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Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria

• Responsible for Wacom's Apps & Cloud team, part of Wacom's SW R&D entity, with main forces in Bulgaria, UK & US. The team of 20 mobile and cloud engineers develops software for pen-enabled hardware - sketching and.
• Cultivate and develop the Software Engineering organization in Sofia
• Establish the team roadmap in close collaboration with product managers, portfolio and QA management
• Maintain release and resource planning together with the two engineering managers leading the application and the cloud task-forces
• Manage risks and escalations for the ongoing projects, report to the VP of Engineering
• Ensure organizational structure, SW development processes and working model are well defined and continuously improved over time

Sofia, Bulgaria

• Responsible for the SW Engineering department of Proxiad – 190 people with different engineering roles, organized in dedicated teams based on Proxiad’s clients’ organization and methodology. Report to the Managing.
• Work with project managers and team leaders to introduce best practices in the dedicated teams and ensure the quality of the delivery
• Support account management with the client relation and pre-sales, establish steering committees and continuous improvement practices for the dedicated teams
• Actively participate in the setup of new teams
• Collaborate with the HR department and the team leaders for improving the existing processes and policies for the subsidiary, such as competency framework and performance process
• Support and improve the recruitment process, train and support hiring managers, validate dev candidates, act as a hiring manager for management positions

Sofia, Bulgaria

• Setup of a dedicated.Net team for Verlingue - a large corporate insurance broker operating in France and UK. Development and maintenance of desktop solutions, used by the back-office of Verlingue, as well as web-based.
• Build and manage the team of 9 SW Engineers, 2 PMs and 1 BA
• Onsite analysis of the client’s business and products, organisational structure, process and methodology, tools and software architecture
• Build a setup plan for the new team, prepare infrastructure, communication channels, training plans, dev guidelines and team wiki
• Establish a competency matrix for the.NET team, align it to the recruitment process
• Ensure the quality and speed of delivery of the local team

Sofia, Bulgaria

• Support of the commercial activity of Proxiad, following a transformation of the organizational structure and introduction of account management. Responsibilities in the position included:
• Coach and onboard newly hired account managers
• Assist the account management with qualifying leads
• Participate in meetings with potential clients
• Analyse and document business and technical requirements
• Work with project managers for design and macro estimation

Sofia, Bulgaria

• Development of a system for management and subscription of savings products for BRED Banque Populaire. It allowed the bank’s backoffice to configure interest rate grids, amount limits, maturity limits, penalties and.
• Lead a team of 5 software engineers
• Design the architecture of the PoC, assist in its transformation into a legacy framework
• Support the transition of the methodology from Waterfall to Agile
• Assist with roadmap planning and provide macro estimations
• Remove impediments and ensure the adoption of process and best practices

Sofia, Bulgaria

• Maintain and develop modules in Achat Pro's I2 system - an e-procurement solution for passing orders and managing on-line catalogues, built with J2EE muilti-tier architecture and XSL for the presentation tier..
• Develop new applications and features, maintenance of existing systems
• Migrate servlet-based applications to Struts, move business logic to web services
• Refactor PL/SQL stored procedures for performance optimization
• Refactor source code in order to meet newly introduced quality standards
• Technical design of the features and applications

Paris, France

• Develop a procurement system for managing orders of office equipment and furniture for JM Bruneau’s front-office. The system was built as a multy-layer J2EE solution, based on model-driven architecture, and combined.
• Full-stack development of new catalogue modules for the procurement system, maintenance of the existing modules
• Query optimisation of a legacy PostgreSQL database
• Assist with the UML design of the MDA architecture
• Assist with the onboarding of new team members
• Assist with the local setup of a remote team in the newly opened Bulgarian office of ProxiadTechnologies/Tools: Java, Struts, Hibernate, UML, SQL, HQL, JSTL, JSP, ActivWidgets, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Eclipse, JBoss.

Bachelor, Applied Mathematics

Master, Génie Statistique Et Informatique

High School, Mathematics And Computer Science