
Andrei Leonte
Product Manager (Design System and AI)
Salary / Daily rate
Iași, Romania
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Product Manager specializing in AI implementation and design systems with 10+ years in business analysis and product strategy. Led cross-functional teams on 500+ person projects, drove AI automation initiatives, and delivered scalable solutions at MassMutual and Endava. Expert in transforming complex requirements into actionable product roadmaps that drive measurable business outcomes.
Work experience
Mentor
Școala informală de IT
Oct 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month
Iasi Metropolitan Area
⎷ Deliver trainings and acting as a mentor for trainees looking to get acquainted with Business Analysis concepts and other BA related topics.
MassMutual Romania
Aug 2024 - Present
2 years 3 months
Product Manager (Design System and AI)
Jun 2025 - Present
1 year 5 months
⎷ Drive delivery of a modular design system and unified configuration platform, enhancing UI consistency, accessibility, and governance for underwriting workflows. ⎷ Drive AI initiatives to embed agentic and generative AI into core processes—automating triage, case summaries, and decision support using AWS. ⎷ Ensure AI feature adoption within the underwriting platform
Business Analyst
Aug 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year
⎷ Set clear objectives and align cross-functional teams with business goals for each Program Increment. ⎷ Break down features into actionable stories, manage dependencies and risks, and drive backlog and sprint execution (Confluence, Jira, Whimsical). ⎷ UI analysis and stakeholder alignment (Figma, Lucid)
Endava
Nov 2020 - Jul 2024
3 years 9 months
Iași, Romania
Senior Business Analyst | Line Manager
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
7 months
Iași, Romania
Media & Advertising (500+ people project - JAVA/ANGULAR) ⎷ Collaborated with c-suite to define and prioritize product features, scope Sprints, and align internal/external teams (FE/BE/QA/DevOps). ⎷ Led refinement ceremonies, acted as Proxy Product Owner, and provided updates on progress and blockers in Product meetings. ⎷ Wrote User Stories, Epics (JIRA), and documented functionality (MIRO, GLIFFY, FIGMA). ⎷ Managed backlog, facilitated communication, and moderated scrum events (stand-ups, reviews, retros). ⎷ Technical Interviewer & Project Reviewer. ⎷ Developed team profiles for promotions, maintained low attrition, high satisfaction. ⎷ Led Discipline Assessment Center, identifying and mentoring BA talent. ⎷ Focused on coachee growth and career progression.
Business Analyst | Line Manager
Nov 2020 - Jan 2024
3 years 3 months
Iași, Romania
⎷ Defined product features, scoped Sprints, and aligned teams with c-suite at Endava in Iaşi, Romania. ⎷ Led refinement, acted as Proxy Product Owner, and provided progress updates for User Stories and Epics. ⎷ Managed backlog, facilitated communication, and moderated scrum events to ensure project success. ⎷ Developed team profiles for promotions, maintained low attrition, high satisfaction.
Business Process Consultant (ServiceNow)
Cegeka Romania
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
1 year 2 months
Iasi County, Romania
⎷ Design Knowledge Management process in ServiceNow; ⎷ Manage and ensure a smooth transition from a legacy enterprise platform to ServiceNow; ⎷ Ensure Knowledge Management is properly integrated with Problem, Case and Incident management; ⎷ Build reports targeted at case deflection, improve client self-service experience and case resolution time through structured Knowledge Bases. ⎷ Help disseminate information about the organization's knowledge bases to internal and external audiences, including organizing knowledge sharing events, maintaining communications on knowledge sharing; ⎷ Analyze the effectiveness of the knowledge management programs/systems by observing its usage and evaluating its impact in terms of the organizational benefits; ⎷ Configure knowledge workflows, set knowledge properties, and manage knowledge forms and homepages. ⎷ Coordinate teams during internal documentation review and preparing content for ISO9001 audit - certification received. ⎷ Improve knowledge management process in SharePoint and in-house ticketing system - design workflow, define Knowledge Management KPIs, measure headcount saving achieved through automation of knowledge use.
Basware
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
2 years 10 months
Iasi County, Romania
Senior Solution Specialist (ServiceNow)
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
7 months
Iasi County, Romania
⎷ Strategically review current tooling and processes for future solutions specific to customer experience, self-service, case deflection, tooling/automation in ServiceNow; ⎷ Manage the current knowledge management practices and systems as well as design new knowledge distribution policies and encourage use of the new practices and/or systems based on ServiceNow principles and definitions; ⎷ Review articles for accuracy and relevance; ⎷ Approve the publishing or retiring of knowledge articles; ⎷ Identify knowledge/content gaps and take appropriate steps to fill them; ⎷ Create, implement and enhance internal reporting, and other processes to enhance productivity.
Technical Support Consultant
Nov 2016 - Jan 2019
2 years 3 months
Iasi County, Romania
⎷ Advanced support for complex incidents and requests involving XML, XSD, XSLT, SOAP (HTTP, SMTP); Replicate and investigate customer issues (HTTP(S), (S)FTP), encryption and electronic signatures). Log files investigation and interpretation for solving data import and export issues - Splunk, TortoiseSVN; ⎷ Tools used: Splunk, MailGun, TortoiseSVN, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence. ⎷ Trainer for new team members and other 2nd line Support Groups. ⎷ Technical interviewer involved in the hiring process of new team members.
Content Writer
FreelanceFreelance
Jan 2011 - Jan 2018
7 years 1 month
Remote, OR 97458, USA
⎷ 2000+ football related articles destined for UK websites with more than 3 million monthly visitors; [https://goonernews.com/; https://chelseanews.com/; https://manunews.com/; https://walkon.com/; https://mancitynews.com/] ⎷ 500+ unique articles (length varied between 150 and 2500 words - article types: "top ten", "travel guides", "how to", "fashion tips"); ⎷ 2000+ reviews based on products sold on Amazon.com - destined for affiliate marketing ⎷ Proofreading done for around 500 articles mostly related to reviewing Amazon products; ⎷ Elaborating a content writing guide for people with whom I worked. Included common syntax errors, phrases to avoid and overall structuring of text.
Contractor - Sharepoint Administrator
Time Warner Inc.
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
10 months
Iași, Romania
⎷ Administration of SharePoint database and applications, providing technical support for users and support of an Enterprise SharePoint environment (understanding relationship with active directory, SQL, IIS, etc). ⎷ Plan, design and implement SharePoint security including, but not limited to, authentication, security roles, user groups, audiences, and item level security. ⎷ Migrate solution file (list, libraries, master pages, CSS etc.) from stage to production site. Perform corrective SharePoint administration, configuration and maintenance as required. ⎷ Create documentation for any function performed under any competency as directed. ⎷ Plan, design, implement and modify navigational and aesthetic changes to SharePoint pages as directed. ⎷ Ensure solutions require minimal training to the end user while maintaining high reliability and usability.
Capgemini
Aug 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 5 months
Iasi County, Romania
Senior Analyst
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
1 year 2 months
Iasi County, Romania
Service Desk Analyst
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year 5 months
Iași, Romania
Education
"Petre Andrei" University of Iasi
Bachelor's degree
2009 - 2013
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Issued: Mar 2025
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ II (PSPO II)
Issued: Aug 2022
ITIL® 4 Foundation CPD
Issued: Sep 2021