Catalin Marcu

Drove standardization, harmonization of systems, platforms and solutions within assigned countries; Established, governed, and ensured adherence of countries to IT standards; Provided executive consulting to country CFO and IT Manager; Created budget plans and quarterly forecasts and followed their execution; Created technology use opportunities based on country business strategy; Lead implementation projects of group solutions (CRM, Webshop).

Advocated and implemented the migration of SAP systems from on premises (ECC) to GCP (S/4HANA); Elaborated and implemented cloud security, backup and high availability for SAP landscapes in the cloud; Responsible for project management of SAP systems demergers projects; Recruited, managed and coached a team of 30+ SAP professionals, while increasing team engagement score by 25% over two years; Involved in strategic projects like Future IT of the company, innovation, Digital Finance, OKR, outsourcing.

Country wide IT Management (IT Development, IT Operations) including business strategy support; Slashed IT costs by 30%, negotiating pricing and fees, while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services; Designed, implemented and delivered IT Infrastructure, business continuity and disaster recovery strategies through infrastructure projects with the team; Managed budgets of more than 2.5 million EUR annually; Recruited, trained and mentored the IT team (12 network and server professionals).

Designed and implemented the company’s IT strategy; Led all the IT projects through their full lifecycle; Analyzed, designed and improved the business processes; Decreased the OPEX costs by 25% over two years period; Led, coached and mentored the IT team; Handled ITC vendors and service suppliers tendering and negotiation.

Founded, coached and led the IT Team of OBI Romania; Set up the infrastructure (servers, networking, communication) in order to commence retail operations in Romania; Handled all the IT vendors selection and IT contracts; Designed and implemented the network security; Information Systems Management; Coordination and planning of IT-related projects; Business Strategy Support

• Managing internal application upgrade processes; • Defining the application upgrade schedule; • Creating project’s WBS; • Coordinating the upgrade team to follow the schedule; • Offering feedback to the developers in case of errors, problems or test issues; • Developing concepts for the new requirements; • Collaborating with external contractors;

• Managed retail projects by using various types of resources (human, financial etc.) for testing, adapting to local effective fiscal laws and implementing a software application (in the retail and gas products areas); • Created time schedules and cost baselines; • Assigned tasks to team members; • Coordinated the store installation team; • offered round the clock maintenance of company’s customers' IT systems (cash register and scale networks);

Analyzing and developing applications for the customers and for internal use. The used programming languages were: Delphi, C++, SQL, and PHP. The used database were: MS SQL and MySQL.

Computer architecture, microelectronics, numeric circuits, artificial inteligence, databases.