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Cristian Gheorghiu

Angestellt, Principal Engineer I - Broadcast Systems Engineering., DIRECTV
El Segundo, United States of America

Skills

Over sixteen years of IT experience doing Analysis
Application Design
Implementation
Functional areas include- Data analysis
performance improvement
E-Commerce
Transport
Energy
Banking.
Application expertise: C/C++
Java and C#/.NET and applications in the client/se
process control
multi-threading
(POSIX 1003.1 Pthread Standard
win32 threads)
Strong working network programming experience usin
stream pipes
FIFO
Message Queues
Shared Memory)
signals and signal handlers.
NoSQL(Redis)
SQL Server
Oracle
DB2
Informix
Sybase
MySQL
Watcom SQL
SQLite
Data Modeling
XML
Database Architecture. CLI
OCI
Active Data Objects (ADO)
OLEDB
ODBC
MFC and BDE classes
Message Routing & Queuing: AMQP
Apache QPID
ZeroMQ
Google ProtoBuf
MSMQ - Identification- Bar-coding
Magnetic & Smart-Card Readers
Programming Languages- C/C++
C#
Java
Perl
AWK
shell scripting
Envionments: UNIX (AIX
Solaris
Data General
FreeBSD
Open-Solaris)
Linux (Slackware
Debian
Red-Hat
Ubuntu
OpenWRT)
Windows (3.1
NT
95
2000&2003 Server
XP
Vista
7)
Hardware: i386
RS/6000
SUN-Sparc
Dec-Alpha
Motorola 68HC05

Timeline

Professional experience for Cristian Gheorghiu

  • Current 12 years and 5 months, since Aug 2012

    Principal Engineer I - Broadcast Systems Engineering.

    DIRECTV

    Developing and supporting TSI (Traffic System Interface) a subsystem that receives channel, program, and schedule information, and processes it into a format for use by other APG (Advanced Program Guide) subsystems. Environment & Programming: SunOS, C/C++/Java/Sybase/shell scripting

  • 4 years and 6 months, Mar 2008 - Aug 2012

    Senior Software engineer, Dispatching Systems.

    Burlington Northern Santa Fe

    Developing and supporting railroad mission critical Technology Services train dispatching support systems within the Dispatching Gateway. Gathering requirements, design, code, test, document, and using C/C++ or .Net and C# to develop and implement Windows GUI client, SQL server, and Windows server real time software systems and applications in a LAN-WAN TCP/IP environment.

  • 2 years and 8 months, Aug 2005 - Mar 2008

    Consulting Senior Software Engineer on BNSF site.

    CCCi

    Requirements analysis, research, design, development, testing, implementing and supporting real time data acquisition, engineering analysis of train movements and GPS track information to enhance ride quality and aid in the supervision and dispatching of train movements and prevention of train derailments. Software development OOD/OOP/C++ TCP/IP Unix.

  • 9 months, Nov 2004 - Jul 2005

    Consulting Senior Software Engineer

    Infinite Computer Solutions Ltd.

    Working on a contract for Verizon Data Services. Responsible for analysis, design, research, development, test and implementation of server side modules, for the Broadband DSL migration. Environment & Programming: SunOS, C/C++/Java/Informix/shell scripting.

  • 3 years and 8 months, Apr 2001 - Nov 2004

    Consulting AIX Systems Developer

    Integrated Systems Management

    Working on a contract for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (http://www.bnsf.com/). Responsible for research, design and development of various modules on CAD (Computer Aided Dispatching) systems. Environment & Programming: AIX 5.2 - RS/6000, Windows - i386, C, C++, C#, Perl, shell scripting.

  • 8 months, Aug 2000 - Mar 2001

    Developer Trainee

    USA-IT

    Developer Trainee - Developing applications for E-commerce, WAP, network solutions. Technologies: ADO, DCOM, ASP, Scriptlets, J Script, VB Script, IIS, over MS Windows Platforms

  • 3 years and 9 months, Oct 1996 - Jun 2000

    Senior Developer

    Systems Ltd.

    Developed software applications for use in electronic-banking solutions for EFT-POS Systems. Host solutions for Electronic Payment systems. Communication protocols, (developing modules for x.25 interface, serial comm over dialup lines, GSM PC with GSM modems, electronic payment terminals and magnetic/chip card readers/writers), & database architecture.

  • 3 years and 2 months, Sep 1993 - Oct 1996

    Electrical Engineer

    Electrica S.A.

    Electrical Engineer with Software Development duties. Design & implementation of pplications for calculating Optimal Use Level for Systems composed of 20Kv Electric Power Networks and 20/0.4 Kv Transformers, Electrical Charge Curves Calculation, Forecasting for Electrical Energy Consumption. Designing Database for the Immobile Capital and complementary applications for maintaining and updating the above database.

Educational background for Cristian Gheorghiu

  • 4 years and 10 months, Sep 1988 - Jun 1993

    Electrical Engineering

    Politechnical University of Bucharest

    Electrical Actions

Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • Romanian

    First language

  • French

    Intermediate

  • German

    Basic

  • Italian

    Basic

  • Spanish

    Intermediate

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