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Experience

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  SintecMedia

  Dec 2005 - Dec 2010

  Oracle RDBMS Engineer

  From PL/SQL Developer, PERL developer to RDBMS Performance Engineer.It was probably 9i when I first touched an Oracle Database and I was hooked. Primarily worked on Data Migration projects (bringing up to 70 legacy systems under the proprietary OnAir system) and Performance Engineering projects (customer go-live support, benchmarking, scalability tests, and close work with application development)

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  Misys

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2011

  Oracle Database Administrator

  My first upgrade to 11g and a bit of tuning

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  Temenos

  Jul 2011 - Apr 2013

  Oracle Database Administrator

  Production DBA in 11g. Active Data Guard and all the good stufff. Getting serious about Enterprise requirementsApps DBA - E-Biz

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  Oracle

  Apr 2013 - Mar 2018

  Senior Manager, PaaS & IaaS Implementation across ANZ region in APAC Customer Success Manage and lead a team of Cloud PaaS and IaaS technical experts part of EMEA Customer Success organization.Lead the Escalation Management efforts for EMEA Customer Success Absorb knowledge, analyze information and assist Customer Success Managers to take best decisions for customer's Journey to Cloud. Part of EMEA PaaS&IaaS Customer Success. Create, deliver content and provide advise on Data Management for customers and partners across EMEA Core Technology (Database and Options) Engineer within EMEA Presales Center. One month in and was touching 12c beta software. Great times. Oversee Multitenant architecture aka Pluggable Databases for EMEA presales ecosystem, In-Memory Columnar Store and anything performance related.Volunteering with Oracle Academy to support academia environment

  • Senior Manager, Tech Cloud Customer Success

    Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Manager, Tech Cloud Customer Success

    Oct 2016 - Jul 2017

  • Principal Consultant - Data Management / Team Lead Customer Success

    Nov 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Senior PreSales Consultant - Data Management

    Apr 2013 - Oct 2015
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  ING Romania

  Mar 2018 - now

  Lead the IT area who builds Payment platforms and services for all bank's businesses and all client segments Datalake and DWH application development from design to consumption.Lead a team of 95+ analysts, data modelers, ETL engineers, QA engineers, DevOps and BI consultants. Data Lake development chapter lead

  • IT Area Lead, Payments

    Jan 2025 - now

  • IT Area Lead, Data

    Aug 2020 - Dec 2024

  • Chapter Lead, Application Development

    Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
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  University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

  Oct 2018 - now

  Visiting Instructor

  Delivering Data Management courses to undergraduate students.Topics vary from Data Modeling, Design principles for OLTP / DWH, Data Lakes, Data Security to Cloud and Autonomous Databases.Objective is to give industry and real world expertise to academia rather than theoretical concepts.

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  ISO - International Organization for Standardization

  Nov 2018 - now

  Romania national committee member

  ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 "Data management and interchange" - Romania national committee member since 2018ISO/IEC JTC1/ SC42 "Artificial Intelligence" - Romania national committee member since 2024ISO/TC 68/ SC 9 - "Information exchange for financial services" - Romania national committee member since 2025