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Sebastian Dracopol

Senior Delivery Manager - Project Manager

Sebastian Dracopol
Bucharest, Romania

Experience

Dec 2023 - Aug 2025
1 year 9 months

Senior Delivery Manager - Project Manager

Societe Generale/Romanian Bank for Development (BRD)

  • Developed and executed project strategies for IT and financial systems tailored for large corporate clients.
  • Supervised a cloud pilot migration of SG Romania (BRD) payment systems to a new platform, ensuring a seamless transition.
  • Collaborated with internal stakeholders to follow the project roadmaps, prioritize tasks, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
  • Oversaw project performance metrics, analyzed data, and gathered stakeholder feedback to drive continuous improvement.
  • Provided leadership and guidance to project teams, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 5 months

Senior Development Technical Project Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

  • Led and coached several teams working on the development of PwC's internal due diligence platform, Junction.
  • Served as Scrum Master for two development teams, ensuring adherence to Agile principles, values, and practices.
  • Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings.
  • Provided mentoring and consultancy on best practices and adapted to changing project requirements.
  • Kickstarted the implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) within the Digital Shop Division by organizing the first PI Planning.
  • Delivered training, coaching, and consulting services to enable teams to transition smoothly into Agile methodologies and promote collaboration between PwC offices.
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
8 months

Project / Product Manager / Delivery Manager

Sage

  • Led the development of financial products for the core platform and multiple countries (UK, Canada, South Africa), focusing on payroll workflows and HRMS.
  • Collaborated with development teams and stakeholders to create a shared product vision, define user stories, and prioritize product backlog items.
  • Managed the product backlog and provided clear guidance to development teams, ensuring on-time, within-budget delivery.
  • Selected as one of the few Product Owners to pilot an AI implementation trained on payroll and HR datasets to assist customers and automate workflows.
  • Monitored progress and feedback to identify improvement opportunities and optimize the product's value proposition.
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
1 year 1 month

Senior Project and Delivery Manager

Aldo Group HQ

  • Led the transition of Aldo's Data Department to the Kanban framework, improving productivity, flexibility, and efficiency.
  • Ensured actions were positive, productive, and time-boxed.
  • Drove digital transformation and coached teams in self-management and cross-functionality.
  • Established techniques for effective product goal definition and product backlog management, and established the product planning cycle.
  • Provided comprehensive mentorship and customized training programs to teams, management, and product owners to thrive in an agile environment.
  • Designed tailored workflows to address specific team requirements, optimizing process predictability and output levels.
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
2 years 5 months

Product Manager & Senior Project Manager

EarthLink Telecommunications

  • Developed product specifications, designs, and roadmap by conducting market research and gathering customer feedback to ensure superior services.
  • Led the transition from Waterfall to Scrum.
  • Reorganized the engineering department into a reliable, remote distributed Agile development team.
  • Implemented workflows for solid product planning, reorganizing the previous workframe.
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
1 year 7 months

Senior Project Manager

Online.io - Online Blockchain Technologies Ltd

  • Assembled and managed a team of 25–35 members.
  • Planned the product from inception, supervised the white paper, researched the market, and brainstormed the coin ecosystem and user benefits.
  • Worked on design and usability as well as the roadmap and future sideline applications.
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
1 year 4 months

Senior Delivery Manager & Product Owner

Guzman y Gomez Mexican Taqueria

  • Devised and implemented a solid workflow for mobile applications used to order from 100+ restaurant chain locations in Australia, US, and Asia.
  • Served as Scrum Master for a remote team to develop iOS/Android mobile apps, including API improvements and blog relaunch.
  • Established a high-performing team of quality assurance analysts, designers, and programmers for mobile app development.
  • Generated over $5M in sales within the first six months by enhancing food ordering features on the mobile application.
Jan 2013 - Dec 2018
6 years
Remote

Project Manager & Product Consultant (Junior Product Manager)

Upwork Global Inc

  • Led multiple remote development teams, managing recruitment and selection of team members.
  • Collaborated with product owners and support teams to develop user-friendly solutions based on user feedback.
  • Maintained proactive communication with project team members to monitor timelines and address obstacles.
  • Managed stakeholder expectations and served as liaison to all business units.
  • Contributed to the redesign of Upwork's website, improving search functionality.
  • Provided input on the freelancing market and client relationship needs, advocating for freelancers and building a fair market.
  • Led three fully remote concurrent development teams through projects that improved application features and enhanced user interface.
  • Utilized advanced technology and algorithms to enhance the application’s skill test and fraud detection capabilities.
Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
2 years 1 month

Development Project Manager/Delivery Lead

Forbes Romania/Adevarul Holding

  • Managed development of Forbes Magazine Romania's web and mobile platforms, increasing local readership and monetization opportunities.
  • Designed workflows for a multimillion-dollar CMS system supporting over 1,500 users.
  • Collaborated with business units, development teams, and corporate stakeholders to transform the website into a multifaceted digital platform and mobile application.
  • Published all major publications on mobile platforms, enhancing online presence.
May 2008 - Jan 2011
2 years 9 months

Data Management Manager

Electronic Arts

  • Coordinated the opening of the local Central Development Services and Data Management department, including recruiting, coaching, and mentoring staff, developing procedures, and approving and monitoring SLAs.
  • Collaborated with studios and developers on software development initiatives.
  • Led data management needs for AAA titles including Need for Speed, Dragon Age, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Mass Effect, and FIFA.
  • Trained in Agile methodology internally.
  • Received Awards for Acting with Integrity and Creating Quality.
  • Assisted development teams in other EA studios internationally.
  • Grew the division from a startup team to 30 staff in two years, collaborating with 10 international offices.
Mar 2007 - May 2008
1 year 3 months

Data Management Worldwide Technical Coordinator

Ubisoft

  • Provided direction and oversight over all technical operations for the Data Management Department.
  • Implemented the company-wide data management strategy and full-cycle project management.
  • Collaborated with third-party development teams to develop operational procedures and ensure adherence to best practices.
  • Created and implemented the first unified company data management procedures governing post-project data compliance.

Summary

Development Veteran with a successful history of over 12 years in working agile and creating products with engineering teams for large international brands including Forbes, Upwork, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Aldo, Sage and PwC, as well as for many startups.

Worked with different Project Management frameworks such Waterfall, Scaled Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS etc, implemented development methodologies and coached teams many times. I have a solid experience in both Waterfall and Agile as well, or any mixed environment.

My diverse portfolio includes: SaaS, Mobile apps, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud platforms, games, enterprise large scale, banking, fin-tech, blockchain, LLM. Big on team building and working inclusively with others. I am also certified for NATO Secret level Projects.

I have a strong history of working closely with clients to deliver successful products. I excel in coordinating multi-disciplinary and diverse/inclusive international teams, and my leadership abilities are well established.

My experience in product development helps me also to have a full vision of a product and project, helping teams to be more involved and implementing a global vision of the project

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Product Design
  • Technical Management
  • Delivery Management
  • Development Coach
  • User Experience
  • Leadership
  • Digital Transformation
  • User Centricity
  • Agile

Languages

English
Advanced
Romanian
Intermediate

Education

Oct 1997 - Jun 2001

Ecological University of Bucharest

Psychology and Cognitive Science · Bucharest, Romania

Certifications & licenses

Certified SAFe Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Master

EU Certified Project Manager

NATO Secret Level Certified

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