Bogdan Gheorghe Sales Engineer at Acronis bogdan.gheorghe@gmx.com Experience Sales Engineer at Acronis January 2013 - Present (9 months) Presales Support for Acronis Corporate Products Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development. Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures Helping customers to install Acronis Backup & Recovery Software into their environment Technologies involved: Backup solution for VMware (ESX, vsphere, vcloud, VMs), Windows Server & Linux, MS Exchange and SQL, MS Cluster, Linux Cluster, RHEV, XenCitrix, Parallels, MS Hyper-V, Workstations New technologies: Apple for Windows (ExtremeZ-IP for MacOSX, mobilecho for ios and Android, activecho) IT Specialist - Windows Servers at IBM Global Services Delivery Center - Brno, Czech Republic August 2011 - January 2013 (1 year 6 months) - Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008 Active Directory, RDP, Symantec Enterprise Antivirus, Clustering, Print Server - Vmware ESXi, ESX 4.0 Save procedures, deleting snapshots, installing VMs, resource allocation, restore procedures, manage VMs - UNIX environment ESX maintaining, DB interrogation (Oracle), maintaining services on servers - DPP (Deflection and Prevention Program) Quality Analist for my team - Trainings for communication, time-management, Windows Servers, VMware - Analyze the processes within customer environment, analyze the incidents and propose solutions for processes automatisation Consultant at Freelance March 2011 - July 2011 (5 months) Various Consulting Projects - IT consultancy projects (HW and SW infrastructure needs, acquisitions of equipments, peripherals etc); Agreements for outsourcing IT activities for small companies (server administration, maintaining network, PC's etc); Selling equipments (Panasonic TVs, computers, servers, routers, switches, laptops, mobile phones); IT Manager at Protan S.A. July 2010 - March 2011 (9 months) Updated IT model to cope with geographically dispersed locations in the country, unifying communications. Page1
Implemented VPN links and provided the following services: Email, File Storage, VPN access, ERP system consolidation (database transfer from branch offices to headquarters). Changed the Email system from Qmail to Postfix for optimal management of user accounts, better resource allocation and future integration with Active Directory. This included replacement of outdated former server. Initiate changing and upgrading of current ERP system in order to integrate all company information flows (Finance and Accounting, HR, Production, Asset Inventory). Main objective: increase management efficiency of collecting fleet activity, consisting of: - install electronic axle scales on collecting trucks; - implement additional ERP module, based on GPS devices (palm), installed on collecting trucks, in order to electronically send weight information; Design, implement and maintain firewall and VPN solutions; Maintain phisycal network (routers, switches, servers, cables, workstations, laptops); Manage network services (Email, DNS, SSH etc.); Optimize and supervise the network transfers and data transmisions; HelpDesk support within the Office and branch offices (Laptops and WKS, printers, file-server access); Maintain the relationships with suppliers and vendors; Verify IT parts offers from vendors regarding the compliance and price; Inventory and management of large and diverse hardware components and software library. Freelance Consultant at Freelancer October 2008 - June 2010 (1 year 9 months) Various Consulting Projects - IT consultancy projects (HW and SW infrastructure needs, acquisitions of equipments, peripherals etc); Agreements for outsourcing IT activities for small companies (server administration, maintaining network, PC's etc); Help on designing a newsletter application (www.whiteimage.net); Selling equipments (Panasonic TVs, computers, servers, routers, switches, laptops, mobile phones); IT Specialist at Wrigley Romania April 2007 - September 2008 (1 year 6 months) 70000 EUR savings for HQ office relocation project. HQ office relocation: - design and implement network, move to IPT system (Cisco); - coordinate with 3 different vendors teams (furniture, cabling and Wrigley Global IT); Work on various projects: - WERA (internal Wrigley Palm data collection and monitoring) - migrating palms to GPRS system; - Sales and Forecast Application - server acquisition and application installation; Page2
