Objective
Seeking a job mainly as Project Manager/Scrum master or Team Leader in software development projects
Skills
Agile Practitioner – not certified yet
ITIL – not certified yet
Team management and Leadership
IBM Certified Solution Architect – Cloud Computing Infrastructure V1
Technical Documentation development and review
Presentation and reporting skills for top management/project stakeholders
VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.0]
Operating Systems administration on cloud infrastructure (Windows, Linux, AIX)
OS Image development for cloud infrastructure (Windows, Linux, AIX)
Automation of OS image development and deployment in cloud (IBM/Soft layer)
Tester – Foundation Level ISTQB
Code and documentation review – Inspection Leader
CMMI Level 3 knowledge
V model development standard
Open View suite: Asset Center, Radia (Client Automation Enterprise), Connect IT, Service Manager
Programming languages: ANSI C, C++, Java, Pascal
Languages
English – excellent in writing and speaking
German – medium in writing and speaking
French – basic conversational level
Romanian – native
Education & Training
Politehnica Bucharest – Remote controls and electronics in transportation
C-tin Radulescu Motru high school – Information Technology profile
Career Summary
IBM Romania Global Delivery Centre, Bucharest
July 2014 – present
Permanent Position: IBM Cloud Managed Services Project Manager
Description: Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the stakeholders.
Correcting any deviations from project plans. Using historical data to help anticipate and plan future project work. Guiding Agile project teams to achieve a high level of performance. Managing complex software development, architecture, and integration projects. Mentoring less experienced team members. Managing projects to budgets and timelines. Managing stakeholder communications. Developing project metrics. Performing all agile project management activities.Overseeing the day-to-day progress of project. Providing leadership and direction to project staff.
Solving problems throughout the project life cycle.
Preparing and distributing progress reports.
Managing project risks and problems.
Reporting on project status to senior managers.
IBM Romania Global Delivery Centre, Bucharest
December 2013 – present
Permanent Position: IBM Cloud Managed Services Epic Lead
Description: Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies. Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the stakeholders. Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them. Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback. Lead and coached a development team of 6-8 and managed team to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum. Encouraging the team for self organization to boost the efficiency and coordination. Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint. Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices defined by Agile methodology. Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding and estimate the development effort. Motivated the team to come up with good quality shippable product that meet the product goals. Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis. Managed multicultural teams in different geographical places. Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget. Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.
IBM Romania Global Delivery Centre, Bucharest
2011/08 – 2013/12
Permanent Position: Smart Cloud Enterprise Image Developer & L3 Support Lead
Description: Serves as Enterprise Cloud image developer and L3 Support Lead for both Linux (RedHat &
SUSE) and Windows server platforms. Manage multinational team (Romania & India) of combined Linux developers and Windows image developers in supporting high level features of IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise. Coordinate with high level management in supporting worldwide customer issues. Technical and Strategic advises for forum publishing of technical solutions related to IBM Cloud worldwide. Implement the appropriate operational processes to achieve effective delivery of services Presented graphs, analysis, and image usage statistics and resources allocation to stakeholders. Identify initiatives to improve the technical delivery of service to the customers worldwide and consultant on technical implementation. Attend production SCRUM Meetings and consult on future support and development strategies suited for customer business needs. Create use case strategies, and when necessary, help to create test strategies. Providing security consultancy & best practise for securing Microsoft platforms. Solution development and technical consultancy across a broad technology spectrum. Development and L3 Support Lead role on Agile development methodology. SCRUM Master for Image Support technical meetings. Work closely and effectively with other IBM organisational units in region, US or Asia to achieve a high level of Customer Satisfaction. Direct contact to third party OS Image Supplier regarding technical issues (Novell for SUSE, RedHat and Microsoft).
Engage directly with customers when required. Mentoring and coaching junior members of the team to take on steady state if required. Inspired each and every team member to perform and give their best. Proven efficiency in reducing project time and costs while motivating the team.
Process oriented and experienced in project, quality, issue and risk management methodologies.
Hewlett Packard SRL, Bucharest
2008/10 – 2011/08
Permanent Position: Technical Delivery Lead
Description: Deliver technical support solution according to ITIL model to major Romanian clients. Manage team formed by company employees and partner employees in delivering and operating service delivery software solutions for major customers in Romania. Coordinate Operation Systems, software and patching deployment on client infrastructure throughout the country. Analysed issues and made recommendations for operations service level improvements. Management and administration of Open View suite: Asset Center, Radia (Client Automation Enterprise), Connect IT, Service Manager. Develop and Perform User Acceptance Testing for all new products to be delivered to the customer. Perform OS Image customised to client needs and manage OS migration and OS upgrade projects.
Supervise and approve subco logistic delivering products to the customer. Planned technologies programs adhering to business objectives and goals. Act as a single point of contact/escalation for all technical issues raised by the customer. Identify initiatives to improve the technical delivery of service to the client and oversee technical implementation. Work with the client to develop the future technical strategy. Mentoring and coaching junior members of the team to take on steady state if required. Inspired each and every team member to perform and give their best. Determined the duties and responsibilities of individuals in a team. Analysed the individual performance of the team and motivated them to perform even better. Organized training workshops and meetings to improve the performance of the members who are lagging behind in terms of performance. Analysing the assigned projects and distributing the tasks to the members as per their area of expertise. Reported any problem or fault in the project to the project manager or supervisor. Offered solutions to the top management regarding project related queries.
Alcatel Romania (Now THALES Rail Signaling Solutions)
2005/04 – 2008/10
Permanent Position: Software Developer
Description: Responsibilities, Achievements Software developer SM (Sicherungsmoduls) TSD.
Development of Safety critical applications Embedded software for Railway Electronical. Interlocking (ESTW L90) – ANSI C and PASCAL. Expertise in debugging embedded systems without or with little emulator support Software debugging at lower level using assembly code tracing and memory dumps. Error analysis and solution proposal for software bugs coming from both the test team and client field testing. Skilled at progressing from problem statement to well documented designs. Testing activities on safety critical software versions (both “white box” and “black box” testing). Real-time programming: Multi-threaded programming, message passing, synchronization mechanisms and patterns, restricted environments, high frequency event handling, interpolation. Analytical thinker that consistently resolves ongoing issues or defects, often called upon to consult on problems that have eluded resolution by others. Well Structured and Robust Safety Modules software design proposals for new requirements coming from different customers. Operating systems: Windows – all Unix – Developing and configuration activities on SUN Spark with Solaris Install and configure Solaris on simulated environment (VMWARE) Basic knowledge of OpenVMS install and configuration Worked with HP-UX on Itanium CPU. Software versioning tools – source control: Rational ClearCase (Windows and Unix), CVS CMMI Level 3 procedures for software design and architecture. Excellent knowledge of V model (also extended German V model) software development standard. Knowledge of European Coding Standards CENELEC and MU8004 Strong design and integration of additional software modules. Extensive experience with testing procedures – ISTQB Tester Certification
Validation Support Activities – Responsible for software release documentation and code coverage documents. Code and documentation review – Alcatel Inspection Leader Certification Managed training and induction program of new employees. Managed small team to configure Software Laboratory for Client Acceptance software testing. References, Other observations Key Role – Software development for the biggest Railway Station of Romania (Arad, Bucharest, Brasov, etc). Key Role in development of the new versions which will be put into action on the high-speed line from the 4th European Railway Corridor (Bucharest-Constanta). Major role in software development Safety Critical Systems for Israel and Portugal railway companies
Platform: ANSI C,Pascal, JAVA, C++
