Project Manager Management
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Constantin.Doru.Radu@gmailcom **** Jasmine Creek, Austin, TX 78726 512-***-****
Constantin Radu
**** ******* ***** **. ******, Texas 78726
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EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Innovative, profit-oriented executive with demonstrated success in increasing revenues and earnings, achieving cost reductions, and improving client satisfaction through the management of complex technology systems that enhance strategic and financial goals.
Dedicated partner and strategist with exceptional communication talents; proficient at collaborating with C-level executives to create or adhere to company standards and policies and to ensure applications, systems’ infrastructures, and technologies add value to business. Demonstrated proficiency at dramatically improving business services by analyzing challenges and creating processes that enhance performance while reducing time / labor costs. Key core qualifications include over 15 years of:
DevOps transformative business impact
IT Consulting Services
Product and Program management
Departmental management
IT Gap Analysis and Performance Optimization
Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Architectures
and Interoperability
Agile-Iterative-Waterfall methodologies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cooper Consulting, Austin, Texas USA (2004 – present) Chief Technology Officer and VP of Solutions (2008 – present)
Responsible for translating technological capabilities into strategic business decisions.
Oversaw end-to-end Cooper products’ business transformation, overall business requirements, architecture, development and deployment of enterprise applications, and all activities necessary to complete major projects requiring a wide variety of technical skills.
Provided end-to-end guidance in the RFP response process for secure complex IT environments and the related network of internal and external constituents including analyzing SOWs, directing proposal reviews, technical evaluation, planning and scheduling, quality and pricing model.
Lead operational risk management activities, authored the internal corporate security policies and managed the development and implementation of global security policy, standards, guidelines and procedures.
Lead Cooper senior Project Managers, Business Analysts, QA testers and Development teams, planning and developing best practices to improve DevOps efficiency.
Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for numerous custom solutions using a hybrid management approach between waterfall – iterative - agile to improve the predictability and respond in a timely manner to customer feedback.
Consulting for Federal Government (2011 - 2012)
Project Executive for U.S. Trade and Development Agency, project managed and directed a Feasibility Study for a €100 million Eastern European electronic election management system capable of automating voter authentication and vote casting/counting processes, as well as the electoral administrative processes. Prepared a holistic, government-wide view of current and future work flow architecture in support of the country Government Permanent Electoral Authority goals and objectives. Consulting for public sector – SLED (2009 - 2017)
Project Manager for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s TERP Pegasystems Enterprise Applications managing over $350 million in emission reduction grants (SOA, PegaSystems BPM framework, FileNet, Oracle, Kofax).
Agile Management of TERP Application Maintenance and Support (AMS) and Data Center DevOps activities increasing with 60% the roll-out of the applications new features addressing the new legislative changes.
Project Manager for Texas Workforce Commission, Unemployment Benefit Electronic Correspondence Java Portal development (IBM mainframe, FileNet, DB2, Natural, Java, SOA, Web Services). Migration of the agency correspondence for unemployment benefits from paper based to electronic document exchange, thus reducing the agency annual expenses with several millions of dollars. Constantin.Doru.Radu@gmailcom 9914 Jasmine Creek, Austin, TX 78726 512-***-****
Project Manager for Texas Education Agency Web Portal and Intelligent Dashboard Reporting tool (C#, .Net, Crystal Reports).
Using agile Scrum methodology led the redesign of the application reporting layer allowing Texas teachers to retrieve students data secure, 80% quicker and easier via an intuitive User Interface.
Project Manager and Security Architect for Health and Human Services Enterprise (HHS) Security Improvements and HIPAA compliance applied to DADS Electronic Data Transfers (Governance, Data Transfer In Transit/At Rest security protocols).
Led a security audit and delivered a gap analysis report as well as the remediation solution for the agency to become fully compliant with the HHS Information Security and Privacy Program Policy.
Project Manager for Texas Higher Education Commission Board Web Portal and Mobile Application for “non- traditional” college student sectors, including returning college students, military, and other adult learners
(LAMP stack, mobile application).
Using Iterative methodology managed the portal redesign for returning veterans and extends the portal functionality on mobile devices.
Project Manager and Business Architect for Texas Department of State Health Services, Women Infants and Children Electronic Transfer Funds (WIC EBT) smart card remediation project (Java, Smart Card, and POS terminal interface).
Consulting for IBM Sales & Distribution (2004 - 2008)
Executive Consultant for IBM Strategic Direct project, a $57 million worldwide SaaS initiative that supports the growth of on demand business for IBM and creates a fully-integrated, competitive teleweb capability for IBM to sell products and services directly to customers in mid-market firms and large enterprises. Mined the data and prepared quantitative and qualitative reports for both IBM and customer executive teams. Recommended strategies for IBM business partners to increase their revenue and IBM sales with 20%/year.
