Mihai Costache

Mihai Costache

Country Delivery Manager at Optaros

Romania

Current
  • Country Delivery Manager at Optaros
Past
  • Programmer Analyst at Orange Romania
  • Software Engineer at Festo G.m.b.H.
Education
  • Economics University of Bucharest
  • Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Connections
200 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

Mihai Costache’s Summary

· Organizational change management.
· Technical and managerial innovation.
· Leadership in complex global environments.
· Setting up and leading software development organizations.
· Setting product and organization direction and executing in ambiguous environments.
· Enterprise software, Software as a Service (SaaS).
· Expert in various programming and implementation techniques, data modeling and system design
· Vast hands-on experience in all aspects of software development
· Strong know-how of the full development cycle: architecture, design, programming, optimizations
· Achieved outstanding results implementing large-scale multi-tier and distributed systems
· Ambitious, task-oriented, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, focused, quality of work
· Delivering high quality of work in the development of Internet applications, with specific demands of high availability, secure access, and high-speed content delivery
· 10+ year career integrating technology and all phases of applications development process including architecture, design, development, test definition, integration and support
· Expertise in OO analysis, design and implementation using Java, C++
· Expert in OO design patterns, algorithm implementation, multitasking and multithread programming for complex real time applications.
team leadership and project management.
· Successful track record working with first-line companies – Oracle Corporation, Orange, Otto G.m.b.H. Germany, Forever Living Products
· Expertise in the design, implementation and maintenance of multi-tier systems in a distributed architecture.
· Extensive Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Enterprise Application Design (EAD) experience.

Mihai Costache’s Specialties:

- Java (JDK, Swing, JDBC, J2EE, JavaBeans,, EJB, JNDI, JSP, Servlets, Struts, JMS, etc)
- RDMBS (Oracle, MySQL, MS_SQL, etc)
- XML (DOM, SAX, XSLT, DTD)
- Development tools (JDK 1.4, NetBeans, JBuilder, Sun Workshop, Sun Studio, Rational Rose, Ant, Make, UML, IntelliJ Ideea, XML Spy, JDeveloper )


Mihai Costache’s Experience

  • Country Delivery Manager

    Optaros

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2008Present (1 year 8 months)

    Building the development center in Bucharest, with main focus on the Support and Client Delivery Organizations.
    • Develop the Support and Client Delivery Organizations in the Romanian Development Team.
    • Implement ITIL concepts in the Support Organization to better deliver support to our internal and external clients.
    • Ensuring the team delivers the highest level of customer satisfaction.
    • Negotiate with company clients SLA and making sure it is respected during the support contact lifetime.
    • Hiring and manage the whole team in Bucharest (up to 25 persons).
    • Constantly monitor and evaluate team and individuals performances and tune them according to company needs.
    • Build and lead the international support team (currently team members in 4 different countries).
    • Coaching new or non-performing team members.
    • Performance Management for the entire Bucharest office.
    • Provide regular statuses of all teams in this office to the upper management

  • Software Development Manager

    Oracle Corporation

    (Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

    January 2007May 2008 (1 year 5 months)

    Leading international development teams to implement on demand applications for the Global Support Organization.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Oracle Corporation

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

    February 2004January 2007 (3 years )

    Develop custom software solutions for Oracle Corporation (Support Organization).

  • Senior Programmer/Analyst

    Otto Software Development

    (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2000February 2004 (3 years 5 months)

    Design and implementation of a Java framework, which was further used for integrating all the business modules.
    Design and implementation of reusable components both for GUI (client side) and server side.
    XML modeling architecture for building dynamic GUI.
    Database migration from the mainframe (AS400) to Oracle relational database.
    Server authorization and authentication framework design and implementation using JAAS and EJB.
    Data modeling for business objects from the GUI to the database and objects exchange framework implementation
    JUnit test classes to perform automatic tests for the framework

  • Programmer Analyst

    Orange Romania

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 2000October 2000 (7 months)

    On-demand applications for company’s large customers (accounts)

  • Software Engineer

    Festo G.m.b.H.

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 1998April 2000 (1 year 9 months)

    On-demand applications for company’s large customers (accounts)
    Java programming for accounting module of the company
    Software developer for IPC: Good knowledge of C++ (OOP oriented) language and knowledge of FST (Industrial PC programming language)
    Find technical solutions for automations
    Together with clients find technical solutions specially designed for their needs
    Write specifications and technical reports


Mihai Costache’s Education

  • Economics University of Bucharest

    PhD , eCommerce applications and their impact in global economy , July 2002December 2007

  • Polytechnic University of Bucharest

    MS , Electronics, Telecommunications and Computer Science , September 1991July 1997


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