Val Vladescu
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Senior Solut ion Des ig ne r - Ente rpris e Architec ture Lead - Chie f Technolog y Office r - Ag ile Tech
Lead - Technolog y innovat ion -Problem Solve r - C loud Wiz ard - Effec t ive pres ente r - CxO
Communicat ion - Team builde r and eng ag e r - Int rapreneur
Over 10 years experience in the IT industry working with system integrators, corporate IT departments, and outsourcing
organizations. Since 2008 I have focused on solution architecture development and managing technical project
implementation groups. Since mid 2012 I deal with enterprise architecture for customers in Defense, Medical and Telco fields.
Business Process, ITIL and TOGAF certified.
Rue de la Science 14
Brussels, Belgium
career@vvladescu.com
http://be.linkedin.com/in/vvladescu
(+40) (0) 737392670
(+1) 601 8523372
QUALIFICATIONS
10 yrs overall experience in Enterprise software environments with SOA, hybrid cloud,
6+ yrs' experience experience with IBM Websphere family
5+ yrs experience with various ESB technologies
7+ yrs experience with various RDBMS technologies ( MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres )
7+ yrs experience in Unix/Linux environments, LAMP stack, Java stack
2+ yrs experience in Big data environments
Broad technology knowledge, ability to analyse customer needs, document requirements, for enterprise environments
as Lead Developer, Architect and Technical Consultant, in the Utilities, Banking , Defense and Airline sectors
SC Clear
High level approach to products
Leadership skills and experience of leading matrixed teams
Priority setter, excellent team time management for scheduling, allocating and prioritising commitments
Sound problem solver with analytical skills
Proven ability to communicate and present at all levels and disciplines (from director level through to deployment engineer)
Strong written and verbal skills from both business and technical perspectives
WORK EXPERIENCE
TeamNet International
Feb 2012 — Present
Senior Solution Architect / Pre-sales lead
- Won the first NATO project by a Romanian company
- Increased the win ratio of European funded projects by 200%
- Introduced Shipley approach to bid management that that led to (unexpectedly) winning 3 large bids
- Supported CMMI process implementation throughout the BID department
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- Introduced a through qualification process decreasing low chance pursuits by 80%
- Increased the team headcount acquiring top talent
Respons ibilit ies :
20% - Leading a talented solution architecture team dealing with customers in both private and public sectors.
Focused on designing and delivering Enterprise IT Solutions for a variety of customers across different
industry verticals dealing with stakeholders at all business levels.
60% - Solutions architect and implementation lead on major international projects , responsible for shaping
the overall solution and defining the delivery approach. Involved in the whole software development lifecycle
(SDLC)
15% - Day to day management of the presales office, supporting the CTO and Business Unit Directors in
determing strategy and opportunities, identify innovative solutions, prove these in POCs, liaise with solution
development and service design teams to transition new designs into development and live service.
5% - Departmental P&L, quarterly evaluations
Star Storage
Senior Consultant
Mar 2010 — Jan 2012
- Started from scratch the BPM consultancy department as the first employed person- Completed 3 small scale
projects and provided 6 PoC s and demos within 3 first 5 months after on-boarding
- Attracted talent and increased the department headcount to 5 people
- Deployed the first IBM BPM project in Romania after Lombardi Bluewash
- Successfully lead a 2500 man-days new system + legacy migration project
- Provided comprehensive support to pre and post sales teams
- Improved client retention by 30% through deeper relationships and more in-person consultations.
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Respons ibilit ies :
General consulting, development and deployment of bespoke applications in virtualized and hybrid cloud
environments. Mostly Java technologies: IBM WPS, Spring framework, IBM BPM, IBM Websphere stack, EMC
Documentum 6, Amazon EC2, AWS, Google app engine
Unicorn Systems
Business Architect
Jan 2008 — Mar 2010
- Successfully replicated the Business Process Model in Germany on Romania’s subsidiary of large insurance
group.
- Resurecred a dead project of Integration with heterogeneous systems (Dynamics CRM – API, Webservices,
SAP IS-U via JCO, Microsoft Sharepoint, Opentext)
- Deployed the first project in the company history involving cloud-based instances of Business Activity
Monitoring (BAM) and analytics platforms
Respons ibilit ies :
Involvement throughout the whole lifecycle of application development for EU customers. Business analysis
lead for Insurance BPM project.
Service integration including backend billing,Tibco iProcess Business process design, modeling and
optimization; support services; testing and debugging. Integration with legacy systems.
CGS,WSC Europe, Credit Europe Bank
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Tech
Various engagements in corporate IT environments: CGS,WSC Europe, Credit Europe Bank mostly in the area
of software applications (development and support) wearing many hats from developer, business analyst,
technical lead, tester
Object Oriented Programming (OOP : both Java and .Net stacks), Database design (MSSQL, Postgres), N-tier
architecture design.
EDUCATION
Polytechnics University of Bucharest
Courses
Prometric, CNFPA, Coursera
IBM Ce rt ified BPM Deve lope r - BPM Blueprint ; WebSphe re Lombardi Edit ion - Prometric,
Tes t000-173:IBM Blueprint - Prometric
IBM WebSphe re Lombardi Edit ion Applicat ion Deve lopment - Prometric
ITIL Foundat ion Ce rt ified Profes s ional - APMG
Projec t Manag ement - CNFPA
Public Acquis it ions Expe rt - CNFPA
Machine Learning - Coursera
S t artup Eng inee ring - Coursera
Comput ing for Dat a Analys is - Coursera
Web Inte llig ence and Big Dat a - Coursera
TECHNOLOGY SKILLSET
EAI, logistics IS, IT strategic planning, solution architecture,IT Security fundamentals, SOA, ESB, process
modeling, UML, TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, RUP, Agile PRINCE2 savvy
Technolog ies :
SOA middleware (Biztalk,WSO2, Talend, Mule ESB), Big data (Cloudera, Hadoop, Apache products),CRM
(Dynamics,VTiger,Salesforce), Business Process Management (IBM BPM, xCP ,Lombardi, Tibco, Metastorm,
Bonita), RDBMS (MSSQL, Oracle 10g, 11g), Document Management (Documentum, OpenText, ELO, Alfresco,
Sharepoint),Web (HTML, Python, PHP, Javascript (client/server side : JQuery, Node, AngularJS),Websphere Stack,
SAP, Lifekeeper, Jasper, Pentaho,VoIP (Asteisk, Cisco Unified Communications, Microsoft Lync), Linux system
administration,
Electronics, Telecommunications and
Information Technology
2004 — 2009
2007 — Present
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