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8x8Senior Director, Program & Delivery Management
Jul. 2022Cluj, RomaniaScaled and led a global Program Management function of 20+ Technical and NPI Program Managers, supporting multiple SaaS product lines, coordinating delivery across 60+ cross-functional teams spanning Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market. Acted as a strategic partner to the CPO and VP-level leadership, shaping portfolio strategy, defining ROI frameworks, and ensuring organizational readiness to execute against company-level objectives. Established the operating model, governance structures, and tooling infrastructure underpinning program delivery at scale — improving alignment, delivery predictability, and execution transparency across a multi-product environment. Championed outcome-driven execution and data integrity, enabling consistent delivery of high-impact programs aligned with company OKRs and business priorities, improving delivery predictability and execution at scale.
8x8Senior Director, Product Program Management
Jul. 2022Cluj, Romania
8x8Director, Program & Delivery Management
Jul. 2020 - Jun. 2022Cluj, RomaniaBuilt and led a Program Management function responsible for full lifecycle delivery of strategic R&D and product initiatives across multiple teams and work-streams. Managed a team of Senior Program Managers, Technical Project Managers, and NPI Program Managers, ensuring alignment across Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders. Defined and implemented governance frameworks, delivery standards, and program management methodologies, improving cross-functional execution and reducing delivery risk. Partnered with executive stakeholders to align program portfolios with company OKRs, driving prioritization of engineering investment toward high-impact initiatives. Strengthened capacity planning and NPI practices, contributing to improved time-to-market and more predictable delivery outcomes.
8x8Director, Product Program Management
Jul. 2020 - Jun. 2022Cluj, Romania
8x8Senior Manager, Program Management
May. 2018 - Jul. 2020Cluj, RomaniaLed a portfolio of strategic programs from ideation through full ROI realization, translating product vision and business objectives into clearly scoped, outcome-driven execution plans. Worked closely with VPs of Product and Engineering to define program strategy, KPIs, and success metrics, while building and managing a team of Technical Project Managers responsible for individual workstream delivery. Established governance frameworks, risk management processes, and OKR tracking mechanisms that improved cross-functional alignment and delivery predictability. Drove New Product Introduction (NPI) programs end-to-end, coordinating readiness across Sales, Support, Finance, and Engineering to ensure successful go-to-market outcomes.
8x8Senior Manager, Product Program Management
May. 2018 - Jul. 2020Cluj County, Romania
8x8Technical Program Manager
Mar. 2017 - Jul. 2020Cluj, RomaniaDrove end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional R&D projects across Product, Engineering and Operations — from scope definition and resource planning through to production release. Managed project timelines, milestones, and dependencies while proactively identifying and mitigating risks before they impacted delivery. Served as the primary point of contact for stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams, maintaining rigorous standards for reporting, data hygiene, and OKR tracking. Partnered with engineering leads to optimize resource allocation and sequencing, ensuring maximum throughput without compromising quality or scope integrity.
8x8Project Manager
Oct. 2016 - Feb. 2017Cluj, RomaniaDrove end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional R&D projects across Product, Engineering and Operations — from scope definition and resource planning through to production release. Managed project timelines, milestones, and dependencies while proactively identifying and mitigating risks before they impacted delivery.
Paddy Power BetfairProject Manager
Feb. 2016 - Sep. 2016Cluj, RomaniaPart of the Product organization and Programme Management team, working closely with a wide range of stakeholders from all departments, marketing, commercial, product, technology, operations, customer support, in order to: - translate ideas of products and features into business cases and project plans - execute plans - roll-out products to customers and monitor performance and benefits realization by: - identifying, aligning and monitoring of all project dependencies - managing 3rd parties, being involved from vendor selection process and contracting until project delivery - monitoring project execution, risks and issues that could impact project plans - providing necessary visibility to project status and progress to senior stakeholders - preparing and implementing go-to-market plans by involving all relevant stakeholders.
