Dan Rusu graduated in 1989 from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he returned in 1991 as Assistant Professor. In 1999, Mr. Rusu joined TIE Kinetix as Senior Software Developer, Technical Team Lead, and, since 2007, has served as Chief Software Architect. Currently he is responsible for TIE Kinetix product development, making sure that the quality of TIE software is constantly improving and that the different subsystems of the TIE Kinetix Platform can smoothly integrate with each other on a service-oriented architecture in order to provide customers with tailor-made solutions based on standard subsystems. He can be reached at Dan-Victor.Rusu at TIEKinetix.com.