Nora  SABAU

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Nora Sabau



Professional Experience

Present  Programmer Analyst

BCMEA , Vancouver, BC

* Working at BCMEA I have the opportunity to use different applications to achive my daily task:

  • Prgramming T-SQL 2005
  • Coding and debugging in VB6
  • Build VB and ASP.NET web based application
  • Intensive using of MS SQL Server 2005
  • Code backup using Visual Source Safe
  • Crystal Report 10 for statistics
  • Share Point for tracking task, time and so on.

2007  Junior C# Developer Practicum

Wolverton Securities Ltd., Vancouver, BC

* While with Wolverton I worked closely with Gregory Young,a Microsoft MVP, on a large-scale (3000-5000 lines of code) content management system.
* This experience was invaluable, since it exposed me to a variety of patterns and helped me solidify many aspects of my education.
* During my time with Wolverton I covered the following concepts:

  • Extensive use of interfaces and polymorphism
  • Created application GUI and reusable user controls
  • Implemented observer pattern through C# events
  • Used splitters and docking to produce adjustable layouts
  • Chain of responsibility pattern
  • Factory pattern
  • Singleton pattern
  • Consumed a complex web service interface
  • Created tree view programmatically and context menus with node specific data
  • Used IComparer<T> to sort items in tree
  • Implemented in-memory XSLT transformations with error handling using XML/XSLT framework objects
  • Overrode paint on custom tab control to affect drawing
  • Created custom combo box to add images
  • Used WebBrowser control for preview of HTML/XSLT content
  • Validated XML data
  • Used WinForms error providers to validate data
  • Consumption of generic classes

1996 - 2006  IT Multiple Role
Border Police, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania

* As the only IT Specialist, managed, coordinated, and supervised all IT infrastructure of the 700+ member organization
* Managed various tasks included software development; database maintenance and back up, PC installation, configuration, upgrade, and troubleshooting; network management
* Installed, configured, and maintained software applications for every department such as Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, Border Cross Point, assuring back-ups and upgrades for each application and database


Education

2007   Windows Applications Development in C#.NET course
British Columbia Institute of Technology, BC, Canada

2007   ASP.NET with C# course (GPA=92%)
British Columbia Institute of Technology, BC, Canada

2003-2005  Diploma in Software and Web Development(GPA=98%)
Technical University, Cluj Napoca, Romania

1991-1995  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (GPA=90%)
Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania


Interests

Member of Vancouver .NET users group (.netBC)