Andrei Costin

 

Address:
Cyprus, Limassol

Limassol Center, Griva Digeni Nr.7, Block 5&6

E-Mail:

zveriu@gmail.com 

Instant messaging:

zveriu_biz@yahoo.com, zveriu@skype.com, zveriu@gmail.com 

Phone:
+357-99-863038

Birthday (Birthplace):

17-Feb-1982 (Chisinau, Rep.Moldova)

 

 

MOST RECENT STUDIES

University 'Politehnica' Bucharest (2000 – 2006, graduated June 2006)

Computer Science studies degree in following areas:

-          System programming (OS design and drivers, Security, Compilers design)

-          Networking (Concepts, designs, topologies, programming)

-          Databases

-          Computer graphics

 

Graduation project – “Face and facial features detection in color images and video”

-          Project grade – 100%

-          Overall average 5 year classes grade – 95%

 

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Industries involved

IT, Software & Hardware, Telecommunications, Billing

Professional Level

4+ years

 

  1. Senior Programmer (Limassol, Cyprus)

Company:         Amdocs (Nr. of employees > 17000)

Period:              2006-Sep – present

Job description summary:

-          Telecom Billing, Revenue Management, APRM (Partners Relationship Manager) Implementation Team

-          Responsibilities during entire SDLC:

1.       Security compliance and reviews for various APRM implementations

2.       Functional Specifications design & reviews

3.       Detailed design, reviews & development

4.       Pre-production support in all phases of the project lifecycle

5.       Documentation preparation and review  for entire SDLC

-          Production servers/software support at client site

-          Communication with the client , deliveries to the production site, defects & updated management

-          Security-oriented activity:

1.       Security reviews

2.       Analysis papers

3.       Security auditing

4.       Pen-testing

5.       Amdocs (Cyprus) Application Security presentations & talks

 

  1. Programmer (Bucharest, Romania)

Company:         UBISOFT - Guillemot (Nr. of employees > 3000)

Period:              2005-Mar – 2006-Aug

Job description summary:

-          specification development & application design

-          modules implementation & documentation

-          research & development of new technologies & techniques for current/future projects

-          driver & support software for vendor's hardware gadgets (webcams, WiFi sticks, gamepads & wheels)

-          PS2 & PSP game/application development

-          example project: Real-time video face detection and tracking system in “Webcam Station Evolution” software packages for “Hercules Dualpix” webcams

 

 

PROGRAMMING/ IT SKILLS

-          Computer Vision related

o        Face detection, face tracking, facial features detection:

1.       Demo1

2.       Demo2

3.       Demo3

4.       Demo4

o        Open C V – knowledge and experience under Windows, Linux, Cygwin, iPhone

o        Image processing and computer vision related algorithms

o        Gpu C V and nVidia CUDA – interest in massive parallel processing of images and matrices for computer vision tasks

-          IT Security related

o        Concepts, research, standards & compliance (SOX, ISO 17799)

o        Application security

o        Network security

o        IT & Information security

-          Crypto security – research, knowledge and interest

-          Interest and knowledge in reverse engineering

-          C/C++ (development, testing)

-          Java + experience in JMF, JSP, XML-RPC (development, testing). Some examples:

o        Java-based MPEG4/XVID encoder/decoder and network broadcaster in JMF for the “Webcam Station Evolution”

o        ActiveX-based MPEG4/XVID encoder/decoder and network broadcaster in JMF for the “Webcam Station Evolution”

-          Software Defined Radios (SDR) – interest and knowledge of:

o        GNUradio and USRP

o        RFID systems

o        GSM systems

-          Unix Shell Scripting

-          Networking (concepts, technologies, configuration)

-          SQL, Oracle SQL*Plus and PL/SQL (DBA, application performance tuning), MySQL

-          Image processing, face detection, face recognition (basic algorithms, OpenCV)

-          Visual C++/MFC (development, testing)

-         Web programming experience:

o       PHP – DB processing, web-services-like processing, forms processing, back-end logic, proof of concept web exploit scripts

o       JavaScript,  XML technologies, Web services (AXIS), AJAX

-          Assembly (basic programming)

-         OS knowledge: power user Windows, *NIX

-         Tools knowledge:

o       Paros, WebScarab, WatchFire – application security tool(s)

o       Mercury/HP Quality Center – testing management tool(s)

o       Documentum – documents management tool(s)

-         Experience with Software and IT processes & methodologies

 

 

AWARDS,

CONTESTS,

CERTIFICATIONS

-          Amdocs Best SME 2007 & Excelence Award for RMCC Division (Amdocs Cyprus)

-          Amdocs Worldwide 1st prize winner of “Application Security – Hackers are watching you” contest (Amdocs, 2007)

-          Cisco’s CCNA Certification (97.5% percentage, Bucharest, 2004)

-          High-school – “First in class” graduation award (Chisinau, 2000)

-          High-school – Runner-up prize at National Olympiad of Informatics (Chisinau, 2000)

-          Oracle Course&Lab Completion Certification (Polytechnics Bucharest, 2003)

 

 

 

Known languages (speaking / reading / writing)

-          English – fluent / excellent / excellent

-          Russian – native / native / native

-          Romanian – native / native / native

-          Hebrew – basic / NA / NA

-          Greek – basic / basic / NA

 

Personal skills

-          Dynamic and sociable person

-          Strong analytical, logical and out-of-box-thinking skills

-          Excellent presentation and communication skills

-          Open to/able to quickly learn new technologies & areas

-          Client oriented

-          Strong team and/or individual player

-          Committed to motivational work

-          Strong technical documentation & explanation skills

-          Willingness and adaptation to travel-oriented jobs

-          Interest in various foreign languages (Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese)