Mihai Virtosu
OBJECTIVE
To gain experience in the workplace at a job or internship that applies to computer science and technology.
EDUCATION
University of Utah, School of Computing
Salt Lake City, UT 2005 - Present
- Master of Science Student
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Automatic Control and Computer Science Faculty
Bucharest, Romania 2000 - 2005
- Bachelor of Engineering
CERTIFICATIONS
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for Microsoft.NET
2003
- Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C#.NET and Microsoft .NET Framework (070 320), Date: 12/2003
- Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Arhitectures (070-300), Date: 11/2003
- Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (070 315), Date: 10/2003
- Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Mi- crosoft Visual Studio .NET (070-316), Date: 10/2003
- Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server TM 2000 Enterprise Edition (Exam 70-229), Date: 09/2003
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) for Microsoft.NET
2003
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
2003
Certificate of Assistant to Computer Programmer,issued by the Ministry of Education, Romania
2000
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
1999
WORK EXPERIENCE
Computer Science Teaching Assistant
Salt
Lake City, UT August 2005 - Present
- Employer: University of Utah
- Office hours, assignment explanation and demonstration, both in person and electronically.
Software Design Engineer
Bucharest, Romania July 2004 - February 2005
- Employer: Crinsoft
- Participated in developing a Windows Forms application that managed salaries and payments.
- Responsibilities: developing and testing new modules
- Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports
- Technologies: Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Crystal Reports
Research Assistant in the Intelligent Control Systems Department, Politehnica University of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania October 2003 - June 2004
- Joint work with my advisors Ion Dumitrache and Catalin Buiu on Evolutionary Methods of Computation and its applications to Automatic Control and Optimizations, with a special focus on Genetic Algorithms.
Software Design Engineer
Bucharest, Romania August 2003 - June 2004
- Employer: DBInternational
- Participated in developing a web application which handles and schedules maintainance tasks, repairs and incidents for buildings. The application had more than 30 ASP.NET pages, 6 desktop (Windows Forms) modules, 8 web services and a SQL Server database with more than 70 tables.
- Responsibilites: working on requests and solving bugs
- Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- Technologies: Web Forms, ADO.NET, Windows Forms, Web Services
Software Tester
Bucharest, Romania March 2003 - July 2003
- Employer: DBInternational
- Participated in testing a web application which handles and schedules maintainance tasks, repairs and incidents for buildings. The application had more than 30 ASP.NET pages, 6 desktop (Windows Forms) modules, 8 web services and a SQL Server database with more than 70 tables.
- Responsibilites: discrete modules testing
- Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- Technologies: Web Forms, ADO.NET, Windows Forms, Web Services
COMPUTER SKILLS
Programming Languages
- Microsoft C#.NET
- Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
- C/C++
- Assembly Language
Development Environments
- Microsoft Visual Studio.NET
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6
Smart Devices Programming (PDAs)
- Pocket PC (Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET 2003)
Database Engines
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- Microsoft Access
Internet Development
- Microsoft ASP.NET
- HTML
Word Processing
- Latex
- Microsoft Word
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Vibration Reduction in the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC)
Annecy, France March - June 2005
- Part of the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC) study at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Faculty supervisor: Jacques Lottin, PhD, Professor
- Laboratory: LISTIC (Laboratory for Computer Science, Systems, Information and Knowledge Processing), Ecole Superieure d’Ingenieurs d’Annecy, Universite de Savoie, France
Controller Optimization with Genetic Algoritmhs
Bucharest, Romania October 2003 - May 2004
- Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize PID Controllers’ Parameters
- Faculty supervisors: Ion Dumitrache, PhD, Professor, Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems and Catalin Buiu, PhD, Professor.
- Type of project: Software application
- Environments: Interface written in Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft .NET Framework and Business logic programming in Matlab. The connection between these two layers is done through COM Interop.
- Information web page: here
AWARDS
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 2005-2006
- Awarded out of state tuition Scholarship.
Politehnica University of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania 2000-2005
- Awarded Politehnica University of Bucharest Scholarship.
Politehnica University of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania May 2004
- Annual Session of Scientific Papers, Third Prize
- Title for the paper: An ASP.NET Web Application for Controller Optimization with Genetic Algoritmhs
National Olympiad for Computer Science
Romania 1998
- Fourth Place
National Olympiad for Computer Science
Romania 1997
- Second Place
National Olympiad for Physics
Romania 1996
- Third Place
EVRIKA National Physics Contest
Romania 1995
- Second Place
National Olympiad for Physics
Romania 1995
- Fourth Place
EVRIKA National Physics Contest
Romania 1994
- Third Place
National Olympiad for Computer Science
Romania 1994
- Second Place
National Olympiad for Computer Science
Romania 1993
- Second Place
LANGUAGES
- Romanian (native speaker)
- Fluent English
- Conversational French
References are available upon request.