DAN CAZACU

7901 Crestdale Dr
POTOMAC, MD 20854
301-299-0947 (HOME)
301-418-7621 (WORK)
301-213-1560 (CELL)
dcfa710e@westpost.net
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Over 22 years of technical and management experience in the area of business inf
ormation system solutions, project management, contract negotiation, vendor mana
gement, business and technical consulting, strategic planning, computer system o
perations, development, and implementations. I am a senior IT Director, with str
ong business, analytical skills, and ability to implement solutions that affect
positively the bottom line of business. Works great independently as well as in
team setting, adapts to rapidly changing work environments, meets the demands in
critical situations, and enjoys the hands-on type of management.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FANNIE MAE , WASHINGTON DC 2009 - present
DIRECTOR - CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR GRID COMPUTING, AND SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE
- In charge of implementing the Enterprise Grid Infrastructure at Fannie Mae
- Initial purpose was to create a common analytics platform for all pricing, fin
ancial modeling, and risk analysis functions for three business groups: Capital
Markets, Enterprise Risk and Strategy and Single Family
- The initial size of the cluster was around 4K cores and is to be expanded grad
ually to 15K cores within two separate data centers, running on Intel hardware p
rimarily for compute engines, with Linux and Windows as the primary Operating Sy
stems.
- Solaris and AIX cores are also in the roadmap for implementation during 2011
- Besides home grown developed applications, that rely on Monte Carlo modeling s
imulations, the implementation also calls starting January 2011 for migrating to
the Grid a series of third party tools, such as SAS, R and MatLab
- Accountable for the entire funding of $25 mill for this implementation
- Set up the center of excellence, which in effect consisted of three distinct g
roups: Engineering, Operations and On-boarding
- As part of the project, implemented 10G Network and a new parallel file system
technology (IBRIX) to be able to handle the volume of cores on the Grid
- Ensured complete success of the project and proved substantial hard savings an
d cost avoidances, primarily by reducing by a factor of three the execution time
and by increasing the overall utilization from 12% to 35% in the first two mont
hs, therefore deferring additional infrastructure cost.
- Currently planning phase two of the implementation, for 2011 and beyond
- Also in process of planning the new shared infrastructure for the company, whi
ch will rely heavily on virtualization (Solaris, AIX, Linux, vmware) and also de
ployment of cloud technology at Fannie Mae
- Both private and public cloud are in the scope of the project, but the initial
deployment will be for private cloud
- Transition to a charge back system is in the scope
- Continue to on-board applications to the grid ( an estimated 6 large applicati
ons will be on-boarded within the next 6 months)

FANNIE MAE , WASHINGTON DC 2006 - 2009

DIRECTOR - ESM - UNIX ENGINEERING AND PRODUCTION SUPPORT
- Manage a team of four Managers, and one Principal Engineer
- Overall responsibilities in overseeing the activities of over 50 Full time Emp
loyees, and 45 contractors.
- The primary responsibilities are within the support of the following clusters/
projects: Financial Restatement, FAPT (Capital markets), DEBT, Structured Trans
actions, Valuation Net, HR, Credit Works, e-Business, LDAP, and Messaging.
- Oversee the Implementation of SOX Controls and Remediation project, for UNIX.
- Oversee efforts to identify and evaluate all critical systems, technologies an
d processes in order to ensure a reliable and secure 24x7 environment.
- Responsibilities include ensuring procedures and controls are in place to prov
ide operational discipline, and risk management, setting strategic direction for
Fannie Mae UNIX and Linux platforms, technology reviews, analysis and selection
in order to continually enhance the environment.
- Responsible for the 7x24 hrs continuous operation of three data centers, that
has over 6000 UNIX, and LINUX servers.
- Oversee efforts to identify and evaluate all critical systems, technologies an
d processes in order to ensure a reliable and secure 24x7 environment.
- Responsibilities include ensuring procedures and controls are in place to prov
ide operational discipline, risk management, setting strategic direction for Fan
nie Mae UNIX and Linux platforms, technology reviews, analysis and selection in
order to continually enhance the environment.
- Partnering with internal and external auditors to review the UNIX/LINUX platfo
rms.
- Make technology choices and present recommendations to Senior Management.
- Supervise the daily activities and manage performance of all Staff.
- Ensure that the day-to-day support achieves 99.99% uptime, and maintain availa
bility and performance service level agreements.
- Accountable for an infrastructure budget of $26 million.
- Responsible for the Fannie Mae Budget Guidelines for UNIX, and SAN.
- Current Projects in progress in which I am involved are: Restatement, Deloitte
and Touche IT Audit, Linux Deployment at Fannie Mae, Virtualization, and FAPT i
nfrastructure revamp.

