Vlad is a skilled Project Manager with 6+ years of industry experience; managing projects in the fields of events marketing, advertising, and eCommerce. He provides strategies for big stress-related situations; working with and thriving in tough, multi-cultural teams on projects using Scrum, Kanban, and XP for project management.
Monitoring the scrum processes and various scrum meetings for clients across a broad range of industries.
Partner closely with other cross-functional departments to work on process problems and challenges that affect customer satisfaction in the implementation of projects.
Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, identify and remove impediments to success, track progress, and recognize opportunities for continuous improvement.
Collaborated with Scrum Masters and Product Teams on the development of realistic pipelines and milestones on projects - maintaining the roadmap of Sparkware's ePayments portfolio.
Led and supervised Sparkware's program and project teams - overseeing the impacts and interdependencies between programs to meet desired goals and objectives.
Encouraged and developed a Scrum-Agile environment for team members; working with SCRUM Masters and Agile Champion to maintain a healthy and safe working environment.
Managed and maintained the WMS and DMS portfolio roadmap/deadlines; working with the SCRUM Master and Product Owner a realistic.
Wrote documentation for projects - managing and writing user manuals, providing project business analysis: detailed requirements, and business flow diagrams in Confluence for case training sessions.
Participated in Scrum meetings with the Product Owner; defining project metrics, AS-IS and TO BE, and tracking them after implementation.
Offered fieldwork expertise for the coordination of activities; managing fieldwork suppliers, conducting fieldwork briefings and reviewing research inputs (questionnaire, brand lists, stimulus material) for field suitability.
Managed project schedule and updates; providing support on data processing, designing and implementing data checking protocols.
Built effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders; adhering to quality management processes for all internal quality procedures.
Oversaw the implementation of Plotter Design's marketing strategy; maintaining the portfolio roadmap, tracking timelines, project milestones and a new branding manual.
Developed customized workshops/training sessions for team members; focusing on performance improvement and long-term development.
Built Plotter Design's brand; provided expertise for community engagement, management and media relations.
Collaborated with international institutions by designing and developing media materials on public policies, issues and events for the media/PR department.
Coordinated events, cooperated across departments; conducting and evaluating programs and activities on international cooperation within the organization.
Coordinated and oversaw the Lisbon Tourism Summit 2013; liaising with government officials, international organizations, and the media.
The Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) is a European guideline for harmonizing money transfers within the EU.
The project team collaborated with 3rd parties for the implementation of the new communication flow between platforms.
New flows and functionality were implemented and tested in production before the official launch date, utilizing external partners (PSPs).
Black Friday is the primary event for eMAG, significantly impacting their business.
eMAG implemented several improvements to enhance pick-up rates and delivery times, including deploying Android PDAs and updating DMS.
The company invested in software improvements, including a faster algorithm for picking and backend programming logic, resulting in increased customer satisfaction.
Developed a new brand identity for Plotter Design celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Managed surveys, trend research, and documentation to support the brand refresh.
Finalized a brand manual and implemented a fresh look across all departments.
