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Engineer
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Romania
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United Kingdom
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Russia
Work Background
VisionSeed | the product studioFounder & Digital Business Strategist
Oct. 2022Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RomaniaAt VisionSeed, we are on a mission to revolutionize the way product management and product approach is done. We strive to create products that not only improve the lives of end users, but also have a positive impact on the world. Our vision is to be at the forefront of a new era of product management, where the customer is truly at the center of everything.
AlixPartnersUS Bankruptcy Sector - Senior Delivery Manager & Product Lead
Jun. 2023United StatesProject and product coordination
- Planning of current and future work and delivery
- Managing team composition and delivery framework
- Stakeholder relationship and management
- Reporting
- Product roadmap
- Product planning and market launch
- Product features prioritization according to client business mission and competitor activity
- Risk mitigation and management Team management
- Team evaluation
- New hires and leaves
- Managing the balance for the resources vs costs vs delivery
- Mitigating conflicts and ensuring the continuity of work
- Ensuring team's work ways are according to best practices and follows the AGILE frames established inside the company
- Creating and managing the work models alongside the Architect and Team Lead Stakeholder relationship
- Planning according to budgets, resources, business mission and steering committee decisions
- Reporting related to the delivery status
- Creating, maintaining, and assuming delivery roadmap and launch to market - Single point of contact
- SteerCo management Strategic product development
- Product development against market competitors
- Innovation and advantage points dealing
- Finding and implementing commercial and design levers - Leading product design to value and design to cost efforts
- Review each work delivered and have the last signoff in terms of PROD deliverables
- Creating the product concepts and managing the transformation into a design/functional prototype
- Creating and managing the product creation models alongside the Architect and Team Lead SAFe 5.0 project alignment
Improving the team's efficiency against delivery urgencies
Monitoring the performance and proposing improvements across team/delivery/product/project
UpTeamAdTech - Product & Project Coordinator
Jul. 2022 - Mar. 2023United StatesAs an AdTech Product Manager the tasks and objectives needed were around 2 main pillars: product development and team management. coordinated 2 simultaneous projects and development teams Responsible for backlog and roadmap creation and strategies Maintained the customer relationship and stakeholder interaction Setting the development and market release strategies while taking into account market evaluation Coordinated and assured the interaction between customer and development team Ran all the product discovery, lifecycle plans, ROI questionnaires, priority and urgency plans Composed and determined the right documentation paths for the project Acted as the team manager in terms of politics, Agile methodologies Created and exposed Figma and Miro user journey files Reporting towards customer and stakeholders Resource management in terms of: team members number, dev tech stack, QA, client relationship manager
LinnteqProduct Development Coordinator
Sep. 2020 - Mar. 2023London, England, United KingdomWorking as a consultant in the IT industry, and handling projects from ground levels all the way to market listing. Using road-maps, business input, structure and feedback as tools, we ensure a fast and reliable customer relationship, creating a work environment where we start from "why?" and build around organization needs and give great importance to business value. As a Software Products Consultant, I position myself on the ground between client vision with their business needs and concept/design/technical teams. My role is played in a central way, as linking all the parts and making sure that the Product Strategy that I conceptualised for the client is followed and the teams are developing at a good rhythm and cadence. The leaded projects are from a wide range of industries and maturity phases.
- Fintech
- Health
- Fashion
- Security
- Large eCommerce As a lead consultant in product and management I am working on different phases and areas inside the business tracking and project development.
- Market overview
- Competitor analysis
- Business stages (start-up; small-mid; large; corporate)
- Software Product analysis
- Software Product Design
- Software Product functional architecture
- Software Product User Journey
- New product features discovery
- Proposed Business value discovery
- Validation phases in closed and extended groups
- Reporting
- Setting specific KPI's
- Development Team guidance and management (Agile driven)
Wolfpack DigitalFintech - Product Manager
Dec. 2020 - Jun. 2022Cluj, RomaniaWorking with multiple types of project and initiatives, from starting points and initial discussions, to implementation and client reach. Emphasis rests on two main areas, FINTECH and HEALTH. As a Software Products Consultant, I position myself on the ground between client vision with their business needs and concept/design/technical teams. The role is played in a central way, as linking all the parts and making sure that the Product Strategy that I conceptualised for the client is followed and the teams are developing at a good rhythm and cadence.
The scope is to start getting closer and closer to the business processes and value behind it so we can validate together the needs and requirements (widely calling it Farming phase).
After all the needed data is collected the products is wire-framed, conceptualised, validated, designed and implemented.
-> Wire-frames: working with design team and have first drawings in Marvel InVision, AdobeXD etc.
-> Concept: wireframes get a layer of functional architecture. Using tools like LucidSpark.