FANNIE MAE , WASHINGTON DC 2004 - 2006

MANAGER - ESM - UNIX PRODUCTION SUPPORT
- Manage a team of UNIX Systems Administrators
- Team consists of four to eight UNIX Managers, one Principal Technologists, 35
to 49 Full time Employees, and 20 to 25 Contractors employed as UNIX SYSTEMS ADM
INISTRATORS, levels 4 to 5.
- The primary responsibilities are within the support of the following clusters/
projects: Restatement, FAPT, DEBT, Structured Transactions, Valuation Net, HR, C
redit Works, e-Business, LDAP, and Messaging.
- Also, during the years, I had overseen the Single Family, Multifamily, Core, S
YSADM, and the night and weekend shift operations.
- Oversee efforts to identify and evaluate all critical systems, technologies an
d processes in order to ensure a reliable and secure 24x7 environment.
- Responsibilities include ensuring procedures and controls are in place to prov
ide operational discipline, risk management, setting strategic direction for Fan
nie Mae UNIX and Linux platforms, technology reviews, analysis and selection in
order to continually enhance the environment.
- Responsible for the 7x24 hrs continuous operation of two data centers, that ha
s over 3500 UNIX, and LINUX servers.
- Partnering with internal and external auditors to review the UNIX/LINUX platfo
rms.
- Supervise the daily activities and manage performance of all Staff.
- Provide day-to-day support in order to achieve 99.99% uptime and maintain avai
lability and performance service level agreements.
FANNIE MAE , WASHINGTON DC 2000 - 2004
MANAGER - ESM - UNIX PRODUCTION SUPPORT (e-Business, and Data Warehouse)
- Manage a team of UNIX Systems Administrators.
- The team consisted of 18 FTE, and 7 contractors employed as UNIX Systems Admin
istrators, levels 4 to 5.
- The UNIX Production Support team is on-site 24x7, and it is responsible for mo
nitoring the overall health of Fannie Mae's UNIX environment. As the UNIX Produc
tion Support Manager, I was responsible for ensuring that the UNIX Production Su
pport staff was scheduled and resourced to provide 24x7 UNIX support and UNIX en
gineering consulting services.
- The primary responsibilities were within the support of the following clusters
: E-Business, and Data Warehouse.
- Responsibilities included ensuring procedures and controls were in place to pr
ovide operational discipline, risk management, technology reviews, analysis and
selection in order to continually enhance the environment.
- Advised the customers, on UNIX architecture issues.
- Perform Budget Guidance planning activities, for the respective clusters.
- Responsible for recruiting staff.
- Supervised the daily activities and manage performance of all Staff.
- Provided day-to-day support in order to achieve 99.99% uptime and maintain ava
ilability and performance service level agreements.
- Participated, and responsible for multiple projects, such as the Data Center m
oves, Lender Channel Mornet Plus 2000 infrastructure build, and upgrade, Dedicat
ed Channels infrastructure set up, SAN implementation, Tru Secure certification,
AIX benchmark and implementation.

