
Alexandru Grosu
Senior IT Project Manager | Agile & DevSecOps
Salary / Daily rate
Bucharest, Romania
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Program Manager with 15+ years leading complex IT projects across finance, healthcare, and logistics. Specialized in regulatory compliance, cloud migrations, and ERP implementations with proven results at Microsoft and major corporations. Expert in agile/hybrid methodologies delivering enterprise solutions on time and budget.
Work experience
IT Regulatory Project Manager
Societe Generale Global Solution Centre
Mar 2022 - Present
4 years 8 months
Bucharest, Romania
Project Management • Enable coordination between all the stakeholders, ensuring the impacts are well understood and managed on various financial markets regulatory requirements, following ISO27K requirements • CI/CD pipelines automated process integrated through DevSecOps used for particular approaches • Monitor and maintain the priority of projects considering resources and budget constraints, good negotiations skills with external partners constraints, when necessary. • Project Risk identification and mitigation during the evolution of project • Regular meetings with stake holders to follow up the status of projects according with budget agreed in time and money • Coordinate many streams belonging to the global project • Ensure the global steering of the project • Methodology used: hybrid, agile, DevSecOps Business Process Optimization, Contract Management & Compliance Audits • After a close analyze and understanding of flows and business approach based on audit process of current situation – design and propose improvement of EMIR clearing migration for North America stream • Regularly (weekly, monthly, quarterly) analyses of usage of resources according with the planning but also the effort planned (man-days) • Align business documentation according with project strategy Certifications & Exams / year: Modern data Management: Data Management Systems / 2023 Discovering Copilot for Windows 11 / 2023 Use Copilot in Power Pages / 2023 AWS Certified Machine Learning: Data Engineering, Machine Learning & AWS / 2023 Projects and Programs run: 1) Program run: Clearing Migration Project skills used: Compliance Audits for 'As Is' transaction flows coming with the 'To Be' approach Procurement of Infrastructure environment (SaaS) within AWS using technics like Make-or-Buy Analysis, Economic Models, Source Methodology used: agile DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines automated process integrated through DevSecOps
IT Project Delivery Manager
Microsoft
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
2 years 3 months
Bucharest, Romania
• Change Management and Integration of business know-how of clients into Microsoft solutions. • Support post implementation (during production stage) based on dedicated Microsoft support team requirements. • SOW (Statement of Work) analyzes, consultancy shared with Microsoft's Clients: I analyzed together with the Clients the best IT solution to be chosen reviewing with them SoW issued following best suitable solution to be delivered • Contract Management approach in order to identify risks and constraints to be followed from Procurement perspective but also from Commercial Contract perspective (Client's perspective) • Contract Administration approach following Change Requests to be calibrated with Contract requirements and legal constraints as well. • Compliance Audit Technics used on my inspection of current situation like interview, brainstorming, focus groups, questionaries and surveys, etc. • Presentation technics used: MS Excel diagrams but also MS VISIO & MS Project • Procurement approach of infrastructure but also software solutions (Azure - SaaS, some loco providers as well like 24/7 for instance) • Manage complex migration on Azure cloud – infrastructure projects together with software adapted solution • Work closely with Clients for different business area (Healthcare - pharma, hospitals, Services, Financial services) in order to match their needs and expectation with Microsoft solutions within ISO27K requirements • Mitigation/negotiation of the solution with the Clients at C-level position in terms of adopted solution but also contractual terms • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, able to develop solutions according with customer needs • Excellent communication skills based on daily basis interactions with internal and external stake holders, mitigate multiple misunderstandings occurred during the process • Managed a large group of internal Partners • Methodologies used: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, DevSecOps), Hybrid
Business Program Manager - (ONE Group - Israel)
Wizrom Software
Jan 2014 - Dec 2019
6 years
Bucharest, Romania
-Program/Project Management, Change Management for several industries such are: Pharma, HealthCare, Logistics, Waste Management, Food, Metallic Structures, Retail etc. -Area of business: mostly Europe but also Clients from North America (Molson Coors – Montreal/Canada) -Retention of Clients & development of Partnership through high level of services quality and new IT & Technology solutions/products -Coordination of deliverable Contracts, Customer advocacy, establish Service Value proposition. -DATA forecasts used tools: Microsoft Project Plan, COGNOS-IBM, NECTO-BI -Presentation used tools: Power Point, Visio -Task Management used tools: JIRA, Priority service tool Certifications & Exams / year: -SQL transactions / 2019 -Microsoft Cloud Azure Fundamentals / 2019 -JIRA Cloud: Creer et demarrer un projet (FR) / 2018 -JIRA Cloud: Creation de rapports dans JIRA (FR) / 2018 -JIRA Cloud: Configurer et gerer les tableaux (FR) / 2018 -ERP - Dynamics / 2017 -ERP - Navision / 2017 -ERP - Priority / 2017 -ERP - SAP S/4 HANA -ERP - SAP ECC 6.0 -ERP - Oracle -ERP - Priority -Professional XML / 2017 -WEB Technology / 2016 -WEB Content Management / 2015 -ENTERPRISE Content Management / 2015 -Microsoft Excel Level 1 - Office 365 / 2015 -Microsoft Excel 2010 - Intermediate (Level 2) / 2015 -Microsoft Excel 2013 - Advanced (Level 3) / 2015 -Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) / 2014
IT Logistics Project Manager
Farmexpert D.C.I.
Jan 2009 - Dec 2013
5 years
Brașov, Romania
- Projects run around SAP ECC 6.0 version, according with company demanding related with logistics and distribution department: - Web applications for retail (XML & web technologies) integrated into SAP ECC 6.0 core solution - Integration of truck routes with the core system (SAP ECC 6.0) for reporting and analyze - Data transfer from initiated check points according with the status followed - semiautomated approach - Content management system approach related web page developed in relation with partners - Data Management & Data Processing according with particular result followed - Planning team approach, guidance and coach: SCRUM Master approach - Agile methodology followed Certifications & Exams / year: -WEB Technology / 2011 -Data Management / 2011 -SAP ECC 6.0 - ERP / 2012 -CHARISMA ERP -Access 365 Beginner (Data Base Management System) / 2010 -Access 365 Intermediate (Data Base Management System) / 2010 -Access 365 Advanced (Data Base Management System) / 2010 -Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) / 2010
Education
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Master of Business Administration - MBA
1997 - 1998
2 years
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Logistic Engineer
1992 - 1997
6 years