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Fast&Soft released its first program - Ear Trainers for Amiga - in 1993. Since then several software products were created, among them, the famous by now - Ear Power. Most work here at Fast&Soft is done by Nick Baciu, with help from wife Adriana and friends: Bo Knudsen, Karin and Guenther Riemann, Cornel Stroncevschi and Dan Popescu.


  • Children Trained with EarPower




  • Nick Baciu's Resume
    462 Seneca Ave
    Ridgewood, NY 11385
    US
    nick@earpower.com


     Skills
    ·   C,C++,C# experienced
    SQL database, ASP.Net advanced
    ·   Windows advanced, Mac basic
    ·   multimedia, expert
    ·   video streaming over the web, advanced
    ·   client-server sockets prog, advanced
    ·   Perl cgi, mySQL, web prog, advanced
     

    Experience
      
    Gametech
    Senior Software Engineer
    Reno, NV, US
    2008-2010
    VLT (casino video lotto terminals) video games, using VisualStudio, C++
    ·  Developed and maintained more than 20 games (keno, poker, slot) for several states, each state game legislation being different and requiring various changes in the code.
    ·  Debugging (more than one thousand defects solved).
    ·  Added Digital TV (ATSC) feature to each VLT terminal. Wrote the code to detect and play TV channels using DirectShow, and code was integrated into the MFC games engine solution.
    ·  Integrated older C code (odds evaluation) into the main MFC solution
    ·  Poker auto-hold class, involving odds calculations based on statistics and winning probabilities.
    ·  Maintained saving and retrieving data from NV Ram (on separate thread), ICIS protocol, game emulator
     
      
    REW
    Developer
    New York,NY, US
    2007-2008
    ·  DirectX based dll, a ticker scrolling live auctions values
    ·  SQL database populator done with ASP.Net
    ·  Auctions engine web services
    ·  Administrator web site
    ·  Converting Access OleDb to SQL (code and database schema)
     
    CDK
    software engineer
    New York,NY, US
    February 2000 - April 2002
    ·   Video Player, both on Windows (DirectX) and Mac
    ·   video streaming, wrote custom DirectShow filters
    ·   tracking statistics using WinInet and Sockets
    ·   NT multi threading
    ·   Multimedia (transparent windows)
    ·   Web programming (Perl cgi and mySQL for eCommerce site).
     
    Fast&Soft
    programmer
    New York,NY, US
    1990 - 2007
    ·   wrote several programs, multimedia, mostly for musicians. Used FFT; voice pitch recognition algoritm. DirectX custom filters.
     


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