Professional

2009+ Business Advisor for technology startups

I am a consultant to young entrepreneurs in the IT field and help them found, manage and develop new companies. I also work as a business consultant to the first and biggest Romanian online newspaper, HotNews.ro.

For the past four years I have been blogging on manac.ro, covering technical, entrepreneurial and personal development issues. The blog was designated The Best Business Blog in Romania at the 2008 edition of the RoBlogFest blogging awards (http://www.manac.ro).

Member of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Bucharest – http://www.jci.cc/

2002-2008 Projects

* Lead Operations at System & Network Solutions (http://www.SNS.ro), a company specializing in system administration. Driven by the Open Source philosophy, SNS was one of the first companies covering the Linux/UNIX niche in Romania.

* Initiator of the Romanian Black List (http://www.abuse.ro), the first Romanian antispam list.-

* Advocate of the Linux operating system and the Open Source movement, member of the Romanian Linux User Group (http://www.lug.ro) and author of Linux Starter’s Kit (http://lsk.sns.ro), the first Romanian manual for Linux newbies.

* Founder and co-editor of Solvabil.ro (http://solvabil.ro) the first personal finance Web-site in Romania.

* Founder of Ghelir.ro (http://www.ghelir.ro), a one-product-per-day online shop that is very successful in Romania.

* Ex-member and present supporter of APTI, the Association for Technology and Internet – http://www.apti.ro, and LUG, the Group of Romanian Linux Users – http://www.lug.ro.

My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dragosh