Vlad Vasiliu
Managing Director
Experience
Mar 2023 - Present
2 years 5 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. As an example, I managed one of the company’s largest projects, the development of Categra, a comprehensive PIM (Product Information Management) and DAM (Digital Asset Management) platform. Categra integrates with top e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and other major marketplaces, streamlining product data and media management for clients
- 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, while ensuring compliance with best practices and industry standards
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement comprehensive IT strategies that meet the diverse needs of clients
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
1 year 2 months Switzerland
VP Business Technology Services
Origyn Luxury
- Assisting the CEO in setting the company's overall mission, values, and strategic goals and the definition of the product roadmap, product design, and new product ideas
- Contributing to strategic business development, and the profitability of the company as determined by the company's strategic goals
- Managing the daily operations and revenue generation of the company and ensuring its continuous growth
- Maintaining awareness of competitors, expansion opportunities, customers, markets, and new industry developments and standards
- Oversee the organizational effectiveness, management development, and leadership development of the organization toward improving the core content of the company
- Liaise with members of staff to ensure top-level client experience in all cases of client interactions from follow-up to delivery and needs assessment
- Designing the new features for the luxury vertical and core product based on the company strategy
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
3 years 1 month Romania
Program Manager (Development & Testing)
DRQ Consult
- Both short-term and long-term assignments to improve the performance of high-risk programs and contracts for both development and testing areas for clients including OSB Group (Switzerland), Salvatore Ferragamo (Italy), and Breitling (Switzerland).
- Full responsibility for development and testing programs in terms of timeline, quality, budget & people management
- Prepare and follow through with the change management, versioning strategy, and risk plans
- Setup the time, effort & expense reporting systems, prepare management plans for the deliverables, milestones, communication, and reporting
- Support Sales and respond to RFI/RFP
- Setup projects and programs framework by establishing templates and processes, JIRA & SharePoint flows and containers
- Prepared and Delivered C level briefings and presentations
- Managed recruitment activities, and interviews for management and technical personnel based on organization and project needs
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
1 year 1 month Switzerland
CTO
12Co
- Responsible for overseeing the research and development (R&D), testing, and operations of a large encryption program on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Mac/Windows, Web - all main browsers) by managing both business analysis, development, and testing teams, big data (build quality assurance and data protection processes), and the product life-cycle
- Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy for alignment with its business goals and ensure that the technological resources satisfy the company’s short and long-term needs
- Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
- Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance and report directly to the CEO
- Make executive decisions on behalf of the company’s technological requirements
Apr 2007 - Nov 2017
10 years 8 months Switzerland
Senior Manager
Atos / Cambridge Technology Partners
- Program Manager (Development, Testing, and operations) - 12CO (Switzerland) – 7 months
- Responsible for creating the development and test strategy for a program of high security (encryption) applications on multiple platforms (mobile phones, multiple browsers on PC and Mac, tablets)
- Managing both the development and the testing teams for the entire program
- Working directly with the CEO to set the overall strategy and objectives
- Accomplish human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, and evaluating employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures
- Managing both the development and the testing teams; setting objectives, assigning tasks, allocating budgets, and agreeing to timetables for achieving intermediate and overall goals with all the teams under my supervision
- Achieve operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change
- Head of Testing - Richemont (Switzerland) – 2 years
- Responsible for creating the test strategy and leading the testing effort for over 10 projects in the program (both manual and automation)
- Leading a group of 35+ testers and 5 test managers
- Implement, manage, and maintain an effective testing process for both manual and automated testing
- Create a testing infrastructure that supports robust communication and a cost-effective testing framework
- Adopt the appropriate Testing Framework or Test Architecture to meet the organization's testing needs
- Help the eBusiness Integration Director and the Department Manager to define the short-term and long-term goals of the Testing Framework, create and enforce the test strategy in the entire department for all test-related activities (all projects): approach, planning, test scope, templates, intermediary reporting, test exit reports, entry and exit criteria, etc.
- Responsible for supervising the creation, monitoring, and execution of test plans for each project and release for all test phases (UT - unit test, CT - component test, CIT - component integration test, ST - system, SIT - system integration test, preUAT – quality gate before UAT and UAT - user acceptance test phases)
- Account Manager (Testing) - L'Oréal Group (Switzerland) – 2 years
- Responsible for managing the program strategy and all testing activities for the Product Catalogue and Digital Asset Manager platforms serving all L’Oreal business worldwide
- Selecting and recruiting the team as per the program requirements, training and enforcing in the team the best development and QA practices as per the industry standards
- Create an infrastructure that supports robust communication and a cost-effective testing framework (both manual and automated)
- Serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters
- Ensure the timely and successful delivery of test plans, test strategy, test scenarios, and test sets according to customer needs and objectives and clearly communicate the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives of senior management and external stakeholders
- Forecast and track key account metrics (e.g. quarterly QA results and release forecasts)
- Senior Test Manager - IATA (Switzerland) – 2 years
- Responsible for managing the SIS program (Simplified Interline Settlement – solution used by the entire airline industry for interline settlement)
- Managing all of the project-related planning activities (deliveries, reviews, implementation, testing, move to operations) and responsible for the Test strategy of all phases: Component Integration, System Test, External Integration, NFR, DR, and UAT
- Accountable for ensuring all deliveries to customers are properly scheduled
- Liaisons with the vendor to ensure deliveries are completed on time and to customer satisfaction.
