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Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

• Personal Driver: Focus on business needs and expectations in order to enhance confidence for the quality of IT services towards business requests.Achievements: Two mergers projects, full datacenter refresh, VDI.
• 2017: Acted as Integration Project Manager for IT stream in the merger project of Banca Carpatica and Patria Bank. During this project I took also the IT Director role in Banca Carpatica (8 months)
• 2016: Complete datacenter refresh project coordination (budget, time and resources), biometrical signature system implementation (paperless client processes)
• 2015: Leaded the integration project between Patria Credit IFN and Patria Bank, (new business line integration within the bank - business line transfer including portfolio transfer, business processes and IT resources)
• IT Manager for both Patria Credit and Patria Bank after integration project, with team members locally and remote (IT Team being located in two headquarters in different cities). Budget responsible for both operational.
• 2014: Delivered relocation project of the headquarters into a new building with involvement on all aspects – building selection, supplier negotiation, space layout, equipment transportation, installation and startup..

Corporate Office Solution Delivery Team

• As part of the Corporate Office Delivery team (Orange SSC) I had to deliver core IT services into the entities of the group, to ensure the smooth transition into the operational phase of the new delivered corporate.
• Coordinate the technical part of the email rebranding projects for Orange Poland and Orange Dominican Republic.
• Created a new framework for delivery team in order to have a central point for all the documentation of the team.
• Developed monitoring and reporting procedures in order to check the quality of the services provided versus the service and operational level agreements
• Acted as Problem Manager for Instant Messaging service
• Managed critical situations which were appearing because of different priorities between the project teams.

* Offer consultancy on IT Infrastructure projects* IT Processes improvement

• Leading a team of 4 specialists I have achieved savings over 30% and improved the SLA reaching a high degree of customer satisfaction. Also took a leading and technical role on various infrastructure projects and.
• Improve L2 support for Service Desk and Business Application Support teams by creating procedures and a know-how database for passed issues.
• Lead the migration of network management services from in-house to external service provider, which reduced the time to fix errors and introduced a proactive monitoring system.
• Supervise and actively participate into the UATs together with developers and business testing team and implement the changes into production when all UATs are completed.
• System analysis and integrations of new systems into datacenter
• Coordinate IT Infrastructure Changes

* System Administration (VMWare ESX, Active Directory, MS SQL, Avaya PBX, HP servers and storages, APC Infrastruxure cooling)* System monitoring (services, systems, environment)* Datacenter Relocation* Supplier Management* L2/L3 Support

Msc, Project Management

Bsc, Computer Science; Economics

Certificated, Itil