-> Validate concept: The client is getting into a validation journey, leaded by the Product Consultant and designers. Everything needs to be approved and have clearance.
-> Design: Using the initial approved wire-frames, the actual graphic design is created. Each phase needs clearance in e.g Marvel.
-> Implementation: The team is being composed and project gets an implementation planning across multiple Agile sprints, and the first develop steps are started. Areas of expertise and value propositions:
- Market overview
- Competitor analysis
- Business stages (start-up; small-mid; large; corporate)
- Software Product analysis
- Software Product Design
- Software Product functional architecture
- Software Product User Journey
- New product features discovery
- Proposed Business value discovery
- Validation phases in closed and extended groups
- Reporting
- Setting specific KPI's
- Development Team guidance and management (Agile driven)
GlobantProduct & Project Coordinator
Dec. 2019 - Nov. 2020Cluj, Romania- Work in a dynamic and timezone separated environments; having teams and team members in on multiple timezones, countries and continents (Romania, Argentina, Uruguay, SUA, Mexico, Colombia, etc.)
- Maintain and monitor project roadmaps, plans, budgets, NPS, staffing, Team track, contract & sales commitments.
- Organising and participating in product steering & planning decisions.
- Organising, attending and participating in stakeholder meetings.
- Negotiate the Product roadmap and make adjustments in terms of time and resources in order to ensure that priorities are always delivered where the business is asking for them. - Create the perfect environment for the stakeholders to be involved and gain tractuon for their product. Active participation in Plannings, Product definitions, Roadmaps, MVP’s etc. - Single point of contact for other PM's, PO, stakeholders, Client Leadership, Engineering Directors, Third Party Vendors, other shared teams.
- Ensuring project deadlines and requirements and vision are met as planned with client in Product Design.
Forecast project, budget, team and context changes
- Developing project strategies for meeting future: technological changes, business needs shifts, integrations with other systems, etc.
- Assess Product & Project risks and issues and provide solutions and also contingency ideas in certain cases.
- Ensure client visibility and reporting in time and with clear and transparent view over the points that have business value impact.
- Keep up the morale of team members and build relationships with them to develop a strong working unit and supporting their work on the success of a project.
GlobantProject Manager
Jul. 2019 - Nov. 2020Cluj County, RomaniaManaging the entire mobile department in the Romania office.
Main Responsibilities:
Team management; Budget management, Employment, Performance Review, Scope management, Client alignment, Client Feedback, Planning, Project Development, Continuous Improvement, Deadline Achievement, etc.
Team hours logging
Client invoicing
P&L reviews
Technologies adopted in the teams I manage: Android & iOS
Managed team seniority: From junior/inter to Architect and Solution Designer
The location of the team members involved is mixed, meaning that I manage teams that are composed from both On-Shore and Off-Shore members. This means, alignment with different timezones, managing invoices in different currencies, cultural differences, project diversity, etc.
accesa.euTeam Lead & SCRUM Master
Dec. 2018 - Jul. 2019Cluj County, RomaniaConducted 2 teams composed of 13 and 15 distributed engineers: Dev, QA, BA, PO.
Ensured the proper communication between teams and with the team on client's side. Organised the entire Scrum ceremonies set with both teams.
Facilitated the proper work and smooth flow of the teams without the pressure from outside influences. Created and followed the career paths of the team members
Organised and made sure the salary discussions along with the review sessions were made and agreed.
Provided reporting towards the client on a scheduled basis
Created/generated and reviewed the logged hours for the team. Afterwards created the invoice based on it.
Project forecasting, planning and adaptation based on changes and demands.
jpard SolutionsDelivery Team Lead
Mar. 2018 - Dec. 2018Cluj County, RomaniaIn my role as a SDTL I am responsible for an entire project, both in assuring the service delivery and in managing and coordinating it. As a SDTL, besides the TL tasks, I have to: - Make project proposals (improvements, cost, scope, outcome..etc ) - Give both internally and client reportings - Maintaining a very good client relationship - Decide the project operational paths - tasks priority, - client feedback, - team improve and share knowledge, - assist with both technical and business decisions, - make effort estimates, - plan team resources, - assure clear evidence of technical and logistic resources (certificates, licenses, machines resources..etc) - Risk assessment for the current tasks - Monitor and overview the work protocols imposed - Assess issues escalated to me. Clear decisions - Providing project operational statistics and metrics for continuous improvement process.
