Hi. My name is Ursache Marius and I am born on 23 December 1978 in Timisoara, Romania.
I've graduated Politehnica University Timisoara, Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty with a diploma in Applied Electronics. During the last years at my University I've learned to administer Linux servers as a System Administrator. My guide and my colleague was an older fellow, named Calin Szonyi, from which I learned to think before I type and read again before I press enter.
During the last year at University, I've learned basics of PHP and MySQL too. I've had the opportunity to apply it as an intern at Alcatel Timisoara where I've built a PHP/MySQL version of an Access/ASP internal tool. Working there I've learned the advantages and disadvantages of working for corporate companies. You "see things" (tools, hardware, network setups) that you won't see in small companies (IBM P Series running AIX, Sun Sparc Enterprise running Solaris, Network Appliances SANs). You "learn things", like the basics of vim, my editor/IDE of choice in the last 5 years. Also, you "learn things" about office politics, like if someone doesn't like you, you might not be hired back, in a different department, a couple of months later, which later turns out to be one of the greatest things that might happens to your carrier.
After the Alcatel internship and after I've finished my studies, I've took 2 months off to try to settle in a different city. Things turned out to be harder then I've thought and I had to go back to square one (Timisoara).
A couple of months later, I've started to work in a wonderful small company that made firewall appliances. This company was the opposite of my previous experience, no office politics, no 'enterprise level' hardware/tools, but open source and cheap hardware. Although the medium was different, I had great colleagues from which I learned to always polish my 'skillz'.
Together with a couple of colleagues from Spidernet, I decided that it's time to move on and pick another challenge. This time was an 'Internet/New Media' company that gathers product data from data vendors, offers from merchants and offers price comparison, all this in a friendly, community based (synergetic and other buzzwords) way. At this company I've learned that it's not simple to just import on feed of 700M of data and it takes some time to establish processes and build a team of 'guys behind the curtain' to integrate it into a bigger system. I've done 'release management' (take some files, send them live, hope it works, rollback if it doesn't), built tools to administer products, members or advertisements. Some things I've done alone, some in a team but if I'd have to pick, I would always like to work within a team, to debate and share ideas, to learn as much is possible from others.
Beside PHP, I've learned a bit about python and Django Framework. To do something practical with Django, I've made this simple site/blog. The most 'advanced' part from it is reading data from Nike+ running site (which is pretty easy to do using basic python libraries).
When weather and time permits I skate or run (jogging), and during the autumn/winter I exercise at the gym.
Self portrait
My tongue in cheek self portrait. I wrote this for my English class. The main purpose was to use at least 25 adjectives, excluding nice, friendly and interesting.
I'm quite tall with short brown hair and hazel eyes. Usually I wear blue jeans and red or blue T-shirts. When I go skating or with my blue bicycle I wear a white or orange T-shirt and a blue pair of trousers.
Because of the nice weather I got a matching tan: brown on neck and hands and white on the rest of the body. That's why I'll be small children's amusement when I'll go to the swimming pool.
I like to drink black coffee in the morning (actually this is not true, I don't drink coffee). I like healthy looking girls, tall with a bit of tan, and big breasts. Also they have to be quite smart and sense a humor is a must. Beside this if they are optimistic it's even better.
A relaxed life and a sunny beach are in my long future plans. Sport is on my medium term list and skating on my near present one.
I don't like the Romanian bureaucracy and political life. Most of our representatives are dishonest and greedy. Losing my temper makes me feel weak. I would like to be always calm and patient. When I'm in a bad mood I prefer to be left alone to clear up negative thoughts.
Before finishing, I would like to mention that I am nice, friendly, and interesting. (I wrote this sentence because it was forbidden - that's why some friends would tell you that I'm a smart ass).
Note: Teacher's note was: the politically correct term for 'smart ass' is 'smartie pants'.