gestiunesala.ro is a simple, flexible, and powerful membership software for gyms.easyPass is a mobile app for members (IOS & Android).* Drive the company vision and all aspects of business including product development, marketing, and sales.* Gather business and user requirements to create the roadmap for a complete product, focusing on products and membership sales, members analytics, automated notifications, gym schedule performance, and anti-fraud mechanisms for staff.* Developed partnerships for high-coercivity magnetic card production.

* Led the successful delivery of high-priority and time-sensitive projects, requiring coordination between multiple Agile teams and stakeholders across the organization.* Identified and mitigated risks, built timelines and dependency mapping, and provided analytical insights to improve project performance.* Oversaw a portfolio of projects as a consulted body, ensuring successful, timely deliveries by monitoring progress and the status of work teams.* Continuously improved the program structure and processes by proposing optimization opportunities and acting as a change agent for their implementation. Namely, developed and introduced the dependency process for the whole engineering;* Built and maintained strong relationships with stakeholders across Toptal.Collaborated with the PMO team to develop the function and create a healthy, collaborative, and continuously improving Agile delivery culture at Toptal.* Mentored less experienced Toptalers in modern Agile concepts and project management practices.

* Joined the team as an agile project manager, then became the delivery manager.* Consulted top management decisions regarding agile adoption and transformation, technology strategy, and outsourcing and insourcing approaches.* Interviewed, selected, onboarded, and coached candidates from a regional talent pool to meet the aggressive goals of the company's high growth pace.* Worked together with the delivery management team to create a Google Sheet project health dashboards with summarized pulled data from Jira, Tengine, an internal management tool, and other web services like intervals.* Reviewed and tracked the project's health dashboards and team summaries like billable and non-billable hours, cost, schedule, quality metrics, and aligned activities and goals.* Followed, tracked, and reacted to the organization's compliance program on a daily and weekly basis.* Followed up on escalations, communicated and removed blocked issues, and adjusted the plan and team allocation to meet our goals.* Held weekly value streams meetings to communicate strategies, weekly goals, and review team and individual performance.* Performed Gemba walks to all the team to identify best and bad practices, especially on topics like non-functional requirements, risks, and budget monitoring.* Worked to formalize the organizational PMO with templates, process guidelines, and metrics.

Key responsibilities:* Led multiple concurrent projects in website and mobile development and restructured internal processes.* Managed projects using Agile methodologies. Suggested creative solutions to mitigate risk and reduce uncertainty by applying empirical models.* Conducted project discovery workshops, project take-overs, project kick-offs, team set up, and MVPs builds.* Performed daily and weekly track of the team effort based on quality, scope, timeline, risks, and budget metrics.* Facilitated Scrum events like stand-up and daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint demos, and sprint retro for different teams and customers.* Held one-on-one meetings to coach individual contributors and removed blockers.* Contributed to creating and reviewing SOW documents, for different projects and customers, as part of pre-sales initiatives.* Consulted and provided recommendations to improve the software development lifecycle.* Managed customer requirements and expectations directly.Projects engagements: * Startup - FinTech: Discovery - Team setup - MVP - Delivery;* Mobile app for EU Marketing company :Discovery - Team setup - MVP - Delivery;* e-Commerce - retail flooring systems: Discovery - Team setup - MVP - Delivery;* My Account - Telecommunications; Takeover - Build trusted relationship - Improve SDLC - Delivery;* In-House Tools - Projects Monitoring; Discovery - Prototyping;

* Helped startups founders build their team, engage their staff, achieve business results, delight customers, deliver innovative tech solutions, and shape culture.* Defined the product vision and narrowed the focus to target MVP at a specific user type for five main initiatives, web platforms, iOS and Android mobile apps, Unity engine development, and reporting platform.* Consulted management decisions regarding technology and business initiatives aligned with the startup's growth strategy.* Suggested creative solutions to reduce and mitigate risk and handled uncertainty by applying empirical models.* Developed processes to manage changing client requirements and development team capacity.* Oversaw scope changes and prioritized the backlog to eliminate nice-to-have features and focus on critical features.* Managed project staffing requirements, ​​engineers, and artists.

