Experience

If you are here because you have a problem and think that I could help you here are the areas I mainly cover:

Linux, windows servers and workstations, networking, troubleshooting, audio/video systems, upgrades, migration and buying consulting. Website development, Joomla CMS & WordPress install and customization, Graphic design.

No need to read further, just give me a call or contact me using any of the means listed in the Contact page. I have no problem working remotely (I have done it before, usualy trough rentacoder.com)

I have my portfolio and more details listed at my romanian site: http://ro.sgvulcan.com/

I work mainly with hardware, networks, linux, windows servers, desktops and laptops. I do upgrades, installations, service and maintenance. I am not very interested in programming or web design but I had my fair share of both. Although self taught I am about to graduate from a computer engineering college.

I don’t call myself a guru or expert. Many people call themselves  experts and few are. I am sure I am not an expert because I am more a generalist than a guru in a particular field.

If you need help with your network, server, workstations or home pc in the Sibiu county area feel free to contact me. I will give you an honest answer if I can or cannot help you. Most of the things I do are pretty simple. I am sure I can explain over 80% of it to a school kid. But there is a lot of simple to know – explaining all that 80% would take most of the 16 years I worked with computers. I do mostly installations, troubleshooting and maintenance.

I touched my first computer when I was 11 years old. It was a Sinclair Spectrum clone. My big brother installed it and showed me some easy stuff he knew in basic (drawing, little animations). The very next day, I was alone at home with precise instructions not to touch it. I did. I took the handbook and by the time they were home I did my first animation in basic. From there on I kept experimenting and learning. I moved on to a 286 some years later and after that I lost count of the machines I owned or used. Part of my troubleshooting skills come from the fact that until I finished high school I never had enough money for a new or powerful system. I was always one generation behind figuring ways to use modern software on memory or drive space starved systems. My first PC didn’t even come with a hard drive.

I discovered linux in 1998 when someone made a remark on a mailing list about it beeing horribly complicated. I liked the sound of that – so I found a magazine that had it on a accompanying cd – back then ’97 – ’98 I used a 2400 and later 14k modem so downloading slackware 3.5 was out of the question. The magazine had screwed up the folders but still I managed to install it. I found it elegant and simple. Even more it gave my pc a lot of functionality I never knew it had. Lately I neglected windows in favour of linux but still I tried to learn enough of both worlds. I sure know my way around windows networks, linux servers and such.

Being around in the field from so long I can also help with upgrading, migrating or maintaining vintage systems.