Codrin Bucur

Current

Practice Manager, New England at Bluenog

Past

Solution Architect at Oracle
Architect/Senior Principal Business Consultant at BEA Systems
Senior Principal Consultant at Oracle

Senior Software Engineer at Idiom Technologies
Senior Software Engineer at Virtualliance
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant at Open Book Systems
Senior Java Developer at Target Resources
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant at Harcourt
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant at Thomson
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant at Reed Elsevier
Senior Software Engineer at SATZ Software & Consulting
E-Commerce Software Engineer at European Dynamics
Java Development Lead at RoSmart Software
Software Engineer at Pro3Soft
Software Engineer/QA at WinEurope
Localization Engineer/QA at NEC
Exchange Student – Tempus Scholarship at Technical University of Vienna

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Education

Technische Universität Wien
Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca
Computer Science High School in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Generala 2, Cluj

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Codrin Bucur’s Summary

• Experienced in leading teams in various IT settings including product engineering, custom application development, consulting, administration/maintenance and pre-sales.
• Good management and team building aptitudes
• Great communicator, speaking four languages and understanding a few others
• Accomplished enterprise and product architect
• Great business acumen and customer facing experience
• Domain expert in many fields, including web development, enterprise software, BPM, SOA, globalization and e-commerce
• Worked for companies and clients in a wide range of industries including higher education, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, insurance, telecom, software, publishing and manufacturing
• Highly experienced with full-cycle software development processes and methodologies
• Skilled in solution and product selling

Codrin Bucur’s Specialties:

Commercial and Open Source Middleware, SOA, Enterprise and Application Architectures, BPM/Workflow Design, Consulting

Codrin Bucur’s Experience

Practice Manager, New England

Bluenog

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

• Managing the professional services staff and consulting engagements in New England and Upstate New York
• Focused on higher education and healthcare.
• Implementing solutions with Bluenog ICE open source CMS/Portal suite, as well as Oracle/BEA middleware suites (SOA/BPM/J2EE)
• Working on business development, pre-sales, sales and marketing at the regional and company level.
Solution Architect

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — November 2008 (7 months)

• Back to Oracle, for a while! :-)
Architect/Senior Principal Business Consultant

BEA Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BEAS; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 6 months)

• Using BEA’s SOA solutions to solve business needs for New England customers
• Focused on BEA’s AquaLogic suite of products
• Involved in business development efforts
Senior Principal Consultant

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

November 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 2 months)

• Applied Oracle's SOA and J2EE architectures to the customers’ business needs· Worked with Fortune 500 and Global 500 clients within a very wide range of industries and geographical locations
• Specialized in Oracle's Service-Oriented Architecture including AS Web Services, BPEL, ESB, BAM, Oracle Web Service Manager (OWSM)
• Covered a broad range of Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies from Oracle AS/SOA Suite to identity management systems like OID and Xellerate, as well as applications like Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel and PeopleSoft
• Engaged in sales efforts at various stages
• Presented business strategies based on Oracle solutions to C-level executives and chief architects
Senior Software Engineer

Idiom Technologies

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 5 months)

• Successfully managed and motivated developers and QA engineers both locally and in the off-shore partners in Europe and Asia
• Created a large amount of initiatives that put the process back on track: documentation, design, advanced implementation techniques, unit testing, continuous integration, performance testing, improved upgrade
• One of the earliest and most senior engineer in the team, a key player in the entire organization
• Instrumental in the saving the company from being shut down and helping with the recovery
• Key player in success stories involving clients like eBay, Oracle, Adobe, Autodesk, Motorola, Symantec, McAfee, Travelocity.
• Very involved in rebuilding the engineering team
• Actively involved in the efforts of establishing the company’s presence in Europe
• Designed, developed and tested various key WorldServer components including the workflow/BPM engine, translation memory, reporting engine on open source and commercial J2EE platforms
• Led the efforts for testing, analyzing and enhancing the performance and scalability of all WorldServer components, with emphasis on high-availability, clustering, load-balancing and fail-over techniques
Senior Software Engineer

Virtualliance

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2001 — July 2002 (9 months)

