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ToptalTechnical Program Manager
Apr. 2022 - Oct. 2024Cluj, RomaniaProcess Improvement: Proactively identified cross-functional process inefficiencies, collaborated with stakeholders to drive improvements, aiming to achieve delivery excellence across all product-engineering teams. Teams mentorship and Leadership: Provided coaching to Engineering Managers and Product Managers, fostered Agile mindset and helped teams to unlock their highest potential. Program and Project Management:
- Led the end-to-end program delivery, overseeing planning, managing complex dependencies, and ensuring smooth execution across all teams.
- Put in place the program execution strategy, ensure efficient feedback loops, and provide the necessary transparency into the program's progress.
- Coordinated program interdependencies (Engineering, Product, Sales, Finance, Legal, Marketing) to align with strategic objectives and ensure the delivery of outcomes while managing competing priorities.
- Communicated efficiently with everyone, from engineers to executives, facilitating challenging conversations, building consensus, and enabling decision-making, ensuring we don’t lose momentum. - Led issue resolution, managed escalations, and mitigated risks while ensuring regular status updates.
- Analyzed data, extracted key insights, and presented findings to senior leadership in a clear and simple way, making complex ideas easy to understand. Achievements:
- MVP Launch for a new product: Led the delivery of the product MVP for a spin-off in 5 months, coordinating over 80 people across 20+ teams (Legal, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Research, Product, Design, Engineering). Managed complex dependencies and fostered a startup mindset to drive fast execution and deliver on time.
- Delivery Cycle Time Optimization: Drove a 17% reduction in delivery time for 20+ engineering teams through innovative cross-functional process definition and roll-out.
EndavaSenior IT Project Manager
Oct. 2016 - Apr. 2022Cluj, RomaniaResponsibilities
- Managed a project leadership team of 8 direct reports, including Engineering Managers and Scrum Masters, providing mentorship, driving team performance, and fostering collaboration to ensure successful project delivery.
- Drove successful project execution by tracking milestones, making key recommendations to stakeholders, and holding cross-functional teams accountable for the execution of deliverables.
- Developed and maintained project artifacts including project plans, project estimates, RACIs, resource plans, and status reports.
- Proactively identified project risks, offered mitigation strategies, and closely monitored their progression. - Removed obstacles and addressed roadblocks to ensure smooth project execution.
- Built valuable relationships with all the important stakeholders, paying attention to their business needs and bringing to the table solutions tailored for the specific context.
- Created visibility for all the involved parties through a formal communication plan (status report, weekly reports to upper management, steering meetings, etc.). Achievement:
- Scaling Up a FinTech Project Team: Led a high-profile FinTech project, successfully scaled the project team from 3 to 7 teams, including 2 client-side teams. Over a 4-month period, I stabilized team velocity, by increasing delivery predictability from 35% to 91% through cross-functional collaboration and process optimization.
SmalsProduct Owner
Aug. 2012 - Oct. 2016Brussels Metropolitan AreaResponsibilities:
- Conducted customer interviews to collect business requirements, formulated the solution, and ensured the engineering team delivered the product with adherence to high-quality standards.
- Specialized in shaping back-end solutions from data entity relationship modeling, defining database schemas to designing interfaces (WSDL) for Web services. My focus was on ensuring seamless integration among our various web services. - Conducted bids for several major projects based on which new business was acquired. Achievement:
- Large-scale system design - Architected a pioneering system for validating X.509 security certificates (expiration, trustability, revocation), making sure it is a legally compliant solution. All governmental applications use this solution, supporting over 20 million users.
Voxbone (now Bandwidth)Infrastructure Engineer
Sep. 2009 - Sep. 2010Brussels Metropolitan AreaCISCO certified engineer, I configured and managed large-scale network infrastructures for major VoIP companies, ensuring reliable and high-performance communication services.
NokiaJava Software Developer
Jun. 2008 - Aug. 2009Cluj, Romania
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