Marius Voila Curriculum Vitae

   01 Personal Information
Full Name:
Marius Voila
Email:
myself @ mariusv.com
Skype ID:
marius.voila
Google Talk ID:
myself@mariusv.com
Twitter:
Marius Voila
Blog:
www.mariusv.com
Hire Me:
www.rentsysadmin.com
Address:
Romania, Sibiu, 550150
Telephone:
+40746839225
Sex:
Male
Driving licence:
No



   02 Studies
1995 - 1999
"Colegiul National de Informatica 'Grigore Moisil'" Brasov
Matematica - Informatica
2001
CISCO CCNA 1,2,3,4 & Wireless academic
2001
IBM Certified Solution Expert
2001
SUN Certified Web Component Developer for JAVA 2, Enterprise Edition Platform
2003
Redhat enterprise engineer
2005
Certified Systems Administrator HP-UX
2006
Oracle9i Database Administrator Certified Professional
2008
CISCO wireless - CCNAW
Extra Activities
     SbLUG
Scopul SbLUG este promovarea software-ului liber, în special a sistemelor Linux, ca varianta deschisa, gratuita, de folosire a resurselor dezvoltate în întreaga lume.



   03 Skills
Languages
     English - Very Good
     French - Basic
     Russian - Basic
Data/web mining:
Text categorization, Text clustering, Distributed web crawlers
Programming:
PHP/MySQL/HTML(5+ years experience in web programming in PHP for high traffic websites), Java (2 years experience in writing distributed applications in Java),Python, C/C++, Assembly
Databases:
MySQL, PgSQL, XML, Oracle
Networking & Server Administration:
Linux (10+ years experience in Linux server administration), Cisco (Completed the CCNA 1-4 and Wireless academic path courses), Skilled in many software packages under Linux
Project Management & People skills:
6 years experience in managing small to medium-sized teams, 2 years experience teaching PHP/Java/C/C++ to a high-school class



   04 Research
Conducting research in data mining and distributed systems for NewiStic
Web address:
www.newistic.com

Built a distributed data storage framework, as part of a research project. It was used as a storage component for data mining research conducted in the summer of 2008. The resulting research paper is available on request.
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Wrote a Downloads Search Engine. It scanned 6-7 downloads websites continuously for new products. The search engine organized the products in "download nodes" by grouping download sources and different versions of the same software. The search engine is currently licensed to Playfuls Entertainment.

   05 Professional membership
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Web address:
www.acm.org
Member of the SIGKDD Special Interest Group
Web address:
www.kdd.org
Member of the LOPSA The League Of System Administrators
Web address:
www.lopsa.org
Member of FSFE Free Software Fundation Europe
Web address:
www.fsfe.org


   06 Web Programming Work Experience
[confidential]
Date range:
2008 (Summer)
Project:
PHP (Scalability) - Funded by FSF to work on an open source project . I extended the Coppermine Photo Gallery to allow flexible mirroring and distributed photo storage.

Plone/Python
Date range:
2008
Description:
5-month internship at the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong. I helped them develop their new website (not yet online) using the Plone platform, which is written in Python.
Skills used:
Python / Plone / Linux

PHP/MySQL
Date range:
2007 - Present
Description:
Wrote the DNS management frontend and backend for geoscaling.com. GeoScaling is a DNS server which makes routing decision based on the country of end users, their network name, server uptimes and other information.

PHP/MySQL
Date range:
2007
Description:
Wrote the content management system for tvkon.com, a video streaming website.

PHP/MySQL
Date range:
2001 - 2004
Description:
Worked as a web programmer at the STG NGO. My job was to write PHP frameworks for portals and e-commerce websites. Created 6 versions of the STG Portal, a framework for building content websites.

   07 Linux/Networking Work Experience
Networking
Date range:
July 2008 - August 2008
Project:
Designed and built a gigabit network backbone for Pedagogic high-school, Romania (switches, routers, media converters, racks, wiring, Linux server administration).

Linux
Date range:
2006 - Present
Description:
Linux Administrator and Programmer for several clients from US and Romania. rentsysadmin.com promotes my consulting services.

Linux / Networking
Date range:
2007 - Present
Description:
Building a mission-critical infrastructure for geoscaling.com. that will enable the company to provide geography-aware DNS and fault-tolerance, as well as a content delivery network.

Linux / Bash
Date range:
2007
Description:
Built a Linux-based solution for taking ~real-time screenshots of remote websites on demand, for cryocopy.com.

Linux / Networking
Date range:
2002 - 2007
Description:
Network administrator for Playfuls Entertainment (playfuls.com). Took care of 4 servers in Romania and one in Germany. Built a distributed content serving infrastructure with PHP/MySQL+Squid. Worked with database replication and file synchronization between the servers. I configured firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems and wrote a few network monitoring scripts.

Linux / Bash
Date range:
2006 - 2007
Description:
Built a Linux/MPlayer/Bash-based solution for encoding any kind of video files into flv (Flash Video) streaming files, for tvkon.com.

Networking / Linux / CISCO
Date range:
2006 - 2007
Description:
Network administrator for the STG NGO for 3 years. I worked with web servers (Apache, lighttpd), database servers (MySQL, PostgreSQL), domain-name servers (Tinydns/DjbDNS, BIND), e-mail servers (Qmail, Sendmail), Samba etc. I worked with many Linux distributions including Fedora, Debian, Suse, Slackware and Gentoo.

   08 Hobbies
Strategy Games, Traveling, Basketball, Linux, OpenSource



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