• Designed and implemented highly-scalable e-commerce/web applications using Java J2EE and XML technologies
• Involved in the study of user/business requirements, system breakdown, building the development and production environments, design for scalability and performance, complete front-end and back-end project architectures, leading development team
• Created a Web Application Framework by extending Jakarta Struts MVC architecture to support the EJB tier, JMS and an inter-tier communication system based on business events.
• Developed using back-end servers like WebLogic, JBoss, Borland Enterprise Server, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, Oracle8i and MySQL
• Server-side programming using Java, EJB, JMS, SonicMQ, Servlets, Jakarta Struts, JSP, JSP Tag Libraries, Log4j, Ant, XML, XSLT, XML Schemas, SOAP, SQL, Perl under Windows NT and Linux
• Client-side programming with cross-browser Java Swing, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Worked with Borland JBuilder, XML Spy, Oracle Designer, ArgoUML, CVS
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant

Open Book Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2002 — July 2002 (6 months)

• Designed and implemented highly-scalable e-commerce/web applications using Java J2EE and XML technologies
• Involved in the study of user/business requirements, system breakdown, building the development and production environments, design for scalability and performance, complete front-end and back-end project architectures, leading development team
• Created a Web Application Framework by extending Jakarta Struts MVC architecture to support the EJB tier, JMS and an inter-tier communication system based on business events.
• Developed using back-end servers like JBoss, Borland Enterprise Server, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, Oracle8i and MySQL
• Server-side programming using Java, EJB, JMS, SonicMQ, Servlets, Jakarta Struts, JSP, JSP Tag Libraries, Log4j, Ant, XML, XSLT, XML Schemas, SOAP, SQL, Perl under Windows NT and Linux
• Client-side programming with cross-browser Java Swing, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Worked with Borland JBuilder, XML Spy, Oracle Designer, ArgoUML, CVS
Senior Java Developer

Target Resources

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 2001 — November 2001 (5 months)

• Architected and developed from ground up the new Harcourt Online Store and the Store Manager back-end using state-of-the-art Java J2EE technologies, with emphasis on scalability, performance and high-availability.
• Internationalized and localized the online store for US and Canadian locales
• Responsible for the full development cycle of the web applications, including gathering of business requirements, analysis, design, implementation, scalability and load testing, and documentation
• Worked with Dynamo Application Server (DAS) and Dynamo Personalization Server (DPS) from ATG, Oracle 8i, Visual Café, Visio, Visual Source Safe
• Led a team of three developers, closely coordinated the projects, provided training
• Worked as Oracle DBA and Solaris/Linux/Windows NT Sys Admin as needed
• For consulting assignments see: Harcourt, Reed Elsevier, Thomson positions
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant

Harcourt

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)

June 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 5 months)

• Architected and developed from ground up the new Harcourt Online Store and the Store Manager back-end using state-of-the-art Java J2EE technologies, with emphasis on scalability, performance and high-availability.
• Internationalized and localized the online store for US and Canadian locales
• Responsible for the full development cycle of the web applications, including gathering of business requirements, analysis, design, implementation, scalability and load testing, and documentation
• Worked with Dynamo Application Server (DAS) and Dynamo Personalization Server (DPS) from ATG, Oracle 8i, Visual Café, Visio, Visual Source Safe
• Led a team of three developers, closely coordinated the projects, provided training
• Worked as Oracle DBA and Solaris/Linux/Windows NT Sys Admin as needed
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant

Thomson

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Publishing industry)

September 2001 — October 2001 (2 months)

• In 2001, Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corporation acquired all Harcourt Brace divisions. See Harcourt position for details on my work
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant

Reed Elsevier

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RUK; Publishing industry)

August 2001 — October 2001 (3 months)

• In 2001, Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corporation acquired all Harcourt Brace divisions. See Harcourt position for details on my work
Senior Software Engineer

SATZ Software & Consulting

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

June 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 1 month)

• Developed several Java/XML e-commerce applications based on application servers like ATG Dynamo (DAS), JRun, with emphasis on scalability and availability, using clustering and load-balancing techniques
• Server-side programming using J2EE, EJB, Servlets, DAS and DPS Java APIs, JSP, Dynamo Server Pages (JHTML), SQL (Oracle 8i), XML
• Client-side programming with cross-browser JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Globalized the e-commerce applications for English and German
• Developed for, configured and managed all back-end servers DAS, DPS, iPlanet, JRun, Oracle 8i, Open Market's Transact, Interwoven Teamsite under Windows 2000 and Solaris
• Worked with Visual Café, Borland JBuilder, Rational Rose, Visio, UML, Visual Source Safe, MS Project
• Led and trained a team of Java developers
• For consulting assignments see: Harcourt, Reed Elsevier positions
E-Commerce Software Engineer

