CRISTIAN DANIEL RIZEA
Contact information
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Birthdate and place 05.01.1973 - Bucharest, Romania
WEB www.LaBursa.ro www.UnicSol.ro
Education
2004 – 2006 Executive MBA at INDE institute (CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) Paris – ASE Bucharest – www.inde.ro)
November 2003 – May 2004 Project Management at CODECS - The Open University
March – May 2002 Intellectual Property at WIPO Worldwide Academy
1991 – 1996 Computer Science at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest – UPB – “Facultatea Automatica si Calculatoare”, bachelor graduated in 1996
1987 – 1991 Mathematics-physics at "Lyceum of Metrology", Bucharest
Relevant Experience – short description
February 2007 – Present General Manager at “UNIC SOL SRL”, Bucharest
01.08.1996 – 16.02.2007 Project manager (after senior software engineer) at “UBISOFT Entertainment”, Bucharest
21.03.2005 – 21.08.2006 Producer of "Forum Bursier" talk show at "Radio MIX FM", Bucharest
01.03.1994 – 01.09.1995 Project Manager and Analyst Programmer at “Dynamic Design SRL”, Bucharest
01.06.1993 – 01.09.1993 System and Network Administrator at “Castel SRL”, Bucharest
Languages
Romanian Native language
English Good
French Medium
German Beginner
Behaviors, skills and abilities
        I am a well-organized, independent person with a proactive attitude, with a good team working experience in an international environment. I am task-focused and I can identify the problems and face them, finding the best solution in the available time. I want always to evolve in my life. I want to do the things better and better and expect this approach from every person.
Management and project management
  • I had responsibilities of negotiating, setting the price and market promotion for some products.
  • Knowledge of general finance and accounting procedures and activities, SWOT analysis.
  • Prepare budgets and business plans
  • I had responsibilities regarding the financial result.
  • Subordinates 1-15
  • Managed budgets: 500 000 USD
  • Project management - set the work breakdown structure and activities management, schedule timeframe and milestones management, also resource management.
  • I took part of the Administration Board (General shareholders meetings)
Radio and Media
  • Knowledge of specific radio activities involved in the creation of a talk show
Information technology
  • Knowledge of operating system Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, VMS, Linux, MS-DOS as user and as administrator.
  • Network experience TCP/IP, IPX, Novell - Netware 3.11 & 3.12
  • Programming languages known: C, C++/Visual C++, C#, Visual .NET technologies, Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembler 80x86, LISP, ML, SCHEME
  • Scripting languages: PHP, LUA
  • Parallel and distributed programming languages known: C-LINDA, GLENDA, Paralaxis, Pascal FC, Synchronizing Resources (SR)
  • Familiar with UML, Rational Rose, MFC, ATL/WTL, OOP, component and interface oriented programming technologies, data driven architecture, XML, Install Shield.
  • Data and version control systems known: VSS and NXN
  • Database experience: MsSQL, MySQL, Access, Oracle – knowledge as user, administrator and programmer
  • Other programs and tools application I have used extensively: Microsoft Office Suite, Internet Explorer/Firefox, FTP tools, CD/DVD Burning programs, archiving tools (WinACE, WinRAR, WinZIP), Beyond compare; also I’m familiar with Macromedia flash editor, Adobe Photoshop, ACDSee, RAD video tools, XML editors.
  • I have experience in administrating and maintaining WEB sites under LINUX OS, create WEB and multimedia presentation creation and design tools in HTML and flash, maintain and provide content for WEB sites.
Other realizations

       I was teaching the “Data flow and data management” course in the 2003 B.E.S.T. summer school named “Fantasy meets reality. Design your own game!” in Bucharest.

       Starting with 2002 I have begun my direct investments on the Bucharest Stock Exchange market. Also in 2004 I had some investments on the FOREX spot market.

       I am a member of The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from US, because of my activities in the computer game industry.

       In 2002 with some of my work colleagues, I was involved in a basketball team and we had participated in a basketball competition. I was involved as coach and had played as pivot. We had won the fifth place out of twelve. It was a good thing for knowing each other and good for develop our teamwork abilities. Now I am member of RoSQL basketball team.

       Brainbench certificates: (www.brainbench.com use View Public Transcript with no: 4719532): Business Concepts(US), Bussiness Math, Project management, Project management(2000), MS Excel 97, C

       I have clear driving license since 1994 (B category).

Relevant Experience – details
Position description: General Manager – 02.2007 – present (full time job)
Company description: “UNIC SOL SRL”, Bucharest (www.unicsol.ro).
       UNIC SOL is a company that I have started. Department: Management
Job description:
       UNIC SOL activates in the IT and management domain offering consultancy and software solutions.
       First contract was a consultant contract of project management with UBISOFT Entertainment, from Paris.
       Then, I have continued to develop and manage the Unic Sol business and make several jobs related to development of an online trading platform for the Bucharest stock exchange market for WBS Holding.
       I and my collaborators have also developed the www.LaBursa.ro site and community related to investments and stocks exchange trading activities.
 
Position description: Project Manager – 08.1996 – 16.02.2007 2007 (full time job) (after several years of working as software engineer and senior software engineer)
Company description: “UBISOFT Entertainment”, Bucharest
       UBISOFT is the Romanian subsidiary of UBISOFT Entertainment, a French company that produces, publishes, distributes and sells computer games. It is in top 5 in the computer gamming industry all over the world. (For more information please check www.ubisoft.com / www.ubisoft.fr)
Department: Production Department
Job description:
  1. Project manager:
    Follow the entire project life cycle:
    • Building a first cost estimation and feasibility tests for the project.
    • Getting the project approved by the marketing and business department
    • Setting the planning and the milestones for the project
    • Negotiating the time schedule and the budget for the project
    • Finding subcontractors and work with them to finish the project in the allocated time and budget.
    • Following the entire project development until the end of the project.
    • Training the development team about the special procedures that might be needed.
    • Making advises for the marketing department about the different approach that should be taken into account in different projects.
    • Making the closing project delivery documentation and the post mortem project conclusions.

