Catalin Secosan
Angestellt, Senior Product Owner, Work in progress SRL
Frankfurt, Germany
About me
I am a management professional with more than 15 years of experience in operations, business development, management, outsourcing, customer service, consulting, IT and the startup environment. Highly adaptable, I manage to strive in both the Corporate, somewhat rigid way of doing business and the Entrepreneurial more agile and flexible one.
Timeline
Professional experience for Catalin Secosan
Current 5 years and 1 month, since May 2018
Senior Product Owner
Work in progress SRL
Managing a 10 person team in charge with bringing to market a SAS product designed for the B2B market: - Time to market in under 3 months - Project became profitable in less than 4 months - More than 15 revenue generating modules developed in the first year - 4.9* rating with close to 1000 ratings offered in the app and play store
2 years and 8 months, Nov 2016 - Jun 2019
Co-founder / Business Development
Porc in Pita/Hadean Catering
Co-founded a Catering business together with star master chef Adrian Hădean. Delivering both delicious exclusive meals through a delivery type approach and also setting up a state of the art mobile kitchen and street food brand Pork’n’Pita. - Brand evaluated at 1.5+ mil Euro by a franchise operator after one year - Top three seller at Untold 2017 food court
11 years and 4 months, Aug 2005 - Nov 2016
Transformation and Compliance Manager
Computer Generated Solutions SRL
Acted as an internal growth hacker for all Eastern Europe processes: - Implementing, Managing and Internal Compliance Auditing on two State Aid Programs with a total budget of 10+ mil Euro - Optimising Human Resources, Administrative, Financial and Information Technology processes generating more than 1M Euro cost save - Working with the Marketing Team on improving the overall Company Image - Developing and Implementing a Mentoring program - Determining and Mapping Contractual Compliance
1 year and 4 months, Mar 2013 - Jun 2014
Co-founder & Business Development
Tradecamel
TradeCamel was an interactive application that encourages the free trade of ideas, goods and services but also altruistic gestures by offering gifts and donations. Managed to launch a service that exceeded our best expectations by a factor of three in terms of early adoption of the product during the first 72hrs after launch. - Supervised all Project phases: Development, Testing and Release, using the Agile methodology - Co-founded and recruited a team of 7 members to help coordinate all aspects
6 years and 1 month, Jun 2008 - Jun 2014
Senior Project Manager
Computer Generated Solutions SRL
Acting as an Account and a Service Delivery Manager on several lines of business for the third largest mobile provider in the US. - Managed a team of 120 people divided into 9 teams and 4 programs in charge of inbound and outbound back-office functions - Developed and managed an on-going Forum for all the Top Management to discuss general area of opportunities, forming a think-tank focused on innovation and generating change within the organisation - Won several World-wide, Company and Local competitions
1 year and 1 month, Jun 2007 - Jun 2008
Technical Team Leader
Computer Generated Solutions SRL
1 year and 11 months, Aug 2005 - Jun 2007
Customer Service Representative
Computer Generated Solutions SRL
Educational background for Catalin Secosan
5 years and 2 months, Jun 2004 - Jul 2009
Electrical Engineering
Politechnic University of Bucharest
Languages
English
Fluent
Romanian
First language