Sr. Project Manager at Thomas Cook
London,
United Kingdom

September 2010-August 2011

Head of the project management team for a 20+ FTE product development team (3 FTE PMT), pan-European e-commerce initiative, main stakeholder: Thomas Cook Online (e-commerce business, London). Business Consulting for the e-Commerce department, definition of project mandates and business case definition support, distributed agile teams setup (Scrum).

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Agile Coach, IT Consultant at LOI
Leiderdorp,
Netherlands
www.loi.nl
November 2009-November 2011

With more than 100.000 students each year, LOI is one of the largest private educational institutes of the Netherlands. Assignment: Outsourcing of IT development (gain agility, optimize IT dept. efficiency) Assignment: Agile Coaching (Scrum, multidisciplinary teams, multiple SMs & POs) Ovidiu worked directly with the Scrum teams of LOI, with direct involvement from IT management and the CIO. The focus was on supporting the on-site and off-site teams hands-on. In particular, Product Owners and Scrum Masters were coached on best practices and experiments were recommended for each improvement. Certain ceremonies or artifacts were worked on in detail and improvements were picked up by the responsible persons. Additional support on stakeholder management, technology best practices (XP principles, agile architecture) and self-organization was also part of the coaching sessions.

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Architect at Aegon
The Hague,
Netherlands
aegon.nl
November 2001-March 2004

Aegon is one of the world’s largest life insurance and pension groups. Responsible for the system architecture of the main pension administration system (back office).

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Team manager at TNT Innight

Netherlands
www.tnt.com
February 2004-September 2004

Track and trace portal modernization

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CTO at Mayabo LLC

United States
www.whooparoo.com
January 2011-Present

Setting up an IT cost centre (10 FTE product development), implemented processes, tooling, communication and reporting lines. Implemented technology architecture and infrastructure. Refined the go-to-market strategy and prepared execution. Introduced Scrum and increased team productivity with 400%!

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