Bogdan Ciureanu

In greenfield project: Designed and implemented the technical Release Management strategy including process, framework, deliverables, and approvals (from scratch). Created and updated Release Management plans and environment management strategy. =Technical SME: 360 Assessment of DevOps CI/CD and Release Management tools for Salesforce = RFP across multiple ISVs. Compared Copado, Flosum, Gearset, BlueCanvas and Autorabit side-by-side to pick the best one for the business expectations and architectural ambitions. =DevOps Manager: Built Salesforce CI/CD pipelines via Git, GitLab CI. Technologies: Git, Visual Studio Code, GitLab CI, Salesforce DX, Yml, XML, Node.js.

Department Head of Release and Deployment 600-head count project; Accelerated from 4 deployments / year to 25, over the course of one years. Coordinated cross-functional teams, having palpable results. Navigated various business functions, as follows: Stream 1. Technical Release & Environment Management (hands-on) - Large-scale: 12+ Vendor coordination (on Multiplatform & Multicloud environment) - Salesforce S&S, MarketingCloud, Mulesoft, Powercloud, SAP - Assess, optimize, roll-out and govern adoption of CI/CD enhancements & tooling until implementation - Design, implement, maintain CI/CD, Automation and DevOps processes - Project-wide Release strategies: Idea to Monitoring - Cultivate working relationships between BA, Product Management, development, engineering, delivery teams; - Agree timelines and technical timeframes known for all stakeholders - Understand and communicate all dependencies; de-risk all deployments - Drive RFPs for Salesforce& Release Management tools, cross-technology assessments: E.g. https://www.hcltechsw.com/accelerate , Copado.com, Flosum.com, Gearset.com - Build management, Continuous Integration + deployments with various tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins etc.) Stream 2. Lead Defect Manager: - Team of 3 Defect Managers; - Bug coordination, removing obstacles, understanding dependencies, Root-root Cause analysis, vendor coordination + point of Escalation governing E2E process + change management - Propose joint enhancements together with defect / test management Forward-looking: Value Stream Mapping, Salesforce deep dives. Release & Deployment: release process governance, change management, best practices; process consultancy: coordination, planning, standardization, reviews: policies, quality gates, strategy.

Digital Attacker Project -> coordinated a Platform Ops. team of 15 ranging from AEM, Salesforce, Boomi devs to SAP and Output management. Assisted in the move from a Waterfall approach to an Agile one. Planned and managed release activities over the full E2E cycle from the production of Readiness Reviews & Implementation Plans. Environments, Release & Deployment Management. Develop, implement & manage Release & Deployment policies. Preprod and Prod deployments planning, tracking, coordination. * Defined, agreed, published deployment plans and schedules with stakeholders * Coordinating releases e2e across internal and vendor applications * Manage risks, issues, dependencies * Pipeline orchestration, best practices, process optimization consultancy: coordination, planning, cross-functional reviews. * Process Management, DevOps CI/CD implementations with Docker & GitLab * Review release preparation to ensure 100% successful deployments. 0 rollbacks. * HotFix tracking, coordination, deployment, documentation, communication. • Helped customers "make deployments boring" by automation, creating bridges, enhancing mindsets. • Salesforce - oriented: RFPs for: Copado, Flosum, Autorabit, BlueCanvas, GearSet, HCL Accelerate. • Defect Management activities across large scale project.

Digital Attacker project -> Scrum Master & SAFE Transformation (via HCL). Achievements: * PoC & Coordinator for on-boarding of 3rd parties; * DevOps implementations & assessments, CI/CD for AEM and Salesforce; "automate everything" mind-set; **automated Salesforce deployments via GitLab (ant migration -> force.com -> sfdx) Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Bash, AEM.

Achievements: - Coordinated 3 Release Managers in Iași, Bucharest, Milan - Streamlined Change and Release Management processes across the upcoming 13 UniCredit CEE Internet B@nking solutions as well as multiple UniCredit Public Web sites and reduced number of post-release incidents; - Ensured version control and code is delivered and that correct versions are installed at all times, in all environments by collaborating with all relevant Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers and assessing their dependencies, risks, necessary approvals - Initiate sub-groups in order to fix test environment issues or clarify cross-architecture necessities

- Worked on UniCredit CEE Internet B@nking solution - serving several CEE countries. Oversaw and executed changes to test and Production environments, understanding their dependencies and risks - Planned software releases (minor, major, HotFix) - Release Calendar creation, planning, communication with stakeholders about releases Worked with AEM, Java, maven.

Achievements: - Shaped an early-days SRE team (under the Applications Management discipline) = grew from 1 to 40 staff across multi-locations in 3 years, generating 1000% growth. - Responsible for day-to-day quality of provided Service, innovation, (qualified) leads. - Offered guidance to Support Team Leads, shared best practices, lessons learnt, identified risks and enforced Service Improvement Plans.

Achievements: grew 2 teams of 6-to-10 over a period of 3 years = early days SRE's Responsible for Project management of Projects which enhanced customer experience: e.g. A/B testing Participated in the SD life-cycle from business proposal to delivery to Production and subsequent implementation reviews and Lessons learnt. -- Team management -- Incident / Change / Release / Defect Management Became a bridge between the Dev, PM, Support and Test teams and the client staff while resolving incidents and being involved in day-to-day Operational Delivery of Support Services. Activities included: - 2nd line technical Application Support & coordination of 3rd line App Support; - meetings (discussions with the client, follow-ups, updates); - technical verification of incident management flow; - team management and tasking (allocation of incident and bugs to the team); - technical team briefing; - identify and resolve access to the required systems; - support-related training; - interviews for new recruits (for 2 teams); - prepare technical input into weekly/monthly reports.

As part of the Java Developer support team, I worked on-site (in UK) for one of the world's leading multinational insurance groups. Between November 2010 and June 2011, I was assigned to work and learn alongside the team responsible with the development of the web layer of a Web application used for selling car policies. The technologies used are: Java 6, Spring Web Flow, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, JUnit 4, Apache Maven, WCM (FatWire), Apache Tomcat 6. SVN, ClearCase.