Communication Specialist

- Graphic design, DTP;
- Photography, image editing;
- Draft specifications, test, coordinate and promote outsourced projects: website and visual/ brand identity refresh, promo portal, quiz, various publications, greeting cards, 10-year anniversary products, digital storytelling project;
- Developed news magazine, database-less app for displaying TV-style news items on internal screens, teleprompter app, interactive maps, and a CSS facelift;
- Recurring responsibilities: website and social media content creation, SEO, analytics, customer service, video recording and editing, internal communication, event management, helpdesk, liaison with external partners, represent the agency at EU-level meetings;
- Training courses: photo/ video pre- and post-production, the Adobe Suite, podcast production, social media.

- Developed main website interactive features: maps, charts, banknote security features, currency converter, 360° tour, responsive publications, plus a CSS facelift;
- Developed a dashboard monitoring system for health-checking daily financial indicators;
- Developed 2 satellite websites: bank blog and macroprudential supervision body;
- Draft specifications, test coordinate and promote outsourced projects: forum, monetary policy game, mobile website, smartphone app, website and visual/ brand identity refresh, financial education videos;
- Launched the bank's LinkedIn and YouTube channels
- Recurring responsibilities: website and social media content creation, SEO, analytics, customer service, infographics, basic DTP, video editing, live streaming pre- and post-production, basic sysadmin, internal communication, helpdesk, liaison with external partners, representing the bank in international working groups;
- Training course: Social Media in Financial Institutions.

- Over 2'000 stories and analyses published for the IT&C section (occasionally for other sections as well);
- Write and edit articles/ analyses for the paper's yearly/ monthly/ weekly/ daily thematic publications;
- International event coverage: conferences, fairs, interviews with company executives;

Additional Roles:

- 2009-2013: Freelance journalist for ZF;
- 2005-2008: Freelance writer, feature writer and later editor-in-chief of go4it!, edited by ZF, the first gadget magazine on the market: write articles and editorials for the magazine's columns; product reviews.

- Developed turn-key online stores and presentation websites for the company's products, covering design, development, content, promotion, maintenance;
- Brands/ projects managed:
> Blue Cactus › design and print production;
> X-Tiles › digital interior decorations;
> Pinacoteca Digitală › canvas prints;
> Brandt Studio › art store in Bucharest.
- Graphic design, DTP.

- Graduation Thesis: Hiding Malicious Content in PDF Documents in Order to Forge Digital Signatures;
- Attended SECIT&C, Bucharest, 2010, regional event focused on information security management;
- Published article in Journal of Information Technology and Communication Security, Academy of Economic Studies Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010, ISBN 978-606-505-385-4;
- Curriculum highlights: cryptography, network security, IPSec, SSL, digital signatures, PKI, web apps security, database security, steganography, auditing and certifying information security management systems, ISO 2700x.

- Graduation Thesis: Call Centre Software for Feedback Controlled Employee KPI/ Performance Measurement;
- Curriculum highlights: C/ C++ programming, object-oriented programming, databases, system reliability and optimisation, microprocessors, computer networks, computer architecture.