IT infrastructure management ensuring good quality and availability for all IT services; Maintain of physical network (Cisco - routers, switches, servers - HP, cables, workstations, laptops); Maintain Email accounts and user access; Maintain the relationships with suppliers and vendors (Dell, HP, Vodafone); HelpDesk support within the Office and Sales Field (Laptops and WKS, printers, file-server access) Verifying IT parts offers from partners regarding the compliance and price. 1 recommendation available upon request Hardware Product Manager at Net Consulting April 2006 - February 2007 (11 months) Manage portfolio consisting of printers (HP vs. Lexmark, Xerox, Canon, Kyocera, etc.), servers, storages, workstations, laptops (HP, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Dell, Acer, NEC etc.); Offer clients solutions, based on hardware equipment; Support sales personnel in designing hardware and sometime software solutions; Participate at training sessions (HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, Dell etc.);; Keep constantly aware of latest IT technologies on the market. IT Coordinator at Panasonic Romania February 2005 - April 2006 (1 year 3 months) 15000-20000 EUR savings on manpower when migrating from Web-mail/Outlook to Lotus Domino. Finalized project in 3 days. Deadline was 7 days. Maintain the network, including equipment, harware, software updates etc.; Manage Email accounts; Find best suited solutions for future activities (surveillance cameras, mail migration, website hosting); Monitor critical activities, printers, intrusion systems; Verify IT components offers from partners regarding compliance and price; Participate at IT conferences and trainings within Panasonic Europe Group regarding the future of IT activities; Contact person for all IT related activities between Panasonic Romania - on one side and Panasonic Eastern Group (Vienna) and Panasonic Europe (Hamburg) - on the other side. 1 recommendation available upon request Hardware Consultant at Ara Digital Software February 2003 - February 2005 (2 years 1 month) Physical network implementation of bank office in 2 weeks. Deadline was 4 weeks. Maintain the network (DBA, firewall, Exchange Mail, DNS); Page3
Manage relationship with clients and partners; Make financial offers for the clients regarding acquisitions of hardware/software solutions; Build UTP networks (cables, switches), Linux Server installation for other clients and/or partners and maintain those servers and networks; Test functionality of equipments before delivery (OS installation, updates to OS, etc). Languages English French (Full professional proficiency) (Limited working proficiency) Skills & Expertise Hardware Servers Storage Linux Windows Operating Systems Architecture Virtualization Active Directory Clustering System Administration VMware Computer Hardware Cluster IT Service Management DNS Unix Server Administration Cisco Technologies Technical Support VMware ESX Windows Server VPN Firewalls Education Academia de Studii Economice din Bucure#ti Graduate, Management, 1996-2002 Navy high school 1991-1995 Page4
Interests Technologies, Sport Projects Linux Desktop June 2013 to Present Members:Bogdan Gheorghe, Adela Gheorghe Windows desktop migration to Linux No Windows license, no anti-virus license, no Office license. 400 EUR saving per computer No Exchange, no AD, no MS SQL, no Sharepoint - just Linux. 700 EUR saving per server Page5
Bogdan Gheorghe Sales Engineer at Acronis bogdan.gheorghe@gmx.com 2 people have recommended Bogdan "I have been colleague with Bogdan in the period 2007-2008 when he was IT Specialist for Wrigley. During this period of time I have noticed Bogdan being a very helpful person, offering his support anytime there was something needed. I have also noticed Bogdan being a curious person looking for new things to learn in his field of activitiy or side domanins." Ion Gabriel Chirvase, People Learning & Development Manager Balkan East, Wrigley, worked with Bogdan at Wrigley Romania "I met Bogdan during his period at Panasonic Romania, where he was the IT Coordinator. Bogdan was an important member of our team and his work was very much appreciated. He proved himself as a very good team player with positive personality and good knowledge upon his field of work. He is eager to learn new things and proactively solve all the business related issues. I highly recommend Bogdan." Laurentiu-Anton Faur, Sales Coordinator, Panasonic Romania, worked with Bogdan at Panasonic Romania Contact Bogdan on LinkedIn Page6