Catalin Dobre - Enterprise Architect, Leroy Merlin

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Work Background

Leroy MerlinEnterprise Architect

Jul. 2024RomaniaAs a natural evolution following the work done at Tremend for Leroy Merlin, I have been delegated to the latter, changing my mission to Enterprise Architect. As Enterprise Architect, I am able to have a far more extensive impact, helping drive the crucial transition three-year period of decommissioning all legacy systems in a controlled and structured manner, following a plan to ensure that all critical data and functionalities are migrated to the new systems and that there is no loss of service or operational capabilities. This will support business expansion and scalability, creating new web-based features, enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness, while increasing its presence in the professional market.

Tremend Software ConsultingTechnical Team Leader, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect

May. 2020 - Jul. 2024Romania, BucharestHandling the Leroy Merlin Romania and Ukraine ERP and interconnections to a plethora of other external applications as TTL and Enterprise Architect. The project has been taken over by Tremend from the previous French team approximately one year ago, with almost no documentation and limited training – compared to the scale of the project. During this time, the team has been able to understand the project, document everything and reach autonomy both on the development side and on the Leve 3 support side, with SLA. At this moment, the team is successfully doing support and development for the Leroy Merlin ERP Romania and Ukraine. Since the system is more than 10 years old, and very few upgrades have been done during this time, there is a lot of technical debt that needs to be handled and a lot of work to be done for migrating to more recent technologies. Additionally, I am also involved in the Presales Initiative for European Unition Projects team. This team is in charge of analyzing the documentation for the projects from the EU and giving the GO/NO GO decision for each of the projects. There are a number of 1 to 3 new projects per week and the GO/NO GO decision must be given in 5 days of receiving the documentation. My role is to give the GO/NO GO decision from the technical and architectural point of view. In the Public sector for the European Commission, I have worked as lead architect on several consultancy projects. I succeed in driving and delivering them from the initial stage up to acceptance. This has been done through a series of discovery workshops, background research, analysis and documentation, followed by a delivery and acceptance stage. I have created multiple architecture vision documents sustained and supported by customer presentations.

Sedona ALMHead of IT, Solution Architect

Oct. 2019 - Jul. 2020RomaniaMaintaining the existing applications and developing the next generation POS software and cloud-based business analysis tools. As well as the previous job, I had multiple responsibilities: - meeting customers in order to assess their needs and requirements and to negotiate contracts - established the company’s 2019-2021 strategy together with the company’s owner - in charge of team management on all aspects, both inwards and outwards - handled inter-departmental communications - enjoyed mentoring team members as well as members outside the department - managed the “feedback highway” inside and outside the team - managed and implemented staffing and hiring plans and the department’s budget - wrote the entire cloud BI solution from scratch

Titan INCSoftware Engineer, Solution Architect

May. 2016United States, WashingtonTITAN INTERNATIONAL WHOLESALE, INC. is a privately held telecommunications company headquartered in New York with a global footprint. The company is an aggregator of voice and SMS transit for many international partners. For Titan I have been tasked to develop multiple internal tools for automated data processing and transformation.

CognisCTO. Solution Architect

Nov. 2014 - Sep. 2019Romania, BucharestIn charge of development for the smartest financial ERP on the market, to date. Max BA targets entrepreneurs as well as specialist accountants with a full complement of smart, never implemented before tools. Operating in the cloud the app offers its users the newest technologies to enforce data security, privacy and hierarchical access to operations. Additionally, you can use it on your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop, anywhere you have internet access.

ALL4WEBSoftware Engineer

Dec. 2004 - Dec. 2005RomaniaAll4Web was the Romania division of a Swiss company. Here I worked on different websites projects. The most interesting is cart.ro – a very flexible and hugely comprehensive shopping cart system that can be integrated in any website to provide shopping features. Besides all the usual features that you have in a web store, cart.ro also provided integration with all major payment systems, a complete statistic engine and very easy integration in costumer’s websites.

Revlis SoftwareSoftware Engineer

Apr. 2004 - Dec. 2004RomaniaSmall company with different and varied website projects. Worth mentioning: Archangel – a web-based remote server management system done in PHP.

Brilliant BusinessSoftware Engineer

Oct. 2003 - Apr. 2004RomaniaThis was a short experience for me because most of the projects here were required to be made using Microsoft technologies – which I dislike. But one noticeable project I can mention here: TVGuide. This was a project made for one of the customers who needed an TV Guide application that will run 24/7 on a dedicated TV Channel. This application was done in Delphi and successfully delivered to the customer.

The Faculty of Automatic Control and ComputersTeaching Assistant

Sep. 2003 - Aug. 2006Romania, BucharestThe Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers is the most known and appreciated technical faculty in Romania. I have worked here as a teaching assistant for 3 years, on the Department of Intelligent Control Systems for Mobile Robots. It was an interesting and very professionally satisfying experience.

Damir ImpexSoftware Engineer

May. 2003 - Oct. 2003RomaniaAs a natural evolution, Damir Impex appeared by expanding Active Soft's customer-IT department. This company was specialized only on websites for external customers. Here I have worked on a lot of different websites for the company's customers.

Active Soft S.R.L.Software ENgineer

Feb. 2002 - May. 2003Romania, BucharestActive Soft was a newly created company. It was the former IT department of Active Futures which now expanded and evolved into a distinct entity. My role was to create and develop websites for this company, as well as creating different desktop applications for internal use. It is here that I've created my fist customer management system. I have also worked on a lot of websites, ranging from small company websites to large portals. Clopotel.ro , e-transport.ro are examples of such projects. The first 3 versions of the latter were made entirely my myself; at that time, the project won the 1st prize for „B2B Websites” at the most important web projects fare in Romania.

Active FuturesSoftware Engineer

Sep. 2001 - Feb. 2002Romania, BucharestActive Futures was a company having activity in the financial sector and the stock exchange. I was working in the IT department of this company and my role was to create different desktop applications for immediate internal use.

Romanian Banking AssociationIT Consultant

May. 1998 - Aug. 2001Romania, BucharestThe Romanian Banking Association (RBA) is a Romanian legal entity, set up as a non-profit professional body which conducts its activity according to its statute and the applicable Romanian laws in force. Here I was a technical adviser. My role was to evaluate the different IT technologies that could be used and implemented for the RBA and its member banks.