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Project Manager


  • ~10 years of PM experience in software development, transition, customization, rollout, maintenance & support projects

  • certified Project Manager and SCRUM Master

  • experienced in managing projects in many frameworks, methodologies and standards (Waterfall - PMI, Prince2, IBM’s WWPMM, RUP or Agile - Scrum, Kanban and SAFe) and in dealing with multiple procurement contract types (T&M, FP, CR)

  • led software development teams - Java, JavaScript, PHP, ActionScript, .Net, PL/SQL developers as well as Microsoft support engineers, ERP consultants, QA testers, DBAs, web designers, various SMEs - and worked alongside C-level

  • comfortable within multinational environment, 18+ years of work experience spent inside of valuable players

  • multilingual professional with expertise involved in full lifecycle implementations from initiation through post-implementation

  • accustomed to achieve objectives within agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, client satisfaction and risk constraints

  • proven experience in working in abroad cross cultural, cross functional, collocated and virtual global teams

  • significant experience in Contract and Vendor Management, Budgeting, Procurement / Sourcing, Product Management




Experience level: senior
Skills:

Project Management

Program Management

Project Management Office (PMO)

Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO)

Agile and Waterfall frameworks 

Categories:
Others
Languages:
English - advanced
Italian - advanced
French - beginner
Experience:

Sr. Project Manager, eu-LISA, Strasbourg (France) Jun 2018 – Dec. 2019

Major Guidelines: Senior Project Manager subcontracted by UniSystems Belgium to eu-LISA (European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems - located in Strasbourg) to manage the implementation of IT projects by meeting identified business needs within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality

 

Consultant Project Manager, CARGILL Jun – Aug 2016 

Major Guidelines: Alten consultant outsourced to Cargill, part of Solution Delivery EMEA PMO team, being responsible for the overall project management, consistency of processes and tools as per Cargill Portfolio and Project Management framework

 

Project Manager Transitions, GENPACT Nov 2015 – Apr 2016

Major Guideline: Responsible for the overall project management of Order to Cash business process migration, IT & digital landscape (including ERP platforms) by ensuring the transformational power of outsourcing from Solution Identification stage until Go-Live and handover to operations teams

  

IT Project Manager, RINF Outsourcing Solutions & TEMPS Feb – Nov 2015

Major Guideline: Part of Office 365 FastTrack Project being responsible for the cloud deployment of Office 365 workloads

 

Sr. IT Project Manager, SOFTWIN Dec 2010 – Feb 2015 

Major Guideline:

  • management of 6 full cycle medium to large projects (i.e., approximately 60,000 to 90,000 project hours with teams between 5-20 members, project costs between €200,000 - €1.000,000, and duration of 36 months
  • redesign of the Learning Management System solution, building from scratch E-Assessment capabilities and +20 eLearning courses delivered

 

Associate Project Manager – PMO, IBM Jun 2009 – Dec 2010

                                                     •  Accountable for the accuracy of the delivery of all project estimates, reports and forecasts as per scope, time, cost, quality and risk constraints by following CMMI model and WWPM methodology as well as for the supervision of compliance with organizational processes, data security and privacy controls                                                                 

Portofolio:
  • ANZ – web app development with the purpose of launching Dell Business Lease to the Australia and New Zeeland 

  • EMEA Re-platform – deployment of new infrastructure and UDE app rollout to 17 EMEA countries

  • SAP Master Data Governance - upgrade of the MDG

  • WMS Italy - Supply Chain BPO project

  • Kraft Heinz – transferring of operational activities to GBS organization

  • Office 365 – cloud deployment

  • ING Bank – Support & maintenance services (LMS)

  • Alpha Bank Romania – Maintenance & technical support services for Intuitext Suite LMS

  • Commerzbank – Integration of Dresdner's Bank Customer Data onto Commerzbank Central Database

  • Daimler Chrysler AG - 2nd level support for procurement applications

  • Fiat Comau - 2nd level support for SAP SD/MM/FI/CO modules

 

Education:

 

2010-2012 International MBA Program, Int’l Institute of Management, CNAM Paris & National Institute for Economic Development, Bucharest University of Economic Studies (AMBA accredited)

 • MBA courses: Project Management, Strategic Management, Operational Mgmt, Business Law, HR Management, Marketing, Statistics, Finance, Management of Information Systems, Business Information Technologies

• MBA Dissertation in Project Management

  

2004-2006 MA, Master of Communication and Public Relations, Faculty of Communication “David Ogilvy”, National School of Political and Administrative Sciences

 • Courses: Public Relations, Management of Image Crisis, Analysis of Organizations’ Image, Advertising, Broadcast Communication

 

Certificates:
  • Prince2® Practitioner Certification in Project Management N. GR657007898MB
  • Prince2® Foundation Certification in Project Management N. GR656011049MB
  • CSM® by SCRUM Alliance, Certificate ID: 664309
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt trained and tested by Genpact
  • MPM®, Master Project Manager, AAPM - American Academy of Project Management
  • IBM Associate Accredited Professional - Project Management Profession - by IBM PM Center of Excellence
  • SMAC, SCRUM Master Accredited CertificationTM, ISI - Certificate ID: 86684996342752
  • Project Manager accredited by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Labor