BetfairProject Manager
Jan. 2014 - Jan. 2016Cluj, RomaniaPart of the Product organization and Programme Management team, working closely with a wide range of stakeholders from all departments, marketing, commercial, product, technology, operations, customer support, in order to: - translate ideas of products and features into business cases and project plans - execute plans - roll-out products to customers and monitor performance and benefits realization by: - identifying, aligning and monitoring of all project dependencies - managing 3rd parties, being involved from vendor selection process and contracting until project delivery - monitoring project execution, risks and issues that could impact project plans - providing necessary visibility to project status and progress to senior stakeholders - preparing and implementing go-to-market plans by involving all relevant stakeholders.
YonderDelivery Manager
Feb. 2013 - Jan. 2014Cluj County, RomaniaFocus on three key activity areas: 1. Ensure customer satisfaction: - improve operations, streamline work processes and work cooperatively and jointly to provide high quality customer services - monitor and evaluate permanently the project teams, identify problems and find solutions to overcome them in order to ensure customer satisfaction 2. Manage project life cycle: - define the scope of the project and develop the project plans - overall project leadership and direct project teams in the delivery of high-quality products within the committed time-frames - manage day-to-day operational project aspects and report the status periodically or upon request - main responsible for company standard processes implementation and alignment with the client processes 3. Business development - identify new business perspectives on the current projects - start up new collaboration with current and future clients
Yonder IT SolutionsProject Manager & CSM
Feb. 2009 - Jan. 2013Lead several large and complex transformation projects for PinkRoccade Healthcare in the Netherlands on more applications designed for the healthcare market: - about 30 people only in Yonder - 5 different teams, including a framework team that supports the production teams, 2 different large projects based on a custom-built framework - cross functional teams consisting in software engineers, architects, business analysts, quality control and team leads - distributed teams with functional and technical linking pins from our customer - multi-annual, multi-million budgets coming from different departments and stakeholders - layered distributed architecture on the following platforms and technologies: .Net/WPF UI, Java backend layer, rich JS UI, database independent (support for MSSqlServer, PostgreSQL and OpenEdge so far, others possible) - Scrum methodology - Agile practices, like pair programming, continuous integration, code and peer review - continuous and direct communication , daily standups, weekly review at the PM level, monthly review at the management level, mostly on high quality video connections - transparency via tooling like Jira and Confluence used together with our customer. Main responsibilities consist in: - regular communication with the customers at different levels - planning and monitoring the development process to be aligned with the strategic customer targets - reporting to management and customers and periodical reviews - resource management - aligning the different teams efforts, weekly Scrum of Scrums meeting - performance management and appraisal - invoicing and forecasting - enabling the people to put in practice their natural strengths and help them gain more skills and confidence through training, coaching and mentoring programs - active contributor at the company level via the regular PM meetings and input provided in the different areas: performance management, CMMI process certification, KPIs, etc.
Nethrom SoftwareProject Manager
Aug. 2005 - Jun. 2009Lead a team of up to 7 software developers working for a financial banking system owned by Ordina ICT Solutions in The Netherlands. The application is used by the largest banks in the BeNeLux area. The project consists in developing and maintaining the existing Progress application and to build new web portals using Java web service layer and Progress backend layer.
Nethrom SoftwareSoftware Engineer
Nov. 2000 - Aug. 2005Worked on a series of projects among: - Fundation, Ordina ICT Solutions, financial banking application for the largest banks in The Netherlands technologies used: Java, web services, OpenEdge - .NetWorker, ERP package for the Romanian market - Ede Portal, web portal for the municipality of Ede, The Netherlands - MidOffice, Emaxx NL, business layer used by companies and local municipalities in The Netherlands - Tour, Kanteff BV, ERP for tour operating companies
Nethrom SoftwareSoftware developer
Nov. 2000 - Aug. 2005Involved in a series of projects among: - Fundation, Ordina ICT Solutions, financial banking application for the largest banks in The Netherlands technologies used: Java, web services, OpenEdge - .NetWorker, ERP package for the Romanian market technologies used: .Net, web services, Sql Server - Ede Portal, web portal for the municipality of Ede, The Netherlands technologies used: Java, Struts, JSP - MidOffice, Emaxx NL, business layer used by companies and local municipalities in The Netherlands technologies used: Java, EJB, servlets, web services - Tour, Kanteff BV, ERP for tour operating companies technologies used: Progress 4GL
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