
Savcho Savchev
Senior IT Project Manager | Infrastructure & Agile
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Luxembourg
Mobility: Sofia, Brussels, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
PMP®-certified Project Manager with 25+ years specializing in IT infrastructure and digital transformation projects. Led multi-million dollar initiatives across European datacenters, cloud migrations, and service transitions for major enterprises. Expert in Agile/SAFe methodologies delivering measurable results for complex programs.
Work experience
Project Manager/Service Owner
ARHS Cube
Feb 2023 - Present
3 years 9 months
Luxembourg
Part of the project management team of the European Commission for the evolution and management of the infrastructure and virtualization projects of DG DIGIT/Unit C3. -Responsible for the Cloud on Premises on behalf of OASIS 2 for the management of the teams responsible for the implementation of the European Commission Program. -Responsible for the planning and allocation of resources according to competences for the teams involved in the activities engaged. -Contributor and responsible for conducting the Project Closures with the customers for signing off completed works. -Supporting the architecture office with administrative and technical requests within DIGIT.C3 (HOUSING SERVICES) or external to DIGIT.C2 (HOSTING SERVICES) and DIGIT.C4 (NETWORKING SERVICES) for the projects as input or requested output of work products to be accomplished. Starting 01/03/2024 and under COSMOS contract position changed to Service Owner of Backup and Storage squad containing services for SAN, NAS, Backup and Object storages for EC/DIGIT/C3
Senior Project Manager
Worldline Global
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
1 year 7 months
Project manager for infrastructure build/migration projects. Waved approach on building respective infra in company data centers for front and back- office application service landscapes. Lead PM for Phase 1 building activities including HW and NW setup between 8 EMEA based DC’s and Phase 2 covering acquiring front-office and back-office infra and application migration from EMEA to APAC region cloud premises coordinating efforts between company’s DevOps teams using SAFe 5.
Product Manager
Energize Global Services CJSC
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
8 months
Supporting projects for eWL (equensWorldline) Product manager/Program manager Product Manager for both legacy and new world applications and services in B2B sector. Projects on software product features development and improvement evolving scaled Agile and using Scrumban framework. Epic owner and coordinator for VAS/PGUI and PGW Analysis and Integration with customer core banking platforms and interfaces. (Mambu, Temenos, FlexCube) Transition lead for legacy services provided to customers from Germany, Belgium and Nederland. Providing Indications, estimations and cost to internal stakeholders.
Customer Program and Project Manager
DXC Technology
Apr 2017 - Mar 2021
4 years
Sofia, Bulgaria
Lead planning and implementation of programs/projects. Participation in the design and/or testing phases. Responsible for assembling the project staff; for their technical or functional development, performance, and termination during the project or projects. Manage project budget and resource allocation. Leading the customer engagement to ensure that it meets all scope, time, budget and quality expectations, through planning, controlling and managing customer projects. Planning, management, co-ordination and financial control of customer projects. Manages corporate, customer and third party vendor efforts to plan, sell and implement solutions to customer problems. Responsible for the development, congruency and integration of the relevant programs and projects plans. Accountable for the successful handover of the operational responsibility for the IT services in scope in the customer`s transitioned environment to DXC technology on-going delivery. Infra Lifecycle and Service transition Manager for E.ON and Uniper Service and application transition manager for BMW Service transition and insourcing manager for AUDI
Customer Program and Project Manager
Hewlett-Packard
Nov 2013 - May 2017
3 years 7 months
47521 Bulgaria, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy
Lead planning and implementation of programs/projects. Participation in the design and/or testing phases. Responsible for assembling the project staff; for their technical or functional development, performance, and termination during the project or projects. Manage project budget and resource allocation. Leading the customer engagement to ensure that it meets all scope, time, budget and quality expectations, through planning, controlling and managing customer projects. Planning, management, co-ordination and financial control of customer projects.Manages corporate, customer and third party vendor efforts to plan, sell and implement solutions to customer problems. Responsible for the development, congruency and integration of the relevant programs and projects plans. Accountable for the successful handover of the operational responsibility for the IT services in scope in the customer`s transitioned environment to HP on-going delivery. HW Lifecycle manager for E.ON
Senior Manager E-channels Dpt.
