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Vlad Vasiliu

Managing Director

Vlad Vasiliu
Bucharest, Romania

Experience

Mar 2023 - Present
2 years 11 months
Romania

Managing Director

DRQ Consulting

  • Leading the overall strategic direction and daily operations of DRQ Consulting, ensuring alignment with the company’s vision and long-term objectives
  • Driving business development initiatives and identifying new opportunities for growth in the IT consulting, application development, and digital transformation sectors
  • Overseeing the execution of high-profile projects, including the development of custom applications, migration services, and integration solutions with various online marketplaces and platforms
  • Managed development of Categra, a comprehensive PIM and DAM platform integrating with Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and other major marketplaces
  • Managing a diverse team of professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation to deliver top-quality results
  • Building and maintaining strong client relationships, ensuring excellent service delivery and customer satisfaction across all engagements
  • Monitoring financial performance by managing budgets, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring the achievement of key business goals
  • Leading the development and enhancement of new business services, including cloud services, server administration, and SharePoint solutions
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement comprehensive IT strategies that meet diverse client needs
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
1 year 2 months
Switzerland

VP Business Technology Services

Origyn Luxury

  • Assisted the CEO in setting the company's mission, values, strategic goals, and product roadmap
  • Contributed to strategic business development and company profitability
  • Managed daily operations and revenue generation, ensuring continuous growth
  • Maintained awareness of competitors, expansion opportunities, customers, markets, and industry developments
  • Oversaw organizational effectiveness, management development, and leadership development
  • Liaised with staff to ensure top-level client experience from follow-up to delivery and needs assessment
  • Designed new features for the luxury vertical and core product based on company strategy
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
3 years 1 month

Program Manager (Development & Testing)

OSB Group / Salvatore Ferragamo / Breitling / DRQ Consult

  • Improved performance of high-risk programs and contracts for development and testing in both short-term and long-term assignments
  • Held full responsibility for development and testing programs in terms of timeline, quality, budget, and people management
  • Prepared and executed change management, versioning strategy, and risk plans
  • Set up time, effort, and expense reporting systems, and prepared management plans for deliverables, milestones, communication, and reporting
  • Supported sales activities and responded to RFI/RFP
  • Established project and program frameworks with templates, processes, JIRA, and SharePoint flows
  • Prepared and delivered C-level briefings and presentations
  • Managed recruitment and interviews for management and technical personnel based on organizational and project needs
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
1 year 1 month
Switzerland

CTO

12Co

  • Oversaw R&D, testing, and operations of a large encryption program across iOS, Android, Mac/Windows, and web platforms
  • Managed business analysis, development, and testing teams, as well as big data, quality assurance, and data protection processes
  • Directed product life-cycle management
  • Developed technical strategy aligning technological resources with short- and long-term business goals
  • Supervised system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
  • Monitored KPIs and IT budgets and reported directly to the CEO
  • Made executive decisions on technological requirements
Apr 2007 - Nov 2017
10 years 8 months
Switzerland

Senior Manager

Atos / Cambridge Technology Partners

  • Created development and test strategies for highly secure encryption applications across mobile and desktop platforms
  • Managed development and testing teams, setting objectives, allocating budgets, and establishing timetables
  • Worked directly with the CEO to define strategy and objectives
  • Achieved human resource objectives through recruiting, training, coaching, and performance evaluations
  • Implemented production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards and conducted audits
  • Defined and enforced testing frameworks, processes, and infrastructure
  • Led programs for Richemont, L'Oréal Group, IATA, and Orange Communications, overseeing test strategy, planning, and delivery
  • Managed billing environment team for Amdocs platforms, including environment setup, maintenance, upgrades, and integration activities
Feb 2005 - Mar 2007
2 years 2 months
Cyprus

Test Manager

Amdocs Development Ltd.

  • Led a large team for the Amdocs billing environment program, managing integration testing projects between CRM, billing platform, order management systems, and self-service modules
Jan 2004 - Feb 2005
1 year 2 months
Cyprus

Testing Group Leader

Amdocs Development Ltd.

  • Planned, controlled, and directed various testing projects, ensuring high customer satisfaction and compliance with company goals
  • Managed integrations of Amdocs Billing Enabler with Clarify CRM and other systems for clients including SFR
Jun 2003 - Jan 2004
8 months
Cyprus

Senior Testing Engineer

Amdocs Development Ltd.

  • Designed test requirements and test cases for ported applications on HP, Solaris, AIX, and other platforms with Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server
  • Tested CRM applications including Analytics, Self Service, Billing Manager, Order Manager, Support, eResponse, ClarifyCRM, EmailManager, eOrder, Process Manager, and Script Manager
Nov 1999 - Jun 2003
3 years 8 months
Cyprus

Senior Developer

Amdocs Development Ltd.

  • Designed and developed switch control applications for telco billing systems in C, C++, Oracle Pro C, PowerBuilder, and Java
  • Provided on-site customer support in Düsseldorf for Vodafone-Mannesmann and worked on features for VimpelCom’s GPRS, GPS, and VPN applications
  • Experienced with HLR systems from Siemens, Alcatel, Damps, and Ericsson
Apr 1998 - Nov 1999
1 year 8 months
Romania

Senior Developer

WM Company

  • Led a small team to design and develop finance, administration, and production applications in Visual Basic and Visual C++
  • Managed version and release control, data modeling, and database design/administration with Oracle and SQL Server
Jun 1996 - Apr 1998
1 year 11 months
Romania

Senior Developer

CSS

  • Designed and developed finance and administration software applications
  • Performed data modeling, database design/administration, and requirements analysis
Sep 1994 - Jun 1996
1 year 10 months
Romania

Developer

GFK

  • Designed and developed statistical analysis and data mining applications in VB, FoxPro, Visual Fox, C, and C++
  • Conducted data modeling, database design/administration, and requirements analysis

Summary

VP Business Technology Services | CTO | Delivery Program Management, Test Management professional, delivering results at both strategic and operational levels, with over 20 years of management experience in high-pressure assignments in international programs.

  • Successfully delivered medium to large-scale programs covering both development and testing (all phases)
  • Remote team management: reports & stakeholders in remote countries
  • Managed complex structure of stakeholders: system integrator, multiple vendors, multiple customer stakeholders
  • Consistently delivered 10%- 30% profitability improvement for yearly delivery contracts
  • Restructured operational team achieving over 30% improvement of the response time in the first year

Skills

  • End-to-end Responsibility For Program Delivery: Managing From The Presale Stage, Through Delivery (Gathering Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing (Unit, Component, System, System Integration, And User Acceptance Testing), Go Live (Move To Production) And Transitioning To Post-production Support)
  • Coordinated New Sale Opportunities And Handled All The Corresponding Planning And Contracting Activities
  • Prepared And Delivered Rfps & Rfqs
  • Conducted Internal Efficiency Assessments And Improved Governance Of Large Projects (E.g.: 25% Effort Reduction While Keeping The Same Slas)
  • Established Project Governance For New Programs (Resources Plan, Change Management, Communication Management, Training Activities)
  • Managed All Financial Activities And P&l For The Project
  • Setup Of Post Production Support (An Initial Proposal, Brokering The Agreement, And Transition)
  • Managing The Design And Launch Of Disaster Recovery Setups For Large Systems Across Continents
  • Lead Executive And Steering Meetings, Delivering Progress Reports, Presentations, And Risk Evaluations
  • Experienced In Managing Large Programs/projects In Both Waterfall And Agile Based Methodologies

Languages

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1994 - Jun 1999

Polytechnic University of Bucharest

BS Computer Science · Computer Science · Bucharest, Romania

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