I was working as a Business Relationship Manager, managing company's relationship between Unicredit Services and UniCredit Bank Romania.Responsibilities:* Assure the transparency about prioritization and roadmap process inside the Central and Eastern Europe Group;* Operating as the lead point of contact for any and all matters specific for Unicredit Bank Romania account;* Prioritize needs of Stakeholders, while balancing the scope, budget and factories deliver capabilities;* Building and maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships with business transformation teams from all business areas;* Shape business demand of UniCredit Bank and support in transforming Initiatives into Projects;* Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives;* Communicate client needs and demands toward internal development teams;* Oversee customer account management, including negotiating contracts and agreements to maximize profit;* Maintain the project initiatives backlog;

Release Manager (Mobile Banking Project) I was working as a release manager for the UniCredit Mobile Banking team, coordinating the delivery of mobile banking applications for 6 CEE Countries. I was coordinating distributed teams with different areas of expertise.Responsibilities:* Led multiple geographical-distributed teams such as QA, TA, developers, solution experts, customers, and vendors during the deployment.* Worked closely with project and program management as well as managers of related applications.* Improved the performance of the team regarding deployment practices.* Took prompt decisions that may have involved tough choices or considered risks.* Acted as a single point of contact for client counterparts for end-to-end delivery of projects and services throughout the deployment process.* Followed the end-to-end delivery process and assured service rollout.

Scrum Master (Internet Banking CEE2020 Project)Managed two geographical-distributed engineering teams, located in Romania (Bucharest and Iasi), in strong collaboration with non scrum teams located in Hungary and Italy. Project mission was to implement the new Internet Banking platform on a completely new architecture.Some key area I was focusing:* Managed geographical-distributed engineering teams working on UniCredit's online banking system.* Supported the collaboration with other teams by initiating the scrum of scrums.* Worked closely with product owners coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.* Introduced code quality practices, including refactoring, automated testing, and increased code coverage, leading to fewer customer-reported bugs.* Trained and offered technical onboarding to junior team members joining the company as trainees.* Developed a module for the automatic API health status check, part of an initiative that had the goal of synchronization processes with an evolved system of processes dependency.* Migrated from HPSM to Jira for workflow and issues management throughout the company's IT department.* Tracked project progress, risks, issues, and client expectations from Kanban and Scrum projects.* Continuous improvements on quality problems and Technical Debt by bringing in practice Test Automation (for SOAP services), Continuous Integration;

* Served one team, which had the goal of adding new features for an existing product part of the Tivoli Storage manager family.* Facilitated Scrum events, including stand-up and daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint demos, and sprint retro for different teams and customers.* Performed daily and weekly track of the team effort based on quality, scope, timeline, risks, and budget metrics.* Worked closely with product owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.* Introduced Scrum practices and Agile values, principles, and practices while serving as a scrum master selected through team voting.* Coached the team using the Agile methodology, encouraged best practices, and provided guidance.* Managed a geographical-distributed engineering team, which had the goal of adding new features for an existing product part of the Tivoli Storage manager family.

* Worked on design, development, and reviewed and executed test cases through analysis of product specifications and software requirements.* Involved in different types of testing like black box testing, integration testing, regression testing, acceptance testing.* Worked with Agile methodologies like planning, daily stand-up, review, retrospective, and release planning. Also utilized Waterfall model.* Installed and configured different applications used in the testing process, namely Oracle database, Microsoft SQL Server, Domino server, and Microsoft Exchange configurations for TSM client usage.* Tested the integrated version of the software and discovered more than 20 bugs per phase that were fixed until the scheduled release date.* Maintained proactive communication between the development team located in San Jose, US, and the local testing team.* Prepared and reviewed software test plans and test strategies. * Verified the test cases elaborated by the testing team and reported to the test lead.* Contributed during software development engineering tests with Gherkin scenarios and built automation in Power Shell.* Elaborated functional and technical installation user guides in English.

Working for IBM Romania, as an application packaging engineer. I was involved in the preparation of standard, structured software installations targeted for automated deployment for various clients.* Repackaging or transformation* Merge modules* Distribution (Microsoft IntelliMirror® or enterprise software distribution mechanism)* Installation with higher privileges* Component (redirection)* Rollback support