European Dynamics

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

March 2000 — June 2000 (4 months)

• Developed complete server-side and client-side solutions for web multi-tier, highly-scalable architectures on Windows NT and HP-UX
• Created software components for portals, e-shops clients and managers, e-malls using various enterprise technologies including IIS, Site Server, SQL Server, Visual Interdev, Visual C++, WebSphere, Oracle JDeveloper, Visio/UML
• Internationalized and localized all portals, e-shops and e-malls to Greek and English
• Involved in projects full cycle including architecture design, implementation, scalability and performance testing, functionality testing and documentation
• Worked in a big development team using Visual Source Safe
• Server-side programming with ASP, C++, ISAPI Filters, Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript, SQL, Java, JSP, XML/XSLT
• Client-side programming using Java AWT/Swing, JavaScript, Macromedia Flash, HTML, CSS
Java Development Lead

RoSmart Software

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — March 2000 (3 months)

• Designed and developed a wide range of Java Swing Applets/Applications and J2EE web solutions
• Led and trained a group of swing and web developers
• Developed Chat Applets, HTTP Client/Server solutions, Database Applet/Application client
• Internationalized and localized applets and applications to English and French
• Worked at J2EE web applications using Java, JSP, Servlets on open source architectures including Apache, Tomcat, MySQL and Linux
• Coordinated all of the Java Team projects
Software Engineer

Pro3Soft

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 1999 — March 2000 (4 months)

• Developed Visual C++ applications for a wide range of hardware devices and measurement instruments
• Led and trained a team of three C++ programmers
• Maintained the communications between the Italian engineering team working at the parent company in Italy and the local Romanian team.
• Internationalized, localized and translated the applications, documentation and corporate web site to Romanian, Italian and English
• Worked closely with the hardware engineers
• Redesigned the existing 16-bit versions of the products and implemented 32-bit versions
• Developed software for flash memory read/write
• Created applications for conversions among many file formats used by the company’s products line
• Maintained, tested, fixed and improved the company’s software products
Software Engineer/QA

WinEurope

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1999 — July 1999 (3 months)

• Internationalized, localized and translated from English to German the NEC's Web Animation Producer
• Programmed with the Visual C++/MFC, HTML, web graphics
• Developed the localized help system
• Beta tested the Web Animation Producer, both English and German versions
• See NEC position
Localization Engineer/QA

NEC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NIPNY; Computer Software industry)

May 1999 — July 1999 (3 months)

• Internationalized, localized and translated from English to German the Web Animation Producer
• Developed the localized help system
• Beta tested the Web Animation Producer, both English and German versions
Exchange Student – Tempus Scholarship

Technical University of Vienna

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 1999 — July 1999 (6 months)

• Developed and defended the Diploma Thesis with the title: “Reactive Navigation and Planning in Multi Agent Systems”
• Built new real-time multithreaded software, in Visual C++ 6.0 under Windows NT, for the Robot Soccer team of TU Vienna
• Created a multitasking strategy module based on reactive navigation for both software and physical agents (robots), module successfully used by the Austrian team – 1999 European Champion in the MIROSOT competition
• Programmed the Robot Soccer Simulation application for testing the module with software agents and for using machine learning algorithms
• Researched AI learning, intercommunication, cooperation, multithreading

Codrin Bucur’s Education

Technische Universität Wien

BS , Computer Engineering/Robotics , 1999 — 1999
Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca

MS , Computer Engineering/Automation , 1994 — 1999
Computer Science High School in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

High School Diploma , Computer Science , 1990 — 1994
Generala 2, Cluj

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Codrin Bucur’s Interests:

architecture, soa, bpm, enterprise, software, skydiving, psychology, meditation, mindfulness, astronomy, space exploration, space ventures, history, movies, ethnic food, wine, travel, fishing, fencing, archery, hiking, tennis, biking, soccer, ping pong, chess, social computing, web 2.0, investing, consulting, open source, engineering, scalability, globalization, translation, robotics, artificial intelligence, java

Codrin Bucur’s Groups:

The Planetary Society, New Hampshire Astronomical Society (NHAS), Boston Astronomy Meetup (organizer), Nashua Space Exploration Meetup (organizer), NEJUG, WebTech, Boston Java Meetup, Ecademy, Boston Ecademy, aSmallWorld, Ryze, Soflow, OpenBC, Plaxo