Bogdan Armencea
IT Senior Project/Program Manager
Experience
Senior Project Manager
OMV Petrom
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, liaise with cross-functional teams, engage all relevant stakeholders, ensure technical feasibility, allocate resources, and report progress
- Gather and analyse project requirements, control expenditures, analyse variances, and initiate corrective actions
- Foster productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders and mitigate potential risks
- Manage complex digitalization projects with 20+ team members across Romania, Austria, India and NZ and €1.5M+ budget, using Agile and Waterfall delivery methods
- Lead all the IT work streams delivering for OMV Petrom’s biggest capital project (Neptun Deep) with $18M+ budget
Senior Project Manager
Tremend Software Consulting
- Use SCRUM (Agile) methodology to establish project scope and objectives, ensure availability, schedule work, and interface with clients and stakeholders throughout the process to achieve successful delivery
- Control changes in project scope, schedule, and costs for all the projects within the portfolio
Senior Project Manager
Deutsche Bank Global Technology
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, liaise with cross-functional teams, engage all relevant stakeholders, ensure technical feasibility, allocate resources, and report progress
- Gather and analyse project requirements, control expenditures, analyse variances, and initiate corrective actions
- Foster productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders and mitigate potential risks
- Directed Credit Risk app for DB with over 30 team members and €4.5M+ budget using Agile and Waterfall delivery methods, realizing 10% programme budget savings through process improvements and efficient project management
- Managed data feeds onboarding and MiFID II reporting for AFC Department with €16M+ programme budget and 6 team members, served as L2 and L3 lead with 15 team members across Romania, Germany, India and US
- Successfully led internal quality audits and assessments to determine compliance with organisational and project policies, processes, and procedures, ensuring structured and independent programme quality management
Senior Project/Program Manager
Technology Network Services
- Leverage Agile and Waterfall methodologies to establish project scope and objectives, ensure resource availability, schedule work, and interface with clients and stakeholders throughout the process to achieve successful delivery
- Control changes in project scope, schedule, and costs for all projects within the portfolio
- Establish consensus and unify over 170 competing views and requirements into five common sets to obtain final acceptance after implementation
- Serve as Program Manager for the RMS contract, managing own team and three subcontractors
- Implement Hyperion Planning integrated with Oracle eBS and Oracle BI Apps for management reporting and performance analysis
- Support 800 users for Hyperion and over 300 users for BI apps
Project Manager
Siveco Romania
- Gather project requirements, synergise business and technical functions, control project changes, implement enhancements, and demonstrate expertise in analysing, optimising, and mapping clients’ business flows
- Lead commercial presentations of Siveco Applications' integrated components and oversee implementation, training, and technical assistance
- Update two ERP modules in close association with the Romanian Ministry of Finance to align with legislative requirements
- Deliver 20+ projects for major clients including Romanian Naval Authority, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, National Employment Agency, Ministry of National Defence, Ministry of Communications and Informational Society, National Health Insurance Agency, CERONAV, Bucharest City Hall, Teleorman School Inspectorate, and Citibank
Tax Consultant
KPMG Romania
Economist
Distrigaz Sud
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (9 years), Banking and Finance (6.5 years), Professional Services (6 years), Utilities (6 years), Energy (4.5 years), and Government and Administration (4.5 years).
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Experienced in Project Management (20 years), Information Technology (15 years), Business Intelligence (8.5 years), Finance (7 years), Customer Service (4.5 years), and Accounting (2 years).
Summary
Strong history of success leading IT innovation and transformation for high-growth organisations
Accomplished project manager with proven success leading medium to large-scale IT projects across financial services and government sectors, focused on team excellence, product quality, and customer satisfaction.
Extensive experience directing concurrent projects and leading sizeable project teams for the development and deployment of software and digital infrastructure solutions within budget and under tight deadlines.
Skilled in business systems analysis, business intelligence, as well as Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Exceptional negotiator and project leader; possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to build consensus among all stakeholders.
Skills
- It Program And Project Management
- It Infrastructure Development Lifecycle
- Agile / Waterfall / Iterative Methodologies
- Budget Management / Administration
- Resource, Risk, And Time Management
- Process Redesign / Change Management
- On-time And Within-budget Delivery
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Business Intelligence / Requirements Analysis
- Team Building, Motivation, And Leadership
Languages
Education
Academy for Economic Studies
Master Degree · Enterprise and Territory Management · Bucharest, Romania
Romanian-American University
Bachelor Degree · Domestic and International Financial-Banking Business Management · Bucharest, Romania
Romanian-American University
Master Degree · Domestic and International Financial-Banking Business Management · Bucharest, Romania
Certifications & licenses
Graduation Diploma In Business Process Modelling
IRM United Kingdom
Graduation Diploma In Customer Care
Human Invest
Graduation Diploma In Presentation Skills
Trend Consult
Participation Diploma In PL/SQL Basics
Oracle Romania
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