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Interview of Dan Avram
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"Launching
a new application and putting it in production
should be perfectly managed in narrow collaboration
with our clients."
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26, 2002 |
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Dan
A. is one of the first members of Pentalog
High Tech Romanian Team, since its creation
at the end of 1999.
In
the frame of the experiences' exchanges
realized between the French and Romanian
team, Dan had been working for five month
in France.
He shares with us this experience.
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Aleth D. :
Who did you collaborate with your French colleagues? |
Dan
A.
: Since my arrival in Orleans,
I had especially worked on projects already started
by my French colleagues. I was integrated in several
projects and I always found my place.
My project managers had first charged me of parameters'
setting, test and development missions in our offices
and in collaboration with my French colleagues,
in order to get used to the French working environment.
I really appreciated working in team with people
who I had just known and having a different culture
that mine.
Afterwards, I worked directly for our clients, in
their offices, for installations or technical assistance.
During these five months, I had the chance to work
on interesting projects as those for Orleans' city
Hall, Cerib, SIPCAM and AFNOR.
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Aleth D. : Could
you describe us one of the most interesting missions
that you had realized? |
Dan
A. : One
of the most interesting missions was that for Afnor.
For tree weeks, I realized technical assistance
on the Saint Denis site, around an application realized
by our company, which manage the certification process
(ITAC). During this mission, I was in charged with
generating publishing models for documents used
by this institution for certification. Those models
were based on users' request for access to different
quality standards.
My mission was extended towards the dynamic creation
of providers and products lists, which has been
certified by AFNOR.
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Aleth D. : I
noticed from your CV that you have a Tomcat server
specialization. Did you practice this competence
in France?
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Dan
A. : Indeed,
during this five months I had the opportunity to
exploit my competences in The Port (software for
portals' creation and management) development. So,
I shifted the web platforms of two of our clients
on Tomcat servers.
This "migration" allows us to optimize
response time during Web pages' display, but also
to increase the performances of queries processing
as well as the time nevessary to display results
to users searches.
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Aleth D. :
In Romania, you have worked until now only on project
development, at the branch office. What brought
you different interventions that you had realized
for our clients, in their offices?
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Dan
A. :
I
appreciated my missions in direct contact with our
clients, because it allowed me to better understand
their needs. So, I had the opportunity to follow
the development of applications developed by our
French and Romanian teams. I better understood the
professional logic of some of the applications managing
information systems.
Due to these missions, I was able to comprehend
the difficulties, which we have to deal with during
the integration of a new application. The risk of
missing the implementation and start up of an application
should be perfectly managed. It is as much important
to collaborate with the client in order to take
care that the new application is correctly integrated
well into the working customs of the users.
So, I tried to set up a certain number of marks
and documentations, accessible and recognizable
easily.
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Aleth D. :
What were your extra-professional activities during
your stay in France?
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Dan
A. : I
arrived on the Orleans site of Pentalog Hich Tech
in the same time with my colleague, Iulia. Both
of us, we were invited to several parties and activities
organized by our colleagues. We visited Centre Loire
region, and its castles, Paris with its monuments
Versaille, Louvre, Invalides). We went to cinema,
theaters… We benefited from a large game of
cultural activities.
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Aleth D. : Besides
Val de Loire and Paris, did you visit other European
regions?
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Dan
A. : Certainly,
during a long week end, in may, we visited Spain,
We visited for a week Granada and sites as Alhambra
castles. Spanish civilisatrion, a s well as French
one, are very closed to Romanian civilization, by
our Latin origins.
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Aleth D. : Which
are your strongest impression from France?
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Dan
A. : Quite
as Iulia, I felt integrated in the French society.
I was impressed by the cosmopolitism of your urban
population. A very pleasant mixture of cultural,
architectural diversities, which we don't' have
in our country.
French-speaking foreigner could rather easily manage
and tie up good social and professional relations;
it is true that we didn't have any problem with
the French language. French people share values
close to ours: open-mindedness, tolerance, respect
of differences.
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| More
information: consult
Dan A. CV
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| Contact
: Hélène
Hemery |
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