Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · United States · Remote

Jan 2021 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos · United States · Remote

Nov 2019 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Braşov, Romania

• Consultancy company, offering services like:
• HR consultancy
• Customer Success
• Sales
• Marketing
• Business Development
• Software development
• Full Business Cycle

May 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs · New York, United States

Sep 2015 – Feb 2023 · 7 yrs 5 mos

• ★ NYC based startup with a network of the top remote warrior developers
• ★ Working closely with VC backed companies (Like Intercom, Invision, MealPal, and Juul) to help them build their dream product team
• ★ Building the tools and processes needed to effectively hire and manage remote engineers
• ★ Helping management understand the benefits of going remote and overcome their fears
• ★ Built a team of 40+ developers on-site and more than 400+ developers remote
• ★ Opened 2 offices in two cities in Romania, Brasov, and Bucharest.
• ★ Consulting: Management, Coaching, Marketing, Sales
• ★ Acting as a Client Success Manager
• ★ Oversee daily operations for the business unit or organization.
• ★ Ensure the overall delivery and quality of the unit's offerings to customers.
• ★ Communicate strategy and results in the unit's employees.
• ★ Plenty of other fun activities which make my life more enjoyable.

Mar 2014 – Feb 2023 · 8 yrs 11 mos

• ★ Upstack builds awesome mobile and web products for startups
• ★ Scalable team that fits the needs of your project
• ★ Great engineers with a focus on iOS, Android, PHP and Node.JS
• ★ Core focus on UI/UX
• ★ Strong global team at Alt Tab of over 40 engineers, designers, testers and project managers
• ★ Launched over 20 mobile products over the past few years
• ★ Solid engineering infrastructure covering the full stack and native app development
• ★ Our portfolio speak for itself!
• Management tasks:
• Take the project from the initial phase, defining de requirements, making sure the development team understands them and help in successfully launch the project.
• Allocate the right resources for the project.
• Create the backlog with project user stories (based on client requirements)
• Meet with the team and with the client before starting the project to make sure everyone understand the project and the goal.
• Estimate the tasks (user stories) with the team.
• Create the project iterations (sprints) based on the project and how big the team is. Usually, 1-2 weeks sprints.
• Lead the Daily standups with the team where we discuss project updates, what has been done yesterday, what is the plan for today and if there are blockers.
• Check project progress using charts like Burn Up chart, Burn down chart
• Lead the Sprint review meetings.
• Help with testing
• Meet weekly with the client to discuss project updates, issues, brainstorm for new ideas and help the client in improving his product.

Oct 2011 – Sep 2020 · 8 yrs 11 mos

• Assign roles and responsibilities taking into account existing project work, team skills and development needs;
• Ensure the technical interface with our customer;
• Defining project management strategy and standards;
• Managing risk, creating and managing remediation plans together with the development team;
• Establishing deadlines for each task separately depending on their complexity;
• Allocating the resources (human and material resources) to complete the project on time;
• Proactively seeking for customer feedback and taking appropriate action;
• Handle critical situations that occur during project development.
• Negotiating with the customers;
• Monthly, there are about 20 projects that I manage;
• Searching for Marketing solutions and ways to increase the value of the company;
• Taking care of the accounting department.
• Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.

Oct 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs

Aug 2011 – Dec 2011 · 4 mos

• Preselect the best candidates after viewing daily CVs submitted on different sites or directly to the company profile;
• Selecting the best candidates who passed the first telephone interview;
• Finding a job for the selected candidates according to their abilities;
• Testing the candidates to find out the level of English, the knowledge in the field where they worked and alleged skills in their resume;
• Communicating with the foreign employer and guiding hit to the ideal employee;
• Organizing the candidates departure.