kley.nl or www.unit4.nl site: Balance Accountancy Software. This application was OO designed in Delphi and made specific for Dutch accountancy system. We have worked with a database controller designed to help us to build SQL statements and we improved it. There was one team consisting in two analysts in Netherlands who delivered us the UML schemas (made with Select Enterprise). After these schemas we wrote the code. The application was structured on three layers: database server, a database controller written by us, and the client application.
Technical environment: Delphi 5, Interbase 6, Select Enterprise (UML Tool), Windows 2000.

Freelance experience

June 2001 – August 2001 (Delphi developer)
Customer: SoftwiseDev
Project: CustomChart
Responsibilities: I have developed for a client from U.S.A. a software application for building customizable charts. These charts were designed after they were loaded from Excel charts. In this project I used some advanced visual Delphi components: StringGrid (used for loading the Excel charts) and TeeChart Pro 5.0 (used for design of complex charts).
Technical environment: Delphi 5, TeeChartPro 5.0, Windows 2000
October 2000 – December 2000 (Delphi developer)
Customer: Vegra
Project: LbSys
Responsibilities: I work as a part time developer for improvement of document management software (Lbsys). I improve the speed of the software using faster database access functions and I add new functions on interface.
Technical environment: Delphi, Interbase, Windows 2000
October 1999 – September 2000 (Delphi developer)
Customer: Turbomodel S.R.L.
Project: Monacco
Responsibilities:
Development of an application that has the following functions:

Personal data


Birth date: 05.06.1976
E-mail address: cata_mincu@yahoo.com , cata.mincu@gmail.com
Phone: 0723.23.95.72

Education

1994 – 2001 “Politehnica” Institute of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatics & Computer Science
1990 – 1994 High - School “Petru Maior ”Bucharest, Section informatics