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Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Took over the role of Product Manager for Tryouts, an internal EA product that facilitates the playtesting experience.- Adjusted long-term planning and led the tactical execution by managing, in partnership with a Project Manager, the backlog and release processes.- Maintained relationships with stakeholders, balancing the user needs and requirements with the business constraints.- Managed the Tryouts development team, as well as a few other software engineers from other teams.

Bucharest, Romania

Been part of a central team responsible to develop and operate automation farms for the Continuous Integration (CI) domain, to guarantee a high quality of games' codebase.I was responsible of all the operational activities of this group in Romania, being engaged with and assisting in the CI space all EA’s game titles being developed over these years in the studio.- Maintained relations with our customers at multiple levels, and achieved consistently a high customer satisfaction score.- As people manager, I continued to develop and lead the local team of engineers.- Covered the execution level, planning and tracking the team activities.- As tech lead, I’ve provided technical guidance and kept the local team on top of the latest technology trends used in our larger group, sometimes even having notable contributions in setting these trends.- Built strong relations with working partners and sub-teams from other studios, and supported larger strategic initiatives while being part of the extended leadership team of the group.

Bucharest, Romania

Built and led a team of DevOps engineers focused on build and smoke test automation from a hybrid role, being responsible of technical, people and project management.

Bucharest, Romania

Performed an engineering role in the areas of Configuration Management (CM) and Software Quality Engineering (SQE).- In charge of developing and supporting automation farms (with builds and tests) for several FIFA titles.

Managed the operational activities of Amdocs at its client Vodafone Romania.- Scope spanned over 4 enterprise-level systems of critical or major importance (including the billing system).* release planning and requirements management.* working closely with the Delivery organization to ensure projects smooth transition from development to production.* post-production support, accountable for resolving day-to-day implementation and operations issues (including on-going support tier 1&2, infra, operational, training, deployment and testing).- Responsible for the onsite activities business plan.- Led the on-site technical team (6-7 professionals) and acted as HR focal point.- Actively engaged in the technical aspects of the development activities; Analyzed system requirements, performed bug fixes and developed new functionalities> Mostly in C/C++, Unix shell script, PL/SQL- Fulfilled the role of Administrator for Amdocs’ Romanian subsidiary.- between Oct 2008 and Dec 2009 - I've fulfilled the role of Site Manager, being client's point of contact for all delivery and implementation aspects.- between Jan 2010 and Mar 2011 - I've reported to a Site Director that was locally responsible of a major upgrade project.

- In charge of the production support on site of Vodafone Romania’s billing system (enterprise-level system of critical importance).* leading and mentoring a small team of 5 professionals, I achieved and maintained a very stable and successful state of the billing system.- Been onsite system architect as well as consultant for the Development Centre regarding solutions for new requirements; Analyzed system requirements and lead impact assessments for tens of projects.- Proved ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive solutions.- Performed bug fixes and developed new functionalities.> Mostly in C/C++, Unix shell script, PL/SQL- Won in Aug 2006 a divisional Value-Based award for customer centricity.

Part of Amdocs’ Cyprus Development Centre- Engaged in a major upgrade project for a top telecom client in Romania,* leading the development activities in the functional area of Event Processing.> Technologies used: C/C++, Unix shell script, PL/SQL, XML

- common with the previous position of ‘Programming Software Engineer’ but with increased independence and responsibilities over development tasks of higher complexity.

Part of Amdocs’ Cyprus Development Centre- Worked in various projects for major telecom clients in Hungary, UK, USA, Romania.* Been part of multinational and across-sites development teams.* Travelled to the client sites and to development centers in Israel and USA.* Performed bug fixes and developed new functionalities for two generations of the billing system (Ensemble and Enabler) in the functional areas of Invoicing and, later, Event Processing.> Mostly in C/C++ or COBOL, Unix shell script, PL/SQL

Part of the core team that designed, developed and launched SmartTEL, the first mobile-banking service on the Romanian market.- participated in the development of several software solutions utilizing smart cards.> in C, C++, Visual Basic; with Access and Informix databases

Master, Information Systems For Management

Activities and Societies: The Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and InformaticsPrincipal subjects covered: - Information Systems.

Bachelor, Economic Informatics

Activities and Societies: The Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and InformaticsPrincipal subjects covered: - Economic theory.