Ovidiu Z.

Ovidiu Z. has over 17 years of work experience. From 2015 to present, they have been the Head of Cloud Architecture and Cloud Operations at Stratus Point IT, managing Cloud Architecture and Operations teams, monitoring team progress toward timely delivery goals, and architecting and administering self-healing and secure cloud-based services and applications for PaaS, IaaS & SaaS environments using Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. From 2013 to 2015, they were the Lead Strategic Enterprise Architect at Telekom Romania, analyzing and defining IT business strategy and determining on-premises and cloud systems architecture requirements to achieve business goals for Telekom branches across Europe, analyzing and recommending network security standards to management for both on-premises and cloud environments, and serving as a cloud technology adviser for Telekom Romania executive board. From 2010 to 2013, they were the Information Technology Operations Manager at GK Polimex Mostostal - Coifer, managing Windows Servers network infrastructure including Active Directory, Group Policy, WSUS, WDS, DNS, Print Server and DHCP, monitoring and assuring business continuity for all the local IT systems, and managing virtualization environment using Hyper-V Server hosts. From 2007 to 2010, they were the Technical Project Manager and Senior Systems Engineer at BCR, organizing, leading and managing project releases through iteration kickoff to deployment, managing financial tracking of project budget, maintaining project schedule and change requests, providing 2nd level support for all Windows Servers related issues, installing, configuring and performing troubleshooting and deploying roles and features for Windows 2003/2008 Servers, maintaining MS Exchange Server 2003/2007, and performing troubleshooting and providing resolutions for server problems. From 2003 to 2007, they were the Security Analyst and System Engineer at SOFTWIN, offering Technical Support service to customers via phone, email and Live Assistance in order to ensure business SLAs and objectives, approaching and solving based on the competencies matrix the technical support requests arrived via the dedicated support channels, sharing technical information about the products with the other teams involved, providing oversight of all hardware, business applications, and network functions, managing in-house servers based on Windows/CentOS/Ubuntu OSs, monitoring servers in case of abuse, investigation of abuse issues which includes identifying and taking actions against the abusive accounts/users or protecting the server against outside factors responsible for it, and installing and configuring software and hardware, managed network servers and technology tools.

Ovidiu Z. holds an MBA from the Swiss School of Business and Management, where they studied Business Administration and Management, General. Ovidiu also holds a Bachelor's Degree from the Academia de Studii Economice din București, where they studied Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics. Additionally, Ovidiu Z. has obtained a number of certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services, Citrix Certified Administrator for XenApp 6.5 from Citrix, ITIL V3 Foundation from ITIL Certified, Managing Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Solutions from Citrix, Microsoft Certified IT Professional Server Administrator on Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate Windows Server 2012 from Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration from Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization from Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Technology Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration from Microsoft, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert from Microsoft, and Microsoft Specialist Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center from Microsoft.