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May 2007-Today: Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is an investment bank, retail broker, and credit card provider headquartered in New York City.
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June 2005-May 2007: Banc of America Securities LLC one of the largest listed option dealers in the market
 - Front-office developer for the "Risk Engine" team
- Redesigned and developed from scratch high performance C++ application that calculates the prices for virtually any security. The application also calculates all the greeks for securities.
- Worked very closely with the Quants.
- The application can also apply configurable scenarios (used to generates trader heatmaps and VaR). It uses DataSynapse to distribute the intensive calculations. It uses gSOAP to retrieve the input data in the XML format. The Xerces library was used the parse the XML and extract the data (the code compiles/runs on both Windows/Linux platforms)
- Intensively use of the boost library (multithreading, command-line options, smart pointers, tuples) Petru`s ScopeGuard was included in the boost library.
- Used design patters like visitor, object factory, singleton.
- Responsible for the full cycle of the application, from design, coding to testing, deployment and support.
- Created a WTL GUI interface for the security pricer, for easier use from Windows.
- Experience with the C++ services model of DataSynapse, gSOAP, Xerces libraries.
- Rewrite application that generates the P/L and very much improving the error handling, readability of the code, logging.
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November 2002-June 2005: Bear Stearns a leading investment banking, securities and brokerage firm
 - Front-office developer for the Structured Equity Finance desk
- Lead development of a new system to price and manage the risk of barrier options, total return swaps, pass-through certificates (and plan to extend it to include principal-protected notes, loans and warrants) on the baskets of hedge funds or fund of funds. The system verifies the compliance with various guidelines and creates various client reports.
- Designed generic panels in C# using the Syncfusion datagrid
- The reports were designed using Crystal Reports
- Support for CFD (Contract for Differences) and Swap products
- Developed various spreadsheets (VBA) to assist the trader with different calculations.
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June 2001-November 2002: ILX Systems a subsidiary of the Thomson Corporation
 - C++ senior developer
- Redesigned and implemented a complex ActiveX that emulates a TN3270 terminal
- The ActiveX will be used as part of the ActiveILX workstation
- Strong knowledge of the C++ language, STL, COM/ATL, Windows 2000
- I also created a wrapper for a third-party component that emulates the TN3270 terminal (RUMBA) that makes possible automated logging to the mainframe server
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March 1998-June 2001: Plural Inc. News: Dell Acquires Plural
 - C++ senior developer
- Designed and implemented three tier applications using C++, MTS, SQL Server 7.0, Internet Information Server
- Created COM components using STL, ATL (including OLE-DB wrapper classes)
- Strong knowledge of the C++ language, COM/ATL, Windows NT, MFC
- Also Linux (RedHat 6.2, gcc 2.95.2) and Windows CE 3.0 knowledge
- Clients: NASDAQ, priceline.com, Chase, Plural Inc., Imagine Networks, Metiom Inc. (formerly Intelisys Electronic Commerce)
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September 1995-January 1998: Strategic Information Technology US-Romanian, specialized in software development
- Analyst and senior programmer
- Achieved intensive courses and training in the following domains: Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming, Visual C++ 4.x/5.0, Win32 API, OLE 2.0, MFC, Client/Server Technology
- Tools used: Windows 95/NT 4.0, Visual C++ 4.x, SQL Server, Visual SourceSafe, Visual Test
- The projects developed with SIT are Netonizer TM, NewsSurfer TM, CDWings TM and Web Remote Control TM, tools for information management and Internet access
- NewsSurfer TM sold in the US and Romania
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September 1994-September 1995: Monte Carlo Holdings
- Analyst-programmer
- Tools used: Borland C++ 2.0, 3.1, FoxPro 2.x DBMS, Watcom C v.8.5
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May 1993-September 1994: M.C. Software Ltd specialized in hardware services and software development
- First as part-time hardware specialist, then as analyst-programmer
- Software tools used: Watcom C 8.5, Borland C++ 2.0-3.1, Microsoft FoxPro 2.0-2.5-2.6, Microsoft Macro Assembler
- Qualified in: operating systems (DOS, Windows), system software, application software, Novell network administration, computers and peripherals installation, diagnosis and maintenance
- Greatest project here: "PSI - the investigation system of unconventional psychic resources", developed for "The Ministry Of Research and Technology"
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January 1993-March 1993: New Systems Ltd. hardware/software company
- Network installations, assembly-level programming
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