PM

Lucian Vidrascu Seasoned SW manager

CV

● Expert in ICT product roadmaps set-up, SW product development life cycle, resource allocation,

matrix organization & process definition and project/program management.

● Have been working for 20+ years in R&D development with strong competences in process and

projects/program management, organization development, outsourcing and budgets, in international

environment.

● Proven leadership competencies. Ability to motivate the teams, especially the youngest. Driven by

objectives. Faithful to my job, team and company. Believe that people are important and the leaders

might coach, motivate and lead them to success. Ability to manage projects in an international &

cross-cultural environment

● Proven professional project management competencies. Have been learning PMP starting 2005.

Could Handle multiple tasks, meet established targets, and work within critical milestones. Risk

management, PM best practices. It is always a compromise between Costs, delivery Date, Quality

level and Content.

● Experienced in setting up quality development systems. Quality in people, process, products and

clients support is essential. Experienced in implementation of quality systems and audits as CMMI,

ISO 9001 and TL9000. The quality of people, processes, products and customer service is essential.

Competencies in coordination the definitions and strategies for acceptance criteria and deliveries

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in accordance with prioritized requirements. Strong practice of Waterfall/V –

Agile/Scrum/TDD methodologies.

● Strong experience in budgeting and outsourcing western SW technology transfers to/from Romania,

in international professional environment. Experienced in managing outsourced fixed price projects.

● Ambitious, Independent, resourceful and task-oriented individual, able to quickly grasp new

technology. Dynamic, self-motivated, with initiative, team player, intelligent, customer friendly,

systematic, flexible, very efficient. I do take challenges. I’m persistent, half workaholic and half rebel.

Pragmatic and results-oriented.

● High level trainings achieved: PM excellence (Dr.H.Kerzner), Communications, Negotiations,

Conflicts management, Transactional Analysis, Finance and Budgets (ASEBUSS), Team Building

(LIFO®), Stress Management, Time Management, Performance Management, intensive HR

management

● Experienced in leading core meetings and workshops with business stakeholders ; Reporting tools

MSProject, BusinessObjects, Sharepoint, MSWord family

● Graduated Computer Engineering (MSc) in 1986 in IASI, Romania.

● Bilingual English and French, speaking Italian, beginner in German.

● Recommendations available from senior directors of Alcatel-Lucent.

Brief Specialities:

+12 years of ICT full cycle development and R&D product development experience in western EN:FR:DE:IT

environment

+9 years of professional product/program management (PMP); knowledge of PRINCE2;

+7 years of budgets and outsourcing/offshoring technology management, in western international/professional

environment

+8 years of HR and organizational development experience

+13 years in SW product development,: C/C++/java; OOP/OOAD, SOA; expert in Linux/Unix;

+6 years in telecom R&D product development: WDM, DXC, GSM; 8 years in embedded C/C++ development;

-1 year in banking SW development ; 2+ year in media/advertising/internet technologies and web development.

+8 years technical manager and owner of a software company; expert in startup matrix environment setup;

+6 years in presales and sales in ICT inductry

+5 years audit setting up experience with ISO,CMMI,TL9000

1+ year operational/infrastructure services and ITIL

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lucianvidrascu

contact : cell: +407********; e-mail: lucian.c.vidrascu @ gmail.com

Yearly experiences:

05.2012–

Currently

Title: Project manager

Company: contractor

Location: EU

Environment: EU / remote

Technologies: Cloud and Scalability ; Web Frameworks: Spring, Grails, Wt, ChicagoB/Erlang;

Title: Program manager

Company: SCC services

Location: EU

Environment: international/UK/FR

Infrastructure Services manager for a mixed team of +20 persons romanian-french in Iasi and Paris.

19 clients allover EU; UK and FR DataCenters services 24/7;

Internet technologies: Windows servers; Vmware servers; Citrix farms

Scalability, clusters; visualization;

Budgets: 250K+ E

Direct report to: COO

Title: Project manager

Location: EU

Environment: international/EU

Professional Projects management and consulting in after M&A integration;

Scalability, clusters technics; Linux, Android; win8

SW project management; SW Technologies: C/C++; DevOps, HTML5/Node.js, SOA, OOAD

08.2011 - 05.2012

Title: VP engineering

Company: Adswizz.com

Location: Bucharest / Brussels ; Environment : international/US/EU

Team: 30+ engineers, 6 Teams, development and support

Matrix organization set up Projects x Competences set up for a software & services startup company.

Performance monitoring; hiring; organizational development;

R&D leadership; Process and project management setup; resource allocation; product backlog set-up

Acceptance criteria and deliveries definitions in accordance with prioritized requirements.

Tests and QA environments strategies. Operational and support set up contribution.

