Positions

Period

Department Manager Software QA, Océ Software, Timisoara, Romania

Océ is one of the world-wide leading players in the professional digital printing field. Océ Software Timisoara is one of the six world-wide competence centres in digital-printing related software R&D.

·         management of the Software Quality Engineers and Project Managers assigned to him

·         management of the master software quality plans assigned to him

·         delivery of agreed objectives (functionality and quality) on time and on budget

·         conformance to the site processes

·         member of the R&D management team

·         chair of the Change Control Board

03/2005 – 2006

Quality Manager, FusionQ, Timisoara, Romania

·         defined the entire Quality Management System according to ISO 9001:2000

·         defined the development process according to IBM RUP and using the know-how of SEI CMMI

·         planning of quality assurance activities

·         conceived test plans for unit/integration/regression testing

·         defined and applied quality metrics for process and product measurements

·         training responsible for verification and validation methodologies

08/2004 – 03/2005

Sr. Quality Engineer, Siemens VDO Automotive, Timisoara, Romania

·         definition and implementation of internal audits according to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 19011

·         monitoring activity using quality metrics

·         supervising the milestone review process

·         acting as an agent for continuous improvement

·         supervising the Quality group

·         training the new employees in QA-related issues

09/2003 – 07/2004

Software Engineer, Siemens VDO Automotive, Timisoara, Romania

·         development of support software tools for the Powertrain department (greatest accomplishment: proprietary data compression tool, which tripled the mass production of Engine Control Units in Siemens VDO Toulouse)

·         technical support for the Powertrain department, regarding project development and the development platforms

·         unit-test expert

·         change-management system responsible

·         trainer for the new employees on unit-testing and change-request system

07/2002 – 09/2003

Software Engineer, Sava Technologies, Timisoara, Romania

·         software design & development (major project: Workflow-systems framework developed with Java, EJB, XML)

·         Linux network/systems administrator

·         Tool support: Apache, cruise-control, tomcat, CVS, ant etc.

10/2000 – 07/2002

Course Assistant, Politehnica University, Timisoara, Romania

·         course assistant for the "Operating systems" course (4th year software engineering students)

10/2000 – 02/2001

Researcher, ESLAB, Linkoping University, Sweden

·         researcher at the Embedded Systems Laboratory (accomplishments: presented/published research in various intl. conferences, including the IEEE ISORC 2000);

·         course assistant for the "Real-time Systems" course

04/1999 – 04/2000

Network/Systems Engineer, RoEduNet, Timisoara, Romania

·         main network administrator for the Timisoara node of the Romanian academic ISP, RoEduNet (Linux, Solaris/SunOS, Cisco)

·         main network administrator for the Computer Science + Automation departments' networks

03/1996 – 04/1999

Major Projects

·         Definition of the Quality Management System according to ISO9001:2000, FusionQ (2004)

·         Implementation of Internal Audits: Siemens VDO Automotive, P ED SW Timisoara thus became the first Siemens VDO location to have ISO 9001:2000 compliant internal audits. (2004)

·         Proprietary Data Compression Tool for Siemens VDO Automotive, Timisoara/Toulouse (2003-06 – 2003-09) – as a result, the reprogramming speed of the microcontroller flash memory was tripled, yielding a major breakthrough in mass production of ECU systems in Siemens VDO Automotive Toulouse.

·         Modeling of Real-Time Embedded Systems in an Object-Oriented Design Environment with UML, Linkoping University, Sweden (1999-04 – 1999-09)

Published Research (selected)

·         R. Jigorea, S. Manolache, P. Eles, Z. Peng, "Modeling of Real-Time Embedded Systems in an Object-Oriented Design Environment with UML", The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC2K), Newport Beach, California, March 2000.

·         R. Jigorea, S. Manolache, P. Eles, Z. Peng, "Modelling and Simulation of Heterogeneous Embedded Systems with UML", The 1999 Conference of the Scandinavian Simulation Society -- SIMS99, Linkoping, Sweden, pp. 160-167.

·         R. Jigorea, S. Manolache, "Using UML to Model Heterogeneous Real-Time Systems", graduation thesis, 1999 (supervised by P. Eles and Z. Peng at the Embedded Systems Laboratory, IDA, Linkoping University).

·         R. Jigorea, L. Pajtek, "Neural Networks Image Compression: A Way to Real-time Movie Transmission Over Slow Serial Lines", ROSE'96 Intl. Conference Proceedings, Bucharest 1996, pp. 188-192.

Desktop software:

MS-Office suite, MS Project, OpenOffice, emacs, X32, FrameMaker, PhotoShop, CorelDRAW etc.

Programming languages:

Expert level: C/C++, Perl, Java, Pascal, Shell scripts, PHP

Good: Assembly, Prolog, Lisp, VHDL, ADA

Technologies and Methods:

IBM RUP, SEI CMMI, HTML/CGI related, UML, XML, PVM, SQL databases etc.

Specific tools:

Rational Suite (Rose, ClearQuest, TestManager, Test Real-Time, Coverage etc.), Mercury (QualityCenter/TestDirector, QuickTest Pro), Rhapsody, IBM VisualAge etc.

Networking at admin level:

UNIX/Linux/SunOS/Solaris, Windows NT/2000/XP, Cisco routers etc.

Hardware related:

Practical experience with hardware issues (microcontrollers, microprocessors, cache memory architectures, board/chip design, microcomputer architecture, interfaces, ethernet, using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers etc.)

Management related:

Able to motivate people; able to moderate and conduct business meetings; good perspective upon the development processes; excellent analysis and synthesis abilities; able to make estimations on time or costs; able to think at an abstract/conceptual level, taking specific details into consideration; problem-solving oriented; excellent communication skills.

Spare time

Fine-art photography (http://www.jigorea.com/)

Playing piano (jazz, classical)
Post-modern literature