Experience

Life Is Hard - Work Soft

• Romania
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Apr 2021 - 2 years 9 months

  Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania Working on insurance and organisation work process digitalisation. Responsibilities: • Creating, maintaining, and prioritising the backlog • Elaboration of epics, features and break down in stories • Creating the product and business vision, analysing the market, maintaining the relation with the clients • Requirements elicitation • Working with the technical team to deliver the product • Improving the internal processes to assure the maximum efficiency and… Show more Working on insurance and organisation work process digitalisation. Responsibilities: • Creating, maintaining, and prioritising the backlog • Elaboration of epics, features and break down in stories • Creating the product and business vision, analysing the market, maintaining the relation with the clients • Requirements elicitation • Working with the technical team to deliver the product • Improving the internal processes to assure the maximum efficiency and productivity of the team. • Managing escalations and releases lifecycle for hot fixes and escalations • Maintain the contractual relationship with the main customer Achievements: • Successfully built and delivered the software products from insurance/company digitalisation industries Show less



SDL

• India
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Owner

  • Jun 2017 - Apr 2021

  Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania Working as a Product Owner/Product Manager for an enterprise Language Translation Management System (TMS). Responsibilities: • Creating, maintaining, and prioritising the backlog • Elaboration of epics, features and break down in stories. • Conveying and influencing the vision and goals of the product before each release • Engaging with customers and community for new ideas, feedback, and escalations • Monitoring and controlling the progress of each product release •… Show more Working as a Product Owner/Product Manager for an enterprise Language Translation Management System (TMS). Responsibilities: • Creating, maintaining, and prioritising the backlog • Elaboration of epics, features and break down in stories. • Conveying and influencing the vision and goals of the product before each release • Engaging with customers and community for new ideas, feedback, and escalations • Monitoring and controlling the progress of each product release • Communicating the status of the product externally to customers and to other products that integrates with TMS. • Organising and performing the handover to the support and maintenance teams after each release • Improving the internal processes to assure the maximum efficiency and productivity of the team. • Managing escalations and releases lifecycle for hot fixes and escalations Achievements: • Delivered successfully product increments with new features shaped on top of customer demands. • Started and lead the change to migrate application in the cloud. Finalised successfully cloud migration and continue to work on the Cloud offering. • Successfully influenced the roadmap of the application by identifying and implementing the most demanded features by the community • Worked with top management to build the future of the cloud platform and the new business model • Facilitated the creation of a new project team dedicated for expanding the new translation cloud platform Show less



NGi Systems

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager & COO

  • Mar 2016 - Jun 2019

  London/Cluj Building up the next generation interactive systems. Working at the latest restaurant digital menus and management solution that streamline restaurant service and provides a brand new experience for the customers. Working at the latest contact less payment solution for gathering donations using debit cards. ⌘ Main Responsibilities: • Provide effective and inspiring leadership by being actively involved in delivering and positioning in the market a totally brand new product… Show more Building up the next generation interactive systems. Working at the latest restaurant digital menus and management solution that streamline restaurant service and provides a brand new experience for the customers. Working at the latest contact less payment solution for gathering donations using debit cards. ⌘ Main Responsibilities: • Provide effective and inspiring leadership by being actively involved in delivering and positioning in the market a totally brand new product, delivered as a service • Identify market opportunities for the product and for the company • Manage and cultivate existing relationships with founders, investors, partners and enterprise customers to secure and expand recurring revenue streams • Provide leadership and input for all strategic initiatives that impacts the organization.Establish and maintain operational processes that sustain the software development activities • Gathering requirements and feedback directly from the market, translate the needs into appropriate technical specifications and work with the software development team for the implementation. • Propose new functionalities by leveraging the strengths of the technology, customers and market demands • Review and validate the working software prior to delivery to the customer to meet the quality standards • Ensuring clear communication of progress within the team, to the customers and to the business partners removing impediments Show less



RIA Solutions Group

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Product Manager

  • Nov 2011 - Mar 2016

  Cluj County, Romania Working within an innovative Marketing Automation Platform powered by a 3.4bn record data warehouse. ⌘ Responsibilities: • Designing, developing, implementing and supporting applications using Microsoft Technologies: .NET/C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL, Windows Server and Private Cloud. • Gathering requirements / customer and stakeholder feedback, translating their needs into appropriate technical specifications and working with the software development team for the implementation. •… Show more Working within an innovative Marketing Automation Platform powered by a 3.4bn record data warehouse. ⌘ Responsibilities: • Designing, developing, implementing and supporting applications using Microsoft Technologies: .NET/C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL, Windows Server and Private Cloud. • Gathering requirements / customer and stakeholder feedback, translating their needs into appropriate technical specifications and working with the software development team for the implementation. • Providing suggestions to the customer to enhance the user experience of the platform by leveraging the strengths of the technology. • Reviewing and validating the working software prior to releases to meet the highest quality standards. • Ensuring clear communication of progress within the team and to the customer, removing arising impediments and escalating issues where required. Show less



Finfore Limited

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Feb 2010 - Jan 2014

  I was responsible to analyze the IT requirements for the projects within the company's portfolio and to provide independent and objective advices on the technologies to use for the implementation. This was a project based role.



BitStar

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and Manager

  • Nov 2008 - Nov 2011

  Established this start-up offering custom software development services using Microsoft technologies. Started from scratch in a team of 2, growing it to a global team of 8-10. ⌘ Responsibilities: • Creating the company’s service offering, sourcing appropriate business partners, recruiting new staff and setting/leading the execution of projects. • Eliciting requirements and translating them into technical/functional specifications. • Leading the design and development for custom… Show more Established this start-up offering custom software development services using Microsoft technologies. Started from scratch in a team of 2, growing it to a global team of 8-10. ⌘ Responsibilities: • Creating the company’s service offering, sourcing appropriate business partners, recruiting new staff and setting/leading the execution of projects. • Eliciting requirements and translating them into technical/functional specifications. • Leading the design and development for custom e-commerce applications (based on NopCommerce) and desktop applications. ⌘ Achievements: • Recruited and established a global team of 8 people, 4 in Romania and 4 in India. • Defined and established software development processes for the team. • Delivered software successfully for 15+ global clients • Delivered online shops and automated e-commerce data flows for an online shop (acquisition, stock, inventory and special deals) and delivered successfully to the clients. • Managed global clients from different cultures: European, North American, Australian and Asian. Show less



SoftVision

• Brazil
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2007

  Responsible for implementing and delivering software using C#/.NET and Microsoft technologies for a client-server desktop application used to track, manage and assist sales agents for selling tools door-to-door. Directly responsible for redesigning the assigned features of an existing old application, creating data model and the data access layer.