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Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Developing the future lending platform of the bank in cross functional teams based in multiple countriesSetting the metrics/KPI’s and managing the budget of the departmentGiving the product direction while partnering with Product and SalesPeople management responsabilities and technical scope and vision directionProduct manager responsibilities (budget, marketing, roadmap, positioning and launch) Help in creating product requirements for the engineering and support teams to bring new products to market or to enhance existing featuresGeneral overview of the product throughout its lifecycle.

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Generating the vision of the IT Operations department and coaching teams on efficiently implementing it across ING BeNeLux• Keeping an eye on the budgets and risks• Coaching and mentoring 6 direct reports• Accountable for the stakeholder management and the IT Strategy of multiple assets in the department• Ensuring the growth of the organization

Brussels Area, Belgium

Brussels Area, Belgium

I’m responsible for managing 5 teams within the Security domain of the bank. The teams are supposed to deliver transversal support and products to all the teams for the online banking applications, managing also offshore communication and development.I act as an IT Area Lead by being responsible for the delivery and management of state-of-the-art IT solutions to provide the best possible outcomes to our business partners from Digital Channels. I oversee 4 teams of professionals applying AGILE methodology and Scrum framework in a DevOps team, to continuously increase our ability to deliver faster and in an efficient manner. I was in charge of creating the teams and ensuring a perfect training and coaching path within the organization.I’m following closely their needs for trainings and personal development in order to facilitate them the best working environment.

Brussels Area, Belgium

I’m responsible for delivering functional specifications, concepts, models and first class technical solutions and for their integration in a global solution across applications. I’m following closely the testing and I’m offering a proactive support to the business in order to satisfy their needs until their request is delivered to production. As a Scrum Master I am the servant leader of the development team, I’m coaching the development team to be self-organized and cross-functional in order to create high value products, I’m removing impediments and I’m facilitating the scrum events as needed. My main activities are:- Requirement analysis- Solution design- Relationship manager for testing, development and business- Creating and updating the project documentation- Testing and delivering to production the requested product- Coaching and training the team and the other analysts in order to reach the same level of knowledge regarding the assets of the team- Removing impediments (organizational and personal between the team members) to ensure a good team spirit and a forecastable delivery- Coaching the team to work in an AGILE way- Inspiring and encouraging the team to raise the self confidence

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Creates and updates the standard functional design document that should contain the design of the functional solution, assures interaction with programmers and representatives of Retail Banking and/or Wholesale Banking in order to obtain agreement on the functional design;• Provides support for developments during UAT phases•Translates business requirements from ING Belgium into functional description according to set standards for the Online Banking development team .•Provides support and coordinate communication between all those involved in the project in Belgium (users, testing team, project manager, etc.) and in Romania (development team).

Bucharest, Romania

• Analyses business requirements from system point of view / assesses the impact of change of existing environment, not only from Retail Banking Application Development Channels team point of view, but from infrastructure and operations point of view in order to provide efficient solution to business requests• Creates and updates the standard functional design document that should contain the design of the functional solution, assures interaction with programmers and representatives of Retail Banking and/or Wholesale Banking in order to obtain agreement on the functional design;• Estimates duration of functional design and integration test• Maintains the contact with programmers and representatives of Retail Banking and Wholesale Banking to ensure correct adaptation of the solution to the existing environment;• Provides support for developments during UAT phases• Updates integration test plan whenever is needed during analysis and implementation, executes integration test plan after implementation and coordinates System Tester`s activity

Bucharest, Romania

• Designs, implements and maintains IT network• Designs, builds and updates information databases and CRM software• Installs the new equipment(printers, multifunction printers and faxes), operating systems and applications, according to service plans• Provides back-up procedures to monitor and verify their achievement• Identifies and evaluates problems with a low level of infrastructure complexity and reports the evaluation to management• Ensures that hardware, software and peripherals are used under optimal conditions • Provides technical support to employees of IT & C company (by phone, remote access or on-site) • Implements the procedures needed by the company

Bucharest, Romania

• Performs telephone interviews assisted by computer• Induces new members in the team and organizational values• Provides help in consultancy project for sales• Marketing and sales activities by phone

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