Business Architect for the worldwide IBM Services and Enterprise Architecture team for large enterprise (LE) portal remediation project, insuring migration from the old legacy IBM SlingShot portal to the new Common Portal Engine (CPE) based on the SOA and WebSphere Portal technology. The new portal reduced the Go To Market time by 40% creating an automated more efficient process between the backend data feeds and the sales and marketing team. ECMARKET, Vancouver, Canada (2002 – 2004)
VP of Development
People management - provided overall direction and guidance to Lead Business Analysts and Architects and set standards for Ecmarket’s $5.7 million SaaS Collaborative Community Trading Platform, a cost effective B2B and B2C product for SMEs that facilitates the electronic exchange of routine business transactions between over 20 large manufacturing ERP systems via Internet.
Advanced company’s software engineering practices through continuous process and product improvement, software engineering metrics, updated policies and guidelines, infusion of software engineering research and technology, and enhancing engineering knowledge and skills.
Worked closely with executive management to develop future directions for technology and programs by providing input on every technology buys, with a clear mandate to ensure that any new technology fit into the overall strategic plan maximizing company growth and profitability.
Lead global collaboration between off-shore development and QA teams by communicating and interacting effectively with people from multi-functional and diverse backgrounds in order to manage the complexity of product development which required integration of J2EE backend with .Net front end using SOA and open- source market-leading tools.
Adea Solutions Inc., Austin, USA (2002)
Senior IT Project Manager
Project managed and integrated five foundation projects at Office of Attorney General of Texas (OAG) using Rational tools - RUP/UML for iterative SDLC, WebSphere Portal development, Host Integration Host-On- Demand for Mainframe, Archive and Backend Database (Oracle, UDB-DB2, Mainframe) and XML interface.
Member of the strategic leadership in providing IT services, conducted customer system-wide technical needs analysis by gathering requirements and evaluating OAG existing systems’ infrastructures.
Reviewed/approved completed application architecture proposals for technical integrity, high quality and consistency. Ensured OAG development methodology and best practices were adhered to on all projects. Constantin.Doru.Radu@gmailcom 9914 Jasmine Creek, Austin, TX 78726 512-***-**** IBM Global Services Austin, USA (1998 – 2002)
Senior Development and Operation Manager
Application Development and Maintenance Manager for the biggest IBM mission critical worldwide e- business portal (PC/S) supporting transactions for more than $10 billion/year.
Managed a large development team of project managers, business analysts, programmers, QA testers and system administrators supporting e-business functions, infrastructure, web hosting, and operations.
Lead all the technical and tactical activities associated with the PC/S application full life cycle, planning, developing and testing. Successfully deployed 8 releases to production on schedule, within budget and according to IBM's project management practices and SEI-CMM level III certification.
Managed the exception and emergency change processes and conducted post mortems and root cause analysis for service impacting changes (defects, system and network upgrades, software fix packs and new releases).
Managed the design and implementation of robust set of tools and processes to minimize code conversion, code maintenance and database updates across all regions served.
Achieved 40% performance improvement, 99.9 % application availability, 3x more capacity load thus reducing the hosting cost and maintenance by $6.5 million.
Responsible for project planning and architecture review and approval of the global Disaster Recovery site
(cold and hot sites) between North America – Europe, Middle East and Africa – Asia Pacific.
Managed in a positive manner all business relationships between IBM hosting cross-towers service delivery teams providing guidance and excellent teamwork.
INRS Telecommunications/Nortel, Montreal, Canada (1996 – 1998) Senior Research Associate
Research contract with Nortel Technologies for a prototype of a Java implemented Internet application, graphical user interface and communication protocol design.
Responsible for the requirement analysis and research of a mathematical Model of a GUI/protocol decoupling for telecommunication applications.
Expertise in OO modeling and programming for multimedia GUI development using Java. EDUCATION
Master of Science in Telecommunications Software
National Institute for Scientific Research, Montreal, Canada. Master of Science in Computer Engineering
The Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Bucharest Romania. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND AWARDS
Attended numerous management seminars and technical symposiums that included: E-commerce, business process design, system mapping, senior project management, system development methodologies and performance management (SEI-CMMI, level III). IBM AWARDS
2006 – IBM Thank You Award for Excellence in Customer Relationship 2001 – IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement
2000 – IBM Excellence Award for Outstanding Contributions to PC/S release 4.x 2000 – IBM Outstanding Team Performance
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