Radu Spataru

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Age 48
Location Yerevan, Armenia
Status Available

Profile

Highly motivated Senior Manager, Project manager (PMP Certified) and expert in IT and Telecom domains, with 25+ years’ experience (IT/Banking, IT/Telecom/Software development). I enjoy to work with challenging projects and build efficient teams, to deliver interesting projects which bring benefits for the company and for each person.

What am I searching for in a company?

Preference is:

CIO and CTO positions

Project Manager in IT and Telecom

Project DIrector, PMO

Work history

UCOM

CIO Manage IT Department during crisis situation (500 management and technical people left the company). Stabilize the IT Department. Stabilize the IT solutions. May 2020 - May 2021 (1 year )

AC Technologies (Moldova)

CTO, CEO Fintech startup, IT Service company restructuring. June 2019 - June 2020 (1 year )

Orange Moldova

Head of Integration & VAS systems development / IT Projects Manager Building and managing a new team, responsible for developing Business projects on a completely new system & environment. At the same time, Leading some transversal projects (on top of team tasks) Key Responsibilities • Projects implementation – lead transversal projects and/or be part of a multi-team environment • New systems handover from the supplier to the team, manage different suppliers. • Development of new offers/products (VAS & Prepaid) • Coordinate all activities with PMO and Projects Sponsors Achievements • The managed team became united and able to work efficiently together, started to deliver projects with small consultancy from a supplier vs full development from the supplier (a situation 6 months before) • Managing 3 transversal projects at the same time (on top of team activities), with no impact on the budget, timing, and quality May 2017 - April 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Skeegle (startup project of EE UK)

CTO Prepare the Platform & Apps & Camera SW for a successful launch, and manage the development for the next phases Key Responsibilities • Manage development team to develop Live streaming Platform (in AWS cloud), Live stream apps (Android & iOS), SDK for first 4G action cam • Coordinate the product and security requirements with the main client and Product owner • Deliver E2E solution for monitoring the content with strong SLA behind. Use Hybrid and Agile methodology in product development. Achievements • successful cooperation within the team and AWS in order to build a reliable and efficient platform • Succeded to satisfy tough client’s requirements, to unite the multinational team, to build the environment and development process… as a result, a successful launch of the first 4G Action Camera in time. • Extent the product geography from the UK only to the whole Europe zone. March 2015 - December 2016 (1 year 9 months)

Oange Armenia (now merged with UCOM)

CIO My role was to create (and manage after) completely new IT department/infrastructure/network environment, and implement a full Convergent IT solution. During the post-launch years, the role was to internalize the implementation of the projects, while maintaining the high quality of the products delivered to the very competitive market. Key Responsibilities • Create from scratch IT for a new mobile operator • Implement and maintain first (in Orange Group) fully convergent IT/Prepaid/VAS solution • Manage internal and external customers and suppliers in order to efficiently implement Company Roadmap and keeping efficient use of company budget Achievements • Implemented the first Convergent platform in Orange Group in 6 months. • Created a very strong team, which was fully responsible (development & maintenance) for a whole range of IT/Telecom services (all BSS and OSS). No external experts in place 3 months after launch! • Reached very strong SLA (small amount of non-planned impacts on the BSS and OSS platforms)…. As a result, no impact on all 6 (six) New Year events… which was not the case for the competition. November 2008 - January 2015 (6 years 2 months)

Orange Moldova

IT Project Manager - Project management (Interworking with all internal clients, FT Group experts, suppliers) - Management of strategic projects - IS2010 SPOC from Orange Moldova - Working in different RFP for projects (OMD & FT Group) November 2007 - October 2008 (11 months)

Best (Belarus telecom startup)

IT/VAS expert and consultant Achievements Implemented some important IT and VAS processes and improved the security of several VAS platforms in a very difficult environment (with management from Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Best, with different approaches and requirements) December 2006 - October 2007 (10 months)

Voxtel (now Orange Armenia)

IT Manager - IT strategy, deployment, budgeting, suppliers’ selection. - Managed efficiently the Roadmap projects with powerful IT team; - Managed full IT & Service Platform scope: Think/Build/Run - Managed fully Prepaid / VAS /SMS/MMS/VMS/USSD platform(s) - IP network strategy (LAN/WAN) development/evolution/deployment. July 2004 - December 2006 (2 years 5 months)

Voxtel (now Orange Armenia)

VAS Team leader - VAS services creation, development and support - Project management; - UNIX Security and Administration (Solaris, SCO, HP-UX); - Managing Prepaid, SMS-C, VMS servers ; - Visual C++ programming, ESQL/C; - Database administration: INFORMIX Dynamic Server’s administration and installation; August 2001 - July 2004 (2 years 11 months)

Voxtel (now Orange Armenia)

OSS & VAS Administrator - UNIX Security and Administration (Solaris, SCO, HP-UX); - Managing SMS-C servers; - Visual C++ programming, ESQL/C; - INFORMIX Dynamic Server-s administration and installation; - VAS administration: SMS, Prepaid service node, VMAIL&IVR. April 2000 - August 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Savings Bank of Moldova

Engineer, Network Admin, DBA Worked in Savings Bank of Moldova: positions increased from IT support Engineer, to Network Admin, to DBA Informix + Admin of Banking system April 1995 - April 2000 (5 years )

Education

PMP Certification

PMI, EduHobSpot, PMTraining.com PMP Certification - 14th of April 2021 2019 - 2021

Redioelectronics

Technical University of Moldova Graduated Radio-electronics engineer 1989 - 1994

Skills

IT Software Hardware Consulting Billing Software Information Technology Solutions System Integration Strategy Technology

Certifications

PMI
Project Management Professional (PMP)
2021
PMI
PMI-ACP Certification
2021

Languages

English
Fluent
Romanian
Native or bilingual
Russian
Native or bilingual

Courses

Financial for Technical teams
2013 Orange has provided Finance for non-finance
Team Management
2010 Orange has provided set of trainings for Management teams in affiliates
Oracle Administration
2001 Oracle Administration part 1 and 2
UNIX
1998 UNIX Administration training

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