UniCredit Bulbank
Jun 2007 - Dec 2012
5 years 7 months
Sofia, Bulgaria
UniCredit Bulbank – Head Office Global Banking Services/Operations Head of “E-channels department”, managing activities of 3 sectors, strategy development and marketing of all e-banking services, creation and implementation of new business models for main e-banking products and services with main activities in Web Banking sector. Managing complex projects and programs to achieve specific business goals, alignment of IT and Business requirements to meet business grow expectations and targets. Managing 14 FTE divided into 3 sectors, performance review and management by objectives. Participating in HR management functions – mentoring/assessing personnel, involved in the hiring and staffing of personnel. Responsible for maintaining the department’s internal rules, procedure and processes, yearly review assessment, optimization and constant improvement with alignment to the Head Office standards. Responsible for the IT Continuity plan of the electronic services of the Bank – involved into Hardware procurement to meet the needs of the IT asset management requirements. The three sectors in the department consist of: • first level help desk support, technical and deep technical help • customer facing team – client educations, software implementations • accounting team – also customer facing team – to support, verify and aid clients operations Participating in cross sales activities, involved in the pursuit and sales phase by estimating and developing best suitable offers for the clients.
Manager
HVB Bank Biochim
Jan 2003 - Jul 2007
4 years 7 months
Head of “Electronic banking” team Supervisor of the team activities which include: • Marketing of the “Electronic Banking” services • Software support both on customers and bank’s sides • Development and implementation of software interfaces between EB product and core accounting system of the bank • Coordination of operations and functions with other Back office departments • Development and evaluation of internal Electronic Banking procedures. Integration of the existing structures of HVB Bulgaria and Commercial Bank Biochim. Actively taking part in the integration process of HVB Bank Biochim and HVB Bank Hebros. Head of the integration project, cluster “Operations”, “Crossborder Payments, Checks and Moneygram”. Taking part of the multibank implementation for the IBAN structure. Representative for department “Operations” of the electronic bank payments and transfers. Scope management of the complex Bank Integration program, risk assessment and mitigation.
CB Biochim PLC
May 1998 - Jan 2003
4 years 9 months
Chief Expert
Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
3 years 1 month
Chief expert, “Electronic Banking” team. Implementation and support for the MultiCash of Omikron Systemhaus: • Server connected with custom software to the Kirchman International Dimension Bank system. Customizing and administration • Adjustments of the information data. • Supporting and implementing the customer side for the clients • Setting up the systems and adjustments • Responsible for the training of the supervisors for HVB Bank Biochim branches. • Marketing the “Electronic Banking” service based on the product. • Developing of business models and analyses.
Specialist
May 1998 - Jan 2000
1 year 9 months
Sofia, Bulgaria
Specialist in “Consolidated Bank Accounting” Implementation of several program products for HVB Bank Biochim Head Office 1. Pilot database for building of Data Warehouse and management analyses on which following models are built: • Major reports and references Balances: General, International and others. Reports for: incomes and expenses; cash flow Reports, references and forms for BNB, BKK, bank audits and others. • General analyses and prognosis. Economical: Rang analyses; Analyses of the exceptions and others. For the HVB Bank Biochim Branch network: Square, Pareto analyses. Prognosis: Accumulation and others. 2. System for document flow – Mixi. Setting up the system, maintenance and administration. Education of the employees Took actively part in the integration and implementation of program products for HVB Bank Biochim – Head Office and the branch network 1. Human Resource system for the HR Department General database system for the Head Office of the bank. Local databases on branch level, for the whole network 2. Systems with law oriented databases. APIS and NORMA for the Head Office and the branch network DJUSTI, DIGESTA and DE JURE for the HVB Bank Biochim Head Office. Took part in the merging of the bank accounting products to the Dimension bank system.
Education
Moscow International Higher Business School MIRBIS (Institute)
Bachelor's degree, EMBA
1990 - 1992
3 years
Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Master's degree
1990 - 1991
2 years
Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Bachelor's degree
1986 - 1991
6 years
Licenses & certifications
Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist
Issued: May 2024
ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Issued: Apr 2024
Professional Scrum Product Owner I
Issued: Feb 2019
SIX Sigma Yellow Belt
Issued: Apr 2018
PMP
Issued: Jan 2015
PRINCE2 Registered practitioner
Issued: Apr 2009
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