Product Management Consultant
2019 - PRESENTSTRIML- Helped business executives and startup founders transform their visions into pragmatic product initiatives.
- Determined product requirements and solution architectures for minimum viable product (MVP) experiments and growth stages.
- Contributed to building teams aligned with the company's objectives and supervised delivery.
- Defined customer discovery and validation strategies, prioritizing four types of customer interviews: exploratory, validation, satisfaction-oriented, and efficiency.
- Set competition analysis procedures focusing on the product team, customer base, design, brand, and speed of execution.
- Established growth, retention, engagement, user happiness, and revenue metrics.
- Conceived feedback loops to control the strategic direction of product development.
Senior Product Manager
2021 - 2022Gartner (via Toptal)- Started zero-to-one product development processes for the digital markets division's new initiatives.
- Led product enhancement initiatives by driving cross-department projects.
- Defined and prioritized product roadmaps in line with business objectives.
- Advised on recommendation engines using artificial intelligence.
- Proposed the A/B testing hypothesis for conversion rate optimization.
- Aligned stakeholders from different departments and divisions to meet business objectives and project timelines.
Senior Product Manager
2020 - 2022LeadsPedia (via Toptal)- Led B2B product development initiatives for next-generation performance marketing platforms.
- Advised on product suite enhancements based on industry trends and customer feedback.
- Helped the team migrate internal workflows from Kanban to Scrum.
Founder | Chief Product Officer
2014 - 2019Parking+plus- Defined and built a complete software suite, including mobile apps, a website, and a back office, sold in seven countries on four continents.
- Built a team of 15 talents and an ecosystem of more than 20 suppliers, including third-party software systems and hardware providers.
- Raised funds from investors and opened and managed business accounts in Latin America, the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
- Spearheaded three acceleration/incubation programs in Poland, Romania, and France.
- Won the Best IoT Startup for Business award in Romania in 2015.
- Received an invitation—out of 2,000 worldwide startups—to join the French Tech Ticket program in Paris for one year.
Member of the Innovation Group
2012 - 2019Cluj IT Cluster- Developed smart specialization strategies for cities in Romania and evangelized and framed open-data methodologies.
- Strengthened the positioning of Cluj-Napoca as a leading tech hub in Europe by involving in international conferences and events, delivering keynotes or acting as a panelist on topics related to smart cities and the automotive industry.
- Conceived educational curricula for ITC undergraduate students in Romania aligned with the market needs and technological trends.
Country Ambassador
2017 - 2018Revolut- Helped the company with its go-to-market strategy implementation in Romania, evangelizing the amazing product that made Revolut a unicorn.
- Collected market feedback and curated it in line with the company protocols.
- Attended company events and strengthened collaboration with other ecosystem stakeholders.
Presales Engineering Manager | Client Executive | Delivery Manager
2010 - 2014PitechPlus- Improved the bid-to-win ratio of the company by 20% and helped the sales team close a total of $15 million in contracts in three years.
- Managed a selective portfolio of strategic customers—including Publicis Groupe, Renault, Adecco, World Customs Organization, and TF1—on fixed-price and Agile contractual frameworks.
- Led a delivery unit of 35 technical talents, coaching talents on Agile methodologies.
- Drove handover procedures for projects of different sizes and stages, successfully ramping up new engineering teams.
- Supervised the successful transition of several projects from Waterfall to Scrum.
Assistant Professor
2012 - 2013Technical University of Cluj-Napoca- Taught software engineering fundamentals and object-oriented programming principles using Java.
- Combined insights from the tech industry with the best theoretical practices to give students meaningful examples and project ideas.
- Mentored and coached graduate students concerning their software engineering career paths.
Software Developer
2008 - 2010Business Logic Systems- Built enterprise software platforms for mobile telecommunication operators such as Vodafone and Telstra.
- Participated in the conception of highly-scalable platform architecture design. The team was in charge of the largest Microsoft SQL database in the world at that time.
- Developed an enterprise product based on workflow engines.