SW Technologies: SOA, OOAD, POSA, streaming;

Budgets: 1+ M E

Direct report to: CEO

01.2009 - 08.2011

Title: program manager

Company: Vsystems

Location: EU ; Environment: international/EU

Professional Projects management /consulting in M&A and IT domains

Post M&A techniques and PM in high tech area;

PM in cloud SW technologies, virtualization, Vmware, EC2

PM in W/LAMP & CMS/ECM & security ; linux; c/c++

04.2008 - 1.2009

Title: BU /program manager

Company: Axway Romania

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Team: 170+ persons, 11 Teams, engineers, testers, services, support

Environment: line and projects links with R&D sites from Paris, Annecy and Scottsdale

SW technologies: Syncrony platform, SOA, EJB, OOAD, POSA, B2B

Professional Projects management coach for SW development process: charge/workload and quality driven

development process, reporting, meetings, follow ups

HR: Procedures (hiring, career path, newcomers validation), Mission & Organization, organigramme,

roles, objectives

Organizational management: motivation, leadership, coaching

QA: quality plan review, quality indicators, dashboards, Process improvements

Active participant to business development strategies core meetings in Paris.

Budgets: 6+ M E

Direct report to: R&D&S SVP Axway

05.2002 – 04.2008

Title: R&D Optics center leader/ program manager

Company: Alcatel-Lucent Romania

Location: Timisoara, Romania

Team: 100+ persons, 10 Teams, 4 Projects responsible, SW engineers + testers

HR: Center hiring responsible and interviewer; 1700 applications, 500 interviews, 90+ hiring, turnover

<9%

Performance Management responsible for the center;

Environment: close line and projects links with all Optical R&D centers from Stuttgart, Paris, Milan,

Chennai, Chengdu

Professional Projects management for R&D Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network Releases: DXC: 1678MCC,

1641SX, 1674LG; WDM: 162xLM, 1696MS, 1640WM; OMSN: 1850 TSS;

Telecomm technology: DWDM, DXC, GSM; protocols: Q3, TL1, SNMP, GMPLS, MTNM;

SW technologies: OOA/OOD/OOP, Unix/Linux/Windows, Solaris/PSOS/W.NT, Networking/Distributed

systems/CORBA, databases/CRM/ERP.

Technical center responsible for workload, budgets, strategies, delocalization/outsourcing management

QA: Q and audits center responsible: CMMI, ISO9001, and TL9000.

Without nonconformities 5 audits with DNV, SRAC and internal ALU during 4 years.

Active participant to development strategies, cost reductions programs and outsourcing decisions.

Budgets: 4+ M E

Gained “exceed expectations” (4th level from 5) during 6 years of HR Global Performance Monitoring

process

Direct report to: Department Director, OND sites R&D directors

01.2005 – 10.2007

Title: Development Project director for an Alcatel Optical Release

Company: Alcatel-Lucent-Lucent Photonic Network Paris/Villarceaux

Location: Villarceaux/Paris

Team: multisite HW & SW in Timisoara, Villarceaux/Paris, Milan, Plano/USA and Chengdu/China

Environment: Member in the management group of R&D Alcatel-Lucent PNCC Paris

Close relations with Product Line Management of OND Alcatel-Lucent in Paris and Milan.

Telecomm technology: ALU LH WDM 1640 Release responsible (full V cycle, QA),

Professional Projects management for SW and HW responsible for 1640WM Maintenance Releases of the

1640 WM product, Monthly DPR (development projects review), Interface for PLM (product line managers)

of PN Alcatel Clients, CTM (core team) monthly meeting;

Clients demo and product negotiations; important clients T-COM, TELMEX, AUNA, Telecom Italia, Sprint,

and MCI.

Active participant to business development strategies, cost reductions programs and outsourcing decisions.

Budgets: 1+ M E

Direct report to: PN R&D and QA Directors

1993-2002

Title: Owner, development manager

Company: V Systems ltd,

Location: IASI, Romania Team: 8+ persons, Projects responsible, SW engineers

SW technologies: OOA/OOD/OOP. Networking, distributed systems, CORBA, C/C++, Python, SQL,

PL/SQL, pascal/Kylix Projects management: SW projects in the field of Applications development,

networking, administration and security; Customer technical support.

Product management: Developed, licensed, marketed and did sell an ERP like product named TaxPro.

Consultant in the field of financial management SW applications and SW accounting systems for more than

35 Romanian companies in middle 90s.

Company budgets assurance and financial reports.

Budgets: 250K E ; Direct report to: investors

1991-1993

Title: IT Project Manager

Company: Romanian Telematics Institute

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Team: 13+ persons, Projects responsible, development engineers; design, coding, testing, documentation

and maintenance

Projects management: SW projects in the field of Applications development, networking, and Customer

technical support.

Budgets: 250K E ; Direct report to: Development Director

1987-1991

Title: Software engineer, IT Manager

Company: CUG, IASI, Romania

SW technologies: C/C++, Networking, distributed systems, design, coding, testing, documentation and

maintenance

Team: 3 developers

Direct report to: center director

Dated 14.05.2014

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