Contact information

E-mail: vrapcea_m@yahoo.com

Education

The University of Timisoara (1989-1994), Faculty of Mathematics
Graduated with the average: 9.09
In August 1999 I started my graduate studies in Biostatistics at University of South Carolina, School of Public Health from Columbia SC USA with a scholarship for a master program.

Experience

2016 - present writer of educational books in both Romanian and English (for example, the "Fabule si poezii pentru cei mai buni copii" book for children, written in the Romanian language).
Since september 2011 implementing and maintaining Eagle Job Board (disabled by owner on 23.03.2022 when the domain expired) and Triangle Job Board (disabled by owner on 14.03.2023), besides contributing to other websites (such as: http://www.peaktechnical.com and http://www.peaktechnicalconsulting.ca).
November 2009 - 2013 building and improving/maintaining ALLemployed.com.
2000-2009 web developer, webmaster and Visual FoxPro programmer at NTES.COM USA (not available online anymore, other website there instead).
In 2005 I have built also the http://www.northalabamajobs.com web site.
Between February 15 and first of June 2000 I have worked as a half time programmer (between June 1 - June 13 as a full time programmer) at US Computing Inc. Columbia SC.
Between August 1999 and June 13 2000, as part of my scholarship for the master's program, I have been research assistant at University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health. Columbia SC.
In the second half of 1998 I created the NEWSoft firm, which had the purpose to make educational software (built with Visual FoxPro).
1997 - 1998 "Tomis" Supermarket from Constanta, Romania - Programmer
1995 - 1997 "Ovidius" High School from Constanta, Romania - Computer Science Teacher
1994 - 1995 High School from Fetesti, Romania - Computer Science Teacher

Software skills

PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, Visual FoxPro, being quite familiar with Zend Studio, Git, WordPress, in addition having some knowledge of Flash, SAS, Visual Basic.

My software products where published not only by the IT Romanian Magazines but also by international main web sites such as ZDnet (Mathematics on PC).

Foreign languages

English
French

Note: In the middle of June 2000, after ten months spent in USA, I had to remain in Romania, because my wife was afraid to fly across the Atlantic ocean, also for saving my two and a half years old child, having to renounce not only at the master program (3 years graduate student F1 visa) but also at $2400 monthly from the software company where I was working (since autumn the salary being $4300 monthly with H1 visa for 5 years, according to the negotiated contract).