Sorin Cioban

Provided senior program and project leadership across Nexstar’s digital portfolio, steering complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning mobile, audience platforms, privacy/compliance, and ad technology. Partnered with product, engineering, analytics, legal, ad operations, and external vendors to translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps, align cross-team delivery, defining and tracking KPI’s and keep high-visibility programs on track for our consumer-facing products.

Served as Program Manager and Scrum Master for multiple Beachbody Digital teams, leading Agile delivery across web, CMS, mobile, and connected TV initiatives. Facilitated end-to-end sprint ceremonies, aligned cross-team execution, removed delivery blockers, and supported feature and maintenance releases across a fast-moving digital product environment. Extended scope into program planning, budget and resource coordination, early-stage project estimation, and backlog governance.

Led large-scale digital media and technology programs from initiation through delivery, partnering with business and technical stakeholders to shape requirements, evaluate solution options, define schedules, and manage execution across complex system and platform initiatives. Provided leadership across CMS and ESP migrations, product and feature launches, Segment implementation, and data-focused initiatives supporting Nexstar’s digital properties.

Provided Agile project leadership across digital programs, managing scope, schedule, budget, team coordination, and partner engagement to deliver product and platform launches on time and within budget. Managed mobile application and web development initiatives with budgets of up to $4M, partnering across marketing, sales, legal, commerce, customer service, analytics, brand, content, and business operations to coordinate approvals and launch readiness.

Work with a broad group of internal and external stakeholders to manage initiatives and teams across the NFL’s Media organization using Agile/SCRUM. Communicate and document project status and strategic recommendations to team members and senior management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels. Entertainment, Media Broadcast, Media Streaming, television, OTT, CTN, content delivery network, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chrome TV, Apple TV, tvOS.

Contributions: assisting the Direct-To-Consumer team in reaching their goals of launching different venues of retail operations. Performed basic Project Management functions and related activities, built and maintained relationships with stakeholders, business leaders, product owners, project managers, and technical team leads. Executed project management methodologies and standards, conducted regular project reviews and accurately communicated the status of projects in both formal and informal

Device Program Management – managing all activities required to successfully launch DMC handsets and devices for commercial operations of Defense Mobile. This includes all facets of device program management, including requirements documentation, creation and execution of project plans, OEM requirements lock-down, implementing carrier requirements for device certifications, management of device SW testing and planning the operational delivery of devices to the distribution channels.

Responsibilities include Project Management, Account Management and Vendor Management. Responsible for planning, scheduling, managing and delivering web and mobile applications (HTML5, Java, PHP, .Net, Win8, iOS, Android, Windows Phone), prototypes and proof-of-concepts using Agile. Daily tasks include sprint planning, bug scrub meetings, customer demos, documentation and reporting. Projects include back-end development to improve online services, API development, content management systems

Primary Engineering interface for several global operators for device certification activities, product launches and post-launch performance reviews. Cross-functional team management and Engineering Support for SW and HW development. Other responsibilities include: - Managing the day-to-day technical interaction with mobile operators and 3rd party vendors - Subject Matter Expert for all carrier requirements as related to product development - Supporting the operator Terminal Acceptance Process for sev

Managing the Software and Device QA Team with focus on assisting the company’s handset programs from concept to launch. Work very closely with Project Managers, OEMs and Developers to support new handset releases, new mobile application releases and back-end server implementations. Possess a very good understanding of software development and going-to-market strategies for hardware and software in the mobile device environment; actively contributing to the strategies and timelines of product development a

Conduct regression testing for all software releases. Verification tests of updated software tool releases. Provide detailed reports of issues and bugs reported for compliance with various carriers’ requirements using PVCS Tracker and Mercury’s TestDirector. Responsible for identifying, implementing and testing protocol software for new product features. Specifying, implementing, and executing verification tests for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). Evaluating and analyzing SW and HW for CDMA modules a

Providing Carrier Network Stage 3 Field Interoperability Testing (FIT) for various handset manufacturers and carriers throughout the U.S., including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, PalmOne, LG, Kyocera, Delphi, Sierra Wireless, Telular, Verizon, MetroPCS, Nextel, Alltel. Further more, provided Bell Mobility’s and Telus’ CDMA Qualification Process: Phase 0 Test cases (Canada), as well as Telcel and Movistar GSM Interoperability Certification Proccess (Mexico). Testing includes: Air Interface, Terminations Call Su