Dr. Bogdan Ciureanu

Strong vendor coordination skills, across the architecture (frontend, middleware, backend, etc.) In charge of: - Assessing and improving all vendor activities in order to accelerate the delivery process. - Improvement of operational activities - project-wide release strategy - Connect to automation best practices and removing organizational silos - Planning of project-wide releases, - Oversee, coordination of project-wide releases Part-time: Defect Manager Forward-looking: COPADO, Salesforce enhancements

• DevOps consultancy, Agile Tool Chains, CI / CD / CT • Environment Management • Release & Deployment: - process consultancy: liaising, planning, reviews, standardization - governance: policies, guidelines, quality gates

Developed and implemented Release & Deployment policies and activities. Vendor Management, Preprod and Prod deployments planning & coordination. * Define & agree deployment plans with stakeholders * Manage risks, issues, dependencies * Review release preparation to ensure successful deployments * HotFix tracking, coordination, deployment, documentation, communication. Coordinating releases deploying internal and vendor applications Process Management, DevOps CI/CD implementations with Docker & GitLab

DevOps implementations, assessments with an automate everything mind-set o Working with Docker, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD runners, Linux, Bash, Kube Achievements: automated Salesforce metadata deployments via GitLab o Certified Scrum Master: enabled ceremonies, removed impediments o Point of contact & coordinator for client-side on-boarding of 3rd parties

Focus on Release Management; supporting hands-on activities: DevOps, Test Automation. Processes: Created upgrade and release processes for CI/CD/CT products. The asset Adobe Experience Manager(CMS)delivers a range of portals for Allianz insurance websites Offshore team coordination of Allianz India Test team to increase velocity and share ideas Hands-on Test Automation (Selenium, Nightwatch, Cucumber) • DevOps (Continuous Integration/Delivery) using Docker, Jenkins(pipelines), Bash

Created a release process and Release Manager’s profile for an OverTheTop video service Matured the release process, scheduled and managed releases independently. Gathered demand for the release from various sources and agree the main content of the release with product owners, testers, project managers and development teams.

Streamlined & formalized release process throughout online-banking and public websites solutions. - Led a team of 3 Release Managers - Collaborated with Development, Testing, Management, BA teams to ensure components are deployed successfully, without impact and with risk checks - Planned software releases (minor, major, hot-fix) and delivered them into all test & Production environments - Created Release calendars (still used in 2018) and communicated them to stakeholders

Grew a team of 6 to 20 who today are: Head of Applications Management, Service Delivery Managers/Support Leads. -- Shaped a new discipline (Applications Management) delivering Support Services - Oversaw Release & Change management activities - Time split between end-to-end project delivery, release management, operational service improvements, coaching and providing trainings for Support Leads in locations across Europe

Worked onsite at RSA in an ITIL-heavy environments aligning to Incident, Release, Change and Problem Management best practices - Day-to-day: 2nd Level Incident / Change /Release/Defect Management - Estimated tasks, planned and implemented new features or fixes via a team of 6 - Worked on Release-related tasks, executing the role of client-facing Release Manager, owning the process spanning both Development lifecycle and Maintenance areas

Develop applications with Java backend & Adobe Flex 3.0/AIR frontend

Advanced programming techniques

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