Andrei Draganescu Email & Phone Number

Remote

Working full time for the open source WordPress project.

Full time contributor to the WordPress Core, particularly its Gutenberg editor project, as a part of Automattic's Five For the Future Pledge.

Bucharest, Romania

Managing all the user facing projects for the leading CEE e-commerce in the Home Decor market. Defining the user experience, experimenting and constantly learning from results.- new features and updates like fast, relevant and layered product results, powered by ElasticSearch- updated the monolith architecture to a decoupled service oriented architecture- migrated to nodeJS the entire client facing app stack- not one minute of downtime during the company's largest Black Friday event- 100% API coverage for connecting the user facing store to data from all company's functions, fully reusing and refactoring existing code- a modern, clean UI, built with up to date technology stack (VueJS(- clear UX- built the responsive website and a new mobile app- a full coverage internal measurement and data collection system- a unique in house deployment and release management system- more countries enjoy our brand's promise.

Bucharest, Romania

Working for international clients on web development projects.Developing personal projects including a web development process book, a new PHP framework and a commercial Wordpress admin replacement.Bootstrapping an email based project management tool for freelancersWriting on the RTO design pattern and the Raster specification http://draganescu.github.io/

Remote

I managed a global team, devised full technical specifications and conducted projects from start to finnish.In only six months i launched a newly architected public facing interface of the application which increased conversions by 120%. I have architected a new search mechanism of the marketplace that had a high impact: doubled the sales and exposure of individual artwork by the paying artists. Based on marketing research I, along with the team, created a new and improved activation flow for trial users, which doubled activations.

Remote

I worked closely with the clients of this talent hub to transform creative briefs to finished projects. I managed eight programmers and two designers who worked simultaneously for up to four projects at a time, coordinated tasks, reports and QA analysis.Among the projects some have been game changers in their industry like an intellectual property internet crawler identifying automatically IP theft online or a patent browsing application featuring PTO reports from over 3 million records that streamlined by 80% the time required to process them. Aside from full documented specifications i ensured that the team memebers solved hard to tackle technical situations, provided accurate time reporting and project documentation by implementing Agile development know how and methodologies.

Bucharest

Worked as information architect for internal and external clients. However, my role in the company was complex and included a diverse array of activities.Delivered the architecture of the biggest Romanian enterprise CMS, used currently by the entire online network of Apropo Media and some other external clients. It features an innovative service based, decoupled modular approach that helped speed up implementation in a record time.Coached a team of product owners providing new perspectives on their proposals and managing the technical processes. From Go4It.ro, Promotor.ro to Apropo.ro i had participated along with other highly talented and creative people in building a network with surprising fast financial results.I have been actively involved in strategy formation and adaptation in the quest of building software from zero that would hold a network now accounting for the largest share of sold online advertising in Romania.

Bucharest, Romania

Managed a self funded web development studio which implemented online presence solutions for a wide array of clients, from local advertising agencies to foreign industry leaders.Along with the art and programming I employed I built and implemented websites for many recognized local and international brands and institutions like ANEFS Bucharest, DDB Bucharest, Bostina & Associates Lawyers, Knorr, Interamerican, Euroclinic, RCS/RDS (DigiTv), Pall Mall, Ozonne and Notorious in New Zealand and many others.Pioneering the web applications era I created and implemented an on line screen scraping engine that was designed for media monitoring activities but also worked as a Google News application before its time. The engine was highly optimized and ran a daily index of about 200 Romanian information sources, storing and searching trough 100000 daily records.I created the architecture of and managed to completion an intranet application that fixed the production flow for the largest Romanian media monitoring company. The application scanned, indexed and stored OCR versions of daily newspapers and magazine articles while minimizing the number of steps each of the company's 30 employees needed to take. The application heavily improved - within the range of 70% - the return times for clients and the return rates for the company.

Bucharest, Romania

Technically managed internal projects, devising specifications and managing project life cycle.As a technical project manager I worked directly with the teams behind services such as Okazii.ro, Trafic.ro, the adServer behind the Boom network, and content websites like Auto.ro or Hit.ro.Implemented a series of clear improvements for the trafic.ro audience measurement system. Participated in the process of improving the company's internal CMS and ERP systems with usability reports and UI/UX architecture.

Bucharest, Romania

Delivered creative advertising concepts, writing copy and managing special projects.I created TV, radio and print advertising for brands such as Eli Lilly, Henkel's Moment and Ceresit, Kiwi Pratico, Alexandrion, Frisbee, Policolor, Cesarom and Daweoo.Aside from my main job i was involved in numerous side projects such as: implementation of the first romanian product catalog with 3D visualization for Cesarom's bathroom tiles, programming the company's website, which got the agency featured on TV, wrote the script for the first romanian bricolage show or even reviving the Gopo animated character by proposing it as a brand to the agency's management.

Bucharest, Romania

I had a strong self-motivated career in this medium advertising agency and trough project proposals and proactive thinking I went up from a simple desk clerk to managing my own department specialized in multimedia creation. I advertised it as a stand-alone brand "Interactive Media Advertising' and it grew very fast as a reference and new business mean for the agency.I built and developed an online written media portal press.ro that was a direct competitor to ziare.com. It was based on a large link database and it included many advertising rate cards from major media providers. When advertised its visitor peak reached about 700 targeted unique visitors on daily basis.