Andrei Costin
Address:
Cyprus, Limassol, 3045
141 Omonia Ave, The Maritime Center, Block C
E-Mail:
Phone:
+357-99-863038
Birthyear, birthplace:
1982, Chisinau, Rep.Moldova
Citizenships:
Romanian, Moldavian
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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% -
Face detection,
face tracking, facial features detection: 1.
Demo1 2.
Demo2 3.
Demo3 4.
Demo4 |
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WORK EXPERIENCE |
Industries involved IT Security, Software & Hardware,
Telecommunications, Billing Professional Level 5+
years
Company: U-TX
(Nr. of employees < 50) Period: 2010-Mar – present Job description
summary: -
GSM, Embedded
and GUI Programming for the custom systems 1. Functional Specifications design & reviews 2. Detailed design documentation & reviews 3. Development/implementation and testing support
Company: Amdocs
(Nr. of employees > 17500) Period: 2006-Sep – 2010-Mar Job description
summary: -
Telecom
Billing, Revenue Management, APRM
(Amdocs Partners Settlement/ Relationship Manager) Localization/Customization
Team -
APRM Responsibilities
(including end-to-end projects & SDLC activities): 1. Support for RFI/RFP requests from clients, as well
as for POC software demonstrations 2. Analysis of client’s business processes, translation
of business processes and business requirements into qualitative
implementation solution 3. Scoping documentation and requirements gathering
with the clients onsite and offsite 4. Estimating effort and timelines for implementing
scoped requirements 5. Functional Specifications design & reviews 6. Detailed design documentation & reviews 7. Development/implementation and testing support 8. Pre-production support in all phases of the project
lifecycle 9. Documentation preparation and review for entire SDLC 10. Production rollout, production servers/software
support at client onsite 11. Support communication with the client 12. Post-production deliverables and defects management 13. Change request management (identifying changes in
scope and/or current solution and manage customer expectations of scope and
subsequent implementation) 14. Extensive software/data upgrade and migration
experience (at least 3 major clients) -
Security-oriented
activities: 1. Security compliance & reviews for various APRM implementations,
security responses to RFI/RFP requests 2. Security reviews 3. Analysis papers 4. Security auditing 5. Pen-testing 6. Amdocs (
Company: UBISOFT
- Guillemot (Nr. of employees >
3000) Period: 2005-Mar – 2006-Aug Job description
summary: -
research
& development of new technologies & techniques for current/future
projects -
specification
development & application design -
modules
implementation & documentation -
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 |
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PROGRAMMING/ IT SKILLS |
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Scripting o
Unix shells o
Windows batch
and WSH -
Database
technologies: o
SQL standard o
Oracle SQL,
SQL*Plus and PL/SQL o
MySQL o
DBA,
application performance tuning -
Networking: o
Concepts, technologies o
Configuration,
protocols, services -
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 -
JavaScript, XML technologies, Web services (AXIS), -
Image
processing, face detection, face recognition (basic algorithms, OpenCV) -
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, pattern recognition 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 o
First open-source proof of
concept key recovery for Mifare Classic -
Crypto security
– research, knowledge and interest -
Interest and
knowledge in reverse engineering -
C/C++
(development, testing) -
Java +
experience in JMF, J2EE, 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” -
Technologies of
interest and various levels of knowledge for: o
Software
Defined Radios (SDR) o
GNUradio and USRP o
RFID systems
(security, applications, standards) o
GSM systems
(architecture, ETSI/ITU standards, security) o GPS/Galileo systems -
Assembly
language and reverse engineering experience - OS knowledge: power user Windows NT/2K/XP, *NIX (SunOS, HP-UX, AIX) - Tools knowledge: o
o
Mercury/HP o Documentum – documents management tool(s) - Experience with Software and IT processes & methodologies |
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AWARDS, CONTESTS, CERTIFICATIONS, PAPERS |
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Security conference
EuSecWest 2010 paper “Hacking
printers for fun and profit” -
Amdocs
Worldwide 1st prize winner
of “Application Security – Hackers are watching you” contest ran by Hacktics for Amdocs (2007) -
Amdocs Best SME 2007 & Excelence Award
for RMCC Division (Amdocs Cyprus) -
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) |
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Known languages (speaking / reading /
writing)
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English –
fluent / excellent / excellent -
Russian –
native / native / native -
Romanian –
native / native / native -
Greek – very basic
/ very basic / NA Personal skills
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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 for
various foreign languages & cultures (Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese) |