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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 note-taking apps and components and services for storage, processing and manipulation of digital ink. Being a layer around ink software technology, this ecosystem also serves as a showcase for Wacom's OEM partners and enables joint HW/SW propositions. Responsibilities in the position include:• 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• Manage outsourcing vendors and budget, maintain sustainable outsourcing working model• Align and collaborate with R&D and core technology teams to deliver innovation to applications and cloud services• Define resource needs, support and improve the recruitment process, ensure proper cultural fit and alignment to competency and salary frameworks• Participate in the Software Division's senior management task-force, derive strategic directions from mid-term plans, drive forward the vision for applications & cloud development• Manage the budget for the software engineering teams based in Sofia• Lead the performance process for the team, ensure team members' contribution is well aligned to team and company goals• Coach the team members, identify competency gaps and performance issues, define development path and corrective actions• Maintain and build sustainable team culture

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 Director of the Bulgarian subsidiary, and interact with Biz Dev and HR units for pre-sales, recruitment, team setup and performance management. Responsibilities in the position:• 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• Coordinate and supervise the internship programs in the company, coach mentors and support them with establishing a program• Supervise IT/infrastructure budget, define strategic tasks with the infrastructure manager, such as AD implementation, Office 365 adoption, ISO 27001 certification• Prepare budget and strategy for the technical direction, work with managers to plan and organize workshops, trainings, conferences and internal knowledge sharing initiatives• Establish partnerships with universities, organize courses, scholarships and summer internships• Establish vision and build the new internal ERP of Proxiad Group, for management of days off, reports, employees’ information etc.

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 solutions for partners, corporate clients and insured individuals. Ensure the team’s autonomy in terms of technical and domain competencies, establish a strategic framework with the client. Responsibilities in the project:• 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• Recruitment and onboarding of new team members• Operationally in charge of the maintenance and the development of multiple projects• Setup the roles of technical project manager, tech lead, BA, train the people on the job, handover of the project• Establish steering committees and continuous improvement framework with the clientTechnologies/Tools: .Net, C#, Webforms, Winforms, WPF, EntityFramework, Ibatis, Magic, FireFly, PLSQL, IIS, TeamCity, SVN, Mantis, Nugget, CrystalReports, Sonar, Oracle

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• Prepare mockups and documentations for commercial offers

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 eligibility criteria for the products. Front-office would offer the products to clients, configure them depending on clients’ preferences and send the request through a validation workflow. The initial POC was built with SmartGWT and PureMVC and its framework was introduced to most of the projects which kicked-off at the time. Next stages included the development related to more complex savings products – progressive rates, French Livrets, home ownership savings etc. The project introduced a transition to agile methodology, lean documentation and increased usage of direct communication channels. Responsibilities in the project:• 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• Ensure the quality and timely delivery of the local team• Maintain technical documentation, wiki articles• Recruitment and onboarding of new team members• Performance management of the local team• Lead and organize internships as a mentor• Support client relation and account management topicsTechnologies/Tools: Java, GWT, SmartGWT, PureMVC, Eclipse, JBoss, Jetty, Maven, Sonar, Nexus, SVN, Mantis

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. Development of backoffice banking applications for BRED Banque Populaire using legacy frameworks built with Java, EJB and Struts/Tiles. Migration to service-oriented architecture and dependency management with Maven and Nexus, improvement of the quality standards with Sonar. Responsibilities in the projects:• 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• Work directly with different project managers and other client representatives• Assist the PMs with the project planning and provide macro estimations• Support recruitment and onboarding of new team members• Maintain technical documentation, wiki articlesTechnologies/Tools: Java, J2EE, Struts, Tiles, SQL, XML, HTML, Javascript, XSL, XSLT, Eclipse, Weblogic, JBoss, WSAD, Websphere, Apache FOP, Oracle, PL/SQL, DB2, CICS, Ant, Maven, Sonar, Checkstyle, Nexus, SVN, Mantis, CVS

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 rich technology stack. Work was delivered on fixed-price mode, and the team of 15 Java developers was organized by technical project manager and followed waterfall methodology. During the internship period, the focus was on the development of loyalty points features, and later continued with working on different modules of the system. Responsibilities in the project:• 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, Maven, AndroMDA, PostgreSQL, CVS, Mantis

Bachelor, Applied Mathematics

Master, Génie Statistique Et Informatique

High School, Mathematics And Computer Science