Ecaterina Valică

Current

Usability and Design Engineer at XWiki, Iasi

Past

Summer Intern at XWiki, Paris
Spring 2009 Participant at Mozilla Labs Design Challenge
Corporate Relations Member at AIESEC Iaşi

Research Assistant at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University
Google Summer of Code 2008 Student at XWiki
Web Designer at Code40

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Education

Universitatea 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' din Iasi
Universitatea 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' din Iasi
"Ion Luca", Vatra-Dornei

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Ecaterina Valică’s Summary

Good knowledge of Web Technologies, Java Programming Language and Human-Computer Interaction Theory. Careful on Standards Compliance and User Experience. Particularly interested in developing projects on the client-side.

I wrote a book chapter called "Aplicaţii hibride: mashup-uri" (Hybrid Applications: Mashups) for the "Programarea în Web 2.0" (Web 2.0 Programming), Polirom Publishing House, Iaşi, Nov 2007 (ISBN 978-973-46-0816-4).

Ecaterina Valică’s Specialties:

Programming Languages:
Java
JavaScript

Web Design and Development:
XML, XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01
XML Schema, DTD
RDF, RDF Schema, OWL
XSLT, CSS 2.0
XPath, XQuery

Database Systems:
Oracle

Ecaterina Valică’s Experience

Usability and Design Engineer

XWiki, Iasi

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

My responsibility is to improve XWiki products' interface, in order to make the products easier to use.

I gather interface requirements, make specifications, analysis, wireframes, mockups and prototypes for the interface proposals. The technologies used are HTML, CSS, Velocity, JavaScript, SVG.
Summer Intern

XWiki, Paris

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2009 — September 2009 (3 months)

Worked on improving the Blog application, UX standards and created the XWiki 2.0's Colibri skin.
Spring 2009 Participant

Mozilla Labs Design Challenge

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — April 2009 (3 months)

I won Mozilla's Design Challenge Spring 2009 in the entry Best in Class: Innovation, for the solution that has "the newest / most original interaction model".

My prototype and proposal "Collaborative Research on a Virtual Desk" can be seen at http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/spring09/
Corporate Relations Member

AIESEC Iaşi

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year )

I worked on corporate partnership development and services towards the external market for AIESEC Iaşi [www.aieseciasi.ro].
Research Assistant

"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University

(Education Management industry)

October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year )

"Computer-Human Interaction" Laboratory held to third year Bachelor students in Computer Science Faculty [www.infoiasi.ro].

My responsibility was to prepare the laboratory and evaluate the projects of 169 students for this discipline.
Google Summer of Code 2008 Student

XWiki

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

I worked on "XWiki Watch: UI & Ergonomics Improvements" project for XWiki [www.xwiki.org].
I was sponsored by Google as part of their Summer of Code 2008 [code.google.com/soc/2008] open-source programme.
Web Designer

Code40

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — August 2006 (2 months)

The Summer School was organized by Code 40 [www.code40.ro] in partnership with the Faculty of Computer Sciences in Iaşi and Microsoft Romania.

My responsibility was to create the graphic web design for a banking application, using 'ASP.NET Themes and Skins' and CSS.

Ecaterina Valică’s Education

Universitatea 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' din Iasi

M.Sc. , Computer Science , 2007 — 2009

Graduation paper titled “Semantically linked data in the context of personal information management”, 2009

Software Engineering Specialization
Master I+II Student Representant in Faculty of Computer Science Council (2007-2008)
Infoiasi.ro website administrator (2007-2009)

I participated in conferences like ROCHI 2007, ROCHI 2008, Eliberatica 2008, Eliberatica 2009. I have degrees from Business Management School 2008 and BRIO 2008 organized by AIESEC Iaşi.

Activities and Societies:

AIESEC Iaşi
Universitatea 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' din Iasi

B.Sc. , Computer Science , 2003 — 2007

Graduation paper titled “Mashup techniques for Web interactions in Geographical Informational Systems”, 2007

I participated in different workshops on Web Technologies like "Summer Web 2007", "Summer Web 2006", "November Web 2005". I received the "Special Award for Microformats" in 2006 and "Best Presentation" in 2007 with the talk "Mashups - work you don't have to do".
"Ion Luca", Vatra-Dornei

High School , Mathematics-Computer Science , 1999 — 2003

Graduated with an average grade of 9.50 (on a 1 to 10 scale);
Professional certification on Computer Abilities with the title "Analist Programator";

Activities and Societies:

Redactor at "Altfel" newspaper;
Part of "Sanitarii Priceputi" team organized by Crucea Roşie;
Part of Theatre Team;
Participated in Radio Orion teen talks