Bogdan Armencea

Senior Project Manager

Bucharest, Romania

Experience

Nov 2021 - Present
3 years 8 months
Bucharest, Romania

Senior Project Manager

OMV Petrom

Lead day-to-day operational aspects of oil industry digitalization projects, coordinate meetings, as well as identify and mitigate risks for orchestrating end-to-end project design, development, and delivery.

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 mitigated 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.
  • Neptun Deep IT Senior Project Manager – in charge of leading all the IT work streams delivering for OMV Petrom’s biggest capital project (Neptun Deep) ($18M+ budget).
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
5 months
Bucharest, Romania

Senior Project Manager

Tremend Software Consulting

Lead complex projects with specific challenges.

SCRUM (Agile) methodology, established project scope and objectives, ensured availability, scheduled work, and interfaced with clients/stakeholders throughout the process to achieve a successful delivery. Controlled changes in project scope, schedule, and costs for all the projects within the portfolio.

Nov 2014 - Jul 2021
6 years 9 months
Bucharest, Romania

Senior Project Manager

Deutsche Bank Global Technology

Lead day-to-day operational aspects of projects, coordinate meetings, as well as identify and mitigate risks for orchestrating end-to-end project design, development, and delivery.

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 mitigated potential risks.

  • Credit Risk Department – Directed Credit Risk app for DB with over 30 team members and €4.5M+ budget, using Agile and Waterfall delivery methods. Realised 10% programme budget savings through process improvements and efficient project management.
  • AFC Department – Scope involved Data Feeds On-boarding management and MiFID II reporting with €16M+ programme budget and 6 team members, using Agile and Waterfall approach. Also served as L2 and L3 Lead with 15 team members across Romania, Germany, India and US.
  • Programme / Project Quality Auditor – Successfully led internal quality audit and assessment to determine compliance with organisational and project policies, processes, and procedures. Ensured structured and independent process for essential programme quality management.
Dec 2010 - Oct 2014
3 years 11 months
Bucharest, Romania

Senior Project/Program Manager

Technology Network Services

Administered budget of €2M and coordinated over 20 team members for directing Resources Management System (RMS) for Judicial Sector, a World Bank project with involvement of 170+ public sector institutions.

Leveraged Agile and Waterfall PM methodologies, established project scope and objectives, ensured resource availability, scheduled work, and interfaced with clients/stakeholders throughout the process to achieve a successful delivery. Controlled changes in project scope, schedule, and costs for all the projects within the portfolio.

  • Established consensus and unified over 170 competing views and requirements into 5 common set of requirements in order to obtain final acceptance after implementation.
  • Program Manager role (own team and three subcontractors) for the RMS contract.
  • Successfully implemented Hyperion Planning (Budget management solution integrated with Oracle eBS) and Oracle BI Apps (Management reporting and performance analysis tool).
  • Effectively handled 800 users for Hyperion as compared to initial estimation of up to 500 users, in addition to supporting over 300 users for BI apps.
Mar 2006 - Nov 2010
4 years 9 months
Bucharest, Romania

Project Manager

Siveco Romania

Served as IT Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Manager to lead major projects with overall budget exceeding €2.5M and 20+ member team by leveraging Waterfall methodology.

Gathered project requirements, synergised business and technical functions, controlled project changes, implemented enhancements, and demonstrated expertise in analysing, optimising, and mapping client’s business flows. Led commercial presentations of Siveco Applications' integrated components. Oversaw implementation, training, and technical assistance.

  • Successfully updated two ERP modules and ensured alignment with requisite legislative requirements in close association with the Romanian Ministry of Finance.
  • Delivered 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, Citibank, among many others.
Jan 2004 - Dec 2006
2 years
Bucharest, Romania

Tax Consultant

KPMG Romania

Jan 1999 - Dec 2005
6 years
Bucharest, Romania

Economist

Distrigaz Sud

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.

  • 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

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Romanian-American University

Master Degree · Domestic and International Financial-Banking Business Management · Bucharest, Romania

Romanian-American University

Bachelor Degree · Domestic and International Financial-Banking Business Management · Bucharest, Romania

Academy for Economic Studies

Master Degree · Enterprise and Territory Management · Bucharest, Romania

Certifications & licenses

Driving License B

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