CAREER EXPERIENCE
Director of Portfolio – UK, Financial Services
Sirma JSC (http://sirmasolutions.com)
03.13 – Present
Achievements
– Established and led a strategic for the company banking software services division serving customers like Temenos UK, City of London
– Successfully managed several challenging, first of their kind, and critical projects developing banking middleware stepping also into a team lead role, receiving accolades from customer
– Developed the business with entrepreneurial attitude being the key driver to a joint-venture agreement with a UK company
Director of Projects
Sirma JSC
02.13 – 09.13
Achievements
– Successfully led 20 project managers and team leads, head of ~30 SW dev. projects – UK/US
– Established key project management processes at the company within only 6 months: resource management, demand management, project reporting, cost management, time tracking
– Implemented Project Server 2013 and intranet SharePoint to be used for all projects
– Mentored and taught direct reports in good project management practices
Senior Customer Project Manager
Hewlett-Packard
02.07 – 02.13
Achievements
– Successfully managed two IT workplace transformation projects for 8000 users at Cambridge University Hospitals in a challenging contract pursuit situation
– Set up and managed Account Project Management Office (APMO) delivering industry’s biggest Cloud Computing projects for ING Bank Netherlands. Took over a portfolio of 13 troubled projects and obtained acceptance from customer and HP Delivery influencing senior management
– Managed a Pilot Application Migration project for Danske Bank Denmark contributing to the negotiations of a ~£100M contract
– Improved professional performance of project managers as a team Champion and project auditor
– Completed successfully 8 strategic projects for HP call centres at EMEA level, reporting to HP EMEA Director, working with 8 sub-regional managers (e.g. UK&I) and global programme managers
IT Project Manager
Latona and Daisy Multimedia
12.04 – 02.07
Achievements
– Managed big IT projects for state administration and government funded by PHARE and the World Bank. The project for the National Revenue Agency had a team of 30 people and budget of £2M
– Took over and rescued a troubled project for the Public Prosecutors Office
– Managed successfully project proposals obtaining funding from the National Innovation Fund
Founder & CEO
Semanit
04.05-12.10
Achievements
– Established an experimental company and managed it to successful completion of several challenging software development projects
– Led the team to develop a unique online advertising monitoring system
Director of Operations, board member
Metamining JSC (software development)
11.01 – 12.04
Achievements
– Established a subsidiary of the parent French company, built a team and managed the business
– Ensured successful completion of innovative software development projects – components of a professional imaging system
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATES
– Project Management Professional (PMP No. 536492)
– Six Sigma Green Belt training at HP
– Java programming certificate
– Master’s (MA) degree in Linguistics
– Engineering Physics study
– Vocational qualification in Electrical Engineering
Languages
– English (fluent)
– Polish (fluent)
– Bulgarian (fluent)