    I was project manager on multiple projects on the same time. In the achievements section you can find the name of some of the projects I had managed.

  2. Before working as a project manager, I was working as senior software engineer. For this part of my career I was doing:
    Developing and maintaining software solutions used for graphical purpose or participate at creating games. I was involved in all the stages of development of different programs and games, from designing program behavior and program architecture to finish the program and give it to the final client including building installation kit and localization of the program.
Achievements:
       Lead projects from the beginning to the end and finish them in time and budget. I was working as project manager in localization department with the following companies and titles:
       UBISOFT (French): Silent Hunter 3 and 4, Trolls - Hair Affair, Blazing Angels 1 and 2, CSI 3, Settlers gold.
       Microsoft (U.S.): Dungeon Siege 2, Age of Empires 3 and the 10 patches for it.
       Taito (Japanese company): Over G
       Game Loft(U.K.): Asphalt 2
       Those titles were designed for PC, Wii, PS3, PS2, DS, XBOX, X360 or GBA platforms and for each title were several projects, for several languages as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Slovakian, Japanese, Chinese. For each language I used translation companies as subcontractors, using a team of 5-20 collaborators.

       As software engineer I was participated at developing different games or tools for create animations, design and build game levels, design and build GUI (Graphic User Interface) or menus and other parts for different games.
       I have participated at development of different part of the follow games from databases for different characteristics of the games to GUI and AI. (Puma World Football 98 (World Soccer ’98), Tonic trouble, Rayman 2, Speed Challenge - Jacques Villeneuve’s Racing, The Settlers – Heritage of kings, Harpoon 4, Dragon’s Layer – XBOX, CSI – XBOX; for more details please check http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId=30461/ )
       Making research jobs about the portability of the code written for Windows 95/98/NT to other platforms as Linux (UNIX systems) and consoles (as Sonny Ps2, Game Cube, XBOX). Also, study an easy way to cross-platform programming. I also have developed security protection for different products.
       I was working as programmer at the localization of different games as: Prince of Persia – The Sand of Time, Rainbow 6 – Athena Sword, Sprinter Cell 2 – Pandora Tomorrow, Prince of Persia – Warrior Within, and Sprinter Cell 3 – Chaos Theory – all UBISOFT titles, Zoo Tycoon 2 and patches – Microsoft titles.
       Change different parts of the programs to meet the different language requirements; integrate specific sound/video/texts for different languages (Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Russian, Polish and Japanese), change the installation program (Install Shield or others), tracking and negotiating the changes with distributors and other people involved.

       For most of the programs I was used C or C++ programming languages under Visual C or Visual .NET, some of them using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) or ATL/WTL, under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP operating system, using VSS or NXN as version control systems.
       The projects I participated in were built by French / Canadian / German - Romanian teams.

 
Position description: Talk show producer– 21.03.2005 – 21.08.2006
       I am one of the two creators of the talk show: “Forum Bursier”. You may download from www.mixfm.ro all of our shows for free in mp3 file format from "Inregistrari \ Forum Bursier" section or I can provide you with the records of the shows in mp3 file format.
Company description: Radio “MIX FM”, Bucharest - Mix FM is a national network of radio stations. (More information at www.mixfm.ro)
Department: Economical
Job description:
       As a talk show author I choose the subject of the show, the guests, choose the questions and the materials that we discuss about, talking with the guests on the live show.
Achievements:
       I had an audience of 7.5% from the people who are listen radio between 18:30-19:00 all over the area covered by radio MIX. We archived that, starting in March 2005 and the media research was done in November 2005. On the other hand, the MIX FM target is the business sector, so, much of our listeners are high-educated persons, knowing or willing to know more about stock market and investment opportunities, the subject of our talk show.
       This is a project started with a friend, Daniel Iancu, in order to teach the public about the mechanisms of the BVB stock exchange market and other financial ways to invest and manage the money that each person have. Daniel Iancu was my colleague in the creation of this talk show until 16.05.2006, and then I have continued to do the show by myself. In August 2006 the radio station was sold and the new owner has changed the radio orientation from business to a general-commercial approach of the programs and our contract was canceled.
 
Position description: Project Manager and Analyst Programmer – 03.1994 – 09.1995
Company description: “Dynamic Design SRL”, Bucharest. It was a small company working in the media / publicity field.
Department: IT Department
Job description: Developing and maintain ing different programs. Manage all the company’s PCs from software and hardware point of view.
Achievements:
I have developed a software package for publicity. Mainly it was displaying animation from different file format on big LED matrix signs (1.5x2, 3x5 meters or bigger) using C and Assembler 80x86 languages. In addition, I have developed a program for internal balance account of the company (database management and all the other accounting – economical stuff) using C/C++ language.
 
Position description: System and Network Administrator – 06.1993 – 09.1993
Company description: “Castel SRL”, Bucharest
Department: IT
Job description: Install and maintain IT equipment and related software for a local network using Novell 3.12; Database administrator.
Actual areas of interest
Business and improve my management and interpersonal skills, computers, stocks markets.