MEDSURG (ALLEGIENCE HEALTHCARE CORP) , HERNDON, VA 1992 - 2000

MIS DIRECTOR 1993 - 2000
- Part of the Executive and Management Team; conduct operational meetings with I
S staff and around 12 other Department Managers and Executives
- Responsible for the IS operations of the company and managed/coordinate its st
aff: System Administrator, DBA, Network Engineer, Programmer Analysts, over 100
users, 2 AIX servers, 4 NT servers, in three different locations (Herndon, Ster
ling VA, and Norcross GA); In addition, the IS Department had to support a sales
force of about 70 people spread nationwide, which had laptops in the field and
was also able to connect to the LAN either through dial-up or via Internet.
- Directly reporting to the Executives of the Company: GENERAL MGR, CFO
- Financial Responsible for a capital and operating budget of around $1.5 mil
- Vendor Management: Contracts, Projects, Relations
- Responsible for coordinating and budgeting all IS projects that are developed
in-house or with third party vendors
- Project Manage all Software Development Projects for the company
- Implemented MK (MANMAN-X) (CA software) as the new manufacturing software for
the company converting from a 20 years fully customized software package written
in BBX by CAI. The complete package (MK-Enterprise) included the MK (ERP), ING
RES, and UNICENTER. Acted as the Project Manager and coordinated a large number
of consultants, programmers, and department managers during this implementation
. Developed new software modules and customizations in MK for the following: Sh
op Floor Control Automation, RF control, Order Entry, Quotes System, Vendor Reba
te System, Sales Force Automation, Sales Commissions, Sales Tracings, Supplier
Tracings, EDI, MRP, Cost Accounting, AP/AR, Lot Control, Location Control and
others, by using SQL, 4GL, and 3GL programming languages
- Implemented EDI for the company: Sales Orders, Advanced Shipping Notice, Purch
ase Orders, Receipt Acknowledgement, PO confirmations, Product Transfer and Res
ale, Inventory
- Planned and coordinated all data conversations projects between different soft
ware packages as needed.
- Software troubleshooting for all development projects
- Scheduled and performed software updates on all software used: MK, AIX, NT, BB
X, STX EDI, WINDOWS 95/98, and others: updated MK from version 3.0e to 3.0f to
7.0 to 7.1 to 7.2 and to 8.1.1 (year 2K compatible)
- Project Managed Synchronous (Lead) Manufacturing implementation. Switching th
e company from a "push" like system to a "pull" like system. It involved coordin
ating with all appropriate departments (Customer Service, Order Entry, Manufactu
ring, Warehousing, Distribution, Production Planning and Control) and developing
additional modules and customizations to the legacy system. It resulted in redu
cing the inventory of the company from 9 mil to 4.5 mil, reducing the customer i
nventory with an average of 15 days, and reducing the order cycle from 70 to 16
days.
- Project Manage, design, and implemented the network configuration (voice and d
ata) for the company and other divisions of the company: Frame relay, T1 lines,
TCP/IP network, CISCO routers, over 170 users in 3 main facilities, connecting v
arious types of terminals (ASCII, PC's with emulators, client server, X-Windows)
and printers, and supporting various types of software and services (e-mail, In
ternet, voice-Mitel PBX phone system)
- Acted in capacity of Technical and Business Consultant for other divisions of
the company (ISOLYSER, MICROTEK, and WHITE KNITE) for various project implementa
tions: POINTMAN software (from PIVOT POINT), EDI, Corporate Sales Commissions, I
nner Case and Outer Case Production labels, etc.
- Acted as Technical and Business Consultant for software vendors such as Comput
er Associates and other institutions such as the Library of Congress, in variou
s software projects implementations, primarily regarding large MK and BAAN imple
mentations and technical and business issues
- Streamlined processes from Receiving to Distribution so that it becomes a pape
rless environment. As usually, all this required writing lots of software custom
izations
- Project Managed and Developed the Implementation of UPN for all the divisions
of the company. It resulted in all manufacturing labels being able to carry the
UPN (universal part numbering) barcodes
- Implemented the RF technology by using Norand RF equipment and Zebra Barcode p
rinters. Developed software in the ZPL II language and integrated with the legac
y system in order to print barcode labels
- Implemented the EC marking for all products at Medsurg and other divisions of
the company
- Year 2000 Project coordinator: ensured that all software and hardware is Y2K c
ompatible, and made the necessary updates; Communicate with customers and suppli
ers on all business issues concerning the year 2000
- Implemented the electronic forms for various business documents by using Plane
t Image, Planet Fax, Planet Watch, MK, and the e-mail services: invoices, quotes
, costed BOM, purchase orders, numerous reports, they all were converted to e-fo
rms and users had the capabilities to fax them or e-mail them on a needed or sch
eduled basis.
- Project managed and assisted with the implementation of BBX. Converting the cu
stomized software of the company from Thoroughbred to BBX (Business BASIC). It c
onsisted in migrating all software components and data from one environment to t
he other.
PROGRAMMER ANALYST/SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR 1992- 1993
- Switched the company from Unisys UNIX to SCO UNIX and migrated software and da
ta
- Performed system administration primarily in the UNIX environment
- Switched from SCO UNIX to AIX
- Programmed and developed all customizations to the existing software as needed
, primarily in Thoroughbred and BBX and maintain and support the existing softwa
re
- User Support and Training
- System Administration for the PBX - AT&T Merlin Legend
BERKSHIRE ASSOCIATES, INC. , BALTIMORE, MD 1991-1992
Database Manager
Using an established HRIS processing system, modify, maintain, and run DBase IV
programs in a LAN environment, to process company and client data. Perform a va
riety of consulting and operations support duties, which ensure the efficient or
ganization and operation of the company.
- Assist in data collection, and prepare information for analysis. Identify data
problems, and contact clients to resolve questions and discrepancies. Follow ea
ch project through completion, providing all required reports and support data.
- Modify, maintain, and operate software systems for statistical analysis
- Develop programs in dBase IV in order to accomplish requested tasks, or to mod
ify existing software to client data specifics
STRAYER COLLEGE, Washington, DC
1990-1992
Programming Assistant
-Development of customized business programs designed for college business or te
aching purposes
-Troubleshoot software: identified problems, debug program errors
-Trained students on the use of basic software packages and on various operating
systems
-Assist students with their programming assignments in COBOL, C, Shell programmi
ng UNIX, dBase III+, and BASIC
-Substitute for instructors as requested
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL RESEARCH, Bucharest, Romania 1983-1989
Research Engineer and Consultant III
- Performed research regarding new technologies to obtain semiconductor material
s such as Germanium and Silicon, and other nonferrous metals such as Aluminum an
d Magnesium
- Project Managed laboratory, semi-industrial, and large industrial projects for
various customers regarding non-conventional new technologies in the field of i
norganic chemistry and non-ferrous metals
- Developed numerous software applications in FORTRAN 77 to support the statisti
cal analysis of research data
EDUCATION
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE - BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
1983
Master of Science in Engineering (Semiconductors Materials)