jpard SolutionsTeam Lead
Jun. 2017 - Dec. 2018Cluj County, RomaniaFrom my role as a team leader I am responsible for all the team`s activity like: - Reporting - technical tasks, - business tasks, - relationship and communication with the client, - solutions provided, - Accuracy and future proof of solutions Another part of my role is to manage the administrative elements of the team. Meaning: - Representing in teams in discussions and decision taking meetings with both direct and top management - Forecast the events on each project in order to assure team availability - Participating in Service Review meetings - planning all the vacations, - assuring the necessary resources on each project, - planning the future changes on each project, - review and assess the team`s work, - conduct surveys, - give improve feedback, - help the team members in self-development by pushing trainings/workshops and courses towards the team.
jpard SolutionsApplication Engineer
Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2018Cluj County, RomaniaHybris is an eCommerce marketing and product information management tool, that, based over an ERP solution, allows a proper and easy method to 'marketize' products on specific websites. - Working with eCommerce shops specific web-services (Amazon, BrandBank..etc) - REST based outputs analyze - Run and administrate both spontaneous and scheduled back-end data imports under the form of scripts - Create custom exports with requests from the client - Maintain a user oriented and close relationship with the client - Solve and investigate bugs, issues and functionality concerns coming from the users, PO, BA`s. - Administrate CentOS machines (maintenance jobs, create scheduled crontabs, install/admin tomcat certificates, issue investigations.etc) - Investigate browser output in order to narrow the web application response errors (HTML code, developer options, Network statistics..etc) - Interpret and analyze log files, console logs, etc. - Task based method of working. Used to timelines/deadlines - Work closely in an agile environment, with a Sprint based development style - Focused on delivering and reaching the committed tasks/milestones - Actively involved in planning/grooming, retrospectives, demo`s. - Both business and technical trainings for users and teams involved. - Team player Software and environments: -> Hybris 5.xx (hMC, hAC, Product Cockpit) -> hybris 6.xx (Backoffice) -> Postman -> SoapUI -> IntelliJ Idea -> Groovy & Impex scripts -> CentOS -> mRemote and Putty SSH
Rockstar FreelancerAmazon Product Branding Strategist & IT Consultant
Jun. 2016 - Jan. 2018Taking products with vision and driving them all the way to the selling point. From raw materials to customer basket in Amazon stores.
ELECTROGLOBALDatabase Administrator & MS Dynamics Developer
May. 2015 - Jun. 2016Cluj County, RomaniaMicrosoft SQL Database Admin. This role implies that every task performed in the database tables schemes, triggers, maintenance plans, scheduled backup plans. Microsoft Dynamics NAV - implies developing , testing and implementing reports, workflow & production elements( pages, tables, scheduled reports).
Opening new server sessions, administrating server resources, giving rights, adding new users with complete profile. Another part of my job is to fully support the IT team, with Server management, Data Center hardware maintenance, VoIP telephony, internal network development and with problem analysis.
Change hardware components, improve connectivity. Make use of switches, cornings, routers, cable linking both in data and telephony connections. In this part plenty of work is done at installing and configuring user desktop and laptop solutions. Windows OS, Exchange mail config., VPN solutions installed, ERP client linked with the main server. Microsoft Exchange mail based interface. Linking multiple internal alert systems for noticing possible critical situations that may occur.
BrinelIT & Network Support Specialist
Oct. 2014 - May. 2015Cluj County, RomaniaMy work in SC NetBrinel SA is mainly a support, maintenance and surveillance in the Service Department.
The support is offered for both the Software and Hardware products that the company externalized to its clients. On the hardware part another important task is the maintenance of the Data Center where the servers and storages are, which basically ensure all the virtual work in the company. I may apply here another set of tasks that influence my work: these are the surveillance and control of the energy monitors along with the humidity and temperature ones which are also situated in the Data Center room. These sensible sensors are an important part of the Data Center, because through their software apps, we can keep under control the outputs of the active servers such as heat and electricity consumption.
It is an interesting job which allows you to learn something every day mainly in the IT department, but not only that because you also learn managerial skills and the abilities to take responsibility over important decisional elements.
In a day by day work we use system connected applications such as :
-NAGIOS
- ZABBIX
DMM Eikaiwa JapanEnglish teacher
Apr. 2014 - Jan. 2015România, onlineThis is a Japanese English tutoring program, developed for the Japanese student and natives, in order to improve or learn their English.
The teaching is at the student`s free will, and it can be done by using standard materials and books, or by adjusting their expression in a free conversation.
Acquired skills and knowledge:
Online Tutoring Platform
IndividualIndividual Currency Trader
Nov. 2012 - Jan. 2014Cluj County, RomaniaThe main tasks during this internship were:
- trading the main international coins
- always follow the latest events in order to be informed and anticipate the market moves
- learn and understand the main financial and political systems in every trading country, so our actions can be well documented.
After this experience I gained a good financial and professional background that still serves me good until today.
Acquired skills and knowledge:
Graphics, metatrader 4, MetaTrader 5
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