Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
IT Experience in banking, operations, consulting, development and research. Management: team management (selection & hiring, performance management), organizational change projects Financial Management: budget management, cost management and allocation, product pricing; controlling (activity-based costing) IT Product & Project Management: large infrastructure projects, software development projects, methodologies: waterfall (Prince 2 practitioner), agile (certified SAFe4 Agilist), business & technical analysis, requirements specification, solution architecture & design Service Management Processes Implementation & Optimization: Service Level Management (KPIs, Support Processes, Change & Release Processes, Information Security (User & Access management, IT Disaster Recovery, ISO27k) Continual Process Improvement (ITIL v3 Expert) Governance Framework (CobiT Framework; Bank Regulations); internal & External Audit (CISA certified); Risk Management (CRISC certified); Integrated Management Systems (ISO standards)
- Management of release process, coordination of software releases of business applications across Dell Financial Services - Impact assessment and dependency evaluation between defined releases and wider DELL applications, infrastructure upgrades and security patches - Implementation of company strategy to improve the delivery of software by adopting DevSecOps practices
- IT Service Management framework implementation and optimization; - IT Governance; risk management; regulatory requirements, compliance (bank and financial markets); - Project Management (process optimization, infrastructure, software development and security); - Process Improvement; Software Development Life-cycle; Release & Deployment; test management; - Team management (50+ people), performance evaluation, hiring and selection, organizational change projects; - Budget Management (~10 mil EUR), Product Pricing & Cost Allocation, Activity-based Costing
- Process implementation and improvement: change & release management, service delivery: service level management, availability, continuity, capacity and security, support processes (request, incident and problem management), operational processes; - Project Management (project life cycle, benefits measurement, budget control, risk management); - Team management (50+ people), performance evaluation, hiring and selection, organizational change; - Budget Management, Product Pricing & Cost Allocation;
- Managing the internal auditing program and carrying out audits on company's projects; - Implementation of certified ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 Integrated Management System in Romania; improving internal process efficiency by finding methods to reduce the costs associated with internal business support processes; improvement initiatives through evaluation, awareness, training and audits; - Implemented internal training program for Project Managers on Company’s Integrated Management System and Project Management according to corporate standards; - Annual evaluation of the Group Integrated Management Systems for adequacy and alignment with the business needs.
- Management & Administration of local IT Services for Halcrow Romania & Halcrow Group activity in Eastern Europe, according to the ITIL standards; - Management of regional Halcrow Romania IT budget (~100K EUR) and for Eastern Europe Offices; - IT Consultancy for Halcrow Projects in Romania; - Led the local IT Team; evaluation of team efficiency and performance.
- Product Management of Linux versions of performance monitoring products; - Initiated improvements to the products promoted to production versions; - Performed tests for company’s Unix versions of products.
- Managed a team of programmers (10+) by establishing objectives, by evaluating performance and by delivering required products on time; - Implementation of linguistic tools for text categorization, summarization and search capabilities using statistical and artificial intelligence techniques; - Set up local IT network and implementation & maintenance of the test environment.