- Create/review/execute project plans (with vendor) and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs
- Prepare/update/review test strategy and test plans with vendor and ensure content and structure of all Testing documents/artefacts is documented and maintained; document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per the standards defined by the organization (define standards if required)
- Plan the review of test requirements, test scenarios, and test cases by IATA
- Evaluate, report, and mitigate testing project risks and issues; Generate and maintain timely progress reports and elaborate final test reports for the phases owned by IATA (UAT)
- Billing Platform Manager – Orange Communications (Switzerland) – 3 years
- Responsible for leading the Amdocs billing environment team, controlling, planning, and directing all activities related to Amdocs test environment infrastructure in Orange.
- Managing a team for setting up, maintenance, and upgrade of the Amdocs environments (Amdocs Ensemble versions 7.2 up to 9.2), managing all the activities related to installations of Amdocs deliveries (fixes, patches, upgrades) and implementations of reference, application, and operational databases in system test environments, UAT and pre-production.
- Managing the delivery of packages and guidelines to operations (production) and all setup activities for integration of Amdocs with CredVal (Credit Validation), Remedy platform, Intranet and CRM
Feb 2005 - Mar 2007
2 years 2 months Limassol, Cyprus
Test Manager
Amdocs Development Ltd.
- Responsible for leading a large team for the Amdocs billing environment program, control, planning, and direction for all management activities for the Portfolio Project consisting of Integration Testing Projects between CRM, Amdocs Billing Platform (Enabler), Order Management Systems, and Amdocs Self-Service, Amdocs CRM (the main CSR interface)
Jan 2004 - Feb 2005
1 year 2 months Limassol, Cyprus
Testing Group Leader
Amdocs Development Ltd.
- Responsible for planning, control, and direction of various testing projects, ensuring high customer satisfaction and compliance with the company’s goals: Amdocs Billing (Enabler) and Clarify CRM Integration, Order Manager System and CRM Integration, ABP&CRM Integration for SFR (French customer), Amdocs Billing and Clarify CRM Integration, Amdocs Error Manager
Jun 2003 - Jan 2004
8 months Limassol, Cyprus
Senior Testing Engineer
Amdocs Development Ltd.
- Designing the test requirements and the test cases for testing the ported application on different platforms (HP, Solaris, AIX, etc.) with different Databases like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc for all CRM applications: Analytics, Amdocs Self Service, Billing Manager, Order Manager Standard Edition, Support, eResponse, ClarifyCRM Sales, ClarifyCRM Support, ClarifyCRM Quality, ClarifyCRM Auto Destination, EmailManager, eOrder, Process Manager, Script Manager
Nov 1999 - Jun 2003
3 years 8 months Limassol, Cyprus
Senior Developer
Amdocs Development Ltd.
- Design and development for the Switch control application (module of the Telco billing system)
- Developing applications in C, C++ (UNIX), Oracle Pro C, Power Builder, and Java, Working in Switch Control Area (provisioning) for projects like MMO (Vodafone- Mannesmann, Germany) and offering customer support on-site in Düsseldorf for over 9 months, VimpelCom (Telecommunication Company from Moscow), responsible for the design and implementation of new features for telecommunication applications like GPRS, GPS, VPN. Experienced working with HLR’s like Siemens, Alcatel, Damps, Ericsson
Apr 1998 - Nov 1999
1 year 8 months Romania
Senior Developer
WM Company
- Design and development of Finance and administration software applications
- Leading a very small development team (3 people) for designing and developing Finance, Administration and Production applications (Visual Basic - Client-Server applications and Visual C++), Managing the program version/release control for the development team, Data modeling, and database design/administration (Oracle and SQL Server)
Jun 1996 - Apr 1998
1 year 11 months Romania
Senior Developer
CSS
- Design and development of Finance and Administration software applications
- Data modeling and database design/administration and analysis of the client's requirements
Sep 1994 - Jun 1996
1 year 10 months Romania
Developer
GFK
- Design and development of Statistical Analysis and data mining software applications (VB, Fox Pro, Visual Fox, C, C++)
- Data modeling and database design/administration and analysis of the client requirements
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
Languages
Romanian
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 1994 - Jun 1999
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
BS Computer Science · Computer Science · Romania
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