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Cluj-Napoca Metropolitan Area

• Develop strategic partnerships with key clients to drive business growth and enhance operational efficiency.• Implement innovative IT solutions tailored to meet client's specific sector dynamics and business needs.•We act as a strategic partner that gives your business a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing world.

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

• Daily Trading activities + monthly/quarterly Investor Duties (Board Meetings, Capital Raise, Event Organisation)• My time was divided between trading/ investing and VC activities (Amber App)• Attended online and in - person fund raising events and industry events both in Australia and Europe • Balanced investor duties with personal life as I had to fly between Australia and Europe

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Duties:• Achieved all KPIs for the first 6 months.• No figures for targets given as this was a newly created role• Designed new go-to-market strategy for IT services, including proposal templates and messaging.• Conducted presentations both on site and remote to make existing customers aware of new IT services portfolio

Brisbane Area, Australia

Nurture and expand the Australian Operation of the company. Working directly with the APAC Director to achieve regional targets.Data Intensity in Australia has been established to be able to offer the Asia Pacific Market end to end Oracle Solutions. With very large teams in both US and UK, Data Intensity is able to leverage this team with local technical (both Professional Services and Managed Services), pre-sales and Sales teams now headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. Duties:• Expanded Queensland Customer base, adding new logos to the company’s managed services and professional services portfolio. • New accounts I brought on-board: RACQ, Youi, Stanwell Corporation Limited, Hastings Deering, Namoi Cotton, QLD Airports limited, Department of Transport and Main Roads, St Andrews Hospital, Arrow Energy, Ardent Leisure Group.• Due to early success in major government tenders in VIC (e.g. Victoria State Revenue Office), initiated than advocated the establishment of the company’s presence in Melbourne. • Notable accounts acquired in VIC: Victoria State Revenue Office, The Good Guys, Engage Pty Ltd, Community Housing Ltd, Frontier Software Pty Ltd.• Coordinated numerous successful tender responses for QLD and VIC public sector clients• Significant contribution in increasing company revenue by over 100% year on year, which then led to Red Stack Tech acquisition by Data Intensity in 2018.• Contributed 60% of revenue quota to receiving Oracle Digital Prime (Cloud / Autonomous Database) Partner of the Year for ANZ award in 2018.

Brisbane Area, Australia

An innovative IT firm headquartered in Brisbane - Australia's New World City. Company values are professionalism, worldliness and results for our clients on a global scale.Duties:• Reached and exceeded sales target on a regular basis, Contracted key government agencies in QLD for identity management and security consulting services.• Played integral role in launching a new brand for the organisation – VostroNet – an innovative player in the Australian high- speed wireless broadband market.• Reinforced focus towards a more robust and sustainable business with building of new practices in Sales and Marketing.• Key Account responsibilities for a number of integral accounts nationally such as Virgin Australia, The Brisbane City Council, Drill search Limited, McAleese Group, BAE Systems, V8 Supercars, etc.• Completed Specialized training and direct exposure to a number of disruptive vendors and cutting-edge technology such as Palo Alto Networks, SafeNet, Veeam Software and Nimble Storage.• Actively and accurately managed and forecasted company sales for both short term and long term

Sydney Area, Australia

Co-founder and in charge of social media presence creation and administration for this education portal. Responsible of website requirements and design, maintenance and social plugins.

Sydney, Australia

Duties:• Delivered successful presentations for multi-million dollar tenders won against Tier 1 Telecommunication providers with far inferior resources and support.• Effectively Managed a Channel of 10-15 IT Integrators Reselling Via IP’s MPLS Network• Reached and occasionally exceeded the sales target, nurtured and inspired a team of 3 (Solution Architect + Inside Sales Resource).• Providing constant updates for the channel regarding telecommunication updates and tech news & breakthroughs.• Won over key accounts in the non-for-profit sector such as The Salvation Army, Anglicare with 3-5-year contract and $100,000 AUD + monthly recurring revenue.• Actively and accurately managed and forecasted company sales for both short term and long term

Discuss financial management solutions with clients, open new transaction, loan and credit card accounts.

Provide high quality troubleshooting and customer service for Telstra Bigpond clients

Masters Of Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering

Solution Architecture Strategic Thinking Sales Engineering

Advanced Diploma In Business (Marketing), Marketing

Marketing Plan Development

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Telecommunications Technology/Technician

Gaduated as a Bachelor of Telecommunication

Romanian-English Bilingual Class Graduate, Mathematics And Computer Science

Intensive English and Computer Science class, has ensured my English is of very high standard from early years