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Romania

As I transitioned into managing a team of skilled technical leaders, my primary focus shifted towards enhancing application performance across all dimensions, while fostering a culture of innovation.We analyze speed, responsiveness, scalability, and efficiency to ensure our software operates at its best. Through testing, optimization, and innovative problem-solving, we aim to enhance the user experience. Our commitment to enhancing application performance reflects our company's dedication to deliver high-quality, reliable software solutions.

Bucharest, Romania

The primary focus in this role is to provide direction, support and guidance to ensure that each team operates effectively and achieves its goals.Regular activities:- Strategic planning: Working with the team leaders to develop strategies and plans thatalign with the overall objectives of the organization. This may include setting targets, allocating resources and defining roles and responsibilities;- Performance management: Monitoring the performance of each team and its members,identifying areas for improvement, providing feedback and coaching to support personaland team development;- Team leadership: Leading by example, fostering a positive and productive workenvironment, providing guidance and support to team leaders to ensure they have the skills and resources to lead their teams effectively;- Stakeholder management: Building and maintaining relationships with internaldepartments and other organizational units to ensure smooth and effectivecollaboration;- Budget management: Monitoring budgets and expenses for each team, ensuring thatresources are used effectively and efficiently;- Problem-solving: Addressing issues and challenges that arise, facilitating problem-solvingsessions with team members and team leaders and making decisions to resolve problems in a timely and effective manner;- Communication: Regularly communicating with team members and team leaders toensure everyone is aware of goals, plans, and expectations and to provide updates onprogress and developments.

Bucharest, Romania

In this role I was responsible for leading and managing two teams to achieve specific goals and objectives.Regular activities:- Task allocation: Allocating tasks and responsibilities among team members, ensuring that each team member has a clear understanding of their role and responsibilities;- Goal setting: Working with the team to define clear and achievable goals and setting targets and deadlines;- Performance management: Monitoring the performance of each team member, providing feedback, coaching and support to help team members improve their skills and reach their full potential;- Reporting: Providing regular progress updates to higher management, ensuring that the team's progress is visible and that key stakeholders are kept informed;- Conflict resolution: Identifying and resolving conflicts within the team, promoting open communication and collaboration, fostering a positive and productive work environment;- Performance management: Monitoring the performance of each team member, providing feedback, coaching and support to help team members improve their skills and reach their full potential;- Risk management: Identifying potential risks to the team's goals and implementing strategies to minimize those risks;- Continuous improvement: Continuously seeking out ways to improve processes and procedures, encouraging the team to identify and implement best practices.

Bucharest, Romania

As a member of a development team, I contributed to the delivery of various features for the studio, including the most significant feature of the year for the entire studio. The main challenge I faced in this role was to build a practical plan for the entire feature scope, balancing the workload among multiple teams, maintaining coordination with them throughout the process and ensuring the timely delivery of the feature on a good quality and without any production disruptions.My additional responsibilities included:- Conducting daily stand-up meetings, ensuring they were punctual, focused, and concise;- Leading reviews and retrospectives with the team;- Keeping the Group Manager informed of the team's progress;- Participating actively in the recruitment process;- Developing and executing onboarding plans for new members;- Mentoring junior and mid-level developers;- Leading a C# guild across multiple studios.

Bucharest, Romania

As a senior team member with extensive project knowledge that carried over from my previous company, I was given additional responsibilities on top of my prior duties, which include:- Assisted the support team for troubleshooting activities;- Participated in coaching efforts, helping new team members become familiar with current projects;- Assisted the team leader with leadership duties and stepped in during their absence;- Built a new DevOps infrastructure from the ground up to support cutting-edge cloud technology, including source control (Bitbucket Server), CI (Jenkins), Docker registry (Dockerhub), code review (Fisheye), automated deployment (Ubuntu systems and Docker containers), etc.;- Initiated the process of moving existing solution components to cross-platform alternatives using .Net Core.

Bucharest, Romania

I was part of the "OW5000" team, being responsible of:- Estimating effort and creating project plans for NEC Corporation of America, our external partner;- Conducting analysis, creating specifications, developing, testing and documenting new additions to the unified message application;- Developing and testing supporting tools and services for the above application.

Bucharest, Romania

I was part of the "Phillips" department, being responsible of:- Providing effort estimates and building project plans, while sending periodic reports to Philips Business Communications and later to NEC Philips Business Solutions, our external partner;- Developing an application for remote management of SOPHO IPK PBX devices through analysis, specification creation, coding, testing, and documentation;- Creating specifications, coding and testing various applications for managing Philips wireless DECT systems;- Testing of newly added features and functionality on site with the external partner;- Developing various tools to analyze and resolve errors in client installations.

Bucharest, Romania

I was part of the "Internal applications" department where I was responsible of:- Coding, testing and implementing economical and medical database applications;- Creating installers for some of the implemented applications;- Offering support to the existing clients;- Mainteining and testing Interactive Voice Response applications.

Bucharest, Romania

- Analyzed, made specifications, coded, tested and implemented economical database applications;- Network administrator;- System administrator;- Handled cash-registers.