imobiliare.ro - Portalul imobiliar #1Head of Information Technology - Operations and Infrastructure / CIO
Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2021Europe · HybridI reported to and advised our CEO, served as a key member of the leadership team, and contributed directly to both corporate and technology strategies, business models, roadmapping, goals, objectives, and KPIs for this subsidiary of Swiss Multinational Ringier AG—an innovative, digitalized, and diversified Swiss media company. I directed end-to-end procurement, defined technical criteria, created offer requests, and selected vendors. I recruited, coached, mentored, and led diverse, inclusive, skilled, and innovative IT operations and infrastructure teams. -Delivered key technical contributions supporting massive company and employee growth and 2 successful acquisitions during total tenure. I directed the end-to-end redesign and rearchitecture for all IT infrastructure in the cloud. -Grew uptime significantly. -Contributed to increased revenue by reducing page load time. -Partnered with business development and leveraged BI and analytics to support new revenue streams. I utilized Agile ITSM / ITIL to redesign / optimize change management, incident management, service delivery, and operations.
-Rationalized change management. I spearheaded transition to remote work, including infrastructure preparation, VPN setup, and remote desktop deployment. -Delivered seamless transition—in 3 days—to address Covid regulations. I defined, aligned, and enforced the internal OKRs / KPIs for the DevOps, operations, and platform engineering teams. -Grew focus on high-value projects. I redesigned the complete ETL process—including BI, data gathering, storing, and analysis. -Delivered dramatically enhanced transparency to support strategic decision-making. I constructed a new Platform Engineering team structure. -Instilled a DevOps mentality / culture across the organization.