Catalin Anastasoaie Email & Phone Number

Bucharest, Romania

In the summer of 2023, I took over the entire Release Management team, spread across 3 time zones (US, Romania, India), covering together all cloud & on-premises products developed by UiPath.

Bucharest, Romania

In parallel with managing products and releases as an Individual Contributor, I started managing and growing the Romania Release Management team (5 Release Managers in 2023) covering all products and releases developed in Romania.Sharing that one project that would describe best how I work and what I do, would like to mention the early days of Automation Cloud @ UiPath. In my role there, I have:* Worked with the engineering teams and the non-engineering ones to establish our ways of working* Helped defining our DoR and DoD* Created templates for Jira, live incidents, deployments, etc * Documented the engineering team ways of working and shared that information with other teams for internal alignment* Coordinated the release across all teams and the push of the binaries onto our deployment environments. Initially, I was the person pushing the actual deploy buttons but after the process was on a beaten path, I’ve documented it and migrated it to engineering.* Created clear internal communication channels for sharing information about the release scope, status and deployments* Helped on putting together the initial structure of our SRE project & processes* Worked on the release criteria and document what’s needed from a release perspective to put a new version upAs a people manager, I have:* Coached the team in our day to day activities* Contributed to the UiPath Release Management Job Description* Created internal role and responsibilities documents, explaining at a high level what a Release Manager does in UiPath* Covered hiring* Put together the first version of our Jira release process automation which, based on a predefined matrix, automatically creates the required subtasks for a release across all dependent teams depending on the type of the release.

Bucharest, Romania

Working as an Individual Contributor, coordinating the release activities for Studio, Robot, Orchestrator and working on the initial processes for tracking and delivering releases inside UiPath.

Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

As part of the Primetime solution, the Client Services team is responsible for the success of our customer projects that integrate and deploy the Primetime products.In my current role my main responsibilities are:- Working together with the internal team and the customer team(s) to collect and organize customer requirements, documentation and schedules.- Helping the customer with the initial project plan and advising them on the Adobe timelines and processes. - Providing internal and external weekly updates on assigned customers.- Organizing and leading customer daily / weekly review calls.- Handling customer escalations (ensuring follow-up and communication with both the customer and the internal teams).- Regular review of open tickets to ensure follow up and escalation.

Bucharest

Products I've worked on during this time include Adobe Primetime Player SDK (various flavours / platforms): Desktop Flash HDS SDK, Desktop Flash HLS SDK, Android SDK, iOS SDK.The products were built by two local teams in Bucharest, one working on the Flash versions of the SDK and the other one working on the Android SDK, and a third one based is US, working on the iOS SDK.Main responsibilities:- Partnered with Engineering & Product Management to define the product requirements and timeline and drive project schedules.- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams inside Adobe to assure the project’s success. - Partnered with my colleagues to ensure decisions are made, appropriate communication occurs, and plans are adjusted if needed.- Coordinated discussions across multiple time zones (US, Romania, India) between the local teams and our counterparts.- Led the internal legal and security audits required for our product to go Live, coordinating and representing our team and product within the internal calls with our legal and security departments.- Provided internal weekly updates on the project status to our broader team.Also served as the Scrum Master for the two teams working on the project and as part of this role I have: - Set up the project framework in our agile tool (VersionOne was used back then) and work with Product and Engineering to populate it with stories. - Reviewed regularly the product backlog and worked with Product and Engineering on maintaining it. - Organized and led the sprint planning, daily sync-up, grooming and retrospective meetings. - Helped the team with any blocking items.

As a Quality Engineer my main responsibilities throughout the various roles I had were:- Working with developers on writing use cases and specifications for new features.- Creating and executing test plans.- Designing and implementing manual and / or automated tests.- Running manual or automated test cases and reporting the findings.- Developing small applications used for testing or demo purposes.- Serving as a mentor and trainer for new hires.- Taking part in the interviewing process for candidates applying to software testing & quality assurance related jobs.- Actively participating on the Adobe Forums, helping users debug and resolve issues.Technologies used: ActionScript, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, C (basic), Ruby (basic)