I had the honor of being part of the Chairing Team of the 2024 Spring National Assembly of the Erasmus Student Network Romania.

As Technical Chair, my responsibilities included ensuring smooth presentations for the entire duration of the event, but also a smooth live-stream for the duration of the event, for not only allowing the viewers from back home to be able to actively participate in decision-making in their sections, but also to keep a proper archive of the event, which hosted over 100 participants from the 14 sections of ESN Romania.

With my team, and the help of ESN Romania's national team and the events' Organizing Comittee, I believe that we have managed to make NA Alba-Iulia a greatly successful event.

Since May 2023, I have been working on developing administrator tools for Office Direct, an office supplies e-commerce website based in Romania, one of the biggest in its field.

My recent contributions to the website include:

• Multiple Wishlists module, allowing users to create infintely many lists of favourite products
• Improved responsive e-mail templates, to allow e-mails to be rendered beautifully and clearly on every e-mail platform, desktop or PC.
• Advanced administrator tools, to improve statistics and data measurement on the website.

Step Up! is a mobile game that I developed as the Final Project for a Software Engineering course at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga.

The game aims to motivate its players to go out and be active, by offering them rewards from taking real-life steps. It uses the phone's accelerometer to determine when a step is taken.

To use the app, it must be downloaded from the browser on the phone (by tapping the 3-dots button and then Install App).

Between the 25th and the 28th of July, Erasmus Student Network Romania organized the Local Boards’ Training Bucharest 2024, a yearly event dedicated to preparing and training the newly-elected ESN Romania Local Boards for their mandates. This year, the training sessions were focused on hard-skills, such as negotiation, knowledge of GDPR rules, and action plan development.

This year, I co-facilitated a training on the IT tools used in ESN Romania, specifically training the participants on using ESN’s website CMS, Satellite. The feedback of the training showed that the training was a great success.

In this sense, I’d like to thank the event’s Organising Committee, the Content Team, and the National Board of ESN Romania for creating yet another unforgettable experience.

After developing the section's website and reviving the digital assets that we can use for the benefit of our Erasmus students, I felt like more work can be done.

In May, I was re-elected for the position of Web Project Administrator of ESN UniBucharest - I plan to keep up the good work, but also train other volunteers to do what I've been doing the past mandate.

The Erasmus Student Network has been giving me so many wonderful occasions, such as training events, international meetings, and not only. Therefore, I feel like there's still so much more for me to give back. Together with my team, we'll bring ESN UniBucharest to new heights!

At UBtalks 2024, I presented one of the projects dearest to my heart, the Step Up! platform. Not only was the contest for me an opportunity to learn more about my competitors' and colleagues' amazing projects, but also to get to know them and to create meaningful connections.<./p>

More about my favourite projects from the event, but also about the project I talked about can be read in this article, on my blog.

The Erasmus Generation Meeting gathers students and members of ESN of over 70 nationalities. The third edition took place in Seville and hosted over 1500 participants.Part of the Romanian Delegation, I was one of 30 Romanians to participate in this event, thanks to my involvement in ESN Romania.

During the event, which took place between the 4th and the 7th of April 2024, we participated in sessions with representatives of the European Union, and learned about green mobility, digitalisation of the Erasmus process, but also about soft skills such as conflict management and advocacy.

More on EGM can be read here

As a volunteer for Cartea Daliei, a Romanian NGO commited to providing free technical education to children, I collaborated as a tutor, teaching children Python programming, using libraries such as PIL, Turtle and NumPy.

My volunteering stage lasted for 4 months, from April to July, and consisted of weekly online calls with 6 children, for which I explained the lessons created by the NGO, provided practical work assignments and created tests in Kahoot!

After a brief period of working as a volunteer for the GTABase.com website during the pandemic, I got offered to work for the website permanently.

My first tasks included data entry on the website, preparing datasheets for database import on the website, but after gaining experience and knowledge, my work for the website became more advanced.

As a web developer for GTABase.com, I build web scrapers to gather information about Rockstar games for the website's databases, I copywrite and code articles on different topics about Rockstar games, and I write custom code to update the Joomla 5 website.

As a junior developer for IngroConsult during the summer of 2022, I developed the company's website and created online digital tools to improve the workflow of the employees of the company.

Therefore, I created ingroconsult.ro, which offers potential clients the possibility to find the company's taxes, but also created an administration panel where the employees can manage:

• Consultation Bookings
• Incoming/Outgoing documents
• Projects and their finality status

The "Psychology of Drug Consumption" conference was a follow-up of the "People for People" conference. This time, it was held in Bucharest and organized in partnership with Rotaract Levant, the volunteering club that I was part of in October 2022.

The PartyQ app allows users to queue up videos and songs using the YouTube API from their phone. All these songs are played in order on a main "host" computer or phone.

This was my first big web project, built at the end of high-school, after a discussion with a friend about how parties with smaller groups could be improved. The website uses no frameworks at all, being built only with ajax calls using the jQuery library.

During my time as a volunteer at Interact Bistrița-Nosa, I coordinated the "People for People" conference, which had two psychologists talk about drugs, their effect and the ways we can help the people close to us that are affected by addiction. It was a success, and a strong starting point for my future volunteering and community-oriented events.